16km northeast of New Plymouth is Waitara (pop. 6000), where the land wars began in 1860. The main cause of the wars was the land hunger of the settlers, who, squeezed between the volcano and the sea, looked to the Maoris' farming land. The local tribe, the Te Ati Awa, had fled south in the 1820s before the better-equipped Waikato tribes. They
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