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Kōrero: Bay of Plenty region

Port at Mt Maunganui, 1920s

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Port at Mt Maunganui, 1920s

In the 1920s the port of Tauranga amounted to four modest wharfs. Two were at Tauranga, and one at the base of the mountain. The fourth, Salisbury wharf (centre), was built to service rail construction in 1911.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/4-018421; G

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Malcolm McKinnon, Bay of Plenty region – Depression and recovery: 1930s to 1970s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5632/port-at-mt-maunganui-1920s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2016.