There was frequent contact and trade between the various hapu (sub-tribes) of different kainga, and the harbour was well used as a highway for communication and to gather marine resources. Find out what's open and how to get support wellington.govt.nz/covid-19. The Hutt motorway snakes along the eroded scarp of the Wellington Fault but the actual fault is tens of metres offshore. Their settlements and cultivations ringed the inner harbour, with many kainga (villages) located along the Great Harbour Way. For some other well-known place names, see the Ingoa Wāhi o Aotearoa interactive map on the Kōrero Māori website. Although modern New Zealand archaeology has largely clarified questions of the origin and dates of the earliest migrations, some theorists have continued to speculate that what is now New Zealand was discovered by Melanesians, 'Celts', Greeks, Egyptians or the Chinese, before the arrival of the Polynesian ancestors of the Māori. By 1900 Lambton Quay, ‘the beach’ in 1840, was a long way back from the water’s edge of the bustling port town. The financial and commercial redress of the proposed settlement was now close to $180 million. It explores barriers that Māori experience relating to prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, cures, and palliative care. Please email us at: info@greatharbourway.org.nz, site by theDesign wellington web designer, Accessing the Great Harbour Way/ Te Ara o Pōneke, Walking the Great Harbour Way/ Te Aranui o Pōneke, Bicycling the Great Harbour Way/ Te Aranui o Pōneke, The Story of Wellington Harbour Maori Discovery & Settlement, Boffa Miskell report on Great Harbour Way/ Te Aranui o Pōneke. The original Polynesian settlers discovered the country on deliberate voyages of exploration, navigating by making use of prevailing winds and ocean currents, and observing the stars. Streams, the Waitangi Lagoon on the eastern side of Te Aro Flat (near the site of Waitangi Park), surrounding bush and the harbour itself were rich food sources, and a source of other supplies such as flax and wood. The southern part of the North Island is said to be the head of the fish, Te Upoko o te Ika, and Wellington Harbour the mouth of the fish, Te Waha o te Ika. It last moved in about 1450AD. The name symbolises the bridge between Māori and the Crown, the past and the future, and the journey from grievance to partnership. The increasing suburban sprawl brought problems. Wellington Harbour is more like a lake than a harbour, being up to 28 metres deep and occupying nearly 50 square kilometres. Legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the region in about the 10th century. On the swampy valley floors kahikatea towered above, and in the areas of open water were extensive groves of cabbage trees, swamp toetoe and flax. Estuaries teemed with aquatic and salt-tolerant plants in broad, subtle colour bands, and dunes were clothed in a pelt of silver spinifex and golden pingao, with handsome plumes of coastal toetoe waving high overhead. The area south of Te Aro Pa was well-cultivated. Most of this sediment is loess, wind-blown sand and silt from the exposed sea floor during successive glacial periods of the Ice Ages. Carwyn Jones, an associate professor at the Victoria University of Wellington Law School who specialises in Māori customary law and Treaty settlements, also takes issue with the existing process, but says that an Ihumātao settlement won't provide legal precedent for altering it. The date of first settlement is a matter of debate, but current understanding is that the first arrivals came from East Polynesia in the late 13th century. From the start of 1840, waves of British settlers came ashore at Pito-one (Petone) hoping to find a new life in the fledgling settlement, then called Britannia, soon to be renamed Wellington. On the shores of Cook Strait a remarkably rich seaweed flourished. How was it formed? The entire North Island sits on the crust at the very eastern edge of the Australian Plate. The government conserved some key icons such as Parliament Buildings, the wooden Government Buildings and the Old Bank Arcade, but sadly, unsightly additions and alterations to many more were permitted. Under them the ‘Empire City’ flourished, gaining many fine public buildings. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, iwi from Taranaki and Kawhia migrated from their homelands to settle in and around Te Whanganui a Tara. There was concern that the gold-rich southerners of New Zealand would form a separate colony, and a group of Australian commissioners gave the ‘objective’ opinion that Wellington, with its harbour and central location, would suit best. Te Papa is so vast it actually has more than enough to keep you engaged for all of your time in Wellington but there’s plenty more to be explored elsewhere too so tear yourself away and take a stroll along the waterfront to the modern building known as Te Wharewaka o Poneke or Te Raukura, built on the site of a former Maori settlement or ‘pa’ It moves, on average, every 400-700 years, and there are claims there is a 10 percent chance it will move within the next 50 years. Treaty timeline 1300–1350 WellingtonArrival of people from … Some of these ideas have also been supported by politicians and media personalities. His only encounter with Māori ended badly, with four of his crew killed and Māori fired upon in retaliation. Te Arawhiti, and the priorities the office will focus on in coming years, is a reflection of the kōrero given by thousands of New Zealanders at hui held around the motu in 2018. These faults are all sideways faults with significant vertical movement and they all cut right through the crust, which is about 25 km thick beneath Wellington. A book, written by a Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington academic, argues that genuine and durable reconciliation can occur only when the importance of Māori legal traditions in the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process is recognised. The airport reopened after much work in 1959 and from 1962 rail ferries bridged Cook Strait. But at the same time, the crust is being sheared sideways so that when the faults move they do so both vertically and sideways at the same time. Today, the Wellington’s Tenths Trust looks after the interests of the more than 4500 descendents of the original ‘tenths’ owners. Settlers were allocated two property lots: an acre in the township, and a back-country block worth £1 per acre. Other iwi associated with the area were Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tahu and Ngati Mamoe. New Zealand straddles a segment of the collision boundary between two of Earth’s 15 major crustal plates – the Australian Plate (which is moving northwards) and the Pacific Plate (going west). Gardens extended to where the old Museum at Buckle Street now stands and on some of the hilly area up to Brooklyn and Vogeltown. 1840: European settlement begins. According to Māori tradition, Wellington Harbour was originally a lake and home to two great taniwha (mythic water monsters) named Ngake and Whātaitai. “Māori are still a key player in primary sector, but the asset base is increasingly diversified,” said BERL Chief Economist, Hillmarè Schulze. From the early 1900s, the cable car and electric trams opened up southern and eastern suburbs to commuters. The explorer Kupe is credited with the discovery of the land and harbour on which Wellington is now situated. None of this closed the widening gap between the city and its arch rival, Auckland, whose greater urban area now has almost four times the population of the Wellington urban area. Wellington’s port prospered. Here, tangles of looping lianes such as kiekie, climbing rata and supplejack twined and clung to the massive trunks of totara, pukatea, rimu, miro, matai and kahikatea. Not all their replacements were good and in the recession many tower blocks opened with ‘to let’ signs in the windows. So Wellington trailed the other main centres until it received some help. It also partnered the city council to put on the optimistic art deco Centennial Exhibition, which drew 2.6 million visitors to Rongotai over the war-clouded summer of 1939-40. Māori warriors were strong and fearless, able to skillfully wield a variety of traditional weapons (opens in new window), including the spear-like taiaha and club-like mere. Te Ohu Kai Moana Trust and Te Ohu Kai Moana Trustee Limited were created ultimately out of the Māori Fisheries Settlement 1992 between Māori and the Crown.Te Ohu Kaimoana is the successor to the Māori Fisheries Commission (1989 – 1992) and the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission (1992 – 2004). In 1839, led by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the Company bought from Te Atiawa chief Te Wharepouri, 90 percent of the land in Te Whanganui a Tara, around 160,000 acres, in a deal known as The Port Nicholson Purchase (Wellington being so-named at that time, after an Australian harbour master). Wellington. The first anniversary of Wellington was celebrated in 1841, one year after the arrival of the settler ship Aurora, which arrived on 22 January 1840 with 150 settlers after a four-month voyage from England. We welcome and invite comments and suggestions. In fact Wellington began as a settlement with very little flat land, but the 1855 earthquake raised more flat land, stimulating more reclamations. In the 1990s apartment living became popular with many, further fuelling the burgeoning culture. A shake-up of a different kind took place 20 years later when free-market policies trimmed the public sector. A bus will be made available with one pickup point at no charge. One of New Zealand’s greatest heritage places, Old St Paul’s was built by the Anglican Church between 1865 and 1866 on what was originally the site of Pipitea Pā, a Māori settlement on Wellington… Few of Wellington’s forest giants remain, and you won’t see the masses of luxuriant epiphytes that perched high and low on them. In the early 1980s, earthquake code requirements led to the demolition of many of the city centre’s Victorian/Edwardian buildings. We welcome your ideas, information and donations of time, money and services. From his base in suburban Miramar, film producer Peter Jackson presides over ‘Wellywood’ with King Kong and other movies. When European settlers arrived they found thriving Māori settlements stretching from Waiwhetu on the eastern side of the Hutt Valley, Petone, round to settlements at the mouth of the Kaiwharawhara Stream to Pipitea Pa, Kumutoto Pa, Tiakiwai Pa and finally into Te Aro Pa in the heart of the waterfront. Ngāti Kahu - Portrait of a Sovereign Nation gives real insight into Treaty of Waitangi Claims process. Sports fans got the ‘Cake Tin’, the shiny Westpac Stadium, the first major development around the reviving rail yards area. Image sourced from The Māori Language Commission website, 26 July 2017 Cultural Aspects Toi te kupu, toi te mana, toi te whenua The permanence of the language, prestige and land Mead, S. M., & Grove, N. (2001).Ngāpēpeha a ngātīpuna : The sayings of the ancestors. In 1863 the Parliament at Auckland decreed that ‘it has become necessary that the seat of government … should be transferred to some suitable locality in Cook Strait’. Underneath the Wellington region, the hard ‘basement’ rocks of Earth’s crust are known as greywacke, essentially sandstone with a silt or mud content. The Wellington region has a long and eventful Māori history, including its identification as "Te Upoko o Te Ika a Maui" or the Head of the fish of Maui. But in 2017 and 2019, they sold the land in four separate parcels to the property developer, The Wellington Company. Some areas of Wellington City are built on reclaimed land or relatively unconsolidated sediment, but most dwellings are built on solid rock or very stiff sediment. On Thursday 17th December, the Maniapoto Māori Trust Board (MMTB) will be initialling the Maniapoto Deed of Settlement (DOS) with the Crown, to … In fact Wellington began as a settlement with very little flat land, but the 1855 earthquake raised more flat land, stimulating more reclamations. Here leading scholars consider the impact of Treaty settlements on the management and ownership of key resources (lands, forests and fisheries); they look at the economic and social consequences for Māori, and the impact of the settlement process on Crown–Māori relationships. In the north and east, on well-drained spurs, beech forest spread its comparatively uniform canopy. The consolidation of the working port around Aotea Quay freed up much of the old waterfront for redevelopment. Wellington’s buildings are well constructed and designed, and some public buildings are supported by state of the art ‘base isolator’ foundation bearings. Even so, the residents of Wellington City are New Zealand’s wealthiest, best-educated and cyber-savvy citizens. When to put out your rubbish and recycling, Sorting and preparing your rubbish and recycling, Southern Landfill, Tip Shop and Recycle Centre, History of Wellington - Pre-European Settlement. Tall tree fern species, ferns-that-are-trees, raised their elegant umbrellas to the canopy or arched their graceful fronds in the dimness of the understory. In Wellington the greywacke is almost ‘naked’ – there is just a thin veneer of younger sediment covering it. Before European colonisation, the area in which the city of Wellington would eventually be founded was seasonally inhabited by indigenous Māori.The earliest date with hard evidence for human activity in New Zealand is about 1280. For further information about Māori place names, see the Te Ara entry on Māori place names and Māori and Pākehā names in the Te Ara Places entry. Even so, many people switched to private cars, leading to problems for such a compact city. Wellington didn’t start out as New Zealand’s capital city. They were believed to be part of Te Aro pā (fortified village), built by the Ngāti Mutunga people in the 1820s and later occupied by other iwi.It was the first such find in Wellington and has been preserved within the Taranaki Street complex. The earliest known name for Wellington city, derived from Māori legend, is Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui or the head of Maui’s fish. Porirua became a manufacturing and distribution centre, and from the late 1960s the Kapiti Coast mushroomed as a retirement and commuting area. Long before Europeans settled in Wellington, the waterfront area was the centre of local Māori life. Matiu/Somes Island was opened to the public as a nature sanctuary and at Karori a trust opened a large wildlife reserve dedicated to bringing native birdsong back to the capital. Tara and his people moved south and were thus the first iwi (tribe) in Wellington, hence named Ngai Tara. The habour is formed between a master fault, the Wellington Fault, and a set of smaller faults at an angle to it. Launch of new Māori resource; Book casts new light on Treaty settlement process. There was an outcry in the 1960s when the motorway cut through the Bolton Street cemetery. His time here was brief. New Zealand has a shorter human history than any other country. After he left in early J… The first came from the railways, which from the late 1870s provided better access to the productive farms and townships of the interior. Other early settler ships included the Tory, Cuba, Oriental, Roxburgh, Adelaide, Glenbervie, Bolton and Coromandel – all remembered in Wellington street names. In the Wellington region, the plate collision is compressing Earth’s crust in an east-west direction, almost like squeezing a corrugated sheet – the ridges go up and the valleys go down. Today Meka Whaitiri, a member in the Labour Party, warmly greeted us and gave us a tour of the Parliament.She met us in the Māori Affairs Committee Room, which is located in the main Parliament building. The best places to go to see native forest in Wellington are Otari-Wilton’s Bush and the native forest remnants in the Botanic Garden. Wellington’s indigenous vegetation evolved through climate changes spanning many millennia. He returned after a year, declaring that the best place he had seen was ‘at the very nostrils of the island’. The surrounding bush and streams were all rich sources of food and other supplies – whether it was tuna (eels) from the many streams that fed the harbour, harakeke (flax) from Motukairangi (Miramar Peninsula), or totara for waka (canoes) and whare (houses), from the dense bush further inland to the west, the iwi were in every sense kaitiaki (guardians) of their environment. Māori settlement. In 2005, archaeologists working on a site for an apartment project unearthed the remains of three whare (huts). Te Ōhanga Māori 2018, released today, paints a picture of the Māori economy in 2018, showing far-reaching business activities, a diverse asset base, and a growing workforce with growing skills. Our sole aim is to develop and promote this exciting project. Neither Abel Tasman (in 1642) nor Captain Cook (in 1773) entered Wellington harbour, and it wasn’t until the New Zealand Company arrived that European settlement began in earnest. Tara was sent by his father to inspect the lower North Island in the twelfth century. Te Whanganui a Tara is another name Māori gave the area – a name said to come from Whatonga’s son Tara who was sent down from the Mahia Peninsula by his father to explore southern lands for their people to settle. It was Tara whose name was given to the harbour, still in use today – Te Whanganui a Tara, meaning ‘the Great Harbour of Tara’. Many of the usual groups that attend Waitangi – including the Māori Party and delegations who attend with the iwi leaders – had opted to stay away after the recent case of Covid-19 in Northland. The Maniapoto Māori Trust Board (MMTB) are providing travel to and from the initialling of the Deed of Settlement with the Crown in Parliament Buildings in Wellington on Thursday 17 December, returning Friday 18 December. There are several major faults in the Wellington region, all of which are considered active – in other words they have all moved in the last 100,000 years. The history of the area and it's importance in Māori culture is shown by the names given to the area and its surrounds. Wellington … These included Ngati Toa, Ngati Ruanui, Taranaki, Ngati Tama and Te Atiawa. The harbour was named ‘Lambton’ after the Earl of Durham, then Governor of the New Zealand Company (Lambton was his surname). Tasman named the place we now call Golden Bay ‘Moordenaers’ (Murderers’) Bay. European settlement was underway. Join the Māori Affairs Committee as it hears submissions for its Inquiry into health inequities for Māori (Wellington, 13 November 2019) This inquiry is focused on cancer care. Over the next 950 years a succession of Maori people from different tribes arrived and occupied the area including Tara and Tautoke, sons of Whatonga from the Mahia peninsula. Here too, spiky nikau, our only palm and the southernmost palm species in the world, with its unmistakable columnar trunk and sculptural, bulbous frond bases, flourished in the damp gullies among an extraordinary diversity of fern species. Keith Ikin, initialling the deed of settlement on behalf of the Maniapoto Māori Trust Board. Te Arawhiti is dedicated to fostering strong, ongoing and effective relationships with Māori across Government. The navigator credited in some traditions … In 1968, however, a fearsome storm ripped roofs off houses and sank the ferry Wahine with the loss of 51 lives. 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