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    Time for a change

    Dec 20, 2020 3 minutes

    We have a complicated history. Accounts of who did what and to whom have often been contested. Take the quiet rural township of Maxwell, north of Whanganui, where for nearly 150 years a seemingly innocuous place name concealed a jarring discrepancy in Māori and Pākehā narratives.

    Maxwell takes its name from Sergeant George Maxwell, a trooper in the Kai-iwi Yeomanry Cavalry Volunteers. He was involved in an 1868 skirmish with Ngaruahine chief Riwha

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