MLC 150 years of the Maori Land Court
A plan of the subdivision of the Te Kaha Block, Ōpōtiki County, Bay of Plenty (1916). 12 | 13 In the late 1850s, this so-called ‘pre-emption’ system of exclusive Crown purchasing disintegrated, partly as a result of the disastrous purchase of the Waitara block in 1859, which led to the outbreak of war in Taranaki.
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