Mosgiel (pronounced \MOZZ-geel\, population 10,000), a suburb of the city of Dunedin in Otago (New Zealand), lies 15 kilometres southwest of the city's centre. Dunedin (dəˈneɪdɪn) Ōtepoti in Maori is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the region of History See also History of Otago The Otago Settlement sponsored by the Free Church of Scotland, materialised in March 1848 with the arrival of the first New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Although the area has had "suburb" status since the re-organisation of New Zealand local government in 1989, some people still think of it as a separate town. Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a State. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The citizens of the town/suburb continue to debate the issue. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
Mosgiel stands at the north-eastern extremity of the Taieri Plains. The Taieri Plains are an area of fertile agricultural land to the southwest of Dunedin, in Otago, New Zealand. The Silver Stream, a tributary of the Taieri River, runs through its north end. The Silver Stream is a small river flowing close to the town of Mosgiel in Otago, New Zealand. The Taieri River is the fourth-longest river in New Zealand, and is located in Otago in the country's South Island. The town celebrates its location, calling itself "The pearl of the plains".
Mosgiel takes its name from Mossgiel in Ayrshire, the farm of poet Robert Burns, the uncle of the co-founder (1848) of the Otago settlement, the Reverend Thomas Burns. Mossgiel is a location in New South Wales, Australia, in Carrathool Shire. Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir ʃir̴əxg̊ iɲiɾʲˈaːɾʲ is a Registration county, and former administrative county in south-west Scotland, Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796 (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire History See also History of Otago The Otago Settlement sponsored by the Free Church of Scotland, materialised in March 1848 with the arrival of the first Thomas Burns (ca 1796&ndash1871 was a prominent early European settler and religious leader of the province of Otago, New Zealand.
Between Mosgiel and the centre of Dunedin stand the rugged Three Mile Hill and Scroggs Hill, which form part of the crater-wall of a long-extinct volcano, the crater of which has become Otago Harbour. Otago Harbour is the natural harbour of Dunedin, New Zealand, consisting of a long much-indented stretch of generally navigable water separating Otago To the south of the town lies one of the many volcanic peaks that formed part of the volcano: Saddle Hill, a prominent landmark, visible from a considerable distance and notable for its distinctive shape, lies east of State Highway One where Kinmont Park, a new housing subdivision nestles at the foot of the hill.
The State Highway 1 motorway, upgraded in 2003, links Mosgiel with the centre of Dunedin, 15 kilometres to the northeast. State Highway 1 is the most significant road in the New Zealand roading network. Motorway is a term for both a type of Road and a classification or designation Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. State Highway 87 to Kyeburn starts at a junction with State Highway 1 at the southeastern edge of Mosgiel, the first part of the highway comprising the main street of Mosgiel, Gordon Road. The New Zealand State Highway network is the major national highway network in New Zealand.
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Legend and early history
The site of Mosgiel figures in Māori legend, but surrounding features of the Taieri Plain and adjacent hills have older mythical associations. This article discusses the Māori people of New Zealand For their language see Māori language, and for other meanings see Māori (disambiguation. The Taieri Plains are an area of fertile agricultural land to the southwest of Dunedin, in Otago, New Zealand. Of the canoes of South Island migratory legend the fourth and fifth, Takitimu and Arai Te Uru, receive mention in connection with the area. In several Māori traditions the Tākitimu was one of the great Māori migration canoes that brought Polynesian migrants to New Zealand from Maungatua, the large hill to the west of the plain, represents a huge wave which struck the Takitimu, throwing overboard Aonui, who became a pillar on the Tokomairiro Beach. incorrectly called The Maungatuas or The Maungatua Range, Maungatua is a prominent ridge which dominates the skyline of the Taieri Plains in Otago The Tokomairiro River is located in Otago, New Zealand. It flows southeast for some 50 kilometres reaching the Pacific Ocean at Toko Mouth 50 Another account makes Aonui a female survivor of the wreck of the Arai Te Uru canoe, built by Kahui Tipua, who had arrived earlier but sent this vessel to the Polynesian homeland Hawaiki to get kumara. Polynesia (from Greek: πολύς many, νῆσος island) is a Subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over The Māori name Hawaiki refers to the mythical land to which some Polynesian cultures trace their origins The sweet potato ( Ipomoea batatas) is a Dicotyledonous plant which belongs to the family Convolvulaceae On its return the canoe suffered shipwreck at Shag Point in North Otago, but its survivors quested about the land in search of supplies. Shag Point ( is a point between Camp Bay and Sunset Fjord in the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia. The district of North Otago in New Zealand covers the area of Otago between Shag Point and the Waitaki River, and extends inland to the west as far as the If they failed to get back before dawn they turned into natural landscape-features, and this fate befell Aonui. These ancient traditions suggest that some of the earliest Polynesian settlers in the south knew the Taieri Plain.
W. R. Kirk repeated the later story of a taniwha (water-monster), the "familiar spirit or guardian of Te Rakitaounere (also given as Te Rakitauneke) a famous chief and warrior" who lost his master about the Dunedin hills, slithered down the Silverstream 'Whaka-ehu' and 'lay down and left a hollow Te Konika o te Matamata' on the site of Mosgiel. Māori mythology, taniwha (ˈtaniɸa are beings that live in deep pools in rivers dark caves or in the sea especially in places with dangerous currents or deceptive breakers The taniwha (named Matamata) wriggled down the Taieri, making its tortuous course, and when he died became the seaboard hills, including Saddle Hill. This story has associations with Kati Mamoe, ('Ngati Mamoe' in modern standard Māori) of the late 17th or early 18th century. Kāti Mamoe, or Ngāti Mamoe, is an historic Māori Iwi. Originally from the Heretaunga ( Napier) area they moved to the South Island According to tradition this period also saw the occupation of the kaik (unfortified settlement) near modern Henley - called Tai-ari like the river - and on the hill above it a pa, or fortified settlement, called Omoua. Henley is a township on New Zealand 's Taieri Plains, presumably named after the rowing centre Henley-on-Thames in England. The word pā (pronounced pah refers to a Māori Village, generally one from the 19th century or earlier that was fortified for defence Tukiauau built a pa called Whakaraupuka on the west side of Lake Waihola and his rival, Tuwiriroa, came down from Lake Wakatipu and built one at Taieri Mouth on the coast. Lake Waihola is a tidal freshwater Lake located 15 km north of Milton in Otago, in New Zealand 's South Island. Lake Wakatipu is an inland Lake (finger lake in the South Island of New Zealand. Taieri Mouth is a small Fishing Village at the mouth of the Taieri River, New Zealand. The Māori soon abandoned Whakaraupuka, but the Taiari settlement at Henley endured into modern times. (Anderson, 1998. )
In February 1770 Captain James Cook described the saddle-shaped hill which became known as Saddle Hill, the landmark east of Mosgiel. Year 1770 ( MDCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Friday Captain James Cook FRS RN ( – 14 February 1779) was an English Explorer, Navigator and The Weller brothers of the Otago whaling station on Otago Harbour (modern Otakou) sent a Mr. The Weller brothers, Englishmen of Sydney and Otago, New Zealand, were the founders of a Whaling station on Otago Harbour and New Otago Harbour is the natural harbour of Dunedin, New Zealand, consisting of a long much-indented stretch of generally navigable water separating Otago The settlement of Otakou lies within the boundaries of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Dalziel to inspect the Taieri Plain for a proposed Scottish settlement in 1839, but he gave an unfavorable report. In 1844 Edward Shortland noticed Māori running pigs on the landward slopes of Saddle Hill orMakamaka (as he recorded the hill's Māori name). Charles Kettle surveyed the plain and coastal hills for the Otago Association in 1846 and 1847. Charles Kettle, (1821-1862 surveyed the city of Dunedin in New Zealand, imposing a bold design on a challenging landscape He also climbed the westward hills and saw the raised land beyond, the nearest approach of the Central Otago plateau to the sea, which he correctly identified as potentially fine pastoral country. Administration The Central Otago District Council based in Alexandra controls territorial authority matters while the Otago Pastoralism or pastoral farming is the branch of Agriculture concerned with the raising of Livestock.
Following the arrival of the Association's settlers at Dunedin in 1848, a Scots shepherd, Jaffray, brought his wife and dogs along the Māori track from Kaikorai Valley and settled on Saddle Hill in a whare (a Māori-style house) in 1849, establishing the first European farmstead in the district. In the same year the Reverend Thomas Burns, spiritual leader of the Association's settlement, selected the land which would become Mosgiel. Thomas Burns (ca 1796&ndash1871 was a prominent early European settler and religious leader of the province of Otago, New Zealand.
In the mid-1850s Arthur Burns, son of Thomas Burns, settled on some of the land. A large stand of native bush stood nearby. Rainforests are Forests characterized by high Rainfall with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 1750–2000 mm (68-78 inches The richness of the land and the proximity of the main south road, more or less following the route of an old Māori track, led to early close rural settlement.
The 1861 Otago gold rush saw the development of a road — leading west to the interior — which intersected the site. The Central Otago Gold Rush (often simply called the Otago gold rush) was a Gold rush that occurred during the 1860s in Central Otago, New Zealand Arthur Burns's establishment of a woollen-mill in 1871 brought the settlement of workers in cottages. 1875 saw the north-south road paralleled by a railway, with a branch to the west constructed in 1877. The New Zealand railway network consists of four main lines seven secondary lines and numerous short Branch lines in almost every region The authorities declared the Mosgiel Town District in 1882 and constituted a Borough Council in 1885. A borough is an Administrative division of various countries In principle the term borough designates a self-governing Township although in practice The town grew and became the most substantial in the district. The surrounding plain became a sort of Home County to Dunedin, a place of prosperous farms and of the large houses of successful businessmen with rural tastes. " Home counties " is an informal phrase used to designate the group of counties that border or surround London, England. Horse-breeding and racing flourished.
Mosgiel in the twentieth century
The significance of the area for transportation grew in the 20th century when the proximity of the plain's flat land to Dunedin saw the establishment of the Taieri Aerodrome, just north of Mosgiel, in the late 1920s and the development of Momona Airport, now Dunedin International Airport, further south on the plain in 1962. Momona is a small town in New Zealand 's South Island. It is located in the centre of the fertile Floodplain of the Taieri River (the Taieri Dunedin International Airport is an international airport in the Otago province of the South Island of New Zealand, serving Dunedin and
After World War II some expected Mosgiel might industrialise extensively, like the Hutt Valley, but expansion remained limited. The Hutt Valley is the large area of fairly flat land in the Hutt River valley in the Wellington region of New Zealand. The bankruptcy of the woollen mill in 1980 and its eventual closure has not been offset by other industrial developments.
The late 20th century's increasingly ageing New Zealand population saw the expansion of housing for the elderly, with several retirement villages and communities located in the vicinity of Mosgiel. A retirement community, or active adult community, is a very broad generic term that covers many varieties of housing for retirees and seniors - especially designed or geared In recent decades the hills above the plain have seen some division into lifestyle blocks. A hobby farm is a Smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income The 2003 completion of the Fairfield bypass shortened commuting-time via the southern motorway (part of State Highway 1) to the city centre. State Highway 1 is the most significant road in the New Zealand roading network.
Mosgiel's economy until recent years focussed on the production of wool-products, and many older New Zealanders still associate the word "Mosgiel" with the former Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Today, Mosgiel's income comes from many sources, including local shops, cafés and bars. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. It remains an important service-centre for the surrounding farming community. The town forms an important service-centre for the farming community on the Taieri Plains, and hosts one of New Zealand's largest agricultural research institutes, Invermay. Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact natural economic and Social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding The towns largest employer is appliance maunfacturer Fisher & Paykel who manufacture the DishDrawer dishwasher and ranges at their Mosgiel factory. Fisher & Paykel is a Major appliance manufacturing company based in East Tamaki, New Zealand. A Drawer dishwasher is a type of dishwashing machine designed and manufactured by Fisher & Paykel. The closure of this plant was announced in early 2008.
Points of interest
R.A. Lawson's East Taieri Presbyterian Church (1870) stands near the Mosgiel turnoff to State Highway 1. Robert Arthur Lawson ( 1 January 1833 &ndash 3 December 1902) was one of New Zealand 's most eminent 19th century architects
H. F. Hardy's 1870s and 1880s buildings for the Mosgiel Woollen Mill stand in Factory Road, Mosgiel.
In 1936, while still a schoolboy, the artist Colin McCahon took part in a family outing, driving from the seaboard over the coastal hills. Colin John McCahon ( August 1, 1919, Timaru, New Zealand - May 27, 1987, Auckland) was a prominent Looking across the Taieri Plain towards Central Otago he had what he described as a "vision", seeing a pre-Biblical "landscape of splendour order and peace" — which, he said, it became his life's work to communicate. The same view, though seen from a greater distance, had inspired Charles Kettle in the 1840s. Charles Kettle, (1821-1862 surveyed the city of Dunedin in New Zealand, imposing a bold design on a challenging landscape
In 1953 the young Ralph Hotere, later to become one of New Zealand's best-regarded artists, qualified as a pilot on Tiger Moths at the Taieri Aerodrome Training School, Mosgiel. Hone Papita Raukura (Ralph Hotere is a New Zealand artist of Māori descent ( Te Aupōuri Iwi)
Mosgiel's town sign forms an unusual feature. Modelled on the famous Hollywood Sign, the seven letters of the Mosgiel sign perch on a hillside at the northeastern edge of the town, close to State Highway 1. The Hollywood Sign is a famous Landmark in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles California, spelling out the name of the area in high white letters Because of this sign locals sometimes (though not very often) jokingly refer to the town as "Mollywood".
In recent years Mosgiel has experienced increased urbanisation and a rapid growth in population. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The revival has come about in part due to people moving from Dunedin's inner suburbs. Mosgiel has recently seen the opening or refurbishment of cafés and bars aimed at a younger market, and workers have built stages one and two of a planned larger playground. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
References
- Anderson, A. (1998) The Welcome of Strangers. Dunedin: University of Otago Press. ISBN 1-877133-41-8 pb.
- Kerr, E. , and Trewby, M. (2000) A Chronology of Ralph Hotere in Ralph Hotere Black Light. Wellington: Te Papa Press. ISBN 0-909010-69-2.
- Kirk, W. R. (1985) Pulse of the Plain: a History of Mosgiel. Mosgiel: Mosgiel Borough Council. ISBN 0-9597755-0-1.
- McCahon, C. (1966) Beginnings, in Landfall 80. Christchurch: Caxton Press. Caxton Press is a printing company founded in 1935 in a partnership between Denis Glover and John Drew
- http://www.cityofdunedin.com/city/?MIvalObj=consult_mosgielplaygrndsnews1&MItypeObj=application/pdf&ext=.pdf#page=2
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