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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Ngawha

Ngawha is a trading-place on the northern gum fields twenty-two miles from Kawakawa. It is celebrated as the scene of a fierce struggle with the Maoris in 1845, when 100 British and Colonial soldiers were killed or wounded in an attack made upon the Ohaeawai Pa during Heke's war. The churchyard contains a monument gracefully erected by the Maoris in honour of the troops who fell in the attack on their pa. There is a public school for Maori children, and also a church for Maoris who belong to the Church of England. The Maoris depend chiefly on the kauri gum, collected in the district or near it. They do but little in the way of cultivation, but they have a goodly number of horses and cattle.