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Pare

1. (loan) (personal name) Polly.

21 Pēpuere 1898 nei i whakataua ai te whakawā [i a] Pare Piripi a Taihape mō tā rāua mahinga i te korau me ngērā a tētahi Pākehā ko Tāmati Nōti ko te utu i rite mō te eka £1 (TJ 1/3/1898:3). / On the 21st of Febuary, 1898, the case of Polly Phillips and Taihape was decided concerning their working the vegetable fields of a Pākehā, Thomas North, at the rate of one pound per acre.

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