The GiftBarn offers a
New Zealand wide delivery
When you order a gift Box from the Gift Barn we will deliver it to Hastings overnight.
Wherever you are in the world, if you
know someone in Hastings or anywhere in New Zealand who is going
to celebrate a special occasion, or if you just want to tell them
you are thinking of them, then one of our many gifts will be just
right.
The Gift - Barn has a wide range of boxes that are perfect for a
birthday, a new baby, an anniversary, get well wishes, Valentines
Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, or Christmas.
All our baskets and boxes are advertised at the undelivered price. For delivery to Hastings please add NZ D $12.00 (this includes insurance)
DELIVERY & INSURANCE:-
Nationwide - NZ D $12.00
We reserved the right to substitute a product of equivalent
value where a listed product is unavailable.
Note:
All
charges are in New Zealand Dollars If ordering from overseas
please use the currency converter to calculate the cost in
your local currency. The charge on your credit card account may
vary slightly due to currency fluctuations
Little about Hastings in New Zealand
Hastings and Napier, although separate for much of their history - were socially one from the beginning. An urbanised, industrial age society grew in both towns and the country from the earliest settler days.
People looked to the city Hastings for services and facilities regardles of where they lived; and people in both town and country relied on employment or enterprise to earn money for there living.
First Settlement
The first settlement in Hastings took place in 1864, when Thomas Tanner leased about 7000ha of the Heretaunga Plains from Maori owners.
Some years later a syndicate purchase the area and the Heretaunga Block - was secured by 12 people who are often referred to as the "12 Apostles".
The purchase price was around thirty shillings an acre.
In 1873 Francis Hicks (one of the syndicate) presented the Government with a section of land for the site of a railway station and decided to lay out one hundred acres near this site for a town to be called Hastings. One hundred and forty sections were offered, the average price per acre being fiftypounds.
At that time much of the area was still swamp. The orginal settlers of the Heretaunga Plains decided that Havelock North was to be the future city and it was only with the advent of the railway that Hastings was chosen as the town site.
Years later the swamps were drained, population increased, and business prospered. Fruit growing became an important industry. By 1884 the town had a population of 614 and was constituted a town district.
Hastings became a borough on 20th October 1886 and was the largest borough in New Zealand until 1908.
Hastings became a city on 8th September 1956, and a district in 1989.
How did Hastings get its Name?
Hastings was named after English person called Warren Hastings, India's first Governor-General.
The Maori Legend of Te Mata Peak
Hundreds of years ago the people living in a pa on the Heretaunga Plains were alway under threat of war from the coastal tribes of Waimarama.
At a gathering in Pakipaki (three miles south of Hastings) to discuss the problem, the solution came when a wise old woman (kuia) sought permission to speak in the marae. "He ai na te wahine, ka horahia te po, " she said. The ways of a woman can sometimes overcome the effects of dark nights.
Hinerakau, the daughter of a Pakipaki chief, was to be the main point of a plan. She would get the chief of the Waimarama tribes, a giant named Te Mata, to fall in love with her, turning his energies from war to peace. The plan succeeded.
The people of Heretaunga, however, had not forgotten the past and with revenge the main motive, demanded that Hinerakau make Te Mata prove his devotion by accomplishing impossible tasks.
The last was to bite his way through the hills between the coast and the plains so that people could come and go with greater ease.
Te Mata died proving his love and today his half-accomplished work can be seen in the hills in what is known as The Gap or Pari Karangaranga .
His body forms Te Mata Peak, the legend goes....................
We hope you have found the
above interesting and if you are sending a gift box or maybe a
gift basket to someone in Hastings or some other part of New
Zealand you will know a little about the city of Hastings.
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