Hawke’s Bay Year Book – Centennial Issue
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Established
1895 . . .
PHONE
4702
FOR 63 YEARS
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HAWKES BAY’S OLDEST HARDWARE HOUSE
Interior view of retail hardware
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1862.
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& SONS LTD.
HASTINGS ST., NAPIER
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NAPIER … City of Sunshine and Charm
NAPIER … City of Opportunity
NAPIER … World’s largest Crossbred Wool Centre
BE SURE TO VISIT NAPIER DURING THE
HAWKES BAY CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
(FROM 1st NOVEMBER 1958 to 31st OCTOBER 1959)
At the New Light Industrial area of ONEKAWA there are industrial sites available either on a leasehold or an outright purchase basis. 1 mile from Rail, 1 mile from Port, 1 mile from City.
Write P.O. Box 167 Napier for further information.
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HAWKES BAY YEAR BOOK
VOL. 4
THE CITY OF NAPIER
Foreword
NAPIER, the capital city of the Province of Hawkes Bay, is blessed with a wonderful climate, an excellent port, ample land for expansion, and could be termed today as the “City of Opportunity”. Ranking as New Zealand’s third exporting port with ample areas for industry, excellent air, rail and road facilities and a superb climate, Napier is attracting many commercial firms wishing to expand and decentralise.
Our city had many outstanding tourist attractions, and with the completion of our Memorial Hall on the famous Marine Parade, Napier is becoming increasingly popular as a venue for meetings and conferences. From November 1st, 1958, we will be celebrating the Centenary of the Province of Hawkes Bay and celebrations will be continuing throughout the district for the ensuing twelve months.
Through the generosity of one of our esteemed citizens, the Napier City Council has been able to lead New Zealand in the provision for the elderly people in our community, and we are in the course of constructing over 90 pensioners’ flats for the comfort of our older citizens.
Whether it be for the enjoyment of a holiday, a delightful place in which to reside, or for the establishment of a commercial business or industry, Napier can offer facilities that are unequalled by any other city in New Zealand.
PETER TAIT,
Mayor.
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Copies of photographs may be had on application to the publishers, Astra Publicity, 40 St. Paul Street, Auckland, C.1.
MAP OF THE CITY OF NAPIER
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REAL ESTATE
AUCTIONEERS
INSURANCE AGENTS
(Chief Agents: Sun Insurance Office Ltd.)
REGISTERED VALUERS
TENNYSON ST.
Phone 5077
NAPIER
RUSSELL ST.
Phone 3713
HASTINGS
ROWE’S
WROUGHT IRON & WIREWARE
PRODUCTS
“The firm with ideas about steel”
Manufactures [Manufacturers] of Classic and Contemporary Wrought Iron Furniture and Novelty Wireware. Our work is available at leading retail stores throughout the country.
TRADE ENQUIRIES ARE INVITED
Phone 4325 Napier
CORNER FARADAY & THACKERAY STS., NAPIER.
Sale representative: M. G. SHAW, P.O. Box 392, HASTINGS.
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The most up-to-date and largest
MILK BAR
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HAWKES BAY
PALM GROVE MILK BAR & CAFETERIA
EFFICIENT & COURTEOUS SERVICE ASSURED
OPENS 9 a.m. – 11 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 2 p.m.-10 p.m. Sunday
Emerson Street . Phone 2221
Presenting each week …
Exclusive furniture
… and furnishings
A COMPREHENSIVE FURNISHING SERVICE
IS AVAILABLE
AT THE LEADING FURNISHERS
BURTS FURNISHERS Ltd.
NAPIER
. . . 1898
1908
1918
1928
1938
1948
1958 . . .
DOWN
THROUGH
THE YEARS
Your Grandparents bought
An upright grand piano
An accordion
A mandolin
A gramophone
A horn type radio
From LOCKYER’S
Your Parents bought
A piano accordion
A player piano
An early model refrigerator
From LOCKYER’S
Now YOU will buy
A radiogram
A transistor portable
A smart modern piano
A modern refrigerator
A washing machine
A deep freeze cabinet
From LOCKYER’S
LOCKYER’S HAVE SERVED THE MUSIC LOVING PUBLIC OF HAWKES BAY
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FURNITURE CRAFTSMEN
PHONE 3093
EMERSON ST. NAPIER
Inspect our range of:
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LINOS
LINO TILES
CARPETS
PRAMS
FURNITURE MADE TO ORDER
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HAWKES BAY BRANCH: CNR. BROWNING & HERSCHELL STREETS
H. GORDON MANAGER. NAPIER
Always ready to serve . . .
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DALTON STREET
NAPIER
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All HOME & OFFICE
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Art Dept.
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Writing Compendiums
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NAPIER
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Two of the many interesting floats at the McLean Park procession.
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Crowds line the sides of the Iron Pot, Ahuriri, to witness the spectacle of the re-enactment of the early settlers landing.
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The story of Hawkes [Hawke’s] Bay Province’s first one hundred years was told in the Cavalcade of Progress which marked the opening of the centennial celebrations at Napier. The re-enactment of the landing of the early settlers at the Iron Pot, the skilfully contrived cavalcade which followed, and events at McLean Park at Napier all had an underlying motif of deep significance.
Those who saw all these events were deeply conscious of their import and their part in the development of Hawkes Bay Province. The growth of the province to its present stage of unparalleled productivity and prosperity was by no means free of setbacks and grave difficulties. But the first settlers were fully convinced of the future of this new land, and their courage stood them in good stead in times of grave adversity.
As the year progresses, so each centre throughout Hawkes Bay Province plays its part in the celebrations. As capital of the province and the first established settlement in Hawkes Bay, Napier initiated the celebrations.
Top: A group of traditionally dressed early settlers.
Bottom: The Maoris giving welcome to the new settlers.
The floats on parade at McLean Park.
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We extend a cordial welcome to all Napier residents and visitors to call at our Friendly Service Store.
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EMERSON STREET NAPIER
(Next to Loo Kee’s)
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EMERSON ST., NAPIER PHONE: 5102.
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The home of all good things to eat and drink . . .
HUMPHRIES
HASTINGS STREET NAPIER
PHONE 3921
HIGH CLASS FOODS
Table Wines, Sherries, Liqueurs a specialty.
POPULAR BRANDS AT WHOLESALE PRICES
Napier’s Sole Stockist of
“FRENCH MAID” Coffees
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The splendid illuminations at the intersection of Hastings and Emerson Streets.
BARELY 30 years after Cook’s second voyage – which took him along the East Coast of the North Island – the whalers were establishing their rough stations along the coast of Hawke Bay. By 1805 there were at least three whaling stations along the coast, and the Maoris were already accustomed to dealing with the white people.
It is interesting to record that Hawkes Bay’s first businessman was probably a man named Anketel. Mr Anketel’s trade was suited to the time and the place – he opened a grog shop -and his premises were by no means
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palatial. In fact, Mr Anketel’s grog shop flourished under an upturned boat at Petane and his clientele, naturally enough, was almost exclusively whalers, with a taste for hard liquor.
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F. THORP & CO. LTD.
ESTD. 1889
Since when it has been our pleasure to serve the people of
HAWKES BAY WITH THEIR FOOTWEAR
We carry extensive stocks which in quality & selection are equal to the best in New Zealand.
THORPS FOR SHOES
PHONE 2222. NAPIER. P.O. BOX 74
D. G. WOLFE
CARPET & LINO LAYING SPECIALISTS
NEW SUITES MADE
RENOVATIONS & RECOVERING DONE
ALL UPHOLSTERY WORK
LINOS & CARPETS LAID
FACTORY
21 CARLYLE STREET – NAPIER
Phone 5388 factory
3065 res.
Photo captions –
Top: The sheltered entrance to the Memorial Hall.
Bottom: The floral clock.
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LAUNDRY SERVICE
HAWKES BAY
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PHONE 2430
8 THACKERAY STREET
NAPIER
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8 Thackeray Street, Napier.
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PHONE 72-386
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C. D. McLEAN
Part of the Marine Parade with the Tom Parker fountain and the new Memorial Hall building.
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VISIT
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Phone 2317
97 EMERSON ST. NAPIER
We cordially invite
your inspection of our
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Right opposite the Post Office
in HASTINGS STREET,
NAPIER.
and at CENTRAL BUILDINGS,
HERETAUNGA STREET WEST,
HASTINGS.
It was not long before a small store and “grog depot” was established at Ahuriri, then variously known as Awridi, Acriri, Haurere and Howready. The first settlers were already in occupation by 1846, but it was a small, unstable population whose lives for the most part revolved around the whaling industry, with little or no interest in the land.
New settlers found themselves seriously cramped for space. Ahuriri was no more than an untidy collection of huts, whalers’ gear, piles of rubbish and a few Maori whares. Most of the new settlers built their early homes
The attractively carved interior of the Hukere [Hukarere] Girls’ School chapel.
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along Onepoto Gully. A track cut from the water’s edge up the gully to the top of the hill was called Main Street, a name it bears to this day.
In the course of time Shakespeare Road was formed to give better access to the hill areas, several stores were started, and the hand of Government began to be felt. Ahuriri was a busy port, the only major haven between Auckland and Wellington, and its attractions were a lure for the Maoris.
Less than a century ago more than 5000 Maoris lived at Ahuriri, most of them transients from inland villages. The whalers were poor tutors in the ways of the white men, and the Maori people degenerated sadly under their influence. Rough warehouses were built at the port to
Photo caption – Meat being loaded for export overseas at Napier’s busy port.
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IS THE HOME OF
ANDERSON’S
MODERN POT PLANT NURSERY
100,000 Indoor Decorative Pot Plants under glass
– INSPECTION INVITED –
J. N. ANDERSON & SON LTD.
P.O. BOX 106. NAPIER. PHONE 2016
ESTHERS
HOME
COOKERY
(Mrs. E. D. GOLDING propr.)
Napier’s Popular Rendezvous for
Morning & Afternoon Teas Hot Meals Snacks
We also specialise in
PARTY & WEDDING CATERING
and DECORATIVE CAKES
CROCKERY HIRE SERVICE
Phone 3893
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& COMPANY LIMITED
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REPRESENTING THE FOLLOWING:
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4173 Napier PHONES 4981 Hastings
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NAPIER
A recent aerial view of the port, showing the reconstruction work on the old wharf in progress.
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A Pioneer carrying firm …
J. MAHONEY & SONS LTD.
ESTABLISHED 1862
One of the oldest carrying businesses in Hawkes Bay, the firm of J. Mahoney & Sons Ltd. is proud of its record of 96 years’ unbroken service in Napier and District. From its early beginnings the firm was finally established in its present premises in Thackeray St. in 1905. Commencing with two light drays 96 years ago, the firm now has a modern fleet of vehicles engaged in all aspects of commercial carrying and is today controlled by the grandson of the far-sighted founder.
THACKERAY ST. PHONE 3191 NAPIER
OVER 60 YEARS . . .
-YES, THAT IS OUR RECORD OF SERVICE TO HAWKES BAY. THANK YOU ALL FOR
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A. SIMMONDS & CO. LTD.
SEEDSMEN FLORISTS MERCHANTS
NAPIER and HASTINGS
Raphael Furnishing Studios Ltd.
Phone 2401 Commercial Buildings, Hastings Street, NAPIER.
Mr. & Mrs.
R. A. KILBEY,
Proprietors.
Res. 4 Chilton Rd.
French Polishing &
Repair Specialists
Antiques, Reproductions and Art Furniture
MEMBER
THE NEW ZEALAND ANTIQUE DEALERS’ ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
ESTABLISHED
1874
ONE OF THE FIRST SETTLERS –
AND GETTING STRONGER DAILY
NAPIER GAS
COMPANY LIMITED
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HECTOR McGREGOR
LIMITED
ESTABLISHED 41 YEARS
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS
Phone 2960
DALTON STREET – NAPIER
Agents for
Leonard Refrigerators
Otis Elevators
Claude Neon Lights of N.Z.
Savaday Washing Machines
Dish Washers, Clothes Driers
Zip Water Heaters
Haywin Vacuum Cleaners
Pope Lamps, Fluorescent Fittings
& Tubes
Stockists of
MORPHY-RICHARDS
Automatic Toasters, Irons,
Steam Irons
and all first class
HOME APPLIANCES
serve the needs of commerce and no fewer than eight hotels did a roaring trade catering for the prodigious thirsts of the sailors and the Maoris who imitated them.
As early Napier developed, so did the Maoris and
Photo caption – This view embraces residential Bluff Hill, industrial Ahuriri and Westshore beyond.
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NAPIER
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CORNER OF EMERSON AND DALTON STREETS, NAPIER
PHONE – 3433 SHOP FACTORY and OFFICE 71-025
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UPHOLSTERY CAR TRIMMING
ALL TYPES OF BASKETWARE MADE TO ORDER
(Wholesale and Retail, Trade enquiries invited.)
Photo captions –
The flame of remembrance commemorating the fallen of World War II.
The approach to the Memorial Hall runs beside the Tepid Baths.
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Photo captions –
Exterior aspect of the Memorial Building reveals modern yet pleasing architecture.
Interior of the very pleasant Memorial Lounge Tearoom.
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– We feel sure that if
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DICKENS ST. – NAPIER
Europeans live in a state of mutual contempt. The white settlers turned their faces away from roisterous doings at the port, and sought to build permanent homes in the new land.
Photo caption – Napier General Hospital buildings.
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‘The Morris People’
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Alfred Domett, Commissioner of Crown Lands, in 1855 found Napier “an oblong mass of hills, the whole mass being flattishly topped, and of nearly uniform height, with precipitous or very steep sides (so as to resemble in shape
Photo caption – View looking along Hastings Street.
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Phone 2903 day
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HASTINGS STREET – PHONE: 4200
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Two air views of popular Westshore Beach.
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Phones – 72-051, 71-483, 71-511 Napier
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PHONE 3109. Factory: 10A VIGOR BROWN STREET, NAPIER.
an ordinary cake), but rent or cracked, as it were, into several ravines, forked or branching as they recede from the sea or the lagoons which almost entirely surround the elevated mass”.
Gradually the swamps were drained and the land reclaimed. With Napier’s constitution as a town in 1855, a start was made with the disposal of land. Quarter-acre sections were priced about £5.
For a decade from 1855, Napier’s growth was very slow. However, with the resolvement of land troubles, the end of friction with the Maori people and the introduction of progressive policies in immigration and public works, settlement was greatly stimulated. Napier’s commercial life grew enormously as the land was developed. In 1874, Napier was given borough status and soon ranked as one of the leading provincial centres in the country.
In the course of its life Napier has been successively ravaged by flood, earthquake and fire. It has survived and grown, to become one of the Dominion’s most attractive provincial cities.
Photo caption – Bayview – noted for its vineyards and market gardens.
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Top: Fun for all in the Tepid Baths.
Bottom: Summer shows at the Sound Shell.
Napier city has far-reaching associations with the 65th Regiment. During 1857, Hawkes Bay settlers became
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alarmed at quarrels between the local Maoris, and asked for protection for Napier. The Government responded by sending a detachment of the 65th Regiment in the following February.
A gay populace gathered at the port enthusiastically welcomed the troops as they disembarked from the barque Easterfield. The troops’ first camp site was at Onepoto Gully, where the men enjoyed the warm summer sunshine and the hospitality of local people.
In time many of the men were joined by their families who travelled from Wellington in the schooner Salopian. A barracks was built where Napier Public Hospital now stands.
Napier’s first hotel was opened by Daniel Munn in 1852. It was the Royal, whose successor stands on the original site at the corner of Carlyle Street and Chaucer Road. The Royal soon became a focal point for social life of early Napier people and figures in many written records of the pioneers.
William Colenso attended a dinner there in 1855 when the residents dined and toasted the officers of H.M.S. Pandora, a naval supply vessel whose existence is commemorated by Pandora Point. Though Colenso enjoyed the dinner, he did not approve the balls held at the Royal when dancing continued to 4 a.m.
The enterprising Daniel Munn made full use of his
Photo caption – Off-shore panoramic view of Central Napier.
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hotel. To lovers of Robert Burns he offered a special dinner, with haggis and “genuine mountain dew” for the sum of one guinea. The Long Room of the Royal was the
Focal point in Kennedy Road is the comprehensive Marewa shopping centre.
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venue of many meetings. It was also extensively used for many stage performances.
For the want of one signature a Yorkshireman named Barney Rhodes failed to buy Hawkes Bay – about 1,401,600 acres – for £150 in 1840.
In 1831 Rhodes had a third share in the brig Harriet which he had sailed to many parts of the world. In 1836 the ship was sold and with his share of the proceeds Rhodes bought a farm property in New South Wales.
Tiring of the farm life, Rhodes spent two years cruising around the New Zealand coasts as master of a whaler. With his partners who owned the whaler he began negotiating with the Maoris for big land purchases. In 1839 he “bought” 100,000 acres at Akaroa for £325.
Writing to his Sydney partner in 1840, Rhodes said he was interested in the purchase of a large part of “Hawke Bay”. “The immense tract is very valuable,” he wrote. “At Howready (Ahuriri) there is a tolerable harbor for small vessels and a fine alluvial flat with numerous rivers about 12 miles by 30, or about 200,000 acres. It is the largest extent of level ground I have seen in New Zealand.”
Rhodes’ ambitious scheme fell through for the want of one signature, though whose, history has not disclosed.
Nevertheless, the redoubtable Rhodes negotiated some astonishing land deals. They included Kapiti Island, Akaroa, Lyttelton, Wairoa and Poverty Bay, together with many others, totalling some 1,575,411 acres. The Land Claims Commission granted Rhodes only a fraction of his “purchases”. Among the more substantial allowed was an
Photo caption – His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Cobham, leaving the H.B. County Council Chambers after a meeting of the Executive Council.
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area of 2500 acres in Hawkes Bay, probably the origin of the Clive Grange Estate.
Now in its second century, Hawkes Bay looks back on its first one hundred years with pride and satisfaction. Where scrub and fern once held sway, sheep now graze and fruit trees produce their bountiful yield.
Stoney lands and swamp have given way to pleasant residential suburbs. Rough hill country, scorned by the early settlers as being suitable only for goats, now supports valuable sheep flocks.
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When Hastings was no more than a motley collection of rough shacks straggling along a single street, Napier was a prosperous, well established provincial centre. With Hawkes Bay’s immense productive resources gradually
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being developed, so grew the demand for better port facilities, and Napier grew with them. At the turn of the century Napier was fast expanding over all available land on the flat. By the 1920s all available land had been built upon, and the capital of the province was obviously wilting for lack of growing space.
In the meantime, Hastings was developing rapidly. The rough timber-frame buildings of the early days had given way to permanent solid buildings in the business area centred on Heretaunga Street. The back country was being brought into heavy production, the freezing works were killing ever-increasing tallies, and the smiling Heretaunga Plains were becoming patterned with orchards and small farms.
This was the picture about 1930. In the space of three disastrous minutes early in the following year all underwent
Photo caption – A further view of Ahuriri, showing the two hotels, oil storage tanks and Westshore Beach.
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a violent change. The earthquake of 1931 raised the land in and around Napier up to seven feet. What had been the Inner Harbour eventually became dry land. Swamps were drained, and Napier was presented with thousands of acres of land for future development.
In the tragic days of the disaster, however, these blessings
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Photo caption – A view taken from Bluff Hill as far south as Maraenui.
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were not recognised by the people involved in the catastrophe. More than 300 people had lost their lives. The centre of Napier was a heap of smouldering rubble, and Hastings little better. Gradually order was restored from chaos. The injured were succoured, the streets cleared, and rebuilding begun. Today Napier and Hastings show no traces of the disaster. Fine new buildings have arisen from the rubble, a new generation has grown up, and it is only an older generation which remembers the grim days of the disaster.
“Business and fun” could well be Napier’s civic motto. Napier as the capital of the province is the centre of many Government departments and business concerns. Its busy port testifies to the great export wealth of the province which flows through it in ever-increasing tonnages. At the
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same time, Napier’s excellent climate and fine civic amenities make it one of the country’s most popular holiday resorts.
Marine Parade is among Napier’s prime attractions. Immaculate lawns and gardens, the coloured Parker Fountain, children’s play areas, the municipal swimming baths, the sun bay and the sound shell are but a few of the fine amenities of Marine Parade.
Hastings’ steady growth bids fair to outdo Napier’s post-war development. Set in the fertile Heretaunga Plains, Hastings benefits from the tremendous wealth produced each season by the land around her. Increasing demands for canned and quick-frozen goods find the food factories rapidly expanding, with ever greater demands for labour. Far-sighted civic administrators have provided Hastings with first-class public amenities, and one of the lowest incidences of rating in the Dominion.
The railway brought many blessings to such towns as Waipawa and Waipukurau. The latter town long remembered the opening of the railway bridge and station in 1876. The bridge was decked by triumphal arches, the station was hung with a gay array of bright flags, and a crowd of 800 seethed with excitement when a distant whistle announced the train’s arrival.
Miss Russell broke a bottle of champagne over the engine of the special crowded train from Napier, and christened the locomotive “Die Vernon”. But more exciting things were to come. Headed by the Napier town band, the company proceeded to the Tavistock Hotel, then nearly a mile distant, where luncheon proceeded nearly all the afternoon.
When the time came for the train to return to Napier, frequent imperious blasts on the whistle and desperate appeals by the guard and stationmaster failed to hurry along many laggards.
Mr Bogle, the first stationmaster at Waipukurau, held the office for 40 years. He was 93 when he died at Havelock North in 1939.
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Waipukurau was established around 1867 and took its name from a Maori pa about a mile down the river. Waipukurau means water-soaked fungus, a kind of mushroom which the Maoris ate when other food was scarce. At Waipukurau Pa the first inland church in Hawkes Bay was erected by the Maoris in anticipation of the Rev. Colenso’s mission among them. Here, on March 2, 1847, Colenso on his return from crossing the Ruahine Ranges married nine young couples.
It is believed the first buildings on the site of the present town of Waipukurau were probably the blacksmith’s shop belonging to Robert Kirk and the shingle-roofed cottage in which he lived. Avison’s Accommodation House had been established in 1856 at the junction of the Tamumu and Wellington roads. Drower’s Store nearby was a going concern by 1862. The vicinity then became Waipukurau.
Son [Soon] after the arrival of the 65th Regiment at Napier in 1858 detachments were sent to Ruataniwha and Waipukurau. Barracks were built on the hill at Waipukurau,
Photo caption – This picture bears witness to the rapid growth of the Onekawa industrial area.
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and two tunic buttons of the 65th Regiment have been found on the site.
When W. R. Russell completed his purchase of the Maori reserve of 207 acres known as Pa Flat in 1867, he decided to establish a model village on the site of the present Waipukurau. He built several cottages and leased the sections for a term of 99 years. The barracks in the early sixties were used as a schoolroom during the week and for intermittent church services on Sunday.
In 1880 a cottage hospital was opened under the charge
Photo caption – A different angle on Onekawa, the new industrial area.
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of Mrs Putnam as matron. The completion of the railway bridge and the opening of the railway station were indeed important landmarks in Waipukurau history.
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Photo caption – Rebuilt after the 1931 earthquake, Central Napier has no overhead telegraph or power lines to spoil the view.
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An uncommon view of Napier, From Munroe Street in the foreground to the Marine Parade at top.
A Waipukurau town board was formed in 1905 and the borough seven years later. The Waipukurau County was formed in 1907.
Waipukurau today is a busy, prosperous country town, the business centre of a large and fertile district. In the last decade considerable building progress has indicated residents’ faith in the future of their pleasant town.
A clean and tidy country town, Waipawa in Central
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Hawkes Bay is the commercial and business centre of some of the province’s most highly productive countryside. As early as 1860 Waipawa was becoming well established, with a newspaper of its own and also a one-man police force.
As for Waipukurau, the coming of the railway spelled progress for Waipawa. The town rapidly expanded, the main street became lined with shops and business premises, and residents were confident of their future.
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A series of sound civic administrators have guided Waipawa’s welfare well. The town has good civic amenities and sound prospects for future development.
The crossroads of a busy and prosperous district, Woodville is regarded as the southern gateway to Hawkes Bay. The history of the town goes back to 1872 when a narrow and unreliable track was opened through the Manawatu Gorge.
By 1882 Woodville was a busy little town, with church, school, library, telephone exchange, hotel, a band and a post office.
Dannevirke means “Danes’ Work”, and the establishment of this prosperous and pleasant town indeed was the work of the Scandinavian people.
The scene is Te Aute, the date September, 1872. Five wagons have pulled over to the side of the rough track, fires are being lit, and many are preparing a camp for the night. But their speech is not English, and their clothes, of rough, coarse-spun material, are of unusual cut and style.
These people were the first settlers of Norsewood and Dannevirke, en route to their new homes in the bush after recently landing at Napier.
The Hovding arrived at Napier on September 15, 1872, carrying 74 married couples, about 280 children, and the rest single men and girls, a total of 475. The Ballarat preceded the Hovding by only a few hours and brought a large party of immigrants, among them 71 Danes.
The newcomers were accommodated on the beach at Napier in barracks erected for the purpose. A few days later the men and boys left Napier in five wagons bound for their new land in Southern Hawkes Bay. Most of the party stayed on their sections around Norsewood, but 13 Danish and six Norwegian families were taken on to Dannevirke. The new settlers were shown their 40-acre allotments, and set to work felling the bush are erecting their slab two-roomed huts.
Coming from a virtually forestless land, the Danes found the going particularly tough. Some of the Danes despaired when they saw the conditions, walked back to Napier, and took ship for America. But the majority stayed, to apply their diligence and ingenuity to developing the raw land and establishing the thriving farms of today.
Photo caption – The borough of Taradale.
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Typical of the rapid growth of industry matching the agricultural development of Hawkes Bay is J. Wattie Canneries Ltd., with the parent concern at Hastings and a second factory at Gisborne.
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Photo caption – Diverse industries are found at Ahuriri, embracing wool, tobacco, oil, engineering, marine supplies, canneries and others.
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the Southern Hemisphere. In addition to 1200 people directly employed in their Hastings and Gisborne factories, Watties provide livelihood for more than 400 growers, with their employees numbering many hundreds more.
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largest growers and canners of this vegetable, Watties have 450 acres in production. A total of 800 acres has been planted. Last season 150 acres of new beds were brought into yield, but a further 2000 acres are needed for the domestic market, and for the demand abroad no less than 10,000 acres would be needed.
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(continued page 71)
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HAWKES BAY YEAR BOOK
THE CITY OF HASTINGS
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HASTINGS is the youngest city in New Zealand, having been proclaimed as recently as September, 1956. It is probably the youngest in another sense also in that as a town it did not come into existence until 1887. It is one of the most recently established of the urban centres in the Province of Hawkes Bay, which this year is celebrating its Centenary. Notwithstanding this, it has an urban population of approximately 30,000 and progress still goes on apace. Hastings is known throughout the country as “The Fruitbowl of New Zealand”. We have by far the largest cannery in the country, and our saleyards handle more stock than any other. For these advantages, we are indebted to the high fertility of the Heretaunga plains, our temperate climate and the skill and industry of our people. Industrial areas are being opened up in the Frimley suburb recently incorporated in the city, and we can look forward with confidence to a period of assured prosperity.
I am glad to take the opportunity of writing this brief foreword in a publication which is designed to publicise this progressive area. We always welcome visitors to Hastings, and indeed they come in thousands, especially at Easter time during the Highland games festival, and during our Blossom Week celebrations in September every year. I hope all who read this excellent publication will find an opportunity of visiting us in our district, and discovering for themselves the beauty of our countryside and the natural advantages with which we are favoured.
W. E. BATE,
Mayor.
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Having been established in Hastings since 1907, we have grown up with the town and feel that we have, in some small measure, contributed to its becoming the City of the Plains. We will continue to offer its citizens the same efficient service in
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LOACH & PRICE LTD.
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RUSSELL STREET (opp Railway Station) – HASTINGS
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All under one roof for convenient, easy shopping … you will find not only fashions and their accessories, tots’ to teens’ apparel, men’s and boys’ wear, traditional and contemporary furnishings, but also, fresh food ideas from the self-service Foodmarket. Shopping becomes an interesting pleasure at ROACHS … for service, since 1884.
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products market, providing a wide range of products at the lowest possible prices. Operating in the most favoured peach-growing areas of New Zealand, Watties’ orchardists, cultivate 30,000 trees of Golden Queen peaches for canning.
The growth of Wattie Canneries is one of the true success stories in New Zealand. When the company was formed 24 years ago with a capital of £1250 subscribed by 24 members, it was little more than an act of faith in the future of the Hastings district. In that first season
Photo caption – View showing the clock tower which separates Heretaunga St. E. from Heretaunga St. W.
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there were only 25 on the payroll. In the second year the company had no difficulty in increasing its capital to £10,000. By 1937 the company had a modern plant with a capacity of 26,000 cans each eight-hour day, phenomenal production for those days but laughably small compared with today’s output of more than 30,000,000 cans per annum.
In 1951 the company established its factory on the Gisborne waterfront, specializing in the processing of sweetcorn and peas, with a growing emphasis upon fish and meat processing, and the development of fruits and vegetables. Today the Gisborne operations bid fair to rival those of the parent factory, and have been a major factor in the development of market-garden cropping in that district.
Recent years have seen the establishment and development of many major concerns in Hawkes Bay. The extensive works of the East Coast Fertiliser Company cover many acres of land at Awatoto, catering for the needs of thousands of farmers and providing employment for many hundreds of workers.
Handling a large proportion of New Zealand’s crossbred wools, the wool stores at Ahuriri are a focal point of industry in that locality. The port of Napier handles a large share of the country’s export trade, and facilities to cope with it are steadily being developed by the Napier Harbour Board.
Increasing tonnages of meat are processed each year by the two freezing works in the Hastings district, and the works at Wairoa.
The meat trade provides Hawkes Bay with one of its greatest single sources of income. With relentless efficiency, the three freezing works in the province each season kill many thousands of sheep, lambs, cattle and pigs. All this vast organisation sprang from very humble beginnings.
Hawkes Bay was probably the first province to establish the boiling-down industry on a commercial scale. In 1868 the Hawkes Bay Steam Boiling Down Company began
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activities in a scattering of small buildings at Whakatu. The company had a modest capital of £1500 and the bulk of the shares were held by local farmers.
The works were capable of boiling down 2000 carcases [carcasses] a week. The first sheep rendered down were 400 wethers
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Photo caption – Cape Kidnappers, location of the unique gannet sanctuary.
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averaging 49lb. They produced a net weight of 63¾ cwt. of tallow, averaging 17½ lb a head.
It was calculated that with the value of the skin covering the cost of boiling down and with tallow realizing 4d a pound, the sheep would net about 6/10 a head. With the industry firmly established, the average net return was about 5/-. The works were a blessing for the surrounding community. Meat was essentially a by-product of the business, and choice cuts were always available at give-away prices.
Photo caption – Looking along Heretaunga Street East towards Havelock North.
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Left: Trick cyclists collide! Right: Ross, Dysart & McLean’s attractive float.
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The legs of the sheep were not rendered down. The company hawked them around the settlements in a spring-cart. It is on record that the arrival of the first cart at Napier caused quite a flutter of excitement among local
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Photo caption – A panorama of Hastings, with the Stortford Lodge area in foreground.
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residents. A total of 106 legs were sold for one shilling each.
The approach of the “leg-of-mutton” cart was heralded by the driver blowing lustily on a large trumpet. Later the company announced that the old cart was replaced by “a
Photo caption – Main Hastings business area.
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commodious two-horse spring-cart, with a bona fide bugle replacing the trumpet”.
Business was developing, and soon preserved meats were being produced at low prices. Corned legs were 1/6 each,
Photo caption – West of the city centre is Stortford Lodge and the well-known saleyards.
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smoked and spiced legs 2/-, and smoked tongues at 1/6 a dozen.
Other boiling down plants were soon established and doing a thriving business. The largest and most modern plant was set up at Tomoana in 1880 by William Nelson in partnership with his brother Fred and his cousin J. N. Williams. The factory was soon making its own tins and packing cases. In addition to the tallow and canning departments there were facilities for wool-scouring and fellmongery.
Meat extract was the Tomoana plant’s main line, which was shipped to Britain for manufacture in to soups and
Photo caption – Springtime is blossom time in Hastings, aptly named “the fruit bowl of New Zealand”.
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gelatine. By 1882 Tomoana was preserving 30 bullocks a week. In the year 1881, 202 cwt. of canned meat was exported through the port of Napier. Within three years the total had increased to more than 5000 cwt.
At this time significant advances had been made with the science of refrigeration, and the stage was being set for the birth of one of New Zealand’s major industries. In May, 1882, New Zealand’s first shipment of frozen meat arrived in London. Later that year M. R. Miller, a Napier stock and station agent, and several prominent pastoralists discussed with Nelson Brothers a proposal for taking over the Tomoana boiling down works and establishing
Photo caption – Clive, pleasantly situated on the banks of the Ngaruroro River, is midway between Hastings and Napier.
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a freezing works. Nelson Brothers and J. N. Williams agreed to the sale of the Tomoana works for £30,000 provided that they retained a one-third interest in the new company, and that William Nelson continued as manager.
At the present day it is difficult to believe that the proposals for the establishment of the freezing industry would have met with anything but enthusiasm. Such was not the case. There were some who were extremely critical of this new-fangled proposal and forecast that the province would suffer badly from it. Some thought Hawkes Bay would
Photo caption – Havelock North, an expanding borough, has a pleasant English village atmosphere.
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be best served by a continuation of the canning industry alone. However, progress was inexorable, and not many years had passed before the freezing industry was firmly (continued page 94)
Photo captions –
Te Awanga, with its motor camp, is a popular holiday spot near Hastings.
Iona Girls’ College and (at top) Woodford Girls’ College.
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WAIROA
General view of central Wairoa with North Clyde in foreground.
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THE WAIROA DISTRICT
From several nondescript wooden buildings straggling along the river bank in the early ’seventies, Wairoa has developed into a pleasant commercial and residential centre whose progress is assured by a highly-fertile surrounding district. Wairoa’s greatest boost came with the completion of the railway link with Napier in 1939. From then the town has shown steady growth, with a rather spectacular building boom in the last decade.
Seventy years ago the town’s only link with the outside world was by sea. There were several overland tracks to Napier in the south and Gisborne in the north, but these were unreliable and most inconvenient.
Sailing vessels and then steamers maintained regular services with other coastal centres, with the dangers of the Wairoa bar adding a dash of adventure for every passenger who made the passage.
In the ‘sixties, Wairoa as a town did not exist. The principal settlement on the East Coast at that time was Mohaka. Maori title prevailed over practically all the lands between Mohaka and Mahia. Early Wairoa boasted three hotels, a schoolhouse, courthouse and lock-up. The latter stood near Spooner’s Point, with two or three stockades for defence against hostile Maoris and several trading stores scattered along what is now Marine Parade.
Town planning was a science of the future, and the storekeepers were no more than squatters on the sufferance of the Maori owners. The stores and the hotels provided meeting places for the local residents.
Of notorious memory was “the Cottage”, a spot in old Wairoa where many doubtful land deals were transacted. The nondescript building stood athwart the present Marine Parade, and the county council had to take severe measures to ultimately have it removed.
The first flax traders settled in Wairoa in 1829. Twelve years later Bishop Williams visited the settlement, and three years after that the first mission station was established. In 1845 Joseph Caroll [Carroll], the first white settler, came to Wairoa. A military post was established in 1866, and a regular ferry service across the river was begun four years later. The first bridge was opened in 1877, the year that the harbor board was formed.
Wairoa became a borough in 1909, the freezing works began operations in 1915, and the Wairoa Power Board was formed in 1920. In 1921 the district high school was opened.
Wairoa and district have a total population of just over 12,000.
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established and a major source of revenue to the province.
From humble beginnings 50 years ago, fruit-growing has developed into one of Hawkes Bay’s major industries. The present average yield of pip fruit is in the vicinity of one and a half million bushels.
The good soil and climate of the Heretaunga Plains were recognised by early settlers as being ideal for fruit-growing. With the establishment of freezing works in 1883 and the opening of the railway between Napier and Wellington in the ‘nineties, development of general farming in the district was rapid.
At the turn of the century settlers were showing an awakening interest in commercial fruit production. The development of the fruit export trade from 1920 onwards
Photo captions –
Left: An old carving of Kawiti, a stone age chief and ancestor of the Wairoa Maoris, at Te Uhi, near Wairoa.
Right: Views of N.Z. national rowing championships held at Wairoa.
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gave tremendous impetus to the industry.
An early pioneering effort was the planting of a large peach and pear orchard at Frimley nearly 50 years ago. This orchard consisted of 60 rows of trees one mile long, planted by Mr J. N. Williams. This pioneer also established the Frimley canning factory to absorb the production from this area. However, various factors did not favour the business, and it closed down in 1911.
If nothing else, this early canning venture centred attention on the fruit industry and the growing potential of the
Photo caption – A comprehensive view of Wairoa set on both banks of the river.
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land. In 1934 the Hawkes Bay Fruitgrowers’ Association leased a small orchard at Havelock North and handed it over to the Plant Diseases Division for experimental work. This arrangement continued until 1950. In 1948 a new area
Photo captions – Milk and wool – two of the basic elements supporting Hawkes Bay’s continuing prosperity.
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DANNEVIRKE
of 23 acres was taken over by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research as a fruit research station.
The excellence of Hawkes Bay soil and climate are reflected in the large average size of the district’s fruit trees and their remarkable crops. In a good season many
Photo caption – Dannevirke’s thronging shopping centre.
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Photo caption – Apart from Hawkes Bay’s two cities, Dannevirke is the largest town in the province.
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-All Overseas Airways-
Mitchells International Tours
-Newmans Tours, etc.
HOUSES
SECTIONS
BUSINESSES
LAND
FARMS
CONTACT
K. G. LETT LTD.
REAL ESTATE & TRAVEL AGENTS
HERETAUNGA STREET WEST P.O. BOX 197 HASTINGS
PHONES
4326
5315
5772 (res.)
HASTINGS GLASS CO. LTD.
109 NELSON STREET SOUTH PHONE 2982
(A SUBSIDIARY OF N. C. RAIKES LTD.)
GLAZING CONTRACTORS
AUTO GLASS SPECIALISTS
MIRROR MANUFACTURERS
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