Pepper potting and its sibling known as VLCA

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Pepper potting and its sibling known as VLCA

Jim Vause 2015

Jim Vause

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How many readers know the real meaning of “pepper potting”? Let alone actually experienced the Ministry of Māori Affairs policy of the 50s and 60s that pepper-potted Māori housing among mainstream real estate

Designed to facilitate the assimilation solution to the Māori problem, it was never likely to be final, but does serve as a good example of the hazard