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1837 Ngati Whatua, who have returned to Puponga, also begin to re-establish their gardens on the northern shores of the Tamaki isthmus. Apihai Te Kawau gifts land near Onehunga to Te Wherowhero, who thereafter alternates his residence between Awhitu and Onehunga. Soon afterwards Te Kawau moves his people permanently back to Mangere and builds a pa there (Whakarongo).

13 September 1837 On behalf of the Church Missionary Society, Maunsell and Hamlin purchase land in the vicinity of the Moeatoa mission from Ngati Te Ata. Hamlin later moves to Orua Bay \and Maunsell to Maraetai, at the mouth of the Waikato River, but the Moeatoa land is retained by the Church Missionary Society until 1896.

19 December 1837 The CMS missionary James Hamlin, who has a large family to support, purchases a 500-acre block of land in the northern Manukau Peninsula. In 1838 he buys another large block of land alongside the Tamaki River north of Otahuhu, more land at Matakawau and Rangiriri on the Manukau Peninsula, and yet more land east of Waiuku. In all he acquires 5803 acres in the Tamaki and Manukau areas

21 March 1838 An eight-day Church Missionary Society mission schools examination meeting begins at Otahuhu. This brings together students from schools established by Hamlin, Maunsell and Fairburn throughout the Manukau area, and becomes another occasion for Ngati Paoa, Ngati Whatua and the Waikato tribes to meet in peace.

7 May 1838 The trader Thomas Maxwell purchases the Te Hurihi block on Waiheke Island. On 22 May 1839 he purchases another block of land, and on 11 January 1840 several islands of the gulf, including Motutapu. Maxwell is the husband of Ngeungeu, daughter of the Ngai Tai chief Tara Te Irirangi, of Umupaia.

2 September 1838 Missionaries Robert Maunsell and James Hamlin purchase land at Orua Bay on behalf of the Church Missionary Society.

13 June 1839 James Hamlin moves from Moeatoa to Orua Bay. Hamlin and Maunsell, who establishes a mission at Maraetai at the Waikato Heads in July 1839, divide up responsibility for the Manukau Peninsula. Hamlin also visits Otahuhu, Mangere and Onehunga. (In 1844 he is transferred to Hawkes Bay.) 11 December 1839 Alexander Dalziell makes a down-payment to Ngati Te Ata on 1800 acres of land at Waiuku. The final payment is made on 29 June 1840. Dalziell's claim to this block later goes before the Old Land Claims Commission