SPARS FROM HOKIANGA
Sir.-In a recent interesting broadcast reference was made to a belief at Horeke, on the Hokianga Harbour, that Neison’s Victory was masted with kauri spars felled at Hokianga. It is, of course, physically possible that kauri spars reached the Admiralty dockyards prior to 1805, though very unlikely, and unfortunately there is no conclusive evidence for such an assumption. It is, however, quite certain that no such spars were shipped from the Hokianga so early. When the missionaries Kendall and King visited Hokianga Harbour about the end of July, 1819, and Samuel Marsden in early October of the same year (in both cases travelling overland from the Bay of Islands) there was no shipyard at Horeke, nor, indeed, any European resident, There is no recorded visit of Europeans to the Hokianga prior to those of the missionaries. The Horeke shipyard was not established until the eighteen-twenties. The Prince Regent schooner appears to have been the first recorded European vessel to enter the harbour in 1820, but her companion vessel, the Dromedary, loading spars for the Admiralty, would not venture over +he har and ovrocured her spars at
Whangaroa.
A. H.
REED
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 799, 12 November 1954, Page 5
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194SPARS FROM HOKIANGA New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 799, 12 November 1954, Page 5
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