City Guide: Whanganui

Words: Andrew Barrie and Audrey Lam

Supported by Located at the mouth of the Whanganui River – the nation’s longest navigable waterway – Whanganui has long benefited from both the abundance of the coast and the commerce arising from its huge hinterland. The area is the ancestral home of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi and Whanganui Māori tribes. Pūtiki Pā – a key site of occupation on what is now the approach to the city – remains the location of an established marae and remarkable Māori church. In 1840, Pūtiki began hosting a Church Missionary Society station. In the same year, the New Zealand Company began settling across the river from Pūtiki, its second settlement after Wellington. Disputes over land deals abounded – the Crown effectively repurchased the New Zealand Company’s block eight years later, acknowledging the deal’s flaws…

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Architecture NZ (Digital) - 1 Issue, July-August 2024

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