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'''Cornwall Park''' is an expansive parkland, near the heart of Auckland, surrounding [[Maungakiekie|Maungakiekie pa]], or One Tree Hill. Auckland resident since 1840 and, at the time of this gift, mayor, John Logan Campbell gave the park's 230 acres to a private trust on 10 June 1901. |
'''Cornwall Park''' is an expansive parkland, near the heart of Auckland, surrounding [[Maungakiekie|Maungakiekie pa]], or One Tree Hill. Auckland resident since 1840 and, at the time of this gift, mayor, John Logan Campbell gave the park's 230 acres to a private trust on 10 June 1901. |
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Cornwall Park is an expansive parkland, near the heart of Auckland, surrounding Maungakiekie pa, or One Tree Hill. Auckland resident since 1840 and, at the time of this gift, mayor, John Logan Campbell gave the park's 230 acres to a private trust on 10 June 1901.
He chose to present the deeds the following day to the visiting heir to the throne, the duke of Cornwall and York later George V asking that it be named Cornwall Park.[1] A few weeks later the adjoining Alexandra Park was named after the duke's mother[2]
Land
The park was described at the time as "two hundred and thirty acres of the finest land in the district", a portion of some 1100 acres at One Tree Hill bought by Dr Campbell many years before. He had planned to build a house there many years ago and planted the parkland in preparation for that but he subsequently chose to live near the centre of the city in Parnell.[1]
Trust
The deeds handed to the trustees stated "the said lands are and shall be held by the Trustees on trust for the people of the colony of New Zealand, and also for such public purposes for the general benefit of the people of New Zealand in the way of affording them recreation, enjoyment, pleasure and instruction and other similar benefits and advantages of that nature as the Trustees shall from time to time consider best."[1]
The first trustees were David Limond Murdoch, Arthur Mielziner Myers (chairman), Robert Hall and Alfred Seymour Bankart.[1]
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 the first house built in Auckland built for Campbell and moved to this site early in the 20th century[3] |
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References
External links
Media related to Cornwall Park at Wikimedia Commons