Welcome to the Town of Horeke
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| Horeke sprang up overnight
when a Australian firm established a
shipyard in 1826. Only a few ships were built here
but Horeke became the Heart of the Hokianga for the next decade. It
is the second oldest town in New Zealand. New Zealand's first murder trial took place at the nearby Methodist Mission. The dark bluff across the Hokianga River further east is called Marmon's Point, the home of Cannibal Jack, Hokianga's first settler. Between Horeke and State Highway 1 at Rangiahua are some of the finest tidal marshes in New Zealand. Hundreds of wildfowl and endangered swamp birds thrive in these vast aquatic 'wastelands'. The old buildings of Horeke were mostly built over water, because at the time there was no land for sale, available for development. The Horeke Hotel is the first Pub ever built in New Zealand. It might not have had a licker license, but it served the many ship builders working in the first commercial shipbuilding yard in New Zealand, which was situated right beside the Hokianga shore. |
Chapel at Mangungu
Wairere
Boulders
Mangungu Mission, Horeke
Old
Homestead
Hokianga
Sunset
Wairere
Boulders
