page_title: Northland, Wellington
section_title: Creswick
hierarchical_section_title: Northland, Wellington / History / Creswick
caption_attribution_description: English: Overlooking the intersection of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, Wellington, 1929 On the right on the site of the Beehive the entrance front and tower of the former Government House Reference Number: 1/1-000698-F Original negative Find out more about this image from the Alexander Turnbull Library.
context_page_description: Northland is a small suburb in west-central Wellington, New Zealand. It sits between Kelburn and the much larger Karori.
context_section_description: The township of Creswick in Karori riding of Hutt County was surveyed and subdivided and more than a hundred allotments offered for sale in August 1878. The sections varied in size between quarter of an acre and three acres. Population in the 1886 census: 58 males and 30 females, 1892: 47 males and 35 females. The name Creswick stuck to the area between Randwick Road and what was the Kaiwharawhara Stream and is now Curtis Street for some years. A further fifty-one sites were sold in March 1895
caption: Northland high to the far left behind old Government House centre right
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