Horeke
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Horeke is a settlement in the upper reaches of the Hokianga harbour in Northland, New Zealand. Kohukohu is just across the harbour.
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[edit] History
The town was initially called Deptford after the Royal Navy shipyard in England.[1] It was one of the first places settled by Europeans in New Zealand, with ship-building established in the late 1820s.[2] David Ramsay and Gordon Davies Browne came from Sydney to set up a trading post and shipbuilding settlement about 1826.[3] Three ships were built - a 40-ton schooner called Enterprise, a 140-ton brigantine called New Zealander, and the 394 (or 392)-ton barque Sir George Murray[4][5] - but the firm went bankrupt in 1830.[6] The Wesleyan missionary John Hobbs opened a mission at Mangungu, about a mile from the shipyard, in 1828.[7]
Thomas McDonnell's station in Horeke was the centre of timber trading in the Hokianga in the 1830s.[8]
[edit] Education
Horeke School is a coeducational contributing primary (years 1-6) school with a decile rating of 2 and a roll of 23.[9]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Deptford dockyard". Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
- ^ "Hokianga district". Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
- ^ "Before 1840: sailors and missionaries". Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
- ^ "Early Shipbuilding". Encyclopedia of New Zealand (1966).
- ^ "CLARK, David". Encyclopedia of New Zealand (1966).
- ^ "BROWNE, Gordon Davies". Encyclopedia of New Zealand (1966).
- ^ "HOBBS, John". Encyclopedia of New Zealand (1966).
- ^ "McDONNELL, Thomas". Encyclopedia of New Zealand (1966).
- ^ Te Kete Ipurangi. Ministry of Education.
