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Story: Land ownership

Access road for returned servicemen’s farms

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Access road for returned servicemen’s farms

This road is being built, in 1944, to provide access to new farmland for returned Second World War soldiers in the Rotorua district. The government made over 1 million acres (400,000 hectares) available for this purpose.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, War Effort Collection

Reference: PAColl-0783-2-0031

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Jim McAloon, Land ownership – Consolidation of land settlement, 1912–1950s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17939/access-road-for-returned-servicemens-farms (accessed 6 June 2026).

Story by Jim McAloon, published 1 March 2009.