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NZ Company ship Tory arrives
The New Zealand Company party, which included William Wakefield and his nephew Jerningham, was sent to make preparations for organised settlement.
New Zealand Company surveyors arrive in Port Nicholson
Surveyors arrived in Port Nicholson to lay out plans for the proposed New Zealand Company settlement of Britannia at Pito-one (Petone). This site would prove unsuitable, prompting a move across the harbour to the present-day site of Wellington.
The Cuba at anchor, 1840
The New Zealand Company ship Cuba anchored at Port Nicholson heads in a NW breeze, 1840.
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