Story: Ngāti Toarangatira
In the 1840s Joseph Toms’s whaling station at Paremata was next to a pā which was occupied by a sub-tribe of Ngāti Toa. The proximity of the station and the pā indicated the close dealings between Māori and early Pākehā settlers on the Kapiti coast.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PUBL-0020-05-3
Engraving from a drawing by Samuel Charles Brees
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