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Story: Ngāti Whātua

Sewer under construction, Ōkahu Bay, 1910

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Sewer under construction, Ōkahu Bay, 1910

Against the objections of Ngāti Whātua, a sewer was constructed in front of the community at Ōkahu Bay in 1910. This was not Ngāti Whātua’s final defeat. In 1952 the last inhabitants were evicted.

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Rāwiri Taonui, Ngāti Whātua – Ngāti Whātua and the Treaty of Waitangi, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1559/sewer-under-construction-okahu-bay-1910 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.