Craigieburn Property

Craigieburn Property

Michael William Munro A member of the 58th Regiment which came to Australia to escort convicts and was sent on to New Zealand in 1845 to deal with unrest in the Bay of Islands.He was a very early settler on the Mahurangi River & bought land near Duck Creek in the...
Local Islands

Local Islands

A Breif history of our Local Islands The island group of Motuketekete, Moturekareka, Motutara, and Kohatutara or the Rocky Islets island areas are a group of connected islands south of Kawau Island, which you see when looking out from Martins Bay.There are the remains...
Stories of the Rewa

Stories of the Rewa

There is an old wreck, or at least part of it, lying in the north western bay, on Moturekareka, near Kawau Island The wreck is the Alice A. Leigh and renamed the Rewa whose history is directly linked to the end of the days of sail. She was a 3,000 ton four masted...