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Kōrero: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation

Te hanga i te ara rerewe matua

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Building the main trunk railway line

Nō te 15 o Āperira i te tau 1885 ka keria te one tuatahi o te rerewe ara matua i te ripa tauārai o te Rohe Pōtae. Ko Rewi Maniapoto o Ngāti Maniapoto tērā kei muri i te huripara i waenganui e mau ana i te pōtae roa, kei te taha tana tamāhine a Te Kore. Kei muri i a Te Kore ko te Pirimia a Tā Rāpata Taute. He rā nui rawa atu tēnei, i te mea kātahi anō a Ngāti Maniapoto ka whakaae kia tuwhera ō rātou whenua ki te kāwanatanga. Whāia, ka riro te nui o ngā whenua i te Rohe Pōtae.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, D. M. Beere Collection

Reference: 1/2-096175; G

by Daniel Beere

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Richard Boast, Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation – Crown and private purchasing to the 1920s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19539/te-hanga-i-te-ara-rerewe-matua (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Richard Boast, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.