The Māori name for the area is Raukawa, after a native aromatic plant (Pseudopanax edgerleyi), whereas for the town it is Otangaki.
Wood thinks that Bartholomew Young was the same who lived at Ashhurst in Kent, and died there in 1621.
On April 20, 1910, Constables James Thompson and John Gallagher finally recaptured Pawelka at a cowshed in Ashhurst, an outlying Palmerston North suburb.
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