By: Tracey Kearns21st Sep 2022 8:11AMThe following comments were left on our Heritage Facebook page on the 20 Sept 2022

Chris Palmer
"I spent some weekends at Lindsay's farm in the 60s as a child, good friends with Andrew, tried to help with milking etc, probably more if a observer, great memories of camping out in Karapoty .many old shacks and camp spots,"

Christopher Andrews:
"i was born at cluostons mill.know those hills like the back of my hand..love the bush..that was seventy years back"
Richard Phelps:
"I remember the Mayor of Cluostonville - or that's what we called him because he wore a bowler type hat and a waistcoat. My uncle Reg Phelps worked at the mill for a good while."
Chris Palmer:
" I didn't know that cuzzy,the guy they called the mayor would have been old Arthur Clouston ,that's exactly how I remember him, maybe the original Phelps family is how we ended up in Akatarawa, because I know that your dad (Cyrill Phelps had a hand in setting mum and dad up with the section that my parents built our home on,infact I still remember the builder shed was still on the section all threw my Childhood days in Kowhai st Akatarawa,"

By: Rachel Sonius27th Feb 2017 12:05PMThe following comment about this image was posted on the Upper Hutt Heritage Facebook page by Pauline May on 26.2.2017:

"We moved to Akararawa around 1945. Hec Poulson owned a farm near where the road started climbing up after a wee bridge on the way to what became Cloustonville. There used to be a school house near Karapoti Road. We lived about a mile from Cloustonville."

By: Rachel Sonius15th Feb 2017 1:22PMAcclimatisation Societies were established around NZ by colonists from the 1860s, with the aim of introducing new species of both plants and animals from the old world. Many committee members had links with shipping agents, so transporting flora and fauna was often cheap or free - apparently, with animals generally kept in cages on deck, a survival rate of more than 25% during the long voyage from England was considered a success! Some species were more successful than others, of course, with trout, deer and Canada geese adapting well to our Kiwi conditions, but sadly Atlantic salmon, partridges and European crabs did not. In 1990 the remaining Societies became regional fish and game councils then, eventually, Fish and Game New Zealand. (posted on the Upper Hutt Heritage Facebook page by Rachel Sonius, 26.2.2017)