Date:
October 1972
Title:
Narrative
Object ID:
2019.332.392
Object Name:
Narrative
Extent of Description:
Narrative, 8 pages, 29 x 21cm
Scope & Content:
[Narrative, rectangular white paper, with black typed print.]
[Narrative reads]
[Front cover]
The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River
[Paragraphs 1 and 2]
Few people who gaze across the Waikanae River at the squat comfortable farm house "Arapawaiti" realise that it qualifies as one fo the most interesting and historic buildings in the Wellington region. Beneath its modern veneer of durock sidings is a house that has hardly been altered since it was built as a Inn on the main coach route (north) over a hundred years ago.
Jerningham Wakefield, in his book "Adventure in New Zealand" (Chapter 8), describes the site: "After a short rest I proceeded to Arapawaiti, or Small Canoe Channel, the village of the Wanganui people. Passing through the large village, and crossing a high sand—hill at the back, we came to the banks of the Waikanae River, here narrow and deep. A numerous fleet of canoes of all sizes was moored inside. We followed the stream for two hundred yards.....and then diverged across some fertile potato —grounds on a sandy flat, in the mdist of which an oblong stockade surrounds the dozen houses of which the village is composed." (The large village referred to would have been the main Waikanae Pa, stronghold of the Te Ati Awa tribe. Jerningham Wakefield stayed in the Arapawaiti Pa on his journeys from Wellington to Wanganui).
[Page 8]
M.A. Fleming
October 1972
[Ruth Wright Collection]
[Narrative reads]
[Front cover]
The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River
[Paragraphs 1 and 2]
Few people who gaze across the Waikanae River at the squat comfortable farm house "Arapawaiti" realise that it qualifies as one fo the most interesting and historic buildings in the Wellington region. Beneath its modern veneer of durock sidings is a house that has hardly been altered since it was built as a Inn on the main coach route (north) over a hundred years ago.
Jerningham Wakefield, in his book "Adventure in New Zealand" (Chapter 8), describes the site: "After a short rest I proceeded to Arapawaiti, or Small Canoe Channel, the village of the Wanganui people. Passing through the large village, and crossing a high sand—hill at the back, we came to the banks of the Waikanae River, here narrow and deep. A numerous fleet of canoes of all sizes was moored inside. We followed the stream for two hundred yards.....and then diverged across some fertile potato —grounds on a sandy flat, in the mdist of which an oblong stockade surrounds the dozen houses of which the village is composed." (The large village referred to would have been the main Waikanae Pa, stronghold of the Te Ati Awa tribe. Jerningham Wakefield stayed in the Arapawaiti Pa on his journeys from Wellington to Wanganui).
[Page 8]
M.A. Fleming
October 1972
[Ruth Wright Collection]
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Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming
Narrative, The History of the Ferry Inn, Waikanae River by M.A. Fleming