Mahora is a suburb of the city of Hastings, in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's eastern North Island.
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Cornwall Park is a public park in Mahora, a suburb of Hastings, New Zealand, named for King George V.
The land was bought by the council in 1901, and the park opened to the public in November 1905. Over time the facilities of the park were expanded to include areas for sports, various trees were planted around the park, and in the 1920s a major renovation saw much of what the park is today come to fruition. The park has had a connection to royal events since its inception, with celebrations for coronations of monarchs being held there, notably including the installation of the King George V Coronation drinking fountain.
Today the park has many key attractions and facilities including the Osmanthus Garden, the John Holt Memorial Display House, the King George V Coronation drinking fountain, and an aviary.
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Taikura Rudolf Steiner School is a co-educational state integrated composite school for students in Years 1 to 13, located in Hastings, New Zealand.
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Mayfair is a suburb of Hastings City, in the Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Island.
Nine streets in the suburb have poppies on their street signs to commemorate New Zealanders who served in international conflicts.
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Nelson Cricket Ground was a cricket ground in Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
The first recorded match held on the ground came in February 1878 when Hawke's Bay played the touring Australians. The New Zealand Times referred to the match as taking place "in Mr Braithwaite's paddock at Hastings, about a mile from the railway station".
It was known as the "Heretaunga School ground" until 1913, when the owners, Mr and Mrs W. Nelson, sold it to a trust for use as a sports ground for the local community and it was named Nelson Cricket Ground in their honour. In 1920 the ground was bought by the Hastings Borough Council.
The ground held its first first-class match in 1914 when Hawke's Bay played Wellington. Two further first-class matches were held there, one in 1914 when Hawke's Bay played the touring Australians and one in 1915 when Hawke's Bay played Canterbury in the 1914/15 Plunket Shield.
Other sports were also played at the ground. The New Zealand and England women's hockey teams played an international there in August 1914 in front of a crowd of 5000.
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The Hastings railway station in Hastings, New Zealand is the main railway station in Hastings and an intermediate stop on the Palmerston North–Gisborne Line. The station is on the corner of Russell Street and St Aubyn Street, and is close to the centre of Hastings. It is no longer used by any regularly scheduled passenger services.
On 12 October 1874 the original station and the first section of the line south from Napier to Hastings was opened with special trains, a picnic and a band. On the day of the opening a gale blew the roof off the station house. The 4th class station was taken over from the international contractor, Brogdens, on 18 January 1875. The line gradually extended beyond Hastings, with completion on 9 March 1891 when it was opened through the Manawatū Gorge to Palmerston North and, hence, to Wellington.
From 1874 to 2001 numerous passenger trains serviced the station. These included local "mixed" trains that carried both passengers and goods between communities in the southern Hawke's Bay, and express trains from Wellington such as the Endeavour. The Bay Express was the last regularly scheduled service to use the station.
The annual returns show that the station was busy. For example, in 1924 Hastings sold 154.970 tickets and exported 35,380 sheep and pigs.
Passenger services ceased on 7 October 2001. The station building had stood empty since then, but is still visited by occasional heritage train excursions.
In the early hours of 21 September 2019 the building was set alight and burned to the ground. The remains were contaminated with asbestos and demolished.
The station was enlarged in the 1880s, so that by 1896 there was a 2nd class station, platform, cart approach, 100 ft x 30 ft goods shed, loading bank, cattle yards, engine shed, stationmaster's house, urinals and a passing loop for 44 wagons. A new station building and goods shed opened in 1962, the old 142 ft x 32 ft goods shed being removed in 1965.
Hastings Racecourse, 1 mi 47 ch to the south, opened as a siding in 1882 and a platform was added in 1900.
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