import\articles\254\Tikorangi Mountain.html indexed_doc HTMLPlugin 2277 Tikorangi Mountain.html Tikorangi Mountain.html en utf8 Tikorangi Mountain HTML http://articles/254/Tikorangi Mountain.html http://articles/254/Tikorangi Mountain.html -35.803613 35W 80 803 8036 -35.803613 174.321098 174E 32 321 3210 174.321098 HASHe8234759d92a9d7118f28b 1360633627 20130212 1360874492 20130215 HASHe823.dir <h2>Tikorangi Mountain</h2>Dominating the district now known as Portland, is Tikorangi Mountain. Now denuded of all vegetation, it exposes its bald, grey, lime head for all to see. Until about 1912, when it was purchased by Wilsons Portland Cement Company, this hill was green and beautiful, and gave its name Tikorangi to the surrounding district.According to the local Maori authorities, Tikorangi was so named because of white, jelly-like balls about six inches in diameter, that used to be found on the mountain. They did not last very long but melted away. Mr Harry Pitman says that in the early 1900's when he was a boy he had kicked these balls and watched them disintegrate. The Maoris claimed that these jelly-like balls, which sometimes were marked with stripes, fell from the skies, and so they called the mountain Tikorangi, (tiko = I settle upon, as frost does, and rangi = sky.Reference: Florence Keene, Tai Tokerau, Northland Room, Whangarei Library