Naumai Park Gates/ Old Hospital Gates - 1932/1894

A park was established on Gladstone Street in Hāwera in 1924 by a group of residents who planted many trees and formed a small lake.

In 1925-6 L A Taylor, G S Watts, J Garnett and C M Haggett applied to take control of the area which was then named Naumai Park.

Control of the park reverted to the Borough Council in 1936, by which time a large number of native trees had been planted.

When the Hawera Hospital - established in 1894 just to the north on Gladstone Street - was closed and a new complex opened in Hunter Street in 1927, the Hospital Board presented the hospital gates & pillars to the park and they were erected at the entrance in 1932.

(The Gladstone Street hospital was for many years after a retirement home, Ngahuru.)

In 1964 a plaque to the founders of the park was unveiled at the gates.

Plaque Inscription

Naumai Park

This plaque recognises the good

citizenship of

Messrs L. A. Taylor, G. S. Watts

J. Garnett and C. M. Haggett

whose voluntary work over

many years from 1925

resulted in the establishment

of this park

1964

Websites

Friends of Hāwera Parks website