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At home after 155 years u by Andy Bryenton
Last Sunday, a crowd gathered before the old historic church near Mangawhai’s museum, to welcome a local taonga home after 155 years.
Centre established with generosity
A new respite care and rehabilitation centre …
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Road signals development milestone A ‘road to the future’ is under construction…
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Historic first grant awarded
Last Wednesday saw a milestone in community …
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The schooner Daring, built there in 1863, has been recovered, miraculously preserved, from beneath Muriwai beach, and was officially handed over to a special trust to arrange its permanent place of honour. The Daring is an irreplaceable artefact of her time; a ship built using all local native timbers in Mangawhai in 1863, at the height of the colonial era. She was travelling from Taranaki up the west coast in 1865 when she was run aground on Muriwai beach, a victim of the waves and gale-force winds, which often lash the coast. Buried in sand over her decks for more than one and a half centuries, she was lost to history until a storm revealed her on May 20, 2018. Maritime historians, including Baden Pascoe and John Street, quickly formed the Daring Rescue Group and paid out of their own funds to secure and explore the wreck. What they found was a preserved slice of history. Not just the ship, built using clever techniques of woodworking not seen elsewhere, but even items like shoes, a straw hat, ropes and other personal effects of the crew who abandoned the Daring on that stormy shore 155 years ago. Heavy trucks, water jets, excavators and more than $1 million later, the complete hull of the Daring was removed from the sand and taken to Auckland by low-loader truck. However, the intent was to bring her home. On Sunday, plans moved a step closer to the opening of a unique
p With a handshake, the Daring Rescue Trust hands over authority of the culturally and historically significant sailing ship to the Mangawhai Daring Trust
exhibit in Mangawhai. The Daring is to be housed in a purpose-built museum, showing the public a perfect snapshot of the past. John Street himself fired a maritime cannon to herald the handover to the Mangawhai Daring Trust, including well-known Mangawhai historical preservationist Jim Wintle, who presided over the handover. As some separate artefacts from the Daring were displayed, the children of Mangawhai Beach School’s kapa haka
group gave a spirited performance, and a handshake between Mr Wintle and Mr Street sealed this latest chapter in the Daring’s remarkable story. The ship itself will be carefully transported to its new home in February 2021, with design and fundraising now underway for the building, which Mr Wintle says will become “not just a Mangawhai attraction, but one of the pre-eminent educational and historic attractions in New Zealand.” ¢
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