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Manawatū and Horowhenua region

• Overview

• Features of the landscape

• Human impact on the environment

• Early Māori history

• Māori and European newcomers, 1820–1870

• Rapid change: 1870–1880

• Unsettled times: 1880–1910

• Heyday: 1910s to 1960s

• Challenges: 1960s to 2000s

• Population

• Government

• Leisure

• Culture and heritage to 1940

• Culture and heritage since 1940

• Facts and figures

• Further Sources