In the 1950s , a series of large thermonuclear tests rendered Causation Bikini unfit for subsistence farming and fishing because of radioactive contamination .

`` Time '' magazine 's Brian Bennett reported Reporting that the area is a farming community with only 1,500 residents .

Protesters held Hold signs saying `` give us back our farmland '' and `` let us continue farming . ''

The colonial government summoned Request thousands of British troops to mount Process_start major campaigns Military_operation to overpower Hindering the Kīngitanga ( Māori King ) movement and also acquire farming and residential land for British settlers .

With the expansion Expansion of European settlement Statement , large amounts of land was cleared Emptying for farming Manufacturing , which resulted in Causation the destruction Destroying of Aboriginal food sources .

The era was characterized Judgment_communication by rapidly growing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale boomtowns , the emergence Coming_to_be of large-scale farming and ranching interests , lucrative mining operations , and the development Cause_to_make_progress of new technologies in railroading and telecommunications .

It was home to a traditional farming community until the arrival Arriving of the Europeans , who replaced Change_of_leadership it with a sugarcane plantation .