Maungatapere

Maungatapere is a settlement in Northland, New Zealand. State Highway 14 runs through it. Whangarei is 11 km to the east, and Tangiteroria is 18 km to the south west. A Mountain called Maungatapere with a summit 359 m above sea degree is southwest of the agreement. The population became 1278 within the 2006 Census, an growth of 225 from 2001. Maungatapere is on the junction of State Highways 14 and 15. Maungatapere is the antipode of the town of Tangier, Morocco. Thomas Elmsley bought 60,000 acres of land in Maungatapere and northern Wairoa from Te Tirarau Kukupa in 1839, and in 1840 he and the brothers Henry and Charles Walton got here with employees to set up farms inside the region.

Henry Walton's farm became on the slopes of Maungatapere Mountain and changed into referred to as "Maungatapere Park". After the Flagstaff War, Walton hired former soldiers to construct stone partitions which can be nevertheless a function of the location. Henry Walton married Kohura, Te Tirarau Kukupa's niece, in 1846. After she died in childbirth, he married her sister, Pehi, however she died in a measles epidemic in 1856. Walton constructed a avenue among Maungatapere and Whangarei in 1858.