Participants sport a parade of headgear at this Native Land Court judges' conference in 1909. In the centre of the back row is Judge Walter Rawson, who became the first Native Trustee in 1920. Centre front is Native Minister James Carroll, seated between his deputy Apirana Ngata (left) and T. W. Fisher, under-secretary in the Native Department.
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