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COMMUNITY  OUR VALUES  HISTORY  EVENTS  GIG GUIDE  FUN SCROLL  HOT LINKS  GALLERY  FREE STUFF  QUOTES  STREET MAP  SIGNING UP  NEWSLETTER  SUBSCRIBE	1840     1840 March. The Treaty of Waitangi signed by three Ngati Whatua Chiefs [ Apihai Te Kawau, Te Tinana & Te Reweti ] Wanting to be safe guarded from attack from other Maori tribes they encouraged Hobson to site the Capital on the Tamaki Isthmus. During a meeting at Okahu, about 1780, a tohunga, Titai, had recited a prophecy: He aka te ha e wawara mai? He tiu, he raki, Naua I u mai te pupu tarakihi kiuta & tikina atu e au te kotiu. Koia te pou Whakairo Ka tu ki Waitamataa I aku wairangi e. What is the wind that softly blows ? It is the wind of the Northwest, of the North. That drives the Nautilus [ship] on our shore. If I bring from the north The handsome carved post And place of here in Waitemataa My dream will be fulfilled. “they took the post to the Governor, so they went to the Bay Of Islands and invited Hobson to settle. He decided to set up his Capital here [ Auckland ] and purchased the three thousand acres of the area that is now the centre of Auckland City” 1840 British Sovereignty is proclaimed over New Zealand 1840 March: On advice from the Reverend Henry Williams, Captain Hobson selects Auckland to be the Capital and takes up residency on March 14th . The isthmus is covered largely by bracken fern & flax. 1840 July 29th [ formalised on paper on Oct 20th ] Purchase of 3000 acres of land from the local Maori.[ Fifty six pounds in cash, fifty blankets, twenty trousers, twenty shirts, ten waistcoats, ten caps, four casks of tobacco, one box of pipes, one hundred yards of gown pieces, ten iron pots, one bag of sugar, one bag of flour and twenty hatchets.] 1840 September 15th : Barque Anne Watson arrives in Auckland with mechanics, labourers and the first government officer [ Capt W.Cornwallis-Symonds – Chief Magistrate ] to occupy Auckland. Coincidentally the Platina arrives at the same time carrying settlers and the prefabricated Government House manufactured by Mannings of London. 1840 September 18th The founding of Auckland. Acting on behalf of the Lieutenant Governor, Captain William Hobson, Captain William Cornwallis-Symonds takes possession of the 3000 acres. A ceremony is held on Point Britomart: Auckland established as the Capital of New Zealand. The city boundary line runs from Cox’s Creek along the shoreline to Hobson Bay, where it turned inland to Mount Eden and thence back to Cox’s Creek. 1841 March 14 Acting Governor Hobson arrives in Auckland. 1841 May 3: New Zealand is proclaimed independent of New South Wales. Hobson is formally installed as Governor. 1841 The Felton Mathew plan of Auckland. Felton Mathew [acting Surveyor-General of the Colony ] produces his plan of the new Capital of New Zealand. This is an ambitious scheme that appears to disregard the terrain. Along the Karangahape ridge are two roads “The Royal Crescent” and “Brunswick Street”. The street on the Symonds Street ridge is called “Kent Street” What will be Grey St [Greys Ave] is labelled “Upper Queen Street” 1841 April 19 The first sales of town sections is held in Moses Joseph’s tent on the Shortland Street water front as it is the largest “building” in the settlement. 1842 September 10 Governor Hobson dies and is buried in Grafton cemetery. The Colonial Secretary Lieut Willoughby Shortland is acting Governor until 1844 1844 December 23 [ or 26 ] Governor Robert FitzRoy arrives in New Zealand 1845 David Nathan [1816-1886] builds a house on the Karangahape ridge at the head of the Waihorotiu Stream [ the Queen Street River]. Because of it’s construction of local volcanic rock it is known as “Scoria house”. At this time Queen street does not reach all the way up the hill to the Karangahape ridge, so the route to the area from Queen street is up Grey St to Pitt St. At this time the entrance to the property is probably from Pitt street along a track now called Poyton terrace. 1845 November 14 Capt. George Grey arrives to take up the position of Governor. 1847 The Colonial Hospital opens with 4 wards of ten beds and 2 wards of 5 beds. In 1853 it will be renamed the Auckland Provincial Hospital. Late 1840s onwards. Chief Putatau Te Wherowhero resides in a government provided house in the Auckland Domain [slopes of Grafton Gully below the Hospital and above the Bowling club in Stanley Street.] Late 1840s The Auckland Bowling Club established [oldest club in the Southern Hemisphere.] 1848 Government House in Waterloo Quadrant burns down, until New Government house is completed in 1856 the Governor, George Grey occupies Scoria House on the K’rd ridge. The house has extensive alterations made to it to make it suitable to house the Governor’s household & staff. Up until this time the route from Queen Street to the ridge was up Grey St [ now Greys Ave] and Pitt St. One of the results of Government House being located in this area was that better access had to be provided. 300 Maori labourers were set to work extending Queen street up to the top of the ridge [previously Queen street had only reached to about where to Town Hall is now.] At the same time engineers from the 58th Regiment built a road from Symonds St to intersect with the top of Queen St
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