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A bulldozer is used to remove stumps and logs from Māori land at Rākautatahi, on the Takapau plains in southern Hawke's Bay, in 1939. Native ministers such as Āpirana Ngata encouraged the farming of remaining blocks of tribally owned land such as this one.
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