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Portuguese Represented in Beehive: Annual Lunch Joins Over 100 People
Portuguese Represented in Beehive: Annual Lunch Joins Over 100 People
Portuguese
represented
in Beehive
The Portuguese community in New
Zealand is now officially
represented in Parliament through
the placement of a symbolic ribbon
featured on a sculpture along with A total of over one hundred
ribbons from other communities. people got together in
Auckland last June to celebrate
The ceremony to unveil the ribbon the Portuguese culture and
took place last April and was socialise amongst other
another step towards the promotion Annual lunch joins over 100
Portuguese people living in
of the Portuguese community in people
New Zealand.
New Zealand.
The third annual lunch
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, the organised by Amigos de
Honorable Pansy Wong, was present Portugal took place in the
at the ceremony and the Howick Community Centre and
Portuguese consul in Sydney, had John Banks, at the time
Semiao Pinto, also made a point of still Mayor of Auckland, as a
travelling across the Tasman to VIP guest.
attend the unveiling of the ribbons.
This was the first event
organised by the association
since it became officially
recognised in the country.