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Remuera is an upmarket residential suburban area within Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located four kilometres to the southeast of the city centre. Remuera is one of Auckland's older suburbs characterised by many large houses, often Edwardian or mid 20th century. A prime example of a "leafy" suburb, Remuera is noted for its quiet tree lined streets. The suburb has numerous green spaces, most obvious of which is Ōhinerau / Mount Hobson - a volcanic cone with views from the top overlooking Waitematā Harbour and Rangitoto. According to the 2013 census, Remuera has a population of 7,254 people.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Quick Stats About Remuera )〕 The suburb extends from Hobson Bay and the Orakei Basin on the Waitematā Harbour to the north and east, to the main thoroughfare of State Highway 1 in the southwest. It is surrounded by the suburbs of Orākei, Meadowbank, Saint Johns, Mount Wellington, Ellerslie, Greenlane, Epsom, Newmarket and Parnell. Remuera is home to many well-known New Zealanders including the late Sir Edmund Hillary and the famous race car driver Bruce McLaren.〔 Retrieved 2013-10-15.〕 ==History== Remuera has had a long history of human occupation, starting back in the early 13th century when Māori came to the area.〔 Retrieved 2013-02-10.〕 The area was very attractive to Maori as much of the Auckland isthmus was devoid of trees and covered only in native, flax, bracken and scrub. Remuera was different, having patches of woodland which were the habitat of many birds suitable for trapping while the adjacent harbour and basins were good fishing areas. John Logan Campbell describes early 19th century Remuera in his book ''Poenamo'': The suburb is named after a pā on Ōhinerau / Mount Hobson, Remuwera.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nz01.terabyte.co.nz/ots/DocumentLibrary%5CTamakiCollective_Documents.pdf )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.linz.govt.nz/nzgb-decisions-september-2014 )〕〔 Retrieved 2013-30-09.〕 Remu-wera literally translates to "burnt edge of kilt", commemorating the occasion where a chieftainess of Hauraki was allegedly captured and consumed.〔The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Place Names, Reed Books, 2002〕 Although the most common definition in reference literature, the accuracy of this definition has been described as "highly doubtful".〔The AA Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Place Names, Moa Beckett Publishers Limited, 1994〕 Around 1741, Te Wai-o-Hua iwi was driven away by the Ngāti Whātua and Te Taoū iwi. Later, these iwi merged with Te Roroa and Te Uri-o-Hau into Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei, which is the main iwi on the Tāmaki isthmus.〔 Retrieved 2013-01-10.〕 In May 1844 one of the largest Māori feasts ever held in New Zealand took place in Remuera. It was organised by the Waikato iwi and about 4000 Māori and many Pākehā were present. The festivities lasted for a week and large amounts of food and drinks were served: 11,000 baskets of potatoes, 9,000 sharks, 100 pigs, and large amounts of tea, tobacco and sugar. Governor Robert FitzRoy visited the festivities on 11 May 1844 when a haka was performed by 1,600 Māori, armed with guns and tomahawks.〔 Retrieved 2013-07-10.〕 When the European settlers known as Pākehā wanted to buy the land on the Tāmaki isthmus from the Māori, they first declined. But in 1851, Henry Tacy Kemp, an interpreter to the Land Claims Commissioners, bought 700 acres for £5000. Subsequently, more plots of land were sold and put up for public auction. The land was suitable for pasture land and as the town of Auckland was some distance away people did not really start to build houses (as opposed to farmhouses) until the 1860s. The ideal location included a view of the harbour. Many of the large villas stood on quite big properties, as their owners needed pasturing for carriage and riding horses and enjoyed creating landscape gardens. Some even had secondary houses for gardeners or estate managers. Many of these early houses still stand, surrounded now by later suburban developments or converted into institutions such as Schools. Smaller suburban houses began appearing in the area nearest Newmarket and began to spread along Remuera Road. The first shops opened in 1890 at the intersection with Victoria Avenue. Railway Stations at Newmarket and market Road encouraged the development of residents commuting to town. Likewise one of the most important routes for the Electric Tram System created in 1902 was to the Remuera Shops including an extension to the bottom of Victoria Avenue. One of the first businesses was L.J. Keys’ grocery store on the Clonbern Rd corner, which currently houses a café.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Remuera Heritage Walk : St Aidan's to Mount Hobson ) Retrieved 2013-01-10.〕 Nowadays, Remuera's main business and shopping area stretches along Remuera Road from Armadale Road to St Vincent's Avenue. Smaller shopping areas are situated at Upland Road and Benson Road. In 1915 Remuera was amalgamated into Auckland City. Up until that point it had been governed by the Remuera Road Board which had opposed joining Auckland in the face of campaigning by the Remuera Ratepayers Association. This included a Petition in 1912 in which 791 of the ratepayers (over 50%) signed to join with the adjacent Auckland City. A Commission of Enquiry was appointed, which recommended amalgamation. Again the Road Board declined and it was only after the Department of Internal Affairs intervened that the Road Board gave in. The union was ratified in February 1915 and the 2,520 acres of Remuera became part of Auckland. J.Dempsey said that Auckland had received "the brightest jewel in her crown today", although a subsequent Report by the City Engineer pointed out that Remuera had not been surveyed, it had 60 miles of primitive roading, and lacked proper stormwater drainage, sewerage and other services. Auckland City Council embarked on a series of improvements for the new area. One of its first acts was to provide a free public library for the area in 1915, later replaced by the current building in 1926. In 1919 however local residents were incensed by the Council's building of public toilets at the Remuera shops that they demanded they be torn down. The first mile of Remuera Road was concreted in 1921 and the existing Tram line was doubled in 1924, followed by an extension of the service to Meadowbank. In more recent history, the infamous Bassett Road machine gun murders took place in Remuera on 7 December 1963. Two men were shot with a .45 calibre Reising submachine gun at 115 Bassett Road and word quickly spread about a "Chicago-style" gang murder. Two suspects were sentenced to life imprisonment. One of them was paroled under strict conditions, but he disappeared in 1984 after his car was found at the bottom of a cliff. Initially the police suspected him to be faking his own death, but he was later declared to be officially dead. Several eyewitnesses claimed to have seen him in Perth, Australia in the late eighties or early nineties.〔 Retrieved 2013-03-10.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Remuera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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