Ministry of Transport Files - Hahei

These files from the Ministry of Transport deal mainly with the administrative aspects of structures, reclamations, power, telephone, and pipeline crossings of waterways around the marine foreshore and in navigable rivers and lakes. There is not a lot of environmental information in these files but occasionally there is a copy of a report that deals with the environmental aspects of a structure. In about 1964 the Ministry of Transport (MOT) took over the role of licensing structures on the foreshore from the Marine Department (MD) and employed the Ministry of Works and Development (MWD) as its environmental advisers. Reports from the MWD therefore contain much of the environmental information available in these files. Purpose: This dataset provides a brief discussion of coastal information contained within historical Ministry of Transport files, collected during a review commissioned by Environment Waikato as part of the Coastal Database project. The Ministry of Transport (MoT) was responsible for the administration of structures in the CMA and in navigable rivers and lakes from 1964 to 1997. These files are now held in Environment Waikato’s archives. These files contain useful information on the history and legal status of existing coastal structures.

54/1/572: Public boat ramp Hahei. MWD file 7/1 Paeroa 13/108 Hamilton. 54/2/332: Hahei Bridge Coromandel County Council file 8.3.2. Proposed bridge over Wigmore Stream. Very little technical data on this bridge. 54/17/8: Roads Coromandel Peninsula, volume 1 1930. 1971 Wigmore Stream bridge at Hahei. File does not specify if this is a new or replacement bridge.

Hahei beach.

1960 to 1984

Infrequent/irregular

This covers the license information. The environmental information is in MWD files. Many files and pieces of information from the files are missing. Many engineer's reports are missing from the files held by Environment Waikato. Only includes information available on specific files. Important to note that Ministry of Works files contain further environmental information relating to these files.

Physical files Digital Format: .pdf of some files available on request.

Set out historical information about the area.

This data is publicly available in EW archives. No confidentiality – public information.

Files closed. Include a note where this record continues after end date of file where possible – e.g. Dept of Conservation files. These files have been continued where appropriate but have been amalgamated and given a new file number by DOC making sourcing more recent information difficult.

Bridge Construction The notification of many new bridges built on the roads of the Coromandel indicates the slow but steady improvement of roading on the Coromandel Peninsula. There are a series of files that examine bridges as they might affect a waterway for navigation. This demonstrates the importance placed on sea compared to road transport. The second aspect of the bridge construction is the development of better roads and therefore the less importance of the coastal trade to the development of the country. Note that up to the 1970s, fertiliser was barged to Whitianga but after that time it was more common to truck the material in. Related information: The MWD files referred to above will be included in this database in the future and will expand the environmental information at this location.