Tolaga Bay (location)
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Tolaga Bay Māori: Uawa |
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| Coordinates | 38 ° 22 ′ S , 178 ° 18 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ GIS | |
| Country |
 New Zealand
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| region | Gisborne | |
| District | Gisborne District | |
| Ward | Uawa Ward | |
| Residents | 768 (2013) | |
| height | 22 m | |
| Post Code | 4077 | |
| Telephone code | +64 (0) 6 | |
| Photography of the place | ||
 The bay of Tolaga Bay with the village, the Uawa River and the Tolaga Bay Wharf |
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Tolaga Bay is a village in the Gisborne District on the North Island of New Zealand .
Origin of name
The original name of the bay on which the village is located was Uawa , which means “rainy season” in the Māori language . In the records of the navigator and explorer Captain James Cook , who visited the bay in 1769 and 1777, the name Tolaga Bay was recorded for the bay. The origin of the name " Tolaga " is not clear, but probably came from the falsification of a Māori term. In any case, the village was named after the bay.
geography
The village is located right at the mouth of the Uawa River , which flows into the Pacific Ocean in the middle of Tolaga Bay . Tolaga Bay , located on the alluvial land of the three rivers Uawa River , Mangaheia River and a smaller, insignificant tributary, is surrounded by a 300 m to 400 m high hilly landscape, which ends on both sides of the bay with cliffs in the sea. It is a good 54 kilometers by road on the New Zealand State Highway 35 , which runs directly through the village, to Gisborne in the south . The next largest settlement to the north is the municipality of Tokomaru Bay , which has 447 inhabitants . To Opotiki in the northwest, you have to drive 280 km on State Highway 35 .
history
Settlement by Māori
Māori settled in the bay at the mouth of the Uawa River since around 1300 AD, when Polynesians came tothe Bay of Plenty in the great Hawaiki fleetand descendants of Tiki-Tiki-a-Taranga settled on the coast . In the 16th century, Hauiti issaid to have madeitself the leader of the Uawa and formed the Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti tribal group, which still exists today. The name for the place where the Māori settled varied in pronunciation; “ Ou Auwoa ” or “ Uwoua ” has been handed down. Today, however, the name " Uawa " is used .
Settlement by Europeans
Between October 24th and 30th, 1769, James Cook came to Uawa with the Endeavor , anchored his ship in a small sheltered bay, which is now called Cook's Cove , took fresh water, fish, kūmara ( sweet potato ) and cut wood on board, gave the bay the name Tolaga Bay in a suspected misinterpretation and continued sailing north along the coast. In November 1773, Captain Tobias Furneaux came by briefly with the Adventure in the second Cook expedition and in 1827 the French navigator and researcher Jules Dumont d'Urville on the Astrolabe .
In the early 1830s, Uawa began growing flax and establishing trade structures as far as Sydney , Australia . The first Christian missionary came in 1843 . In 1873 the first ferry service across the Uawa River was established. In 1875 a government buyer bought the settlement with around 100 hectares of land for 505 English pounds . At that time there were 52 European settlers among the 800 inhabitants . There was a weekly carriage service to Gisborne in 1887 .
After several unsuccessful attempts to establish a dairy , a butter factory was founded in 1912, which in the 1930s produced almost 320 tons of butter per year, but was closed in 1959. In addition to the dairy industry , cattle breeding and the trade in frozen meat became increasingly important for Tolaga Bay . The transport was done by sea. The growing importance of the site was in accordance Tolaga Bay in 1919 its own port authority, coinciding with the spin-off of Uawa from the Cook County and forming its own County , the Uawa County .
To be able to meet the growing demands of transport, the idea to build a pier arose in 1920 to be able to load larger ships more easily and safely. After the contractual basis had been created in 1924, construction work began in 1926. On November 22nd, 1929, the opening ceremony of the pier took place, which today is the longest pier in New Zealand with a length of 660 m. Up until 1967, corn, dairy products, wool, cattle and meat were shipped to customers via the quay .
Due to the decay it was forbidden from 1977 to drive on the pier with vehicles. After a long period of inactivity, the residents of Tolaga Bay campaigned for the pier to be preserved. In the first phase of the restoration between August 2001 and April 2002, a total of 26 pillars and the end of the quay were replaced for over NZ $ 360,000 , financed by donations from various organizations. The restoration has not yet been completed and will probably continue for many years, as hundreds of pillars have to be replaced and the railings of the pier as well.
population
At the 2013 census, the village had 768 inhabitants, 7.6% less than at the 2006 census.
economy
Main source of income of the village is today still the agriculture with dairy production and cattle breeding . In addition to history and Pier still has the production of high quality handmade cashmere -Wollprodukten by the local Cashmere Company place Tolaga Bay made known. Since 1984, goat skin fibers have been sent to Scotland for weaving and dyeing , then used to manufacture exclusive garments from the fabrics in Tolaga Bay and marketed through our own sales outlets in Auckland and Christchurch . Another, albeit more modest, source of income is tourism . Day tourists and people passing through come to the place attracted by the historical past of the place and the two sights (see below).
Attractions
- The 660 m long pier at Tolaga Bay Wharf has been restored and is now accessible.
- Cook's Cove , after a hike of over an hour along the cliffs of the 343 m high Titirangi .
- The Tolaga Bay Inn , built in 1890 but later remodeled , now houses backpackers accommodation, a café and restaurant.
See also
literature
- Helga Neubauer: Tolaga bay . In: The New Zealand Book . 1st edition. NZ Visitor Publications , Nelson 2003, ISBN 1-877339-00-8 , pp. 357 f .
Web links
- Tolaga Bay - Uawa . Tourism Eastland Inc,accessed January 21, 2016.
- A history of the Tolaga Bay wharf . Endeavor House,accessed April 30, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2013 Census QuickStats about a place: Tolaga Bay . Statistics New Zealand , accessed October 1, 2017 .
- ^ Neubauer: Tolaga Bay . In: The New Zealand Book . 2003, p. 358 .
- ↑ Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed October 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Kupe . University of Hawaii , archived from the original on June 14, 2010 ; accessed on April 30, 2013 (English).
- ^ From Tasman To Marsden. - Furneaux Visits Tolaga Bay, 1773 - NZETC - (accessed February 9, 2010)
- ↑ Sheridan Gundry , Landmark Given New Legs , NZ Heritage Magazine , Summer 2002
- ^ Marie Taylor : Feral goat cashmere worth harvesting . University of Hawaii November 1, 2002, archived from the original October 18, 2008 ; accessed on April 30, 2013 (English).
- ^ Garrick Batten : Goat Cashmere - producing the finest fiber from New Zealand goats . New Zealand Cashmere Association , Invercargill 2003, ISBN 0-473-08960-2 (English).
- ↑ Tolaga Bay Inn . Tairawhiti Museum , accessed February 9, 2010 .