PORIRUA – AND THEY WHO SETTLED IT

submitted by ngairedith on: 2009-08-29 Owner Edit

The story of PORIRUA, Wellington, New Zealand from neolithic man

- the Maori who came and lived throughout the changing centuries the descendants of Tara, after whom Port Nicholson was named Te Whanga-nui-o-Tara, assumed the tribal name of Ngai-Tara, and occupied the district from the Hutt to the northern side of the Pori-rua Harbour, settling on the coast line, but not occupying the forest lands back from the coast
- the adventurous voyagers, creeping along unknown coasts and viewed as demons of the sea by the primitive man, but bearing gifts of strange and amazing items.
- in a little while the traders appear, the man who sought the dressed fibre of the flax, and some of the whale hunters and traders settled here - the white man has arrived