[4] It is east of Karori, to the north of Highbury, some distance through The Town Belt to the south-west of Wadestown, and to the south of Wilton.

It sits high on the south western slopes of Te Ahumairangi by the Wellington Botanic Garden, Zealandia Wildlife Sanctuary and, on the fill over the piped Kaiwharawhara Stream, Ian Galloway Park with its Rugby fields and dog exercise area.

Cardinal McKeefry Catholic attracts pupils from a very wide collection zone throughout Wellington's central and western suburbs.

[30] The Orangikaupapa Block (or Orangi-Kaupapa) on the hill directly opposite the main entrance to the Botanical Gardens was a small Ngāti Awa village where there was "considerable settlement".

[18] The township of Creswick in Karori riding of Hutt County[note 1] was surveyed and subdivided and more than a hundred allotments offered for sale in August 1878.

The name Creswick stuck to the area between Randwick Road and what was the Kaiwharawhara Stream and is now Curtis Street[34] for some years.

[36] An "auriferous alluvial deposit" was found on a low spur running east–west on the Governor's Farm a few hundred yards from the Botanical Gardens while Mr Bidmead was burying a dead cow in 1888.

[37] The new western suburb of Wellington, the new township of Northland, was subdivided and put on sale on 9 March 1900 on the instructions of C. J.

[38] It was named by him in honour of Thomas Uchter Caulfield, Viscount Northland (1882–1915), the eldest son of the Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand from 1897 to 1904.

Viscount Northland was a subsidiary title of the Earl's, borne by his eldest son as a courtesy.

In view of public concern for the safety of the workmen, a resolution was passed at meeting held under the auspices of the Labour Party requesting that Robert Semple, an expert tunneller, inspect the site.

[44] A bus service was provided because the roadway on the Northland side had yet to be widened and reinforced to take the weight of the trams.