Te Pamu o Whareroa
Te putanga o Mackays Crossing, SH1, 3.5km ki te raki o Paekākāriki
Nō te hokonga mai o te whenua e te Karauna i 1858, he iwi e noho ana ki reira, ā, e hauhake ana i te whenua ki te rāwhiti o te repo o Whareroa. Nō te hokonga mai o te whenua e te Karauna i 1858, he iwi e noho ana ki reira, ā, e hauhake ana i te whenua ki te rāwhiti o te repo o Whareroa. Ka nohongia te whenua e Alexander MacKay me tōna whānau i 1859.
He mea mahi te whenua e te whānau tae noa ki te wā i hokona atu ai e tā rātou tama mātāmuri, e Arthur i 1936. I mate tōna tuakana me te kore hoki o te wira, ā, ka riro ōna hea pāmu i te Public Trust me te Poari Hōhipera o Pōneke.
I Mei, i 1942 i te wā o te pakanga tuarua o te ao, i tangohia e te Kāwanatanga te whenua katoa hei kaupapa waonga. I te Puni o MacKay ngā matua tuatahi, tuarua hoki o te wāhanga Taua Moana.
I muri mai o WW2 i mahingia te whenua e Te Puna Kōrero Whenua hei pāmu rēhia, whakaako hoki. I 1987 i riro i a Land Corp te pāmu, ā, i katia hoki ki te hunga tūmatanui. I 1993 i tino whakahēngia te mahi whakawehewehe i te pāmu hei whanaketanga ā-tūmataiti.
Nā te aranga ake o ngā Kaitiaki o te pāmu o Whareroa i 1995, i hua ake te kaupapa hapori nāna te Kāwanatanga i whakakīkī kia hokona te whenua i 2005, ā, kia whakawhitingia ki Te Papa Atawhai.
The post exchange is the woolshed built when Arthur MacKay sold the Ramaroa farm to the Gooding Family in 1936. Pictured are some of the US Marines stationed nearby during World War II.
The sale of the farm on 9July 1936. The man on the left is Mr Taylor the Land agent from Ōtaki, then L–R: one of the few photos of Arthur MacKay, Mr and Mrs Gooding and their son Noel. Noel’s wife Elizabeth took the photo. Arthur MacKay died shortly after
Lands and Survey Dept enlarged the original MacKay woolshed after World War II. It was demolished for the Overbridge.
