Identifier: historytradition00smit (find matches)
Title: History and traditions of the Maoris of the west coast, North Island of New Zealand prior to 1840
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people)
Publisher: New Plymouth, N.Z. Printed for the Society by T. Avery
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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a-Tara), * Most of the places mentioned in the neighbourhood of Port Nicholson will befound on Map No. 6, which has been printed chiefly to preserve a large number ofMaori names of places which would otherwise possibly be lost. Most of the nameswere supplied by old Maoris to Mr. Elsdon Best and myself, with later additions byMr. H. N. McLeod, of Wellington, to whose researches are also due the manyindications of old pas, villages, and other signs of former Maori occupation scatteredover the Hataitai, or Whataitai (Miramar) Peninsula, and along the coast south-westerly from there, and in some other parts. In some cases the locality of Mr.McLeods names differ from those of Mr. Bests, in which case the former arequeried (?) on the map, though so doing does not necessarily mean that they arewrong. Owing to the frequently rocky nature of the soil in this neighbourhood,the old pas were not of the formidable nature of those in other parts and consequentlytheir remains are much loss distinct.
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HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF THE^ TARANAKI COAST. 407 which country was then in the occupation of the Ngati-Ira tribe, or, atleast, as many of them as had been spared after the terrible harryingthey received from the former expedition of Tu-whare and Te Rau-paraha in 1819-20. Many of Ati-Awa, together with Ngati-Tama,first settled at Ohariu—a place on Cooks Straits directly west ofWellington—and whilst there they were visited by Topine Te Mamakuof Upper Whanganui, who was an old ally of Ngati-Tama. From herethey moved on to Port Nicholson. On the arrival of the hehe theysettled down on the shores of the harbour, right in the centre of whatis now the City of Wellington, forming a series of villages extendingfrom Te Aro to Kai-wharawhara. The Ngati-Tama occupied Eau-rimu,which is that part around Fitzherbert Terrace, and their cultivationsextended down to the stream Tiaki-wai—that ran down where theTinakori road now is. The Ati-Awa cultivations also extended overthe Otari (Tinakori)

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