 Instead of these being handed back to its former owners (the Tainui Awhiro peoples) when no longer required for defence purposes, part of the land, a block was turned into a public Raglan golf course in 1969.Throughout the 1970s Rickard tirelessly campaigned to raise public awareness about Māori land rights.After attempting to reoccupy this ancestral indigenous land in 1978 she was arrested for trespass along with another 19 Māori protesters, on the ninth hole of the Raglan golf course.