Events In History
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3 January 1840New Zealand Company surveyors arrive in Port NicholsonSurveyors arrived in Port Nicholson to lay out the proposed New Zealand Company settlement of Britannia at Pito-one (Petone). This site would prove unsuitable, prompting a move across the harbour to the present-day site of Wellington. Read more...
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17 August 1839NZ Company ship Tory arrivesThe New Zealand Company party, which included William Wakefield and his nephew Jerningham, was sent to make preparations for organised settlement. Read more...
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War in Wellington
In 1846 fighting broke out in the Wellington region as the Ngāti Toa chief Te Rangihaeata backed local Maori opposed to European settlement in the Hutt Valley. The campaign claimed few lives and Ngāti Toa resistance in the region was effectively ended as a result.
- Page 2 - The Port Nicholson purchaseIn September 1839 William Wakefield, the principal agent for the New Zealand Company, met Te Ātiawa chiefs Te Puni and Te Wharepōuri at Pito-one (Petone), on the northern shore
