Supplies for building Papaioea (Palmerston North) in the 1870s came up the Manawatū River to the Ngāwhakaraua Jetty adjacent to the Rangitāne Pā site. These supplies were transported by bullock wagon for fifteen kilometres to the emerging city site. The jetty was adjacent to where the Rangitāne railway station and the Alve homestead were eventually built in the early 1900s, and not far from the old Opiki toll bridge (c.1920). Ngāwhakaraua was the last navigable point for the steamboat/s that carried these supplies upriver.
Peter Te Rangi and Terry Alve will present this family history talk on what is known about this place and the people who inhabited it until 1970.
This talk is dedicated to Terry's brother, Gordon Alve, who was a PNCC employee when he died on 24 August 2017.
Image: Alve Collection. (c.1960). The Alve Homestead adjacent the former Ngāwhakaraua Jetty, [Photograph]. Supplied
