A cache located facing the site of Ruahine Kāinga, a historic Māori village on the banks of the Manawatu River. The whole site is now being redeveloped for housing. There were information signboards close to the final which gave some interesting local history and photos of these are saved in the cache images. Some information from the signboards:
"Ruahine was located in Hokowhitu near the stream that runs from the Hokowhitu Lagoon into the Manawatu river. The actual site of Ruahine Kāinga is remembered by Rangitane as where the old College of Education netball courts once stood [In the far Southern corner of the housing development - see the development signboard in cache images]. Ruahine was occupied by Rangitane and then by Ngati Upokoiri from the 1830s.
The village of Ruahine was unfortified but sheltered under the protection of Te Motu-o-Poutoa on the summit of the bluff immediately across the river. In times of war the village would be deserted and all the people would gather in the pa.
In the 1870s there was a large population at Ruahine and the punga whares and meeting houses standing under the trees of a magnificent totara grove presented a striking and beautiful scene. At times large canoes came up the river in dozens and might be seen pulled up in a long row on the wide shingle beach in front of the village."
The Māori connection continued until recently, with the nearby Hokowhitu campus of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, which is one of New Zealand's largest tertiary education providers [See photo of buildings in cache images].
The container is a small Sistema. There is room for small swaps and trackables. The cache is accessible from ground level.