Pauautahanui is rural lifestylers paradise....... not many rented properties though that I know of, although you may be lucky. It is very close to a newish suburb of Porirua City called Whitby where you may have much better luck in locating rentable property. There's a large wetland wild life reserve which stretches all the way around the head of the inlet.
This area incidently was one of the earliest settlements in Aotearoa, and was part of a major maori route from the west coast through to the Hutt and Poneke. Te Rangihaetea's pa (Nephew of Te Rauparaha, the Maori Napoleon, and composer of Ka Mate) was situated on the hill where the church now is. The school in the same area is one of the oldest in the country. The Pauatahanui Inlet used to be much deeper allowing the passage of large sailing ships deep inland with the mouth of the harbour protected by Fort Paremata....... but the whole lot turned to custard after the 1855 Earthquake (approx 8.2 Richter Scale) which raised the land and made the inlet too shallow for ships and levelled the Fort without a shot being fired.
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