[Creator unknown] :Map of the province of Hawke's Bay (late district of Ahuriri) New Zealand [copy of map]. Compiled from the latest surveys and lithographed by CM Igglesden and E Anderson, Surveyors, Wellington, 1859.

Cadastral map of northern to central Hawke's Bay, including Mohaka southwards to Napier, Hastings, Waipawa and Waipukurau, as at 1859. It depicts land acquired by the government, boundaries of runs (farms) including settler names, boundaries of purchases and land ownership, Maori reserves, Maori geographical place names, pa sites, Maori tracks, roads and rivers, as indicated on the map's reference key.

The Mohaka block includes names associated with land titles, namely Riddle, Anderson; pa sites including Kotokakarunga and Waipapa (beside the Mohaka) and Towitikoko and Waikare (beside the Waikare River). Several geographical places, Maori villages and streams are named. Block lot numbers 1-27 are indicated.

The Ahuriri and Napier district blocks include the settler names A Alexander, JGS Garker, William Villers, Cockburn, Munro & Blair, Marshall, HB Sealy, W Ogilvy, M Hill, Dyson, William Gouper Jnr, Gray, Imrie. Named pa sites include Pia Pa Awatoto; named bush areas include Pohui and Puketitiri.

The Te Mata and Kidnapper blocks include the names J Chambers, G Moore, A St. Hill, Rhodes. Note on map reads 'Karinema's [Karenema's] reserve under offer' (Havelock North area). Pa site indicated at Marae Totora (Maraetotora) and north and south of Whakatu, Heretaunga, along the Ngaruroro River.

Waimarama block is noted as 'in treaty for'. Waimarama and Arana blocks include the names W Gouper, J Montieth; Hapuku's block Chapman, Hargrove and Gouper, HS Tiffen, ES Gurling, E Collins. The Waipawa block includes the names FJ Abbott, Tanner, Worgan, RJ Duncan, R Pharazyn; Maraekakaho includes Mason, Ormond, D[onald] McLean; the Aorangi block includes Oliver, Tuke, Domett and the Otaranga J Alexander and James Williams.

The Aorangi Reserve is depicted in Maraetotora beside the 'old pa Native reserve'. Sketched roads and settlement areas are indicated around the port of Napier, Aorangi and east of the Ngaruroro River between Clive (Waipurehu) and Te Awanga.

On the second smaller sheet, the Porangahau and Ruahine blocks include the settler names JN Northwood, D Gollan, KR Russell, TP Russell, Tully, Henton, A Grant, Ormond's, Wallaces, Herberts. Includes Waipukurau, Maori reserves, 'areas in treaty for'.

'Traced from the original in HB Museum, March 1947. JDHB'.

Settler name annotations were added to map before it was traced

See also second diazo copy MapColl-832.3gbbd/1859/Acc.231;1948

Quantity: 1 map(s) on two sheets.

Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:126 720], 74 x 100 cm and 60 x 65 cm.