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= = =﻿= == 31 October 1833 CMS (Church Missionary Society) superintendent Henry Williams visits Mokoia with fellow missionaries A.N. Brown, J. Morgan and William Fairburn. They note the fertility of the area, but also its air of desolation. The lack of population makes it an unsuitable area for a mission station. == == 16 March 1834 CMS lay catechists James Hamlin and A.N. Brown, travelling with a group of Maori between the Bay of Islands and the Waikato, stop their journey on the Sabbath. Somewhere between Otahuhu and Papakura they hold what is possibly the first Christian service in the area. == == July 1834 In vengeance/revenge for the killing of a Waikato rangatira, a mixed group of Waikato and Ngati Whatua warriors make a fierce attack on a Ngati Paoa settlement at Whakatiwai. Three Ngati Paoa chiefs are killed. For years Ngati Paoa hold a particular grievance against Ngati Whatua. == == 17 February 1835 The Superintendent of the Church Missionary Society, Henry Williams, accompanied by James Hamlin, sets off from the Bay of Islands on a peacemaking mission to the Waikato. They visit the Tamaki area, which they find unpopulated, and also Whakatiwai, Puriri (near Thames), Otahuhu, and Waitete Pa (near Waiau Pa). == == Spring 1835 Having bought muskets, the Waikato tribes are now a fit match for Nga Puhi. Te Wherowhero agrees to move into the Manukau region to ensure the protection of the Tamaki tribes. He settles at Awhitu with members of his personal tribes, Ngati Mahuta and Ngati Apakura. Te Akitai return to Pukaki; Ngati Te Ata to Waiuku and the Manukau Peninsula; Ngati Tamaoho to Pehiakura (near Kohekohe) and Patumahoe. Ngati Whatua rebuild a pa at Puponga Point (near Cornwallis). From there, they begin to re-establish their gardens at Ihumatao (Te Ihu O Mataoho) and to visit Puketutu Island, where they run herds of pigs. == == October 1835 The Ngati Maoho chief, Te Rangitaahua Ngamika, from Pehiakura (near Kohekohe), is baptised at Waingaro by the Wesleyan missionary William White. Ngamika takes the name Epiha Putini (Jabez Bunting). On his return to Pehiakura he has a large raupo church constructed. Wesleyan missionaries regularly call at Pehiakura on their way between the Bay of Islands and the Waikato == == December 1835 On a second peace-making mission, Henry Williams, accompanied by the Reverend Robert Maunsell, visits Puriri, Kopu, Kauaeranga and Whakatiwai, urging that peace be made between Ngati Paoa and the Waikato tribes. == == 11 January 1836 The trader Thomas Mitchell buys a tract of land from Apihai Te Kawau, Tinana and other Ngati Whatua chiefs. According to Mitchell (if not the vendors) the purchase covers the entire Auckland isthmus. After Mitchell's death in November 1836, his trustees sell his interest to Captain William Cornwallis Symonds, New Zealand agent of the Edinburgh-based Manukau-Waitemata Land Company ==