Waitara

Waitara is a town inside the northern a part of the Taranaki region of the North Island of New Zealand. Waitara is positioned just off State Highway 3, 15 kilometres 9.3 mi northeast of New Plymouth. Its populace changed into 6312 inside the 2013 census, an increase of 24 from 2006. Waitara become the site of the outbreak of the Taranaki Wars in 1860 following the tried purchase of land for English settlers from its Māori owners. Disputes over land that became eventually confiscated by the Government keep to nowadays. The normally common meaning of the call Waitara is mountain flow", even though Maori legend also states that it became firstly Whai-tara route of the dart. In 1867 the settlement become named Raleigh, after Sir Walter Raleigh. It reverted to its former call with the established order of the borough of Waitara in 1904. Prior to European colonisation,

Waitara lay on the principle overland direction between the Waikato and Taranaki districts. Vestiges of severa pa on all strategic heights inside the district indicate close settlement and intently contested possession, simply earlier than and in early European instances, by means of numerous tribes. Whalers and sealers, who had come from the northern hemisphere, received help from and formed relationships with neighborhood Māori within the early 19th-century, but the vicinity was in large part vacated in the 1820s and 1830s following struggle among the resident Te Atiawa iwi and people of iwi from north Auckland right down to the Waikato. Some Te Atiawa had been taken to Waikato as prisoners and slaves, however most migrated to the Cook Strait place in pursuit of guns and items from whalers and buyers.