New Zealand - Paihia
- Camping ground, Paihia, Bay of Islands, showing caravan and tents
- 1952
- Whites Aviation photo
Paihia
- Paihia is the main tourist town in the Bay of Islands
- 60 kilometres north of Whangarei
- Located close to the historic towns of Russell and Kerikeri
- Missionary Henry Williams named the mission station Marsden's Vale and eventually the Paihia became the accepted name of the settlement.
- Henry Williams and his wife Marianne settled in Paihia in 1823 and built the first church there the same year.
- William Williams and his wife Jane joined the Paihia mission in 1826.
- Herald was a 55-ton schooner that the missionaries built and launched off the beach at Paihia on 24 January 1826.
- In December 1832 the first mention of cricket being played in New Zealand was recorded by Henry Williams.
- In 1835 a game of cricket was witnessed here by Charles Darwin, in December 1835 while the Beagle spent 10 days in the Bay of Islands.
- In 1835 William Colenso set up the first printing press in New Zealand at Paihia.
- In 1850 the mission closed and Paihia declined to a very small settlement by 1890.
(Reference: Wikipedia)
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Image source: Camping ground, Paihia, Bay of Islands, showing caravan and tents. Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs. Ref: WA-32059-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23504668
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