TR13 HISTORIC HERITAGE ASSESSMENT HERITAGE HISTORIC HISTORIC HERITAGE ASSESSMENT Sensitivity: General Quality Assurance Prepared by Mary O’Keeffe, Heritage Solutions Revision History: Revision Author Approved for Issue Name Signature Date Final M O’Keeffe Mary O’Keeffe 21 September 2020 Quality Information Document Title: Ngā Ūranga ki Pito-One Shared Path Project: Historic Heritage Assessment Version: Final Date: 21 September 2020 Prepared by: Mary O’Keeffe Reviewed by: Approved by: File Name: N2P historic heritage assessment - final Disclaimer This report does not constitute an assessment of Māori values, either for COVID-19 Recovery Act purposes or as required by HNZPT’s application form for an authority to modify or destroy an archaeological site Sensitivity: General Contents 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................... 1 2 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 2 2.1 QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE ................................................................................................................ 4 2.2 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT .............................................................................................. 2 2.3 CONTEXT AND DATA ...................................................................................................................................... 5 2.4 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THIS REPORT ..................................................................................................... 8 3 THE PROJECT – CONTEXT AND DESIGN ........................................................................................ 8 3.1 CONTEXT ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 3.2 THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES............................................................................................................................ 9 3.3 PROPOSED WORK .......................................................................................................................................... 9 4 HISTORIC HERITAGE (INCLUDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL) RESOURCES IN THE PROJECT AREA ..... 10 4.1 RECORDED HISTORY OF THE AREA .............................................................................................................. 10 3.1.1 Pre-European Māori occupation ...................................................................................................... 11 3.1.2 Contact period Māori and European occupation ............................................................................ 13 3.1.3 Earthquake ......................................................................................................................................... 14 3.1.4 Industrial, commercial and residential development ...................................................................... 15 3.1.5 Coastal reclamation and maritime sites........................................................................................... 35 4.2 HISTORIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDING ............................................................................................. 44 4.2.1 Archaeological sites........................................................................................................................... 44 4.2.2 Historic sites ....................................................................................................................................... 48 4.2.3 Statutory/regulatory lists.................................................................................................................... 49 5 ASSESSMENT .............................................................................................................................. 51 5.1 SITE VISIT AND REVIEW OF THE PROJECT PLANS ......................................................................................... 51 5.2 EFFECTS ON KNOWN AND POTENTIAL SITES ................................................................................................. 51 5.3 ASSESSMENT OF VALUES ............................................................................................................................. 54 6 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..................................................................................... 54 APPENDIX 1 ........................................................................................................................................ 56 SOURCES ........................................................................................................................................... 57 Sensitivity: General Figures Figure 1: Project sectors. ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Figure 2: Hutt Valley Sites ....................................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 3: Petone pa, Samuel Brees ........................................................................................................................ 13 Figure 4: Settler’s hut, Pito-One beach .................................................................................................................. 14 Figure 5: Wellington – Pito-One Railway, showing section of Hutt Road and Kaiwarra [Kaiwharawhara] Station and platform 1911............................................................................................................................... 15 Figure 6: Hutt Road, ca 1875 .................................................................................................................................. 16 Figure 7: Coastline by Wellington Harbour with Hutt Road and railway line, ca 1881-1887 ............................. 17 Figure 8: Thorndon end of Hutt Road, Wellington, ca 1884 ................................................................................. 17 Figure 9: Sale advertisement for Pito-One, 1879 .................................................................................................. 18 Figure 10: Detail from Cadastral map of the Pito-one Town Board, 1886 .......................................................... 19 Figure 11: Pito-One Railway Station and workshops, 1899 ................................................................................. 20 Figure 12: Pito-One station, ca 1900s .................................................................................................................... 20 Figure 13: Pito-One station and surroundings, c1906 -1915? ............................................................................. 21 Figure 14: Part 4 of a 4 panorama of Pito-One taken in 1909 by Sydney Charles Smith, 1909 ...................... 21 Figure 15: SO 11808, 1882 ..................................................................................................................................... 23 Figure 16: Detail of SO14160, 1897 ....................................................................................................................... 23 Figure 17: Detail of SO 14160, 1897 ...................................................................................................................... 24 Figure 18: Detail of SO 14563, 1900 ...................................................................................................................... 25 Figure 19: Cadastral map of the Pito-one Town Board, 1886 .............................................................................. 25 Figure 20: Detail of 1886 Pito-One plan ................................................................................................................. 26 Figure 21: Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company, Cornish Street, Pito-One (date not given) .............. 27 Figure 22: Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company mill at Pito-One, c. 1920 ........................................... 27 Figure 23: Hutt Road, 1848. .................................................................................................................................... 28 Figure 24: “Road to the Hutt between Noranga and Petoni (sic)”, 1848 ............................................................. 29 Figure 25: “Petoni (sic) Road”, 1852 ....................................................................................................................... 30 Figure 26: “Ngahranga” (sic) on the Hutt Road, 1870s ......................................................................................... 31 Figure 27: Hutt Road, c.1884 .................................................................................................................................. 32 Figure 28: Hutt Road and Hutt Valley Railway Line, ca 1881-1887 .................................................................... 33 Figure 29: Kaiwharawhara, the Kaiwarra Wool Stores building, and the Hutt Road, Wellington, circa 1900.. 34 Figure 30: Construction of Pito-One overbridge, photographed circa 7 Sep 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer .................................................................................................................................................... 35 Figure 31: Pito-One foreshore area, 1899.............................................................................................................