This database has details of shipping arrivals and departures as taken from the Taranaki Herald 1852 to 1885.
This index has been a joint effort between Puke Ariki and the New Plymouth Genealogy Group.
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Ask anyone who lived in New Plymouth during the 1950s, 60s and 70s about Ping's Pie Cart and you could chow through a dozen slow meals while listening to fast food stories. It might have been the pride of the west, but it was an inscrutable eastern gentleman who ran it...
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