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FROM EELS to BUTTERFAT by ANNE McILRAITH It is not generally known that a vital link exists between the Pouakani Land Development Scheme in the Rotorua district, and the continual opening by means of bulldozer, of Lake Onoke in the Wairarapa. For if the right to open the lake had not been disputed during the nineteenth century, the Wairarapa Maoris would not today be enjoying the benefits of the new prospering Pouakani Block. Events moved very slowly, half a century elapsing from the time of the original dsipute and the actual settlement of Pouakani by young men from the Wairarapa.

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Te Ao Hou, August 1957, Page 25

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FROM EELS to BUTTERFAT Te Ao Hou, August 1957, Page 25

FROM EELS to BUTTERFAT Te Ao Hou, August 1957, Page 25