Tauranga places moments in history

See also:

• Newspaper clippings scrapbooks: Tauranga, Ams 487/11
• Tauranga identities moments in history
• Tauranga local business moments in history, 1960s-
• Tauranga Street names moments in history

AONGATETE KAURI GUM FIELD 1888. '50 years ago', Bay of Plenty Times, 28 May 1938.

BRIAR COTTAGE, 4th Avenue. W.A. Reed. Bay of Plenty Times, 26 June 1885.

CAMERON ROAD. Formation of Cameron Road from H.T. Clarke's to Robert Kirk's. 29 May 1875.

CENOTAPH. Strong support for. Bay News, 14 November 1990.

CORONATION HALL:

• Minister of Internal Affairs approved plans for erection of Coronation Hall in Spring Street. Bay of Plenty Times, 23 August 1911.
• J.C. Adams and son to erect for £680. Bay of Plenty Times, 6 September 1911.
• Description of the Coronation Hall being built. Bay of Plenty Times, 17 January 1912.
• Opening. Bay of Plenty Times, 7 February 1912.

DEVON MALL: City to have new mall to cost $700,000.  Devon Road / First Avenue. Bay of Plenty Times, 1 May 1970.

GATE PĀ SHOPPING COMPLEX. Pukehinahina:

• Super centre planned for 18m site, 22nd Avenue along Cameron Road to Gate Pā. Bay of Plenty Times, 8 October 1999.
• Mainstreet retailers not fazed by mall. Bay of Plenty Times, 9 October 1999.
• Mall 'not death' for downtown. Bay of Plenty Times, 11 October 1999.
• Gate Pā businesses refuse to make way. Bay of Plenty Times, 14 October 1999.
• Second mega mall deal snag. Bay of Plenty Times, 16 October 1999.
• New mall may stall car park. Bay of Plenty Times, 19 October 1999.

HOMEWOOD, Katikati:

• Good times remembered. Bay of Plenty Times, 29 November 1989.
• Historic homestead hosts party. Bay of Plenty Times, 26 February 1990.

JERRY WILLIAMS' HOUSE corner of Cameron Road and Fourth Avenue. next to Y.M.C.A. Built of lath and plaster - only one in Tauranga - by Arthur Brewer. Plastered by Jack Denniston and son (Chum). Shifted further down 4th Avenue when shop was built on the corner (gone by 1986). Put cow hair in plaster. Had ferries on the wharf.  Told to Librarians by Chum Denniston and noted on a card catalogue entry in 1986.

LILY COTTAGE, Cameron Road. To let. Apply John Gilmore. Bay of Plenty Times, 22 October 1885.

MATUA HALL. Opening of. Bay of Plenty Times, 9 July 1994, p. 13.

PATRIOTIC HUT:

• Closing function after 6 years. Bay of Plenty Times, 17 November 1945.
• RSA to take over Patriotic Hut. Bay of Plenty Times, 9 July 1946.

TAIT COTTAGES: notes from card catalogue entry by librarians...

• 2 little cottages later (1901) owned by P. Munro were referred to by the Munro family as 'Tait's Cottages', according to Morrie Munro (son of Peter).
• The large Norfolk pine used as a Christmas tree was situtated between them.
• Used to be a well behind the cottages.
• Seemed cottage in Elizabeth Street and 1 or 2 in Durham Street.
• Old two-storey building next door was Miss Mannix's dressmakers.
• Percy Styles rented cottage, so did Fred Norris, who was a saddler in business near Star Hotel, then skippers.
• Mr Watkin's joinery shop was next door (after Mannix) and Mrs Rhodes owned property on other side.
• Mr M. Munro thought tree would have been planted about 1905, though Olive Foxcroft sid it was 'big in the early days'. (She's not as old as Morrie Munro).
• Another tenant was Mr Frost, who baked pies and sold them walking through town and outside the pictures.
• According to Olive Foxcroft, there was a driveway between the 2-storey building and the cottages, and the tree was next to it.
• Willie Watkins and Elva Brain bought 2-storey building between them.

TAURANGA DOMAIN: $5000 boost for lighting on Domain (ahead of the National Highland Games even). Bay of Plenty Times, 13 June 1990.

TAURIKO HALL:

• Opening of district hall, gala night on 3 August. Bay of Plenty Times, 4 August 1938, p. 2.
• Celebrating first birthday of hall on 23 August. Bay of Plenty Times, 9 August 1939, p. 2.

TOPCROFT: Annual native feast given by Mr and the Misses Duffus at Topcroft to take place tomorrow. Bay of Plenty Times, 28 December 1886.

WELCOME BAY HALL:

• Opened. Bay of Plenty Times, 19 September 1953, p. 2.
• Welcome Bay to get public loos. Citizen, February 1999, Issue 14.