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Honiana Te Puni NZ Wars memorial
This memorial stands in the Te Puni Street urupā – burial ground – in Petone. It commemorates prominent Te Ātiawa leader Honiana Te Puni’s ‘unbroken friendship’ with Pākehā.
New Zealand Company surveyors arrive in Port Nicholson
Surveyors arrived in Port Nicholson to lay out plans for 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.
Petone war memorial
The First World War memorial at Petone
Petone railway station war memorial
The crowd gathers by the flagpole and banners next to the Petone railway station at the Anzac Day commemoration in 1916.
Early Workers' Dwelling - State Housing in New Zealand
Children at the gate of one of the first workers' dwellings, 13 Patrick Street, Petone.
Petone state house
This shows a young family (plus 'Rover') in front of one of the first workers' dwellings in Petone c.1910
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