It is not known for certain how or when the mid-East Coast districts of the North Island of this Dominion first came to be peopled. That members of the race designated “Maoris” were not the original inhabitants is, however, stated by all investigators to be a positive fact. According to most authorities one or more types of people made their abode in these parts prior to the major Maori migration which, it is claimed, took place, roughly, about 1350 A.D. Kupe and Ngahue were, it seems, the first Polynesians, according to Maori history, to visit New Zealand. Their visit was made around 950 A.D. and, from all accounts, none of their people settled in this country as a result of these voyages. Seemingly, also, neither Kupe nor Ngahue saw any trace of any inhabitants or of any habitations. Incidentally, they found greenstone on the West Coast of the South Island and both returned to Hawaiki with glowing stories concerning great birds they had seen. Whether or not they actually killed a moa is not clear, although certain traditions credit them, rightly or wrongly, with having done so. In due course, the coming of the Toi people followed. That event, it is laid down, occurred about 1200 A.D. Toi and his people found on their arrival that the country was the home of a race known as “Mouriuri” or “Maruiwi,” who may, or may not, have come here even before the days of Kupe and Ngahue. If they did, those famous sea strollers did not, as has already been mentioned, see any signs of them. Whither the aboriginals came, and when, is not now likely ever to be settled beyond doubt, but it may, with good grounds, be laid down that the various Native peoples who, in turn, settled in this country sprang from a common parent stock which had gravitated into the Pacific in the misty past.