Roapoama's house is shown on survey map of 1889 main trunk line railway near Turangarere (which is also the Maori track from ?Korioi to Moawhango and Marton).
Roapoama, active 1889
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Map
New Zealand. Public Works Department :[North Island main trunk railway. Turangarere sec...
Date: 1889
By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works
Reference: MapColl-832.41gme/[1889]/Acc.36714-5
Description: Two sheets of the map of the central route railway, North Island main trunk railway, Turangarere section, each covering up to one mile distance along the Hautapu River. Milage is running from Turangarere towards Taihape. Both sheets show tracks, sheet 2 shows Roapoama's house opposite 70 chains and the track from Moawhango and Marton, while sheet 3 shows a U-turn bend in the track and good sites for platelayer's cottages. The lower diagram in each map is a cross section of the same distance, measuring heights, formation levels, distances and gradients. Maps signed by R W Holmes, 26/11/[18]89. 'Copy of PWD 16466'. Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 46 x 61.4 cm. Provenance: Donated by the Ministry of Works, January 1975.