New Zealand - Waitara
- Looking south along McLean Street in Waitara showing (from the left) the Masonic Hotel on the corner of McLean Street and Warre Street and (on the right) Ernest Beckbessinger, grocer and ironmonger,with horse and carts in the street
- 1913
- Radcliffe, Frederick George photo
Waitara
- A town in the northern part of the Taranaki region
- Located just off State Highway 3
- 15 kilometres northeast of New Plymouth
- Its population was 6312 in the 2013 census
- The site of the outbreak of the Taranaki Wars in 1860 following the attempted purchase of land for British settlers from its Māori owners
- Disputes over land that was subsequently confiscated by the Government continue to this day.
Reference: Wikipedia
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