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= History of Onehunga © =

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 * The word 'Onehunga' could have meant 'burial place' since Onehunga was a burial place of the Maori, and the couragious and noble were buried there. They were buried small caves, which are among the lava flows from One Tree Hill, which is known in Maori as 'Maungakiekie'.**=====


 * Maybe. You'll never know...**

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 * On the 7th May 1844, 163 acres of land known as 'Waihihi' was bought from the Maori cheif Wiremu Hopihone by John Thomas Jackson. Alexander Geddes, John Logan Campbell, George Owen Ormsby and many other land owners in the 1840s had established themselves in Onehunga.**=====

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