Pauatahanui - A Local History

Pauatahanui Residents Association, 2013. Maroon boards in tidy condition. Contents tight and clean. 307pp. Dust jacket is tidy with some sunning to the front and fading to the edges of the flaps. This is a heavy book so please check postage with bookseller.
The first comprehensive account of the land and its people. The Pauatahanui Inlet and its surrounding bush land were important sources of food for Maori prior to Pakeha occupation. The NZ Company's effort to colonise the land caused Maori/Pakeha conflict, delaying Pakeha settlement until the 1850's, when Pahautanui village became the most imprtant settlement and the administrative centre for the whole of the Porirua basin. From the blurb