Hobson's First Landing
At a meeting of the Auckland His torical Society on Saturday afternoon Mr. George Graham claimed that it was on Shelly Beach, Ponsonby t and not. Orakei, that Captain William Bub son, made his first landing in Auckland, lie said that Captain Hobson stepped ashore near a rock known to the natives as Oka, on the Shells Beach foreshore, but he may later have landed al. Orakei. In March of lasi year the 93rd anniversary of Sap tain Hobson’s official landing was celebrated al. the Orakei Maori \ ilia""
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 8
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91Hobson's First Landing Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 8
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