Onekawa
suburb of Napier, New Zealand
Onekawa is a suburb of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay Region of the eastern North Island of New Zealand. Development of the suburb began in the late 1940s, after the land was acquired from the Harbour Board.
The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "salty soil" for Onekawa.
The area was raised out of Ahuriri Lagoon by the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
Onekawa houses a high proportion of industry trade businesses.
Pandora
Pandora Industrial Zone is in the northern part of the Onekawa West statistical area, off Pandora Road. Its eastern boundary follows the coastline as mapped in 1870, which included Hope, Pandora and Battery Points. Between 1876 and 1879 Napier Harbour Board used spoil from Bluff Hill and Pandora Point to fill in part of Ahuriri Lagoon. In 1911 more was removed to widen Hyderabad Road and the spoil used to fill a lagoon at the bottom of Park Road and one behind the Harbour Board’s office, to allow a road to link Waghorne Street to Battery Road. A quarry was formed in the 1920s and slips at the Point occurred during the 1931 earthquake and in aftershocks.
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