THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION OF HAURAKI MAORI AFTER COLONISATION

p. 62). The Hauraki region experienced a major and rapid European influx in the later i9th century, while retaining a sizeable Maori population. (The comparative population figures given in the previous section illustrate this situation.) The region, too, was close to the country's largest urban centre, Auckland. It could be that Pakeha not only overwhelmed Maori numerically and economically, but also, through the infections they brought with them, exercised an unusually adverse effect upon their health.

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