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![]() | [...]Hawkins Gully Stream Makara Stream +Ngauranga pa d | , 3 aiwharawhara p[...] |
![]() | [...]e Korimako from Khandallah, rushes down the Ngaio Gorge to the harbour. The Kaiwharawhara, Tyer’s Stream which flows from Khandallah to Ngauranga, and the Johnsonville— Ngauranga Stream which the Maoris called the Waitohi[...] |
![]() | [...]llings were welcome. W. T. L. Travers photograph, Ngauranga, 1860s. Onslow’s beautiful native bush provide[...]he Country Sections. W. T, L. Travers photograph, Ngauranga Gorge, 1860s. |
![]() | [...]1865, was strategically sited south of the Ngaio Gorge intersection. The wreck of the Oliver Lang[...] |
![]() | [...]most are historically meaningless. Kaiwharawhara, Ngauranga and Ohariu — how they bring to life the pa at the bottom of the Ngaio Gorge, where palisades were practically in the tide and[...]a not very kindly eye on settlers’ sections; or Ngauranga where the tall, young, warrior chief Te Warepouri[...]become his farm. Leading chief, Te Warepouri of Ngauranga had come south with Te Rauparaha in the great Nga[...]d end inter-tribal war and Though Te Warepouri of Ngauranga bring about a long desired peace. His trust in th[...]red. I held his head during the operations of the Ngauranga pa and lands. which he bore with great fir[...] |
![]() | Alexander Turnbull Library Ngauranga waterfront in the 1840s was graced by both chapel[...]hre and topped by feathers, was very much tapu at Ngauranga. His successors were Te Manihera and Taare Waitara, a half caste. Ngauranga pa cultivated nearly one hundred acres of maize a[...]selling fish and timber were a familiar sight at Ngauranga where the waterfront was graced by a chapel and t[...]d a larger population than both Kaiwharawhara and Ngauranga together. When the deputy police inspector[...] |
![]() | [...]o & s 5 2 Taare Waitara of Parihaka sold the Ngauranga freehold to the meat men in 1902. |
![]() | [...]the Hutt Valley. But they lost Kaiwharawhara and Ngauranga pas which were snapped up by Europeans who[...] |
![]() | [...]he real drama unfolded over the Kaiwharawhara and Ngauranga pas. English owners were forced by government int[...]to be paid in gold. Negotiations were tougher at Ngauranga. No European ballot was going to deprive the Maor[...]the New Zealand Company tried desperately to buy Ngauranga back again in private deals with the Maoris and e[...]m across the stream where William Clapham ran the Ngauranga Inn. Meat men Alfred Tyer and Henry Barber founded an industry on Ngauranga leasehold land that flourished there for a[...] |
![]() | [...]to the meat men in 1902. But the Wellington Meat Ngauranga but could not buy the land for decades. William[...]d Export Company’s ice-making machines were at Ngauranga to stay and the meat trade grew effortlessly upon[...]es were sold by early this century to Clapham’s Ngauranga Inn on the the pakeha. Apart from the pa names, l[...]e for tea. The leafy valleys of Kaiwharawhara and Ngauranga have been transformed by pakeha civilisati[...] |
![]() | [...]ong the Hutt Road in Wadestown, Kaiwharawhara and Ngauranga, and on either side of the Porirua Road th[...] |
![]() | [...]Bassetts, Kilsbys and Bests all helped build the Ngauranga and Ohariu Roads before taking up land in Ohariu;[...]Onslow with the Wellington Manawatu Railway, the Ngauranga meat trade and Kaiwharawhara commerce. The[...] |
![]() | [...]hat he was the first to ride a horse down the new Ngauranga Road in 1858. He ended his days a farmer i[...] |
![]() | [...]Futter were shareholders of the meat companies at Ngauranga, others like Mexted and Broderick were suppliers only. But the bulk of stock for slaughter at Ngauranga came from up country. Reminders of Onslow[...] |
![]() | [...]and large mobs of 150 sheep were driven down the Ngauranga Gorge to the works. Bryant Onslow’s roads[...] |
![]() | [...]Onslow farms supplied stock for the meat trade at Ngauranga. Sheep and cattle were driven along the ro[...] |
![]() | [...]ildren swam in Schultze’s mill dam in the Ngaio Gorge until the 1920s W. T. L. Travers. Nels[...] |
![]() | [...]ing from his home “Crofton” in Ngaio down the gorge ina gig. Thomas Wainwright, properly trai[...] |
![]() | Industry appeared at Ngauranga under+he resolute eye of Te Manihera. Wellington[...]sk driving big mobs of sheep from Ohariu down the Gorge Road to the Ngauranga meat works. Dogs were so thirsty at the bottom th[...]aughtering, preserving and boiling- down stock at Ngauranga from the 1870s. Barber's Brand tinned meat graced[...]ughterhouse, preserving house and railway siding. Ngauranga fellmonger Alfred Tyer exported their firs[...] |
![]() | [...]eat Export Company in 1889. £38,000 was spent at Ngauranga in the middle of the Great Depression. Imported L[...]had to be imported from Alicetown at Petone —- Ngauranga’s artesian supply was brackish. Ngauranga’s freezing began with 700 sheep a day. Wellington Meat Export Company photograph, 1891. A siding from Ngauranga Railway Station past Clapham’s Ngauranga Inn to the meat works eliminated the morning procession of stock across the Hutt Road. On the Ngauranga slaughterhouse killing floor, carcasses hung on m[...]ool, pelts, tallow and manure were important too. Ngauranga operated until 1973. H. Denton photograph,[...] |
![]() | The Ngauranga meat trade provided employment for slaughtermen,[...]os. photograph, c.1908. On the north side of the Gorge Road Futters built cottages for the work force lured to Ngauranga by the meat trade. Rents were high and Johann and[...]Frederick Futter, son of the “developer” of Ngauranga, and his family at Newlands. James Futter built many cottages along the Ngauranga Gorge Road and bought land from there to Newland[...] |
![]() | [...]orirua Road and the few abandoned cottages in the gorge road remind us that Kaiwarra too was once[...] |
![]() | [...]rnbull Library Hocken Library, Dunedin “Ngauranga Gorge and stream in 1843” featured the pa and Te Ware[...]subscribed towards better access to Onslow up the Ngauranga Gorge. Provincial Government voted £3,000 in 1855. Oliver Lang immigrants eventually built the Ngauranga Road, though a flood washed much of it away durin[...]by Dr Featherston was in 1858. William Fox’s “Ngauranga Road 1857”. 65 |
![]() | [...]. F. Angas. when the Maoris moved to Petone. The Ngauranga Maoris refused to give up the kumara groun[...] |
![]() | [...]arbourside Native Reserves from Kaiwharawhara to Ngauranga where the Maoris gardened in the warm holl[...] |
![]() | [...]0 acres down to the Kaiwharawhara Stream in Ngaio Gorge, calling the property “Highland Park”,[...] |
![]() | [...]lsby’s first colonial home was a cottage in the Ngauranga Gorge. They later left their Johnsonville smithy[...] |
![]() | [...], Johnsonville (town and environs) 985, Raroa 45, Ngauranga 219. In addition, the newer suburbs of Pap[...] |
![]() | [...]Parr, Mrs N., Lower Hutt Paterson family, Ngaio Gorge Patrick, Mrs M. G., Northland Petherick,[...] |
![]() | [...]a 12-13 Ngati Ira 13 Ngati Tama 13 Ngapapa 14 Ngauranga 8 12-13 16-18 20 23 29 35-6 40-2 65 67 101[...] |
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