Maori challenge
The President of Ireland, HE Mary McAleese, attended a State Welcome at Government House in Wellington on 29 October 2007. She is pictured meeting students from neighbouring Wellington College that earlier performed a haka for the President. She is pictured with, to her right, her husband Dr Martin McAleese, and to her left, by the Governor-General, Hon Anand Satyanand, and Mrs Susan Satyanand.