Story: Law of the foreshore and seabed
This watercolour by Charles Barraud, ‘Coromandel Harbour, September 15 1874’, shows two figures fishing, one from a boat. People assumed that Crown ownership of the foreshore and seabed provided for public rights of fishing and navigation.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: B-004-013
Watercolour by Charles Decimus Barraud
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