The increasing suburban sprawl brought problems. The city retired its trams in the early s, but kept its cable car, suburban trains and buses. Even so, many people switched to private cars, leading to problems for such a compact city. There was an outcry in the s when the motorway cut through the Bolton Street cemetery.
The airport reopened after much work in and from rail ferries bridged Cook Strait. In , however, a fearsome storm ripped roofs off houses and sank the ferry Wahine with the loss of 51 lives. A shake-up of a different kind took place 20 years later when free-market policies trimmed the public sector. Tariff reductions and the share-market crash devastated major employers such as the railways and many of the regions factories. Unemployment soared.
So did building heights. The consolidation of the working port around Aotea Quay freed up much of the old waterfront for redevelopment. In the s apartment living became popular with many, further fuelling the burgeoning culture. The government conserved some key icons such as Parliament Buildings, the wooden Government Buildings and the Old Bank Arcade, but sadly, unsightly additions and alterations to many more were permitted.
The New Zealand International Festival of the Arts and a host of other festivals reinvigorated the economy, as did the opening of Te Papa in Since then the city has developed many more museums, galleries and performance spaces. None of this closed the widening gap between the city and its arch rival, Auckland, whose greater urban area now has almost four times the population of the Wellington urban area.
Although much of the Great Harbour Way is urbanised, a large part of it is in a relatively natural or regenerative state. Along the route you will see and experience a diversity of interesting natural features and eco-systems, from wild coastline, wetland and inland lakes, to farmland crossings and detours through regenerating native bush — all giving an insight into the life of the harbour before humans arrived ….
The tough, small-leaved trees and shrubs and hardy tussocks of the ice ages alternated with warmer periods during which kauri grew here. Tree trunks and any available niche on the ground were clothed in mosses and liverworts competing with ferns and delicate orchids to display their myriad hues and textures.
It literally means the great harbour of Tara. Not only were the settlements thriving, there was also a healthy water-based trade and communication system. Much of this area was subsequently claimed by settlers and the New Zealand Company's purchase of , an issue of dispute that is still raging today. Old Shoreline The shoreline used to be where the road is beside Pipitea Marae. Much of the shoreline in Wellington Harbour has changed from when European settlement began in the s. In those days it was simply a beach, and until wharves and jetties were built it remained the only means of access from the water.
At Lambton Quay turn left and stop at the end of Woodward Street. The site was known as a flax collecting area and a boat landing site, and in served as the central flax-collection point in a network of flax stations up and down the east of the North Island.
Flax, because of its strength, was a sought after commodity by settlers during this period, as it was used as an everyday item, for example as strapping and ropes for shipping, and for the latching and thatching of houses and roofing. Kumutoto ceased to exist as an occupied settlement in when Wi Tako moved to the Hutt Valley.
Travel along Lambton Quay and turn left into Johnston Street. Turn right onto Jervois Quay and follow the road to Taranaki Street. Turn right and continue on Taranaki Street to its intersection with Courtenay Place. Te Aro Park is on your right. Look for the plaque on the stone memorial at Te Aro Park. Check the map again? However, in late , six resident rangatira chiefs signed the deed which effectively brought Te Aro into the New Zealand Company purchase of An earthquake in caused an uplift which raised land in low lying areas of Te Aro enough to be drained, affecting the Te Aro flat.
These low lying marshy areas had provided both a food source, with shellfish in the shallows and eels in the swamps, and also large quantities of flax, which was in growing demand by the European settlers.
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