Watch the tv1 documentary, brings the story together better, includes people growing up in pukekohe talking about experiences

Just put No Maori allowed in google and it brings up the website of the same name and you can purchase the book from there. I found it a very interesting book.

@@luludot1 The documentary on TVNZ Iis well worth watching as well.

Seems you didn't really see much in the short time you were there mate. Your silly racist stereotyping exposés your nature.

@@drinkingup2157 what was racist about it?

@@stephenlennon7369 To be honest my criticism may be a bit harsh, but the comment does help to perpetuate the myth of most Māori being dependent on alcohol and drugs which is a trope utilised by some parts of New Zealand society to enable them to look down at Māori, calling them dole bludgers etc. Yes, alcohol was a problem to some, and I drank in many pubs that had their own Jake Heke type characters including in Pukekohe. There were many more Māori that didn't participate in this sort of behaviour, many working on developing their whanau and iwi relationships. The 2nd class citizen comment is at its best patronising and seems to imply they are in fact exactly that.

Some of the controversy was from Māori who were directly impacted. Their issue was that this history was told without consulting the people who went through it. It's fair enough. If you're trying to spread info on an issue that involves and impacts specific people, consult them FIRST especially if you aren't connected to the history. It's just about respecting the families and people involved and letting them decide how their story should be told.

@@Blubberbooi I've read the book and its quite clear that a significant amount of consultation with Māori did take place. But I guess you can't speak to everybody who were affected by this, so many years ago. There was also an element of closed ranks, from both Māori and pakeha with people not wanting to open up.

no surprises there

Incorrect. Masonic lodges in New Zealand predate the NZ White League by almost 100 years with the first one being set up in the late 1830s. That doesn't mean that some Puke masons back in the day weren't racist tossers of course and members of the NZ White League as well..

@@drinkingup2157 rebuke accepted .

@@ronmiller9212 Cheers Ron. Not intended as a rebuke, sometimes I'm a bit blunt in my comments. Actually, there has been a lot of really decent Masons in the Pukekohe area, some being ex teachers of mine.

@@drinkingup2157 I don't know if there is any correlation but co-incidently my grandparents moved to Pukekohe in 1925 .As a builder and business man , my grandfather was fairly prominent having served on the NZ Dairyboard post WW2 and part of the Orange section of the Freemasons . I am Maori /European and like to think I have a well balanced view , ex-Military and from Rangiriri .

Pūkekohe is in the North!

white ppl 🙃

Whats that supposed to mean

@@mnate3538are you a racist? How do you know this poster is white? Why did you feel the need to say “white people” do you have something against white people?

You're a gentile.

That doesn’t excuse what happened in Pukekohe, obviously Māori were treated like animal’s, being left to live outside in the cold, if you have lived in Pukekohe you would know.

Also watch time stamp 48:00 , will answer your question

What a pathetic comment. You have very little understanding of New Zealand history or Māori culture.

Your historic literacy is fake news I bet you're a pakeha bigot

This is a documentary about one book. Meanwhile, Maori have been exposing this and fighting the government for decades.