Wanganui

/ ˌwɒŋəˈnuːɪ /

noun

1. a port in New Zealand, on SW North Island: centre for a dairy-farming and sheep-rearing district. Pop: 43 600 (2004 est)

Example Sentences

We, with the resident magistrate of Wanganui, seated ourselves beneath the flagstaff.

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From every pa on the banks, a contingent, headed by its native teacher, would come down the river to Wanganui.

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He was buried at Wanganui with military honours, white men carrying their deliverer's body to the grave.

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Two months later, Governor Grey reached Wanganui, with 500 men.

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But at Wanganui, in May, 1847, land disputes roused a tribe to bloodshed.

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