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      Wellington's Northern Suburbs : 1840 - 1918
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      [...]Hawkins
      Gully Stream

      Makara Stream

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      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[...]
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      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[...]