The Waitangi

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The Waitangi - a shipwreck at Patea, South Taranaki

May 31st 2021
Patea is my home town and a place I still spend a great deal of time in. Every time I go home I clamber over the sand to visit the Waitangi, a steamer owned by the Patea Co-operative Freezing Company, which attempted to cross the bar but ran aground on 5 May 1923. Every visit is different. Sometimes I can barely see any part of her. Sometimes the tides have washed away more of the sand. But I h ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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