When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have | dG1fQ2RfeEUwa1NRVnc
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00:00 (gentle music)
00:02 - To me, it's about time they get to hearing
00:13 about our life in Pukekohe.
00:16 Here they thought that,
00:19 oh, you guys are living it up in Pukekohe
00:22 and amongst all the vegetables,
00:25 but not so. What was really going on,
00:30 we were treated like dogs.
00:34 No Maori's allowed.
00:37 That's all they said.
00:39 No Maori's allowed.
00:40 - This is what they called it, the dark side.
00:44 And everybody called it the dark side.
00:47 It's just had that name.
00:48 You see some pretty rough looking places around.
00:53 Probably all Maori's live in this street.
00:56 Probably on the Dole or something like that.
01:00 Yeah, they got plenty of time to work.
01:01 They could do it.
01:02 They didn't want all the Maori's to live together,
01:05 otherwise it'll turn into a ghetto.
01:07 So they tried sticking one or two Europeans in amongst them.
01:13 That didn't go too well with people
01:16 'cause they built a house and they said,
01:18 well, it's gonna be Maori's next door.
01:19 No, no, I don't want that place.
01:21 I wanna go somewhere else.
01:23 It wasn't called racism.
01:26 It was called Kalaba.
01:28 Pukakohe, the Kalaba town.
01:32 (somber music)
01:35 (dramatic music)
01:37 (dramatic music)
01:40 (dramatic music)
01:43 (dramatic music)