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150 Year Commemoration
te taRata
W hakatōhea suffered unjustiied and excessive military invasion by order of
Governor Grey for the murder of Reverend Carl Sylvius Volkner in 1865.
Imposition of martial law culminated in loss of land, wealth, dignity, and rights
to citizenship guaranteed under Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Te Tarata - Ōpōtiki - Whakatōhea
The arrival of Europeans on named it Hiona (Zion). It is known
Whakatohea shores today as the church of St Stephen’s the
Martyr.
I n November 1769, Captain Cook
encountered Māori in Te Moana
a Toi (Bay of Plenty). Local Māori, Prosperity in Whakatohea,
paddled out in waka to barter lobsters, hard times in the provinces
mussels and ish with their visitors. W hakatōhea’s economy founded
The irst missionary to arrive in the on agriculture and animal
region was CMS Reverend Henry husbandry prospered between 1840 and
Williams, who landed in Ōpōtiki on 1860. The tribe owned twenty ships to
11 April 1828. He was followed by transport commodities to the Auckland
Reverend John A Wilson who arrived market. The proits were used to
in 1839. Bishop Pompallier arrived purchase more equipment. This growth
March 1840. Whakatōhea in Whakatōhea’s economy
hapū embraced both the “What quantity of was complemented by
Anglican and Catholic cultivations corn in the development of roads
faiths. abundance such fine and bridges for carts to
Potatoes, all their transport produce from
The most signiicant of ploughing was done plantations and farms to
the clergy who impacted with Horses a Bullock the harbour. Hira Te Popo
was never seen work-
on Whakatōhea was ing here. I should say of Ngāti Ira enjoyed great
Reverend Carl Sylvius they were very rich.” success, growing wheat,
Volkner. He was sent to (Gilling, C. Stapp to building a lour mill at
New Zealand in 1849, wife, 12 September a cost of 800 pounds
and worked in Taranaki, 1865, 1994) and shipping lour to the
the lower Waikato in 1854 Auckland market.
and Waerengahika on the East Coast.
In August 1861 he was posted to the At the same time, the Auckland
Ōpōtiki mission where there had been Province was experiencing a downturn
no resident missionary for ive years. in the economy. The government was
He built a new church in 1864 and having dificulty with a shortage of
He Rā Maumaharatanga 7
te taRata
W hakatōhea suffered unjustiied and excessive military invasion by order of
Governor Grey for the murder of Reverend Carl Sylvius Volkner in 1865.
Imposition of martial law culminated in loss of land, wealth, dignity, and rights
to citizenship guaranteed under Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Te Tarata - Ōpōtiki - Whakatōhea
The arrival of Europeans on named it Hiona (Zion). It is known
Whakatohea shores today as the church of St Stephen’s the
Martyr.
I n November 1769, Captain Cook
encountered Māori in Te Moana
a Toi (Bay of Plenty). Local Māori, Prosperity in Whakatohea,
paddled out in waka to barter lobsters, hard times in the provinces
mussels and ish with their visitors. W hakatōhea’s economy founded
The irst missionary to arrive in the on agriculture and animal
region was CMS Reverend Henry husbandry prospered between 1840 and
Williams, who landed in Ōpōtiki on 1860. The tribe owned twenty ships to
11 April 1828. He was followed by transport commodities to the Auckland
Reverend John A Wilson who arrived market. The proits were used to
in 1839. Bishop Pompallier arrived purchase more equipment. This growth
March 1840. Whakatōhea in Whakatōhea’s economy
hapū embraced both the “What quantity of was complemented by
Anglican and Catholic cultivations corn in the development of roads
faiths. abundance such fine and bridges for carts to
Potatoes, all their transport produce from
The most signiicant of ploughing was done plantations and farms to
the clergy who impacted with Horses a Bullock the harbour. Hira Te Popo
was never seen work-
on Whakatōhea was ing here. I should say of Ngāti Ira enjoyed great
Reverend Carl Sylvius they were very rich.” success, growing wheat,
Volkner. He was sent to (Gilling, C. Stapp to building a lour mill at
New Zealand in 1849, wife, 12 September a cost of 800 pounds
and worked in Taranaki, 1865, 1994) and shipping lour to the
the lower Waikato in 1854 Auckland market.
and Waerengahika on the East Coast.
In August 1861 he was posted to the At the same time, the Auckland
Ōpōtiki mission where there had been Province was experiencing a downturn
no resident missionary for ive years. in the economy. The government was
He built a new church in 1864 and having dificulty with a shortage of
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