Napier - was established by a Brit who named all the streets after poets, playwrights and authors. The huge earthquake in Napier in 1931 which went on for 3 minutes at nearly 8 on the Richter scale [complete with the ground actually rolling] helped the city because it got rid of a huge lagoon and created new square miles for housing developments. Turns out that Australia, NZ and India are on one tectonic plate, and the Pacific is on another and that day the Pacific plate got underneath the NZ plate and lifted it 2 metres.