Tauranga Historical Society

  Panepane Point and Beach from Mount Maunganui, showing part of the narrow main shipping channel and the Tauranga harbour. Populated for ce...

On Saturday 9 May, fifty years and one day after his death, representatives of Tauranga Historical were invited to gather with members of th...

From Tauranga City Library’s archives A monthly blog about interesting items in our collection Users of Pae Korokī - Tauranga Archives Onlin...

“Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. It is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill, a gar...

Matakana Island’s 20 km-long, ocean-facing Panepane Beach - notorious among 19 th century Māori and    Pākehā  seafarers - posed a serious ...