The Tuia Mātauranga Tuia Mātauranga - Pōkai Whenua GeoTour: Tahi follows the footsteps of early explorers of Aotearoa New Zealand taking you to places where leaders of the past searched for food, resources and ways to adapt and survive in this new land.
Use the Pōkai Whenua GeoTour as your classroom to explore the stories of the past, in the present, to preserve what is unique in Aotearoa New Zealand for the future.
Collect the codewords to get the Geocoin puzzle piece.
To be able to complete this GeoTour and receive your special Geocoin collectable, remember to take a note of the codeword placed in the cache. This will need to be recorded in your passport which can be downloaded here.
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63 of the 150 Pōkai Whenua GeoTour caches will contain a randomly placed special FTF token (a replica of the Tuia Mātauranga GeoTour commemorative coin). This is yours to keep! If you find more than one, you might consider leaving it for the next person who finds the cache.
Dog Tax War narrowly averted 5 May 1898
War threatened sleepy Hokianga as Government troops marched towards armed Māori ‘rebels’.
This was the climax of widespread Māori opposition to dog registration. Most Māori had little involvement with the cash economy and owned many dogs, especially for hunting. They saw the annual ‘dog tax’ of 2s 6d per dog as discrimination.
In April 1898 a relative of Hōne Tōia of Te Mahurehure told officials that his people would not pay land, dog or other taxes – and would continue to shoot pigeons out of season. After armed Māori visited Rāwene, Richard Seddon’s government rushed troops and a gunboat from Auckland.
As Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart Newall’s force trudged towards Waimā, Hōne Heke Ngapua MP urged Hōne Tōia to surrender. In the nick of time, he sent a messenger to call off a planned ambush.
Next day the Waimā leaders laid down their arms. Sixteen men, including Tōia, were arrested and pleaded guilty to illegal assembly; the ‘ringleaders’ were jailed for 18 months. The fines and taxes were paid after the authorities prudently awarded the hapū a contract to produce railway sleepers.