In Search of Maori Beefcake: Palmerston North, New Zealand

I was searching for "North Scott County High School" and got "Palmerston North Boys' High School" instead.

Close.

Palmerston North is a small city of 86,000 on on the north island of New Zealand, about 90 miles from Wellington, but not near any other Palmerstons.

According to the New Zealand Tourism Website, its main attractions are the Herb Farm, the Orlando County Golf Course, the Kung Fu Academy, the New Zealand Rugby Museum, and the Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science, and History, which has a website in both English and Maori.

16.5% of the population is Maori.  Sounds like a good place to look for Maori men.

Luckily, there's a Tournament of Champions New Zealand bodybuilding competition held in Palmerston North during the week of June 20th, 2019.

All of the photos are of women, or .web files that can't be downloaded, or too tiny to bother with, but trust me, there's not a single non-white person in the lot.

Well, maybe I'll have more luck with twinks.

Palmerston North has seven secondary schools:

1. Awatapu College, a co-ed high school.  No swimming or wrestling,but it does have a fitness club.

No Maori guys on any of its websites.













2. Freyburg High School, which features Rumaki (a Maori immersion program).  I assume that the administration is gay-friendly.












3. Longburn Adventist School, a boarding school affiliated with the fundamentalist Seventh-Day Adventist Church, featuring "Christian family values. I'm going to assume that the administration is NOT gay-friendly.

But they don't mind mud wrestling.





4.-5. Palmerston North Boys and Palmerston North Girls.

6. Queen Elizabeth College, a "small family school" with a Maori immersion program.  The majority of teaching occurs in Te Matui, the school's Marae (meeting place).

It appears that 90% of the students enrolled in Maori immersion programs are not ethnic Maori. Interesting.  In the U.S., we don't get a lot of non-Navajos in Navajo immersion programs.





7. St. Peters College, a "Catholic faith community."  Its summer sports include Athletics, Cricket, Softball, Touch (as in touch rugby), and Super Sports.

It also appears that Maori guys are in short supply in New Zealand.  I guess I'll have to go look for myself.