‘Why can’t we have our land back?’

Ian Civil drives down a dusty track, which leads to a tunnel under the motorway connecting the two parts of his farm. The tunnel under the Puhoi-Warkworth motorway extension connecting the two parts of the Civils’ farm. Ian and Denise Civil’s farm has been sliced up twice, first for the Puhoi-Warkworth motorway and now for the Warkworth-Te Hana extension. The Civils’ land is part of a larger block of family farms, which was once one property, settled and cleared by Ian’s great-great-grandfather, Henry Civil, in the mid 1880s after he emigrated from Northumberland in England. As such, the farm ...

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