The City of Auckland, New Zealand, 1840-1920

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John Barr. The City of Auckland, New Zealand, 1840-1920

The City of Auckland, New Zealand, 1840-1920

Table of Contents

THE CITY OF AUCKLAND. Foreword

Preface

Correction

THE MAORI HISTORY OF THE. AUCKLAND ISTHMUS (Tamaki-Makau-Rau)

I. Introduction

THE EARLIEST INHABITANTS OF TAMAKI

III. The Arrival of the Fleet—1350 A.D

IV. The Tainui Canoe

V. The Arawa Canoe

VI. The Matatua Canoe

VII. The Aotea Canoe

VIII. Ancient Maori Society—A Retrospect

IX. The Wars of Tamaki

MAKI’S INVASION FROM WAIKATO

KAWHARU’S INVASION FROM KAIPARA

WARS WITH HAURAKI GULF TRIBES

THE MURDER OF KAHURAUTAO

KAPETAWA’S INVASION

X. Kiwi Tamaki (1720-1750)

XI. The Ngati-Whatua Era in Tamaki

XII. The Nineteenth Century (1800-1840)

MARSDEN’S VISIT

CRUISE’S VISIT TO TAMAKI, 1820

TE KOPERU’S INVASION

HONGI’S INVASION

D’URVILLE’S VISIT

NGAPUHI DEFEATED AT TAMAKI HEADS

THE COMING OF CHRISTIANITY

THE CITY OF AUCKLAND. NEW ZEALAND. 1840-1920

Chapter I. Foundation and Settlement (1840-1850)

Price of Provisions at Auckland, July, 1841

Rents and Lodging

Wages

Chapter II. Development: 1851-1870

Chapter III. Progress and a Slump: 1871-1900

Chapter IV. Prosperity and Expansion: 1901-1920

Postscript

Appendix I. The Name of Auckland

Appendix II. Population of the City of Auckland

Appendix III. Table Showing Imports and Exports at the Port of Auckland: 1853-1920

Footnote

Index

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John Barr

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The crops grown were the “taro,” “hue” (gourd), “uwhi” (yam), and “kumara.” This latter was indeed the “staff of life,” and its cultivation occupied much of the time and industry of the people. At harvest time these crops were gathered into the store-houses and pits for winter use.

At early dawn the people were astir and about their daily duties. After the morning meal, the cultivators went forth to the plantations, the fishers to the sea, and the hunters to the forest. Other men were engaged in the building of houses or canoes, in which the art of the carver was utilised, or in the making of stone implements or weapons, whilst the women of rank directed and actively took part in the domestic arts—garment weaving, mat and kit plaiting, etc.

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