Hardback-published 2001 as Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi, online since-2014 as a work in progress dedicated to democratic Climate Polycrisis-megamobilisation, the Mahurangi, and specifically to Mahurangi son Ronald H Locker.
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author Ronald Locker
published 2001
Rare Dedication to Mahurangi: Meat scientist Ronald H Locker displayed a lifetime of dedication to the Mahurangi, from his determined childhood explorations of its landscape, oblivious of trespass, to his life-end project, memorably recording its history. publisher Elsevier
…a labour of love, a kind of payback for all the pleasure the Mahurangi has given me.
Ronald H Locker 1927–1994
On family history, mine is highly selective. This, necessary limitation, may disappoint some but save others from boredom. Families are presented largely on an entréepreneurial basis, resulting in a kind of industrial history. In attempting to present a portrait of the Mahurangi from earliest times, I use as far as possible the actual words of the diverse procession of visitors, who recorded what they observed from practical, professional or aesthetic motivations.
from Preface
| I | Dedication |
| II | Foreword to online edition |
| III | Preface to 2001 editions |
| IV | Author’s note |
| V | Introduction |
| VI | Prologue |
| Introduction | |
| Jade River | |
| Laying the foundations | |
| How the harbour got its name |
| Introduction | |
| 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 |
| Mahurangi as missionary way-station | |
| Gordon Browne and his spar station |
| Introduction | |
| Surveyor-general calls | |
| Consulted character of the land | |
| Mahurangi Purchase | |
| Squatters, surveyors and settlers | |
| Founder of tidehead town | |
| Last rangatira of Mahurangi and his hapū | |
| Waikato war comes to Mahurangi |
| Introduction | |
| Joseph Gard – A first farmer | |
| Schoolmaster | |
| First doctor and others | |
| Scott House – saving a landmark | |
| Demon drink | |
| Mahurangi mails | Which road |
| Coastal path and the ferrymen | |
| Gumdiggers | |
| On the hustings | |
| Rodmersham | |
| Motuora | |
| The Point | |
| ‘Mountain Chief’ | |
| Growing up at the turn of the century | |
| Rex and friends | |
| Mahurangi Regatta 1865 comparable with Cowes |
| Introduction | |
| Mahurangi Irish–Māori | |
| John Sullivan | |
| Daniel Sullivan and family | |
| William Sullivan and family | |
| Daldy and Combes and the Pulham family | |
| Limeburners | |
| Brickmaker and family | |
| Nathaniel Wilson cement maker | |
| Red Bluff orchard | |
| Parrys of the Pukapuka |
| A view from the 1850s | |
| Views from the 1860s | |
| Fete days in the 1870s | |
| Turn of the century |
| My grandparents | |
| My grandparents’ place | |
| Two sons, two wars | |
| Uncle Charlie |
| Run of the tide | |
| Window on the world | |
| Saddle | |
| Parks for the people – mountains or seacoast | |
| Mahurangi reserves beyond the regional parkland | |
| Restoration beyond the regional parkland | |
| Mahurangi Harbour’s scenic ridge roads | |
| Regional fills seacoast central-planning void |
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Disclosure Editor of this history is also the secretary of both Mahurangi Action Incorporated and the Mahurangi Coastal Path Trust. The content published here, however, is that of the editorially independent, independently funded Mahurangi Magazine.
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