Cameron road is today considered the main road that runs the length of Tauranga City. Its construction is credited in 1871 to Lieutenant-Colonel John Mackintosh Roberts who was posted to Tauranga several times while serving in the Armed Constabulary. As the need for the Armed Constabulary’s protective service receded, they were put to work making roads. In fact Tauranga’s Fourteenth Avenue was originally named Roberts Street (Rorke, J 1994), after John Mackintosh Roberts himself.
Cameron Road, Tauranga. No 6. Photo 20-053
The name “Cameron Road” comes from General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, who featured prominently in the early Colonial history of the region.
Digital alteration of an oil on canvas taken in about 1878 when the General was about 70 years old. Photo 23-004