Panmure, New Zealand

Panmure
View of Panmure
Basic information
Local authority	Auckland Council
Electoral ward	Maungakiekie-Tamaki
Local board	Maungakiekie-Tamaki
Board subdivision	Tamaki
Date established	1848 (European)
Facilities
Train station(s)	Panmure Train Station
Surrounds
North	Tamaki, Point England
Northeast	(Tamaki River)
East	(Tamaki River)
Southeast	Pakuranga
South	Mount Wellington
Southwest	Mount Wellington
West	Mount Wellington
Northwest	Stonefields

Panmure is a south-eastern suburb of Auckland City, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 11 kilometres southeast of the city centre, close to the western banks of the Tāmaki River and the northern shore of the Panmure Basin (or Kaiahiku). To the north lies the suburb of Tāmaki, and to the west is the cone of Maungarei / Mount Wellington.

The Government bought the Kohimaramara block from Ngati Paoa in 1841. In January 1842 Felton Mathew surveyed "Tehmaki" into 37 farms totalling 3,856 acres. Part of this became the Fencible settlement of Panmure, between Maungarei and the Tāmaki River. The Maori name for the area was Tauoma. One of the traditional portages between the Waitemata Harbour and the Manukau Harbour was near here. 4.6 km up the Tāmaki River Maori would beach their waka (canoes) at the end of a small creek (that now passes under the southern motorway) and drag them overland (where Portage Road is now) to the Manukau harbour. During the Musket wars in late September 1821, Mokaia Pa was the scene of severe fighting and was sacked by 4000 musket carrying warriors such as Nga Puhi from the north led by Hongi Hika. The fighting devastated what had been the Ngati Paoa population centre of the Auckland Isthmus during pre-European times which had a population of about 7,000. 3000 men with up to 100 muskets took part in the defence of the Pa but after a close and bitter battle were defeated by the combined northern alliance who had between 500 and 1000 muskets.

Mokaia Pa, on the headland to the east of the Panmure lagoon, was visited in 1820 by the missionary Samuel Marsden. In 1848, 80 Fencible families came here from Ireland and England on the ship Clifton and established a settlement with 99 raupo huts on the eastern shores of the lagoon. They called the area Maggotty Hollow. Located on the Tāmaki River, Panmure was favoured by Felton Mathew to be the new capital of New Zealand. William Hobson, however, decided otherwise, and the new town of Auckland arose further to the west along the shores of the Waitemata Harbour.

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