MLC 150 years of the Maori Land Court
In 1881 Major William Mair reported that the task of compiling the census of the Māori population was made even more difficult than usual because so many people were on the road to Cambridge to attend Court sittings. When the Crown’s claim to the Patetere block was about to be heard in 1881, the Waikato Times reported that over a thousand people would be attending.
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