The government landing service Timaru waterfront at the end of Strathallan St - hocken.recollect.co.nz 28664
A landing service was initiated by the Provincial Government in 1864 and in 1870 a local authority, called the Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works, completed a groyne which was the first step in the development of harbour works. A harbour board was formed in 1877 and a 300-ft breakwater begun in the following year. By 1881 it had been extended in stages to 2,000 ft. The eastern extension, which makes the harbour safe in all weathers, was begun in 1900 and finished in 1906. Learn more here
The saga of landing and loading goods and passengers was a saga. Here is a really intrestiing overview of the Timaru Harbour Board from 1955: A Short History of the Port of Timaru (1852-1955)
1861 Hurt, Theodore Octavius fl 1860-1871 :Timaru, Canterbury N.Z. [1861-1871].. Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].. Ref: E-501-f-061. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23163640
Farmer and amateur artist. According to Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies, Hurt was of a good county family, the son of Francis Hurt and Cecilia of Alderwasley, Derbyshire, and a relation of the Duke of Rutland. He appears on the 1861 census in Wirksworth, Derbyshire (where it is stated that he was born in Duffield), but travelled to New Zealand later that year. He was one of three men in a partnership farming in the Selwyn area (Arthur Powys and Everard Jones) - this partnership dissolved in 1862, and Hurt kept on in the partnership with Arthur Lyttelton Powys. He visited the West Coast Hokitika in 1865, apparently travelling from Canterbury via Arthur's Pass. He visited Akaroa in 1869. There are dated watercolours of Hokitika and of Akaroa in the Library's collections. Listed in the provincial electoral district of Rakaia in 1872, the year he returned to England. There he married his cousin Louisa (Louie) Emma Norman, and they had a daughter Elizabeth Edith Hurt who was born at Aberdovey, North Wales in 1876. (See Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies; communication from Roy Lear, 22 October 2008, citing "The Hurts of Derbyshire" by Derek Wain; also website at http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/B83-RNH.htm).
1861 Shows coastline from headland to the south, with trees and houses up from the water's edge. Hills and mountains are in the background. E-501-f: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869]. E-501-f-062
C1877 The Roadstead, Timaru, N.Z. Hand coloured engraving of Timaru from the original edition of the Illustrated Australian News. Artist unkown
Breakwater, Timaru. Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of early Timaru. Ref: 1/2-005345-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23018504
1880 Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Breakwater, Timaru. The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-008819-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/29939661
1910 Ferrier, William, 1855-1922. The breakwater, Timaru - Photograph taken by William Ferrier. Atkinson, J :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War I, and postcards of New Zealand. Ref: PA5-0242. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23229640
1896 Timaru breakwater. Ferrier, William: Negatives. Ref: 1/2-019954-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22319409
National Library of New Zealand. TIMARU HARBOUR WORKS. (REPORT OF THE COLONIAL MARINE ENGINEER AS TO THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY BUILDING A BREAKWATER AT TIMARU, AND THE FURTHER DAMAGE THAT MAY ACCRUE THEREFROM.). Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23342830
1880 Boats on slips on the shoreline, Timaru. The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-008818-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/29944380
Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Wharf, Timaru. The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-008895-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/29943880