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<em>Maori girl</em>

When Noel Hilliard’s Maori girl was published in 1960 it sparked controversy because it depicted the racial discrimination encountered by a young Māori woman who moves from a small rural community to Wellington.

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Reference: Noel Hilliard, Maori girl. London: Heinemann, 1960.

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Paul Meredith, Urban Māori – Urbanisation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/3572/maori-girl (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Meredith, published 4 March 2009, updated 17 February 2015.