Kaitaia

Kaitaia is a city in the Far North District of New Zealand, at the base of the Aupouri Peninsula, about a hundred and sixty km northwest of Whangarei. It is the remaining fundamental agreement on State Highway 1. Ahipara Bay, the southern give up of Ninety Mile Beach, is 5 km west. The main industries are forestry and tourism. The populace is 4,887, which makes it second-largest city inside the Far North District, after Kerikeri. The call Kaitaia way enough food, kai being the Maori word for food. The Muriwhenua are a group of six northern Maori iwi occupying the northernmost a part of the North Island surrounding Kaitaia.

The Kaitaia Mission Station changed into installed between 1833 and 1834 after a chain of visits by means of Church Missionary Society representatives inclusive of Samuel Marsden, and at exclusive instances, Joseph Matthews and William Gilbert Puckey. Puckey and Matthews had married sisters, Matilda and Mary Ann Davis respectively. They fashioned a decent band, first of all dwelling together in raupo huts, after which in houses they constructed.