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Auckland formed a base for Governor George Grey 's operations against the Māori King Movement in the early 1860s. Grey's modus operandi involved opening up the Waikato and King Country by building roads, most notably Great South Road (a large part of which now forms State Highway 1).
4 days ago · Auckland was made a city in 1871. In 1853 Auckland province was established. It had nearly 10,000 European settlers at the time, and the city of Auckland soon became an administrative, military, and trading centre for the entire agricultural hinterland. The province of Auckland was abolished in 1876.
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New Zealand’s first Governor, William Hobson, established Auckland as the colony’s capital in 1841 on land offered by Ngāti Whātua. Although the capital was shifted to Wellington in 1865, Auckland remained a major gateway to New Zealand, and grew into a prosperous port city.
Between 1842 and 1865, Auckland was the capital city of New Zealand. [137] Parliament met in what is now Old Government House on the University of Auckland's City campus. The capital was moved to the more centrally located Wellington in 1865. [citation needed]
- New Zealand’s First Towns
- Types of Towns
- Becoming Cities
- Country and City
- Transport and Suburbs
- Changing Cities
Māori lived in small, family-based villages (kāinga) rather than larger towns. New Zealand’s first town was Kororāreka (now Russell) in the Bay of Islands, where early whalers came for provisions and recreation. Some towns were set up by the government, and others by private businesses. The New Zealand Company founded towns at Wellington, Christchu...
Market towns serviced the surrounding farming area (for example, Masterton, Timaru).Mining and milling towns grew near natural resources such as gold, coal or timber (Alexandra, Dargaville).Port towns were centres for fishing and shipping (Ōamaru).Military towns were founded as bases for soldiers in the New Zealand wars (Pātea).Some towns grew into cities because they had ports for shipping goods. Others grew because they were the site of government, business or industry. New Zealand developed four main cities: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. A town was classified as a city when it had 20,000 people. Since 1989, a town has needed 50,000 people to become a ...
Early colonisers planned New Zealand as a farming society, but many people preferred to live in cities, where there were more jobs, and more social and cultural life. Over time, the urban population grew.
At first most people lived near their work; later they could catch trams or buses. After cars arrived, new suburbs were built on the edges of cities. Many families chose to live in the suburbs, and central cities became quieter. But from the 1990s apartments were built in inner cities, and new bars, cafés and businesses opened, making cities lively...
Auckland grew into New Zealand’s biggest city. In 2006 it had almost one-third of the population. Hamilton and Tauranga also grew to become main cities. Early cities had mostly Pākehāpeople; now they have a mix of different ethnicities. Many cities hold festivals to celebrate arts, culture and sports.
This report outlines the development of Auckland’s urban form, from early colonial settlement to the modern Auckland metropolis. It attempts to capture the context and key relevant drivers behind the growth in suburbs, including infrastructure provision, State housing and in later decades, town planning.
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In 1840 New Zealand’s first governor, William Hobson, chose the Auckland isthmus (Tāmaki) as the site for his capital. He was attracted by the fertile soil, the waterways and the large Māori populations close by. Hobson renamed the place after his patron, Lord Auckland, first Lord of the Admiralty.
