New Zealand - Whanganui - Wanganui from Durie Hill - Circa 1915 - Tourist Series - Photo Postcard Format #341673 Whanganui - A city on the west coast of the North Island - Part of the Manawatū-Whanganui regio - The ancestral home of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi and other Whanganui Māori tribes - The New Zealand Company began to settle the area in 1840 - Much of Whanganui's economy relates directly to the prosperous farming hinterland - Officially designated a city until an administrative reorganisation in 1989 Reference: Wikipedia