Story: Wairarapa region

‘Wairarapa hill farm, Haurangi [Aorangi] Range’

William Mein Smith, chief surveyor for the New Zealand Company, painted this farm and homestead in the foothills of the Aorangi Range in the 1850s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-034-035

by William Mein Smith

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How to cite this page

Ben Schrader, Wairarapa region – A farming economy, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/12084/wairarapa-hill-farm-haurangi-aorangi-range (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.