100 Tukapa Street. Courtesy of Google Street View (August 2025).
100 Tukapa Street. Courtesy of Google Street View (August 2025).
This well-kept cottage was probably constructed for New Plymouth land agent Walter Bewley as an investment property in the early 1900s.
Bewley owned Lot 45 from 1902 until June 1914, when R. May purchased the property. May didn't own it for long, with the section sold to T. V. Simons in March 1917, and then to Albert Prestney, an engineer, in May 1919 - Prestney owned the property until at least 1926 when the property title was issued under the Land Transfer Act.
Related items:
Fitzroy District Section 19, Taranaki Land Deeds Index I4 page 336. (Archives New Zealand)
Fitzroy District Section 19 (Sub 45), Taranaki Land Deed Index I 13 page 424. (Archives New Zealand)
Fitzroy District Section 19 (Sub 45), Taranaki Land Deed Index I13 page 743. (Archives New Zealand)
Taranaki (Lot 45) DEED19 Sheet 1 (1902), ICS Pre 300,000 Cadastral Plan Index (Imaged by LINZ)
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