Panmure

Panmure is a south-eastern suburb of Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 11 kilometres southeast of the Auckland CBD, close to the western banks of the Tamaki River and the northern shore of the Panmure Basin or Kaiahiku. To the north lies the suburb of Tamaki, and to the west is the cone of Maungarei / Mount Wellington. The Maori name for the area was Tauoma. One of the traditional portages between the Waitematā Harbour and the Manukau Harbour was near here. 4.6 km up the Tamaki River Maori would beach their waka canoes at the end of a small creek that now passes under the southern motorway and drag them overland where Portage Road is now to the Manukau harbour.

During the Musket wars in late September 1821, Mokaia Pa was the scene of severe fighting and was sacked by 4000 musket carrying warriors such as Nga Puhi from the north led by Hongi Hika. The fighting devastated what had been the Ngati Paoa population centre of the Auckland Isthmus during pre-European times which had a population of about 7,000. 3000 men with up to 100 muskets took part in the defence of the Pa but after a close and bitter battle was defeated by the combined northern alliance that had between 500 and 1000 muskets. Mokaia Pa, on the headland to the east of the Panmure lagoon, was visited in 1820 by the missionary Samuel Marsden.