Cobwebs and Colonials : Sarah Mathew and the Founding of Auckland - a podcast by RNZ

The city of Auckland was founded in 1840 in a mix of hope and compromise and the occasion was marked with a suitably pompous ceremony. Just one eyewitness account remains from that day, and it was written by the only Pakeha woman present.

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