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    The Napier Bluff in colour; Napier Hill was originally known as Mataruahou by Maori. (Scinde Island) 

    "The Ahuriri block of 265,000 acres (107,241ha) containing modern Napier was purchased in 1851 by Land Commissioner Donald McLean. Chief Tareha was not happy about his share of the Ahuriri sale, so as was the common practice, the Crown paid him a further £50, as well as giving him two town sections, for the 640 acre (259ha) Mataruahou. A name change from Mataruahou to Scinde Island was gazetted in April 1855, when the first sections went up for sale. Scinde Island, which wasn't strictly an island, as it was connected by a shingle spit to the South, was named after the province in India (now part of Pakistan) that Sir Charles Napier had won in 1843 in the province of Scindh in India, which is now part of Pakistan. The part of Napier hill facing the port was referred to ‒ as it still is today - Bluff Hill."
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