ONE TREE HILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 85, 11 April 1927, Page 10

ONE TREE HILL.

• AM lI.M IHMuKY i;i".i AI.LI.H j I In ~.;,] 5 ,.-« i„» a pa 11 V 1...... I !.- | V\'..;!..■;-• I ■In. ;i'i..:i..l A--... i.iii..n .o •. t in.- Ii it Mill ..ii Satin.la; . Ml. 1..-.I -T i i idiii in. tin- w-ll known .ii.i lin| ii \...i Mi-.ii tradition. ilcjili ami ;ii length i,n tin- lii-i..i\ m' tii.< .iii.il->it Miiori st lonejiohl. Willi ili.- i lii-.ii i--. held alxiir eail\ miyi at ion liy Western I'aeitie I |'lr. or Mnrinri.-. al«>nt !»."»«i \.|i.. Mr. I'riiliam loiiehcd on tin- arrival of migrants from Tahiti t\\.. centuries laic:, an.l tinaily I Ik- historical '■.an...-'* Heel al.iv.lt 1.-..M1. Ihis fainoll- 11. -.1 a-live] at T; iki. tin-n fail ly \< ipulal. .1. Towards the end of Iho foin l. nil Ii een-i tiny much fierce fiplitinj: took place j hetvpen trills from Tainui. Hay of' Plenty. Haiiraki. Thames. Kaipara. ami other districts, and in these wais man. of the forts on tin- hills were destroyed. [ luit tin- history of that time made no I mention of One Tree Hill. limine the j eighteenth century the people of Tumaki ami tin.-i- of Kaipara in i 'Waterloo*" at Titiran-ji. an.l in a tierce haul.- Kiwi. 11,.- leader of the Tamaki people. w aj killed while mill- to make his escape .it:.-i Taiipiri. the leader of the Kaipara men, had foreed Kiwis men to retreat. In le-< than a we,-k all the hilltops had 1..-.-H destroyed, the inhahi-tant-i those who did not escape. Immhj either kill.d or en-lav.-d. AU.ut |v_»-j tl'eie w,-re lai'.'e l.llthc eoinnilinit i-s nl.Hi» the Tamaki l:i\cr. I.u; lloi.-i Ika. j who was the Napoleon of the Maoris at | the Hay of Mauds, had se.-.ne.l a supply j of liui-ket- while on a \i~ii t., I.iejland. and armed with tli |,i. followers >wept the Tamaki. the inhahitants oeiufoieed t« 11.-,-. i, ; ,.l lea\in- the i-ihm-is free of people. In ls»ii. when ( aplain 11..1 scleet,-d Tamaki a- t|„- >lt „ ~„ u |,„.,, _, |||>w ! .ap.tal should l„- |, n ii t , M) . „., tno ,„,. ■ tnry of the i-t limn- end.-d. and it. Km.. pea II history l.e-jan. ||~. ~.,r | i,.,, ,',.,,,„. of One Tie,- Hill was Totaia-i „l mi . meaning a totara liee plant.-d t., ,-..i,i in.-in,.rale sotliet hi n<;. The tree ;,,„■ till Kuropean tunes, when uufort iinately it was cut down. The common Maori name of the hill was Maunnakickic. and the name of One Tree Hill is helieved to have heen given hy Sir John Logan Camph.ll. who planted n pine on "the summit, where a dump of i>ec s now grew.