Trouble at Tuamarina - Roadside Stories

Today a sleepy settlement between Picton and Blenheim, Tuamarina was the site of bloody conflict in June 1843. The New Zealand Company believed they had bought the Wairau plains -- but Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha considered that the area had not been purchased. He evicted surveyors from the Wairau, and when a party of settlers arrived to arrest him, conflict broke out.
Lower Wairau,
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Wairau affray,
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Ngāti Toarangatira,
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Te Rauparaha,
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Te Rangihaeata,
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