The Maori for river is awa. Jeanette -----Original Message----- From: Graham L Jones Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 10:57 AM To: Murray Reid ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [nz] Tangitiki - Wairoa Yes but the most striking thing about it is the width rather than the length, though both are substantial. Ruawai (two waters) at the lower reaches is really back to front - usually it is object first then description, so it should be Wairua. Local signpost has both. Graham On 2/02/2017 10:48 a.m., Murray Reid wrote: > Most Maori place names are descriptive and "Wairoa" simply means river. > Wai is water > Roa is long > Therefore Wairoa is long water. > Murray Reid > Tuakau > > -----Original Message----- > From: NEW-ZEALAND > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Graham L Jones > Sent: Thursday, 2 February 2017 10:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [nz] Tangitiki - Wairoa > > Yes even here in Dargaville it's always known and described as the > Northern > Wairoa river, and the area around it is known as Northern Wairoa - though > you won't find that on any map! > > Graham > > On 2/02/2017 10:12 a.m., Shirley Arabin wrote: >> There is also a Wairoa River in Tauranga. The river at Kaipara >> sometimes called the Northern Wairoa to make the distinction from all the > others. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: NEW-ZEALAND >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Dragonplace >> Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2017 8:36 p.m. >> To: Ray Rob <[email protected]>; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [nz] Tangitiki - Wairoa >> >> Evening List >> >> Wairoa River I know is in the Hawkes Bay, it is large and I have swum in > it. >> Wairoa Stream is in the Coromandel area. >> >> Wairoa Pa is in the Wairoa Valley, Coromandel area and adjacent to >> Wairoa Stream. >> >> Please be careful in ensuring WHICH Wairoa you are writing about. >> >> Robyn >> >> >> On 31/01/17 08:47, Ray Rob wrote: >>> Hi Beth , >>> >>> Regarding the General election 1905 , 35 votes were cast at the >>> Tangitiki polling booth . >>> >>> Cheers , >>> Ray >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:56 PM, Beth Wagstaff <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> Evening all. >>>> On the western side of the Kaipara, on the edge of the Wairoa River >>>> and some 25 kms or so south of Dargaville, is a place now known as >>>> Tangitiki Bay. It would seem that quite a few people lived and >>>> worked there when it just known as Tangitiki. >>>> Around 1900, Tangitiki was a small community with a general store, >>>> wharf, and post office. A couple of dozen people at least lived >>>> there. The store owner was a man named Isaac McLeod. >>>> At that time, the area was part of Hobson County, but in 1989 it was >>>> merged into Kaipara District. >>>> I gather that the main occupation of those living there was gum >>>> digging. >>>> I am trying to find out about the village of Tangitiki - exactly >>>> where it was located, how people came to and went from there, were >>>> the people all gum-diggers, is any part of the community/houses >>>> still >> left standing? >>>> And also, if anyone has access to the 1901 census for the area, I >>>> would be most grateful to know who lived there and the other details >>>> from the census.. >>>> Can anyone help me? >>>> Many thanks, >>>> Beth >>>> >>>> >>>> The List Guidelines >>>> >>>> http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> The List Guidelines >>> >>> http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> The List Guidelines >> >> http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> The List Guidelines >> >> http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > -- > Graham Jones, > 139 Hokianga Road, > DARGAVILLE 0310 > 09-439-8519 > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Graham Jones, 139 Hokianga Road, DARGAVILLE 0310 09-439-8519 The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message