Te Ao Hou/ The New World was a bilingual quarterly published by the Maori Affairs department from 1952 -1976. Seventy-six issues were produced of 'interesting and informative reading for Maori homes...like a marae on paper, where all questions of interest to the Maori can be discussed,' as stated in the first issue. Starting in 1955, issues 12 -14 contained a comic serial, The Magic Tree, by Mark Tapsell. The Magic tree is described as a made up story from vague references overheard by the artist and displays a dynamism and layout atypical of local comics from this era.
Te Ao How scans from National Library of New Zealand
Interesting. Reminds me of Peter Johnstone's work, wonder if Peter used to read these...
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