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    Appendix 1. The Islands in Whangarei Harbour

    Appendix 1. The Islands in Whangarei Harbour
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    OCR

    [...]the highest areas:

    N24/5* * Matakohe (Limestone Island}
    N24/336 Motuotawa (Rabbit Island)
    N24/4 Motukiore Island

    N24/19 High (McGregors} Island

    N24/553 Motukaroro (Battery or Passage) Island

    The other islands are:

    Te Koare (island crossed by State Highway One at Oakleigh)
    Ngawi (island on mudflat at Mangapai River)

    Rat Island {east of Limestone Island}

    3 unnamed islands (between Hewletts Point and K[...]amd islands (north of Mangawhati Point)

    Calliope Island (in Urquharts Bay)

    Frenchman Island (at Busby Head)

    Of the fifteen islands within th[...]wa.
    In the same year Iaurau also claimed Te Koare Island for the
    Parawhau.

    The following extract i[...]
    N24/4 Motukiore Island

    This island just inside the entrance of Parua Bay, is accessi[...]onstructed on the highest southern
    portion of the island, has modified almost half of the entire
    island. The conspicuous terracing especially on the stee[...]s that in 1839
    Gilbert Mair landed two men on the island to pitsaw timber.
    The island was settled by a European settler and later became
    known as Ross Island.

    Present Status

    Administered by the Bauraki Gul[...]or public recreation.

    N24/5 Matakohe (Limestone) Island

    This island is just across the deep channel from Onerahi Peni[...]es cover almost 14 hectares of the NW face of the
    island, which is approximately three—eighths of the to[...]hiwai
    chief, had some huts and plantations on the island in 1843.

    71
    [...].
    ' giggle’ ' ‘ N21»/336 Mofuofawa [Rabbfi] Island
    key I? sca1e ‘V .' 590"]
    _ Midden :
    0 Terrac[...]flrfl} U11

    N24/5,401-412 Mafakphe [Limesfonél Island
    [...]gion of the old
    cultivation while the rest of the island is bush covered.

    =N24/405 terraces and midden, a[...], son of Kukupu was living at Matakohe,
    Limestone Island, when the Ngati—Paoa attacked and defeated
    Knku[...]lt a 30 foot trading boat named “Oranoa"
    at the Island. In 1848 Matthew Whytelaw and Robert Carruth tried
    to buy Limestone Island from Te Tirarau, the Paramount chief of
    the Parawhau. Not willing to sell, be leased the island for a
    five year term and A line burning plant was[...]crushing plant. In 1865 Te Tirarau sold Limestone Island to
    Henry Walton for £770. After this he further developed the lime
    works and ran sheep on the island. In 1875 Walton sold the island
    to-J.A. Edwards of Waikaraka for.£ 300. In lB82[...]ran it until 1896. In 1906
    Edwards sold Limestone Island to the N-Z. Portland Cement Company.
    They ran the[...]) Fortland Cement Ltd and the heyday of Limestone Island



    was over.
    Present Status

    Owned by Northland[...]it remain in its present condition.

    N24/19 High island

    Opposite McGregors Beach at Taurikura, has a pa[...]ed across the top at 75 ft a.s.1. Surrounding the
    island are several middens containing a great var[...]
    N21»/SS3 Mofukaroro Island

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    [...]esent state continue.

    N24/335 Motuotawa (Rabbit) Island

    This small island lies between Limestone Island and Onemama Point.
    The entire island has been modified to form a defensive pa. Many
    sh[...]t its present state continue.

    N24/553 Motukaroro Island

    This long narrow rocky and bush clad island off Reotahi Contains
    several living terrac[...]
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