Kaiwhaiki

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File:Kaiwhaiki c1910 Price.jpg
Looking down upon the Whanganui River, a paddle steamer ferry, and the town of Kaiwhaiki, c. 1910. Photograph taken by William Archer Price.

Kaiwhaiki is a settlement 18 kilometres (11 mi) upriver from Whanganui, New Zealand.

Kaiwhaiki in the 1840s was a small pā of a few dozen people, members of the hapū Ngāti Rongomaitawhiri.[1] In 1852 it became the first settlement on the Whanganui River to host a Catholic mission.[2] By the early 1860s, its population were mostly Kingites, opposed to the colonial government.[1]

Kaiwhaiki is now home to the Ngāti Tuera hapū of the iwi Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi;[2] their unique twin-gabled wharenui Te Kiritahi was built in 1912.[3][4] It was the birthplace of composer and choirmaster Morvin Simon, who led the nationally-known Kaiwhaiki-based kapa haka group Te Matapihi.

A quarry near Kaiwhaiki supplied the shellrock used to build the Durie Hill war memorial tower in Whanganui.[2]

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