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Maori encampment at Helensville
Maori encampment at Helensville, Kaipara Harbour, 1863
Gordon Coates
Joseph Gordon Coates, photographed by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew, circa 3 November 1922.
Gordon Coates
Gordon Coates seemed unbeatable. Tall and handsome, this affable war hero embodied modernity – he was the ‘jazz premier’. In 1925’s presidential-style election voters elected to take their ‘Coats off with Coates’.
Kauri tree sawyers, Kaipara
A sawyer's clearing in a forest of kauri trees on the banks of the Kaipara River, 1845
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