Surveyor. Under contract to Lord Petre, Hughes arrived with his wife and daughter at Wellington in the Ajax in 1849. After working in the Wellington district, Hughes and a relative, Thomas Hughes, went to Lyttelton in Nov 1849 and were given a contract to carry out triangulation and topographical surveys in the district north of Christchurch for the NZ Company in connection with the Canterbury settlement. On the conclusion of this work he returned to Wellington and was engaged on contract surveys for the Provincial Council. In 1856-1857 he was engaged on surveys in the Carterton locality and completed a survey of the Masterton and Greytown Blocks which had been commenced by William Corbett. This involved the laying out of the townships and the laying out of roads of which the road from Greytown to Masterton is still known as Hughes Line. In 1860-1861 Hughes was working for the Hawke's Bay Provincial Council in the Porangahau district and later he moved to Napier. He died at Wellington on 20 Feb 1870. His son William Thomas Hughes (1856-1933), his grandsons L and V H Hughes, and greatgrandson P V Hughes, also followed the profession of surveyiung. [Source. C A Lawn. The Pioneer land surveyors of NZ. qMS-1138]
Hughes, John, 1823?-1870
Hughes, John, 1823?-1870 :Masterton small farm settlement and town acres [copy of ms ma...
Date: 1856 - 1928
By: Hughes, John, 1823?-1870; Reynolds, Arthur William, active 1880-1981
Reference: MapColl-832.4595gbbd/1856/Acc.13578
Description: Cadastral map with some topographic features of the Masterton Small Farm settlement and town acres, showing land blocks, runholders' names, Maori reserve land, old pa sites and Maori gardens. The area is from the Waingawa River to the Ruamahanga River, including the Waipoua River. Small numbered sections appear to be in the town, along the road from Wellington. Some farm blocks are numbered and the majority include owners' names. Roads to Ahuriri, Castlepoint and Te Ore Ore are marked. Names include: Woodroffe, Prentice, Harrison, Hare, Sullivan, Evans, Taverner, W. Kelvey, W. Anketell, W. Chamberlain, E. Chamberlain, B. Hunt, A. McKenzie, J. Jones, Tinney, J. May, C. Collett, A. McKenzie, W. Sykes, M. McKenzie, T. Webb, C. G. Crosse, R. Kibblewhite, T. Chamberlain, Itiaiah Wakamairi, A. Rinson, T. W. Tankersley, Potts, W. P. Nix, J. Tucker, A. Hayward, C. Bennington, W. T. Ward, R. Creig, M.Dixon, C. Cundy, G. Jackson, H. Jackson, J. Wallace, J. Cole, Wrigley, J. Smith, H. Bentley, W. B. Burgess, Dixon, B. Lucas, M. Dixon Jnr., Hewett, John Harding, W. Baldwin Jnr., T. Child, D. Cochrane, Matthews, Valentine Smith, W. Baldwin, A. Renall, C. Dixon, J. Lambert, Irons, W. Knight, J. Masters, B. P. Perry, T. Chew, C. S. Pratt, A. Hort. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 49.5 x 67.8 cm.