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Story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation

Apirana Ngata and Whina Cooper

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Āpirana Ngata and Whina Cooper

Apirana Ngata (left) stands next to a young Whina Cooper, in Opononi in the 1930s. The pair worked together in 1932 to push through a number of land development schemes in the Hokianga.

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Richard Boast, Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation – 20th-century developments, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19540/apirana-ngata-and-whina-cooper (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Richard Boast, published 1 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.