Waitangi Tribunal - District 11 Wairarapa [pdf, 2.3 MB]
...very populous, so that there would be little danger of quarrels with the natives ... 1 In 1827, Dumont D 'Urville pointed out that the coastal strip north of Cape Palliser 'runs along the sea fairly regularly and seems quite suitable for human habitation' . The earliest Europeans living in Wairarapa were whalers, flax gatherers, and merchants. John Wade and his employees, often regarded as among the first, lived in Palliser Bay as whalers in the early 1840s.1 There were n...