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Unlocking the past: How NZ's first jail tells a complex story of colonial identity

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New Zealand's first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four -roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay of Islands .

The jail was designed in the Colonial Architect's office in New South Wales .

Architectural historian John Stacpoole described it as one of a series of buildings that were "little more than shacks".

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English

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