wanganui

Updated: August 17, 2026

Colonel Wakefield supposed that he had bought the whole of it, though the natives afterwards proved that they sold only a part on the north side of the river. Here, about four miles from the mouth of the stream, the settlers formed a little town which they called Petre, but which is now known as Wanganui.

Alexander Sutherland - History of Australia and New Zealand: From 1606 to 1890