Story: Government and agriculture
Until 1860, European settlement in the North Island was clustered in the Bay of Islands and far north, Auckland, New Plymouth, Whanganui, Wellington, Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay.
Source: Claudia Orange, Illustrated history of the Treaty of Waitangi. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2001, p. 318.
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