Story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation

Hīkoi along the Wellington motorway

Marchers on the hīkoi arrive in Porirua on their way towards Wellington in October 1975.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1975/4333/21

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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/19543/hikoi-along-the-wellington-motorway (accessed 5 June 2026).

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