1830 in New Zealand

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[edit] Summary

A summary of the year should go here.

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Regal and Vice Regal

• Head of State – King George IV dies on 26 June and is succeeded by his brother King William IV.
• Governor of New South Wales – General Ralph Darling

[edit] Events

• 10 January - The first whaling ship, the Antarctic, enters Lyttelton Harbour, which Captain Morell calls 'Cook's Harbour'.^[1]
• 3 February - John Guard arrives in Sydney with his first cargo of whale oil.^[2]
• 21 April – Phillip Tapsell is married to Karuhi, sister of a Nga Puhi chief, by Samuel Marsden.^[3]
• 31 July - William Yate returns from 6 months 'training' in printing at Sydney with a printing press. His attemps at printing are not particularly successful.^[4][5] (see also 1834 & 1835)
• November – Phillip Tapsell settles in Maketu in the Bay of Plenty and begins trading for flax.^[3] (see also 1828)

[edit] Undated

• John Guard marries Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Parker in Sydney. She^[6] leaves Sydney on the schooner Waterloo on 7 November and arrives at Te Awaiti before the end of the year. Betty Guard is the first European women to settle permanently in the South Island.^[7]
• A whaling station is operating from Porirua.
• Jack Duff, a trader, is the first known European to visit the Palmerston North area. He travels by whaleboat up river as far inland as Woodville and returns to Porirua.^[8]
• The first inland mission is started at Waimate North.^[9]

[edit] References

1. ^ Christchurch: a chronology
2. ^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Guard Biography
3. ^ ^{a b} Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Phillip Tapsell
4. ^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 185
5. ^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Printing
6. ^ It is not known if her husband travelled with her or had already left for New Zealand.
7. ^ Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Elizabeth Guard
8. ^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Palmerston North
9. ^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 474.

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