Katikati Post Office, Police Station and Court House

DescriptionAfter it had been decided to site the new township at the Uretara Landing, the Uretara Post Office was opened on 28 December 1880 and the telegraph office four days later. The Post Office was sited across the road from the Uretara Domain, and the telegraph office at Bowentown was closed. In 1881 the name Uretara was deemed unacceptable due to its meaning (“ure” meaning “penis”) and so the name Waterford was substituted for the area. Settlement organiser George Vesey Stewart found that his correspondence kept going astray, being confused with the Waterford in Ireland and so in 1884 the area was renamed Katikati after the old Maori name for the Bowentown area at the northern entrance to the Tauranga Harbour. Beyond this photograph of the Katikati Post Office can be seen the Katikati Police Station and the Katikati Jail. Construction of the Katikati Police Station and Jail was authorised on 5 February 1880 and completed in early July of the same year.

This black and white photograph is thought to date from c1905. Written on the photograph in white are the words; 'Post Office + Police Station Kati Kati, A. McGlashan Photo'. Photograph courtesy of Ellen McCormack.

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