William Mein Smith

Portrait of William Mein Smith
Original Wellington Plan created by William Mein Smith 1840
Residence of William Mein Smith while he lived in Wellington at 125 Grant Road

William Mein Smith (also known as Kapene Mete;[1] 1798 – 3 January 1869) was a key figure in the settlement of Wellington, New Zealand. As the Surveyor General for Edward Wakefield's New Zealand Company at Port Nicholson from 1840 to 1843, he and his team surveyed the town of Wellington, after finding the land on the Petone foreshore unsuitable, laying out the town belt and other features and making provision for the much debated "tenth" share of the land for local Māori.

  1. ^ "William Mein Smith". NZETC. Retrieved 23 November 2021.