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Land drainage operations, Hauraki Plains

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Land drainage operations, Hauraki Plains

These men are at work cutting the Maukoro drainage canal on the Hauraki Plains, probably between 1908 and 1910.

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Paul Monin, Hauraki–Coromandel region – Drainage and dairying on the plains, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30457/land-drainage-operations-hauraki-plains (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Monin, published 13 December 2010, updated 1 April 2016.