“In my chapter on Hobson’s character, I refer to his frequent acknowledgments of the kindly interest of three men, Sir Lawrence Halsted, Lord Auckland and the Duke of Clarence. He has commemorated them and others in the nomenclature of Australia and New Zealand, wherever he had a chance. ‘Believe me,’ he writes to his wife in 1836, regarding the kindly interest of Lord Auckland, ‘many a valuable officer pines in obscurity merely because he has no friends to bring his merits into notice.’ The friendship of Lord Auckland was well recognised, for an acquaintance once asked him to exert his influence on behalf of his own son-in-law. ‘It would gratify me beyond measure,’ he writes to Mrs. Hobson in reply ‘to be the means of pushing his son-in-law forward, but to write to Lord Auckland, as —— wishes me to do, to ask his Lordship’s interest on behalf of another, merely because he befriended me, is so absurd a thing that I cannot help wondering how any rational man could propose it.’
“I hope that this may be sufficient to fix the responsibility for the name of Auckland. There can be no historical doubt as to its origin, and the reason for it.”
[Appendix II]
Population of the City of Auckland
| Year. | Population. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1840 | — | |
| 1841 | 1,500 | (estimated) |
| 1842 | 2,895 | |
| 1843 | 2,522 | |
| 1844 | 2,754 | |
| 1858 | 6,283 | |
| 1861 | 7,989 | |
| 1864 | 12,423 | |
| 1867 | 11,153 | |
| 1871 | 12,937 | |
| 1874 | 12,775 | |
| 1878 | 13,758 | |
| 1881 | 16,664 | |
| 1886 | 33,161 | |
| 1891 | 28,613 | |
| 1896 | 31,424 | |
| 1901 | 34,213 | |
| 1906 | 37,736 | |
| 1911 | 40,536 | |
| 1916 | 64,951 | |
| 1921 | 83,467 | |
The population of the City and suburbs in 1921 was 158,000.