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The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I (1845–64)
Plan of the Pekapeka Block, Waitara — (Inset, Te Kohia pa, called the “L” pa from its shape.)
Plan of the Pekapeka Block, Waitara
(Inset, Te Kohia pa, called the “L” pa from its shape.)
It was the dispute over the defective purchase of this land by the Government that caused the Taranaki War. Waitara Town now occupies part of the block.
