Eva Rickard and the Raglan golf course
- When
- 12 February 1978
- Where
- Raglan · Whāingaroa
- Reach
- Local
Land taken from Tainui Awhiro for a wartime airfield had become a golf course. Eva Rickard led an occupation of the fairway and was arrested on it.
The land, including an urupā, was taken under the Public Works Act in 1941 for an aerodrome that was barely used, then leased to a golf club instead of being returned. Rickard’s campaign of occupations and court action ran for years and eventually won the land back in 1983. It became one of the clearest illustrations of how public works takings, not just nineteenth-century confiscation, produced modern grievances.
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