Te Arawa leader Tai Mitchell carried out a wide range of social and economic activities as chairman of the Arawa Trust Board. He was a firm supporter of Āpirana Ngata's land development schemes, and helped persuade Te Arawa to participate in them.
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Main image: Group including Tai Mitchell and Peter Buck
Photograph of Frederick
Augustus Bennett, Peter Henry Buck, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Baucke, and Tai Mitchell taken 20 December 1907 by Edith
Preen, probably
in Rotorua.