Bruce Moon: Land War Petition – letters to Otorohanga College

The "King Country" has always been a somewhat mysterious part of New Zealand to most of us.  It is no less so today.  Suddenly, out of it has come a petition to Parliament, sponsored, so it is said, by the students of Otorohanga College for a day to commemorate the "Land Wars".

Well now, the term "Land Wars" is a recent serious misnomer for the hostilities of the mid-nineteenth century, correctly described as tribal rebellions.