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      The City of the Strait : A Centennial History

      The City of the Strait : A Centennial History
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      [...]ne ranges and on the west by the
      thickly verdured gorge of the Wanganui. Southward
      again is the be[...]
      [...]and the Ruahines is the sword-cut of the
      Manawatu Gorge. Eastward of the Tararuas is the
      Wairarapa Valley[...]llington Pro-
      vince, stretching from the Manawatu Gorge to Cook
      Strait, is high and broken, and as[...]
      [...]iness of the two leading chiefs, Te
      Wharepouri of Ngauranga, and ‘Te Puni of Pito-one
      (end of the sand), as[...]he lower end of
      Tinakore Road ; Kaiwharawhara and Ngauranga (not
      “ Ngahauranga ”’ as it is gener[...]
      [...]ver, that travelling by canoe, he had
      traversed a gorge in the mountains and come out into
      rich level land. Duff seems to have been the first Euro-
      pean to see the gorge, and his reports of the lower
      Hawkes Bay d[...]
      [...]seven
      Maoris, Kettle passed through the Manawatu Gorge,
      and came south to Mount Bruce and down th[...]
      [...]gaged. To-day a tar-sealed road winds through the
      gorge to the ascent of the Paekakariki hill. Tho[...]
      [...]was about this time that work
      on the Ngahauranga Gorge road, to provide a main
      outlet from Wellin[...]
      [...]ton North and the Rangitikei
      through the Manawatu Gorge. In 1874 the Feilding
      district was settled[...]
      [...]d Wood-
      ville, at the eastern end of the Manawatu Gorge. Mean-
      while, however, Woodville had been linked with
      Napier (1887) , and through the Gorge with Palmerston
      North (1891), and as Palmerston N[...]o routes by the Hutt Valley (one
      by the Akatarawa Gorge and one by Haywards and
      Pahautanui), the G[...]
      [...]alking up the west coast and
      through the Manawatu Gorge. The land in this eastern
      [...]Jack Duff journeyed up Manawatu and
      through the gorge to Hawkes Bay.
      Aurora arrived at Port Nich[...]
      [...]-kare
      on exploration journey through the
      Manawatu gorge to Wairarapa and Wel-
      Jington.

      Kebbell Br[...]
      [...]erston North.
      Completion of road through Manawatu
      Gorge.

      Hutt railway opened.

      Death of Dr. Isaac[...]
      [...].

      ‘Trafic commenced on rail through Mana-
      watu Gorge.

      Death of John Ballance.

      Death of Sir F.[...]