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Archaeological Assessment of Effects: Awanui Flood Scheme Project Archaeological Assessment of Effects: Awanui Flood Scheme Project 19 September 2019 Commissioned by: Northland Regional Council Private Bag 9021 Whangarei Mail Centre Whangarei 0148 Prepared By: Geometria Ltd. PO Box 68-653 Newton Auckland 1145 AAE: Awanui Flood Scheme Geometria 2019 ii AAE: Awanui Flood Scheme Executive Summary Cover image:. 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File ref.: 2019_122/NRC/Awanui Flood Scheme Upgrade Geometria 2019 v AAE: Awanui Flood Scheme Geometria 2019 vi AAE: Awanui Flood Scheme Contents 1.0 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Location ......................................................................................................................................... 1 2.0 Statutory Requirements ..................................................................................................................... 2 2.1 The Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 ................................................................... 2 2.2 The Resource Management Act 1991 ............................................................................................ 2 3.0 Proposed Development ..................................................................................................................... 3 4.0 Methodology ..................................................................................................................................... 5 5.0 Background ....................................................................................................................................... 5 5.1 Environment ................................................................................................................................... 5 5.2 Traditional History .......................................................................................................................... 6 5.3 Kaitaia Mission Station ................................................................................................................. 10 5.4 European Settelement ................................................................................................................. 16 5.5 History of Awanui Drainage .......................................................................................................... 21 5.6 Historic maps and plans .............................................................................................................. 37 5.7 Archaeological Context ................................................................................................................ 40 5.8 Previous Archaeological Work ...................................................................................................... 46 5.9 Unrecorded Archaeological Sites ................................................................................................. 48 5.10 Wet Wood Artefacts ................................................................................................................... 50 5.11 Other Heritage Sites and Features ............................................................................................. 50 6.0 Results ............................................................................................................................................ 51 6.1 Constraints and Limitations .......................................................................................................... 72 7.0 Archaeological Values ...................................................................................................................... 73 8.0 Assessment of Effects ..................................................................................................................... 74 9.0 Conclusion and Recommendations ................................................................................................. 75 10.0 References .................................................................................................................................... 76 11.0 Appendices ................................................................................................................................... 77 Tables Table 1: Index to plans of the Kaitaia Mission Station ............................................................................. 15 Table 2: Relevant Historic Plans for the Awanui River Area .................................................................... 38 Table 3: NZAA sites proximate to the subject property. ......................................................................... 40 Table 4: Significance assessment table for 004/1071. ........................................................................... 73 Table 5: Significance assessment table for O04/xx. ............................................................................... 73 Geometria 2019 vii AAE: Awanui Flood Scheme Figures Figure 1: Location of the project area (dashed line). Source: Google Earth 2019. ..................................... 1 Figure 2: The extent of the Awanui Flood Scheme Project. Source: Google Earth 2019. .................... 3 Figure 3: Te Hiku Sports Hub Spillway. Source: NRC 2019. .................................................................... 4 Figure 4: Allen Bell Park Channel Improvements. Source: NRC 2019. ...................................................... 4 Figure 5: Juken Spillway. Source: NRC 2019. .......................................................................................... 5 Figure 6: Inset from admiralty chart "Rangaounou or Awanui River’ showing the NgaiTakoto settlement of Tiki-kaie-raro. ................................................................................................................................... 8 Figure 7: Section from admiralty chart "Rangaounou or Awanui River’ showing the lower Awanui River overlaid on a 2019 aerial. There is some ........................................................................................... 9 Figure 8: Plan of boundary markers of the C.M.S. mission station at Kaitiaia, drawn by R. Foster, 2000. Source: Te Ahu Heritage Museum & Archives. ............................................................................... 11 Figure 9: OLC 242 (1856) showing the C.M.S. purchase ‘Church Missionary Station at Kaitaia – Claim No. 2992.’ Source: Quickmap 2019. .................................................................................................... 12 Figure 11: Shows Veili, a white-haired Maori chief, placing a coin in a collection basket on a table, while Rev William Puckey and Rev Joseph Matthews look on. Veili holds a small child by the hand, and chief Pana-kareao and his wife stand in the right foreground, while a large group of Maori talk together in the background. The mission station at Kaitaia is on a slope in the background. Source: Artist unknown: Missionary meeting. [1856]. Ref: PUBL-0151-2-014. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23010860 .................................................................................................. 13 Figure 12: Cochrane and Sons 1885 auction for section on the Church Missionary Society property. .... 13 Figure 14: Mission Station site map and legend. Source: Te Ahu Heritage Museum & Archives. ............ 14 Figure 15: Steam ship Apanui on Awanui River, 1913. Source: Northwood brothers: Photographs of Northland. Ref: 1/1-004931-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22329177 .......................................................................................................... 17 Figure 16: View looking south down Commerce Street, Kaitaia ca 1910. Source: Ref: 1/1-010630-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22715001 ..................................... 18 Figure 17: View looking northeast to Commerce Street, Kaitaia. Photograph taken 1910s by Northwood brothers. Looks over paddocks, towards buildings. Source: Ref: 1/1-010625-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23067362. .................................................................. 18 Figure 18: Iron spike from the original Kaitaia bridge ca. 1834. Source: Te Ahu Museum and Archives. 19 Figure 19: Artist rendition titled ‘First bridge over the Kaitaia River, 1835.’ Artist unknown. Source: Mathews and Mathews 2007. ....................................................................................................................... 19 Figure 20: Flax shed on Awanui River near Lake Ohia with flax in various stages of
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