The Citadel of Taranaki—Today and Forty Years Ago.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 25, 22 June 1910, Page 24

The Citadel of Taranaki —Today and Forty Years Ago.

NEW PLYMOUTH, THE HISTORIC PORT OF I

Now llj mouth, the capital town of laramikl, has been appropriately styled the “garden of New Zealand.’’ It is. in add tion one of the most historical and prettily situated towns l*Lj? e w J capped mountain, called by the natives raranaki. Tasman, the Dutch navigator, was the first navigator who saw the land and mountain in December, 1642. Not again until January !“-• *J the place until when the New Plymouth Company established a colony at Waltara, near New Plymouth, purchasing 50,000 acres from the natives and bringing out British emigrants J as late as 1880, that troops from other parts of New Zealand, landed under the mountain. Io nip a new war in tin* bud. A new Plymouth Association was formed in 1840 to colonlee c* l . J opposite side of the page give a vivid idea of the changes which have been wrought in New Plymouth in 42 years. The old photos were secured by the “Graphic" from a gentleman whoJJJJ seen fiom the town. (3) The post office. (4) The breakwater. (5 and 11) These two photos are taken from approximately the same point, though at an Interval of 42 years. The top P* ."iu hidden in the other photo by trees and buildings, is the redoubt with its stockade and loopholed

paranaki, as it was and as it is.

klnlon, lying aa It does, "at thc " foot of the Isolated .n-ak of ‘ Wt!" JJ'£S It visited by any European, when Captain Cook sighted the mountain, and a ■niontn iaui m. u berc ’ nt Walreka, In 1860, that British vohir.Jeera with the the tie on the land. In Taranaki In the early days the rifle was n ’" < } y * °f.® Taranaki were chiefly Devonians and Cornishmen. (1 ami 0>- *'• b ' »,*, , Tin .»nakl. Mt. Egim.nl S-3w - - W The Sugar Loav e» outside the port. CT, 8, 10) Pretty sceues In the Recreation Grounds.