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Story: Land ownership

Waitakaruru settlement

2,299 acres (930 hectares) of land on the Hauraki Plains are offered for ballot under the Lands for Settlement Act, in February 1915.

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Reference: NZ Map 4407

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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/zoomify/17937/waitakaruru-settlement (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jim McAloon, published 1 March 2009.