Raglan

Raglan is a small beachside town located 48 km west of Hamilton, New Zealand on State Highway 23. It is understood for its browsing, and volcanic black sand seashores. The location has been inhabited for at the least 800 years and became at the beginning recognised by means of the Maori human beings as Whaingaroa the long pursuit. The call Raglan changed into adopted in 1858 in honour of Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, who had been the commander of British forces inside the Crimean War rapidly earlier than.

The 1858 census put the Ngati Mahanga populace of Raglan at 424. The first Europeans to settle in the place had been the Rev James and Mary Wallis, Wesleyan Missionaries who had been embraced and welcomed by means of neighborhood Maori in 1835. European agreement, consisting of big scale conversion of land to pasture, started out in the mid-1850s after a massive sale of land via Chief Wiremu Neera Te Awaitaia.

The town became the scene for public civil disobedience campaigns in the 1970s. During World War II, the New Zealand Government took nearby ancestral land from indigenous Maori proprietors to assemble a military airfield. When no longer required for defence purposes, a part of the land, a 62-acre 250,000 m2 block, changed into now not again to the proprietors however alternatively became the general public Raglan golf path.