Page 4 - A Walk from Wellington to New Plymouth

(N’HOURANGA S. C. Brees 1849)
Today, Ngauranga, Centennial Highway (SH 1) on the way to Porirua.

“We walked six miles the next morning to breakfast at a house called the ferry house kept by a
man who surprised me very much by the conversational powers he exhibited and general
information, until I was told that he had been a clergyman and had been in New Zealand for
many years before the Company had possessions here. I mention this because it is not an
uncommon thing to find men here in various capacities who have previously lived in good
society at home.”