Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi
Ronald H LockerFirst published 2001. Published online 2014—this online edition is a work in progress…
Pages xiii–xivin printed edition
Contents of Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi
photograph Mahurangi Regatta 1901 Henry Winkelmann Auckland Museum | linocut Mahurangi River Valerie Pendred | design David Livingtston CAPS Digital Colour | concept Cimino Cole
Part 1 Beginnings
Part 2 Māori history of Mahurangi
- Introduction to Māori history of Mahurangi
- Māori history of Mahurangi
- Sculptured hills and headlands of Mahurangi
- Voyagers to the rising sun
- From Mahurangi mists of time
- Ngati Awa settle and forsake the north
- Te Kawerau people of Mahurangi
- Rise of Ngāti Whatua
- Ngāti Pāoa ever-present in the gulf
- Between Ngāti Whatua and Ngāpuhi
Part 3 Pioneer Pākehā
Part 4 Surveys and settlement
- Introduction
- Surveyor-general calls
- Consulted character of the land
- The Mahurangi purchase
- Squatters, surveyors and settlers
- Founder of tidehead town
- Last rangatira of Mahurangi and his hapū
- Waikato war comes to Mahurangi
Part 5 A maritime community
- Introduction
- Art of the chartmaker
- Shipwright settlers
- Canadian Maritimer to New Zealander
- Boatbuilding begins in the Mahurangi
- Thomas Scott lands in the Mahurangi
- Darrachs and Darrochs of Colonsay and Kintyre
- Darrach and sons of Prince Edward Island
- Scow-building Darrochs of the Clyde
- Great lesser boatbuilders of the Mahurangi
- Early end to 1800s Mahurangi boatbuilding
- Vessels Built Beside the Mahurangi Harbour by 1880
- Cutter calm before the storming scow
- Steamboat era
- Mahurangi’s elegant punt
- Extraordinary rowers
- Memoirs of a scowman
- Tudor Collins taped
- Life aboard the Kasper scows
- Kauri logger to back aboard
- As mate of the Jane Gifford
Part 6 Settlers and services
- Introduction
- Joseph Gard – a first farmer
- The schoolmaster
- The first doctor and others
- Scott House – saving a landmark
- The demon drink
- The Mahurangi mails
- The Great North Road
- The gumdiggers
- On the Hustings
- Rodmersham
- Motuora
- The Point
- Growing up at the turn of the century
- Rex and friends
- Mahurangi Regatta 1865 comparable with Cowes
Part 7 The entrepreneurs
- Introduction
- The Irish–Māori
- Daldy and Combes and the Pulham family
- The limeburners
- The brickmaker and his family
- Nathaniel Wilson cement maker
- The Red Bluff Orchard
- Parrys of the Pukapuka
Part 8 Passing parade of journalists
- A view from the fifties
- Views from the sixties
- Fete days in the seventies
- The turn of the century
Part 9 A personal view
- My grandparents
- My grandparents’ place
- Two sons, two wars
- Uncle Charlie
Part 10 Personal account of the Mahurangi
- The run of the tide
- Window on the world
- The Saddle
- Preserving the Mahurangi
Where can I buy this book and how much is it?
Hello Cindy
I am sorry to advise that Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi has been out of print for some time now. Occasionally copies are available via Trade Me, and of course the book is held by Auckland Libraries. Beyond that, I will shortly publish all the chapter titles here, so that if there are particular chapters you wish to read, I will make publication of those a priority.
Ciao
Thank you so much for making this wonderful piece of literature available. I have already learned so much from it in the small snippet that I have read about Māori who lived in the Mahurangi–Pūhoi area.
Thank you for posting the Nathaniel Wilson Cement Maker webpage from the book. I am interested in Australian and New Zealand maritime history and this page was most helpful. See my webpage http://www.boatregister.net for details of my project. I look forward to seeing Part 5, A Maritime Community when the time comes that you can post it on the web.
Hi, I am very interested in the Mahu Mag, as my great-great-grandfather was Henry Cowan who was a farmer, sawyer, shipbuilder and brickmaker at Mahurangi. I am lucky enough to have R H Locker’s book Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi in my library. I often thought how tough the men were back in the early days of Mahurangi, but how tough the women must have been too! Many, many thanks for this online publication, as Mahurangi was certainly the early focal point of the beginnings of our family!
I am trying to find an image of the cutter Heather Bell, which plied cargo and passengers around the Mahurangi. Can anyone advise me perhaps where to go next? Many thanks