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Kōrero: Wairarapa places

Gifting the lakes

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Gifting the lakes

In January 1896, Ngāti Kahungunu gifted Lakes Wairarapa and Ōnoke to the Crown. Here the tribe signs over the title deed. In return the Crown paid them £2,000 and set aside an inadequate land reserve in Waikato.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-7489-85

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Ben Schrader, Wairarapa places – Wairarapa lakes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12050/gifting-the-lakes (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 11 June 2015.