New Zealand's first taxation hero...
"the man who chopped down the flagpole.”
What’s missing from most retellings is why he did it.
Hōne Heke wasn’t just protesting symbolism. He was protesting taxation.
In 1841, he was angered by the new Government’s introduction of tariffs on tea, sugar, flour, grain, spirits, tobacco, and other foreign goods — taxes that hit Māori trade in the north particularly hard.
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