Havelock North

Havelock North, by the inhabitants also called The Village (the village ), is a modern, well 12,000 inhabitants, in the Hawke's Bay region on the North Island of New Zealand.

Geography

At the foot of a mountain range lying in the 399 m high Te Mata has peaked, the Heretaunga Plains outside the city opens up, the wide plain of the Hawke 's Bay. Calculated from both town centers there are up to Hastings is only 6 km to the northwest and Napier is located about 20 kilometers north of Havelock North. About Hastings, the city is also connected to State Highway 2.

History

The area around present-day Havelock North was, so far as is known today, is not settled by the Māori and little used, however there is the emergence of Te Mata also a Māori legend. So shall the Māori chief Te Mata fell in love from the Iwi Maimarama in the daughter of the chief of the Heretaunga and had some tasks to solve before he could get them. But in trying to eat their way through the hills, he died and was to the mountain.

What is certain is that in 1854 a man named John Chambers leased by the Heretaunga country and his cottage built at the Karamu Stream, a small river that still flows today by Havelock North. It is considered therefore as the first settler in the area.

After the opaque land purchase in 1839 by William Barnard Rhodes, a englischgebürtigen traders and adventurers, who had allegedly bought some blocks land of the Mahia Peninsula of up to Castle Point with a total 883,000 acres of Māori, but entangled in contradictions, bought the provincial government the land at the foot of Te Mata again in 1855 and planned to build a city there, to 1959, a detailed plan was presented just before the January 17, 1860 was the first auction of the first section of land ( 2,023 m2). Six roads should therefore run almost star-shaped one another and thus lead to a center. The response was correspondingly large, even by speculators, and all 74 sections were sold in March and in June of the same year. The city, which was named Havelock, developed in the following years a distinctive character in which artists, writers and many talented and motivated people came together with settlers and developed a strong sense of community.

1865, the first public standing under colonial administration school was built, in 1871, the first church came about and was as yet been organized from 1862 to 1908 the post of different agents, came with the construction of the post office building and its grand opening in 1914 the post office in Havelock only late its own station and administration. The first orchard was still unusual for that time, in the 1870s. The first vineyard was started in 1892. The city developed rapidly in the early years, but was limited by the founding of Hastings in 1873 and the construction of the railway through Hastings for decades in its further growth.

Then in 1907 founded " The Havelock Work". The group under the name consisted spiritually and philosophically interested people, which dealt with art and literature. She published The Forerunner (1909-1914), a journal, organized music events and training in craft and art. From the early 20th century to Havelock North was the center for alternative philosophy and spirituality, which among other Rudolf Steiner's teachings was represented and the first Rudolf Steiner School in New Zealand was opened there.

As of 1910, Havelock, who had been given the name in honor of Sir Henry Havelock, renamed inhabitants under protest from the top Postmaster of the country in Havelock North, in order to have no more confusion with the town of Havelock on the South Island. The protest went to the Parliament, but does not cut through.

Until February 6, 1912, the day on which Havelock North Town Board got its own, the place from the Hawke 's Bay County Council was managed and got quite late in 1952 with the status of a borough, which guaranteed her the urban self-government.

In the course of municipal reform of 1989 Havelock North again lost its independence and became and the Hastings City Council incorporated through the merger of the Havelock North Borough Council with the Hawke's Bay County Council in the Hastings district, of the newly formed Hastings District Council since this time based in Hastings.

Hawke's Bay earthquake of 1931

Havelock North was on the line with the earthquake of February 3, 1931, which completely destroyed the cities of Napier and Hastings in part. The in the public perception Havelock North is not as strong as seen in the context of the earthquake, was the fact that on the one hand no fatalities were lost in the city and on the other that the city center was not completely destroyed, as in Napier, where the broken fire completed the rest of destruction. Nevertheless, also fell in Havelock North almost all brick buildings for the earthquake victims. It was also the Lands & Deeds Office, where all written documents and records were kept of the city, completely destroyed by a fire caused by the earthquake.

Today

Havelock North is now a modern styled city that still has some historical buildings. The city is preferably used by commuters who work in Hastings and Napier, as a residence. The city has 20.5 % over an increased proportion of over-65s who have chosen Havelock North to their retirement home. The proportion of old people's homes is correspondingly high.

Attractions

• Te Mata Trust Park, with the 399 m high Te Mata, from which you can overlook the entire Hawke Bay on a clear day and recognize the Ruahine Range, the Kaweka Range and the Maungaharuru range over the broad plain of the Heretaunga Plains in the distance can.
• Duart House, which was built in a colonial style in 1882 as a large villa with a large garden and is now used for public and private events.
• Clock Tower Building, a small house with a small clock tower in the center of the city, in 1914 designed and built by the designer and architect James Walter Chapman -Taylor for a competition.
• Whare Ra, home of the mysterious Order of Stella Matutina, which was re-founded by Robert Felkin to England in 1912 in New Zealand.

Personalities of the city

• Alan Duff, Māori novelist, columnist
• Robert William Felkin (1853-1926), an anthropologist.
• Alfred Meebold (1963-1952), writer, botanist and anthroposophist.