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Wahanui Huatare
Portrait of Wahanui Huatare seated on the verandah of his house in Alexandra, 1885. He holds a staff in one hand. Taken by the Burton Brothers.
First sod dug for North Island main trunk
Politicians and Maori leaders ceremonially turned the ‘first sod’ of the central section of the main trunk line – a project that would take 23 years to complete.
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