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The New Zealand Wars | Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa campaigns in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) and Whanganui were sparked by a growing demand for access to arable land by settlers who, from 1839, had arrived in these areas in increasing numbers. SCIS no. 1966001
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Te Rauparaha‘s arrest was a controversial move by Governor George Grey. After the attack on Boucoult’s farm, Grey saw Te Rauparaha as a cause of rising tensions over occupation and ownership of whenua in the Hutt Valley. Even though it was Te Mamaku and his Upper Whanganui river taua that led the Hutt attack Grey decided he couldn’t be trusted and had Te Rauparaha arrested by troops at dawn on May 16th 1846. Te Rauparaha’s son wrote that on seeing his captured father, he told him, ‘Son, go to your tribes and tell them to remain in peace. Do not pay for my arrest with evil, only with that which is good. You must love the Europeans. There was no just cause for my having been arrested..."
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This headline refers to the story of a young soldier, William Allen, who blew his bugle to warn his comrades but was cut down during an attack on Boulcott’s farm in 1846. Over the years the story has attracted popular attention, with paintings of Allen romanticised as a colonial hero. Other works like articles and poems stressed a ‘Boy's Own Adventure’ tale of British Empire service and sacrifice. The story also appeared in the 1886 Christmas edition of the Auckland Weekly News and a chapter of James Cowan’s book Hero stories of New Zealand. Recently the story has resurfaced in novels, and an opera. Contemporary academic papers have also analysed the story from a post-colonial perspective.
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It was short-lived but also a cold and wet winter campaign that saw British forces track Te Rangihaeata and his taua up the Horokiwi valley north of Wellington in August 1846. Eventually they came to Te Rangihaeata’s hastily prepared position on a ridgeline (now part of Battle Hill Farm Forest Park.) A frontal attack was considered too dangerous after 3 soldiers died when they came too close to Māori defences. The thousands of musket rounds fired by the troops had little effect as did the shells from mortars the British army dragged up the hill. On 13 August friendly Ngāti Awa fighters discovered Te Rangihaeata and his supporters had escaped during the night.
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Honiana Te Puni’s (Te Ati Awa) gravestone pictured here in 1940 records the enormous gratitude and reverence Pakeha had for his support during the early settlement of Wellington and the subsequent conflict in the mid-1840s. He even received a sword of honour from Queen Victoria. That support was also recognised by Pakeha at Te Puni’s funeral in 1870 which, “amounted to a state funeral.” The monument reads in-part (in Māori and English) “…erected by the New Zealand Government in consideration of the unbroken friendship between him (Honiana Te Puni ) and the pakeha."
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