Ngatimoti

Ngatimoti is a small town near Motueka in New Zealand's South Island. Its Māori name means "of Timothy". The town lies on the banks of the Motueka River and has been inhabited since 1855 when the Salisbury brothers arrived in the river valley. The local economy includes forestry, apple orchards and sheep and dairy farming. The name for this community came from a recently-converted Māori Christian who carved his name into a tree at the corner of what is now Ngatimoti school. On 1 January 1860 the town featured the first gathering of the Brethren religious movement, at the house of a local man, James George Deck and by the 1900 census the movement had nearly 2% of the total NZ population. This created a tension between Brethren and...