Kai te Mata Marae is located close to the intersection of Morrinsville-Walton Road and Kereone Road, just 2 km southeast of Morrinsville town centre.
Read MoreWe went to the information centre and got some maps to help us work out exactly where the Maungakawa Reserve is compared to Cambridge
Read MoreThis is the flag used during the reign of Potatau Te Wherowhero.
Read MoreOn Room 19's walk up Maungakawa Hill we documented the native species that we found. Lots of Ngati Haua's plans for the area are about restoring natives to the area.
Read MoreOur teacher helped us to identify our local iwi. We are going to look at the Ngāti Hauā Treaty Settlement.
Read MoreRodney's paintings of Maungakawa Hill often feature the Gudex Memorial and the Sanitorium Hut as motifs.
Read MoreThis landscape is seen from a birds eye view, looking down Maungakawa Hill to the distant mountain range on the horizon. Maungakawa Hill is a favourite subject of Hamel, who has produced a number of variations of this scene.
Read MoreWAIKATO TIMES, 25 FEBRUARY 1886
Read MoreGoogle Satellite was a great way for us to start viewing the site we were talking about - it was interesting to see what names google used.
Read MoreAt Maungakawa, north of present-day Cambridge in the Waikato, King Tāwhiao established the Kauhanganui in 1890
Read More“In June 1958 members of the Cambridge Historical Society led by Bob Muirhead, retrieved an old printing press from a gully on the Muirhead farm.
Read MoreGudex and Sanitorium instead of Maungakawa Reserve
Read MoreTe Paki-o-Matariki (the fine weather of Matariki) was the name given to the Kīngitanga (King movement) newspaper, and also to its coat of arms.
Read MoreIn the 1860s some of Tamihana’s followers established a new village near the pa; the settlement was called Rewehetiki, and its centerpiece was a large flour mill.
Read MoreGeological Map of the Maungakawa Survey District.
Read MoreWe follow Te Miro Road around a corner and up a hill covered in scores of basalt boulders. Rocks like these are said to mark an ancient urupa of Ngati Haua, a Tainui people who have made parts of the Maungakawas their base for centuries.
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