At the heart of it all was the Oxford Royal Hotel.

This was a place for travellers to stay in, that they could stay the night in or a couple of nights in, however long their stagecoach was going to stay in.

You had introduction also around those times of the railway line, development of the railway line, so the place itself was starting to become quite economical.

While on the outer areas, perimeters, you had developmental farms happening.

The whenua was being sold, taken, whatever, however you want to say it.

And developmental farming was starting to happen around the area.

And so...

And it's only fitting that the designers, the artists behind the corrugated iron buildings are given their props.