General resources on Te Whanganui a Tara

Additional books

• Adkin, G. L. The great harbour of Tara : traditional Maori place names and sites of Wellington harbour and environs. Whitcomb and Tombs, 1959.
• Buick, Thomas. An old New Zealander, or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the south. Capper Press, 1976. To read, please ask staff.
• Burnett, R.I.M. The Paremata barracks. National Historic Places Trust, 1963. To read, please ask staff.
• Burns, Patricia. Te Rauparaha : a new perspective. Reed, 1980.
• Butterworth, Susan. Petone : a history. Petone Borough Council, 1988.
• Carkeek, W. The Kapiti coast : Māori history and place names. Reed, 2004.
• Irvine-Smith, F.L. The Streets of my city : Wellington, New Zealand.
• McEwen, J. M. Rangitāne : a tribal history. Reed Methuen, 1986.
• MacLean, Chris. Kapiti. Whitcombe Press, 1999.
• MacLean, Chris. Tararua : the story of a mountain range. Whitcombe Press, 1994.
• MacLean, Chris. Waikanae : past and present. Whitcombe Press, 1988.
• Millar, David Pierre. Once upon a village : a history of Lower Hutt, 1819-1965. New Zealand University Press for the Lower Hutt City Corporation, 1972.
• Neilson, Donald. Wellington Harbour : a heritage of Tara. Reed, 1970.
• Petre, Henry William. An account of the settlements of the New Zealand Company : from personal observation during a residence there. Capper Press, 1972. To read, please ask staff.
• Smith, S.Percy. History and traditions of the Maoris of the West Coast, North Island of New Zealand, prior to 1840. New Plymouth : Polynesian Society, 1910. To read, please ask staff.
• Smith, S.Percy. Maori wars of the nineteenth century : the struggle of the northern against the southern Maori tribes prior to the colonisation of New Zealand in 1840. reprint of ed. published Christchurch, N.Z. : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1910.
• Struthers, John. Miramar Peninsula : a historical and social study. Struthers, 1975. To read, ask staff.
• The Opening of Te Tumu Herenga Waka : 6 December 1986, Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington = Te whakatuwheratanga o Te Tumu Herenga Waka : 6 Tihema 1986, Poneke, Te Whare Wananga o Wikitoria. Victoria University of Wellington, 1986.
• Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Adventure in New Zealand from 1839-1844 : with some account of the beginning of the British colonization of the Islands. Whitcombe and Tombs, 1908. To read, please ask staff.
• Wards, Ian McLean. The shadow of the land : a study of British policy and racial conflict in New Zealand, 1832-1852. Historical Publications Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1968. To read, please ask staff.
• Wood, John. Twelve months in Wellington, Port Nicholson, or Notes for the public and the New Zealand Company.

Newspaper Articles

Please contact a staff member to view any of these resources.

Dominion

• 6/3/1990 Outlook - the land the people first saw.
• 6/2/1990 Outlook - 1840
• 29/9/1984 Bilingualism in school (Waiwhetu)

Centennial news

• 20/1/1939 A famous Maori storehouse (Nukutewhatewha)
• 25/2/1939 Centennial portrait no. 6 - Honiana Te Puni

New Zealand Gazette & Wellington Spectator

• IV (1844) Remarks by the Hon Henry Petre on clearing the land and cropping in the Valley of the Hutt.

Te Karere o Poneke

• 1857-1858

Evening Post

• 15/3/1984 Maori memorials, pakeha praises - (potted biographies of Wi Tako and Te Puni)
• 26/6/1985 Trust workers fear for future - (Tapu te Ranga)
• 4/5/1987
• 7/7/1987
• 18/4/1988
• 22/4/1989 Wellington's Te Upoko o te Ika (Radio station)
• 28/1/1987 Composer dies - Dovey Katene - obit.
  13/6/1987 Born to serve – Ralph Love - obit.

New Zealand Listener

• 3/11/1984 Te Herenga Waka : the place of protocol