Shining the way to Te Matau a Pohe(Whangarei) Traditional Cache
Shining the way to Te Matau a Pohe(Whangarei)
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Quick cache if you have found a place to park the car and walk. No parking all around this area, there are a few around the corner though.
About the Bridge:
Skilled at making fish-hooks, Wiremu Pohe, the Ngati Kahu chief who welcomed the first English settlers to Whangarei, has landed a place in modern history.
The Whangarei District Council infrastructure and services committee yesterday decided to call the new Lower Hatea River bridge Te Matau a Pohe (The Fish Hook of Pohe).
Public submissions were sought on naming the bridge and the Project Control Group - a team of councillors and senior staff appointed by the committee - considered 91 names submitted, including Jaw Bridge, Mandible Bridge and Made in China.
As part of the public submission process, the council consulted kaumatua from local iwi - Taipari Munro (Te Parawhau), Richard Shepherd (Ngati Kahu o Torongare), Te Wahiri Heteraka (Ngati Wai), and Buster Whautere (urban Maori) - who preferred the name Te Matau a Pohe.
Acceptance of this name was linked to UK bridge architect Martin Knight being inspired by the shape of Maori fish hooks when designing the bridge.
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