The handpicked grapes come mostly from the
Raupo Creek, a clay-rich vineyard in the Omaka Valley.
We had not quite discarded the tents and
raupo huts in which we first lived, and we were quite proud of the few scattered weatherboarded houses which began to mark out the lines of the streets.
Auckland (New Zealand):
Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd; 1995.
(42) In June 1815 Hannah King's mother was with her daughter, son-in-law, and her two grandsons in their communal
raupo whare.
As Elizabeth noted in her "Recollections," "Upon arrival there, we found a native built
raupo whare [a kind of grass hut], without floor, doors or windows, with a square hole cut in the roof for a chimney, and the earthen floor covered with mud from a recent flood.
Kakaho reeds were used for the frame and
raupo leaves for the covering.
At this point in the novel, Timothy Cardew, Eliza's first love, has left Wellington and is working as a linesman at
Raupo. He takes the local postmistress, Shelagh, out to the movies.