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How Pākinga Pā was lost over $221 of unpaid rates – and the Pākehā family who gave it back to Māori
Whenua is a New Zealand Herald project to show and tell stories of our land and explain how our history affects the present day.In the 1970s, a historic Ngāpuhi pa, Pākinga, was seized over $221 of unpaid rates. In this piece, David Fisher reports on how …