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Picket at Pōkeno

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Picket at Pōkeno

This group of Māori may be blocking the surveying of a military road to Waikato at Pōkeno in the early 1860s. The protest failed to stop the road’s completion.

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Margaret McClure, Auckland region – The founding of Auckland: 1840–1869, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15894/picket-at-pokeno (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Margaret McClure, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2016.