Public Talk: History of Napier with Elizabeth Pishief

History of Napier with Elizabeth Pishief - “Roads, Reclamation and recreation: the early years of Napier Borough Council 1874-1934”

Free entry.

The talk will cover the first sixty years of the Napier Borough Council – 1874-1934, with an introduction about the European settlement of Napier from 1851 until 1874 and why Napier petitioned to become a borough in 1874.

Elizabeth Pishief is a heritage consultant and local historian with a PhD in Heritage & Museum Studies. She has written numerous reports, papers, books and given talks on a wide variety of heritage topics.

Image: Marewa pre-1900 before land reclamation began. Photograph from the west of George’s Drive in looking toward the Napier Hill/Mataruahou.
Credit: Collection of Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 15