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settlement, when the visible signs of old-time Maori occupation were very / 
erous about Miramar Peninsula; and even now a number of signs 
are to be seen. There are the remains of a small pa on the toe of the 
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often impossible to say whether a formerly occupied place was a pa or 
n open village. e most numerous signs of Maori occupation in this 
The latter is marked “ Point Hippah” on the Barnett chart published — 
with D'Urvilles narrative—a pretty good proof that a fortified village — 
was seen there in the “twenties” of last century, either by Barnett m  — 
1826 or by D'Urville in 1827. | 
. The lagoon that formerly existed on the Miramar Flat was in olden 
times known as Te Roto-kura, but in later days as Рага. Colonel Wake- 
field е it Burnham Water. It was drained by the late Mr. Crawford 
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use of lands extending from the coast inland to Karori. They occupied ; 3 Be 
collected, but some of them seem to have lived at Miramar. They 
crossed to the South Island, conquering and almost exterminating the. 
Ngati-Mamoe. 
: Yet another people, a portion of the Ngati-Ira tribe of the W 
district, marched south and settled on the shores of Palliser Bay. 49 
time rolled on, these Ira folk extended their settlements and occupied 
know of no fighting between them. These people came down the a 
ten generations ago, and in Cook’s time the population of the Land а ie 
Tara was known by the tribal name of Ngati-Ira. | ii 
, Inthe second decade of the nineteenth century troubled times obtaine 
in this district. It was about 1819 that the folk of the Wai-mapihi p% 
Pukerua, saw afar off, at Wainui, a long line of men marching southw 
over the sands of Manaia. Those sons of Ira the Heart-eater knew n° 
