Hokitika port

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DescriptionHokitika Port, once famous in the late 1860s as the busiest ports in New Zealand, if not the world for a brief period of time, with tall ships bringing thousands of miners from the Australian gold fields, and importers shipping in a huge tonnage of goods to meet the needs of the surrounding gold fields, the river port was now almost deserted. Deforestation of the river flats for farming had contributed to the silting up of the river, and the bar now claimed several shipwrecks.
This port had seen some of the South Pacific’s most colourful and deviant characters such as Bully Hayes, the blackbirder and pirate who arrived in his brig Rona in late 1866 from the Fiji Islands with the following cargo—50,000 oranges, 50,000 limes, 1000 cockatoos, 80 pigs, 200 pineapples, 200 citrons and a quantity of South Sea Curiosities, which on inspection by the customs officer, found “a number of young native Belles.”Map^[1]ContributorBob McKerrow

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Location (city or town)HokitikaLandmark (Place)Hokitika PortEventShipping

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