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Kōrero: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation

'Whenua puritia e te Māori me te Karauna'

I te marama o Nōema i te tau 1905, ka puta te mahere whenua nei i te New Zealand Herald, e whakaatu ana i ngā whenua o te Karauna me te Māori ki Te Ika-a-Māui. Ka whakapae ngā kōrero, e 7,491,463 eka (tata ki te e 3 miriona heketea) ngā whenua Māori kei te noho ‘raka’ – ka taea ngā pāmu me ngā kāinga hou e 17,000 ki aua whenua mō ngā tāngata whai Pākehā, me kī, ‘he kāinga rawea mō te hunga pukumahi, whai rawa ki te tuawhenua’.

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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/zoomify/19536/whenua-puritia-e-te-maori-me-te-karauna (accessed 4 June 2026).

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