RE: Wellington topo map - Hataitai
Donald Galt
Friday, October 4, 2002 6:12 PM
On 4 Oct 2002 at 23:15, Brent Efford wrote:
Oops! Backtrack. Not incorrectly after all:
I took a long-overdue look at the legend of topo map sheet N164/2. It has
separate symbols for trams (crosstick), trolleybuses (tiny circles) and trams-
and-trolleybuses (both). You can't really make it out on the reduced excerpt I
posted - I can't make it out on the map itself without a glass - but the 14/15
is shown as a trolleybus, other lines as trams, and Wakefield Street as both.
As to Waitoa Road: both the topo (1944) and the street map I posted a week ago
(1953) omit the terminus. But a later edition of the street map (ca.1960 - no
date that I can find) *does* show the stub. It has lost the tramlines to the
eastern suburbs and between Hataitai and Kilbirnie, along with Brooklyn and Aro
Street, but retains Lyall Bay.
Thank you. With egg on the face, less is always better.
Originally it was Whataitai - a Maori name whose origins I haven't yet
Hmm. While on the other hand Whanganui became Wanganui. My area is full of
similar depredations on Indian names. Serves 'em right, I guess, maybe next
time the natives will be ready with an alphabet when we overrun them.
Don
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It is interesting that the cartographers of the early 1950s
identified trolleybus lines (even if a bit incorrectly) and not the Waitoa
Rd stub terminus!
Oops! Backtrack. Not incorrectly after all:
I took a long-overdue look at the legend of topo map sheet N164/2. It has
separate symbols for trams (crosstick), trolleybuses (tiny circles) and trams-
and-trolleybuses (both). You can't really make it out on the reduced excerpt I
posted - I can't make it out on the map itself without a glass - but the 14/15
is shown as a trolleybus, other lines as trams, and Wakefield Street as both.
As to Waitoa Road: both the topo (1944) and the street map I posted a week ago
(1953) omit the terminus. But a later edition of the street map (ca.1960 - no
date that I can find) *does* show the stub. It has lost the tramlines to the
eastern suburbs and between Hataitai and Kilbirnie, along with Brooklyn and Aro
Street, but retains Lyall Bay.
Hataitai is normally pronounced as you did - even if not spelt strictly that
way.
Thank you. With egg on the face, less is always better.
Originally it was Whataitai - a Maori name whose origins I haven't yet
discovered.
Hmm. While on the other hand Whanganui became Wanganui. My area is full of
similar depredations on Indian names. Serves 'em right, I guess, maybe next
time the natives will be ready with an alphabet when we overrun them.
Don
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