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Joseph Hamley’s 1864 painting shows early European settlement on the banks of the Waipā River, near Whatawhata. The houses and pink blossoms of an established peach orchard indicate that this site had been inhabited for some years, although the area is surrounded by native forest.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: E-047-q-013
by Joseph Osbertus Hamley
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.