Purchase of Tauranga
Mention in these columns lately of the "buying” of Wanganui recalls the purchase of Tauranga by Archdeacon Brown, almost one hundred years ago. He bought from the assembled chiefs the narrow point of land, approximately one thousand acres, described as “that portion lying between the estuary of Waiimipu on the one hand, and the Waikttreao Estuary on the other.” To mark the inland boundary of his purchase the Archdeacon caused a ditch to be dug across the narrow nock of the peninsula, and over the ditch was erected a bridge, with a gate. It was at this spot, many years later, that one of the most famous battles in New Zealand history was fought, when two thousand of the Queen’s picked fighting mon were defeated by less than three hundred Maori warriors in the engagement known as the Battle of Gate Pa.— J.T.W. (Tauranga).
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)
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147Purchase of Tauranga Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)
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