Maungatapere

Maungatapere is a settlement in Northland, New Zealand. State Highway 14 runs through it. Whangarei is 11 km to the east, and Tangiteroria is 18 km to the south west. A hill called Maungatapere with a summit 359 m above sea level is southwest of the settlement. The population was 1278 in the 2006 Census, an increase of 225 from 2001. Thomas Elmsley bought 60,000 acres (24,000 ha) of land in Maungatapere and northern Wairoa from Te Tirarau Kukupa in 1839, and in 1840 he and the brothers Henry and Charles Walton came with workers to establish farms in the area. Henry Walton's farm was on the slopes of Maungatapere hill and was called "Maungatapere Park". After the Flagstaff War, Walton employed former soldiers to build stone walls which...