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The Seventy Mile Bush was a heavily forested area of New Zealand extending from Wairarapa to Southern Hawke's Bay, summer 1885–86
Rollo Arnold, ''New Zealand’s Burning — The Settlers’ World in the Mid 1880s'' Victoria University Press, 1994, Wellington ;Forty Mile Bush The Forty Mile Bush was the southern part of the Seventy Mile Bush. It extended from Kopuaranga near
The Seventy Mile Bush was a heavily forested area of New Zealand extending from Wairarapa to Central Hawkes Bay
Central Hawke's Bay District is part of the Hawke's Bay Region in the North Island of New Zealand. Formed in 1989, it has an area of 3,333 square kilometres with a population of It had a population of 12,717 people as of the 2013 census. This i ...
and out to that coast. It was cleared and settled by Scandinavians, assisted immigrants in the 1870s. On arrival they walked from the surrounding coastal settlements ( Wellington, Foxton and Napier Napier may refer to:
People
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* Napier Shaw (1854–1945), British meteorologist
* Napier Waller (1893–19 ...
) to cut down the forest and clear the land for farming. The land was not as described to them. Without funds for a return passage they were obliged to remain.
The area encompasses what are now the towns of Norsewood, Dannevirke
Dannevirke ( "Earthworks (archaeology), work of the Danes", a reference to Danevirke; mi, Taniwaka, lit= or ''Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua'', the area where the town is), is a rural service town in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of the North Island, New ...
, Pahiatua and Eketahuna in the Tararua District and reached right into Hawkes Bay to the outskirts of Takapau and Maraekakaho. Its eastern boundary stretched almost due north–south from just south of Cape Turnagain
Cape Turnagain is a prominent headland on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, part way between Hawke Bay and Cook Strait, between the mouths of the Porangahau and Ākitio Rivers.
The cape was named by Captain James Cook in 1769. On ...
on the coast to about 40 kilometres due west of Hastings.Rollo Arnold, ''New Zealand’s Burning — The Settlers’ World in the Mid 1880s'' Victoria University Press, 1994, Wellington ;Forty Mile Bush The Forty Mile Bush was the southern part of the Seventy Mile Bush. It extended from Kopuaranga near
Masterton
Masterton ( mi, Whakaoriori), a large town in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand, operates as the seat of the Masterton District (a territorial authority or local-government district). It is the largest town in the Wairarapa, a r ...
to Woodville
;Remnant
A remnant was saved in 1888, the Mount Bruce Forest Reserve, now the site of the Pukaha / Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre.
References
Forests of New Zealand Geography of the Wellington Region Wairarapa {{Wellington-geo-stub