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AddBy: Janet Doyle20th Jun 2016 5:08PMMy Millennium project was creating an index for this book. "List of Names and Places from the book Upper Hutt : the history" ISBN 0473101416 was published in June 2005. Copies were ordered by Upper Hutt Library, and the newspaper scrapbook files I created over the time were donated to the Library Archive.
When I left Upper Hutt to move to the Manawatu I gave all rights for future publication of the Index to Golder Cottage Homestead Museum committee.
When I left Upper Hutt to move to the Manawatu I gave all rights for future publication of the Index to Golder Cottage Homestead Museum committee.
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 | [...]in style to even the more densely populated lower valley. Scots built the village, and slipped discs in t[...]rentham and on the scraps of acreage in Whitemans Valley. The winds that blew Britannia township off Peton[...]he bush attracted some of the more canny of lower valley settlers. seeking refuge from flood waters, for[...]ay emigration company was rediscovering the upper Valley, capitalised and honed in the tech- nological env[...]ghly competitive Tai- wan. If this wasn't Silicon Valley of the south it was still a corner of New[...] |
| [...]............ .. 136 The Special Places: Whitemans Valley ...................................................................... .. 147 Mangaroa Valley ..........................................[...] |
| [...]Hutt city council- lor, member of the Upper Hutt Valley 1990 C ommittee, foun(lation member of the Rimuta[...]of Pinehaven, a joumalist with long experience of Valley affairs. was a leading Committee c0ntn'butor to t[...]y. ’atn'cia Birchler, Kevin and Leonie Bold. Martin Bradley. Janice Browne, Wynne Bullen, C ha[...] |
| [...]tt Committee. stan, Phyllis ' M Adrian, lold. Martin '11 Clouston, rhay. Lionel Iirton, Keith Pam Oliv[...]s book began from an initiative of the Upper Hutt Valley 1990 Community Committee, which was collecting historical memoirs, and saw a need to lea[...] |
| [...]s, stretched the floors of Mangaroa and Whitemans Valleys. paralleling the llutt an(l so much higher. lmme[...]n as 'l‘otara Park. To our light, down the main valley, as ever before or since. shimmered the blue of W[...]e valle_v of his forbears. “Some think Mangaroa Valley over there is Whitemans Valleyvalley isolated by a gorge from its lower reaches, by hi[...]s. Road and rail were to pierce it. But the upper valley would remain distinctive and separate — even from the political fen/our of the lower valley with its cuml)rous i(lentif1cation with the worki[...]er road . . . absorbing county tidings . . . resisting the embrace of the lower valley. Perhaps it was the frosts. Mist across t[...] |
| [...]0 were to call the Hutt. Heretaunga for the upper valley, which was to become. prosaically, the Upper Hutt. Eritonga, for the river. a distinguished naturalist with the settlement company interpreted, as he probed the water's course through the upper valley. in the malevolent middle of winter. The naming[...]d established on the Hawke's Bay plains, where Hastings would spread its blos- soms. It was to b[...] |
| [...]Heretaunga had Tara and Tautoki travelling in the valley north of the (Taita) gorge. They were said to hav[...]as — one an open plain, the other a dense river valley — to have that much in common. And Kairangi, t[...]. These were the original namc~(lroppe1*s. signposting as they came. T Judging by the number of places[...]retreat from Tara that by a swish of its tail it stin‘ed up enough mud to leave an island in mid—la[...]l‘lV(‘I' was appropriate, if the sense was resting place for the canoes (here meaning to fasten. ta[...]ed the main means of movement in a heavily wooded valley. Wllages here were all on river banks. Tara's de[...]on the Great Harbour of Tara. and moved into the valleys and on to the coastal strips which would[...] |
| [...]mai, RI) Eketahuna. At the entrance to the upper valley. in a turn of the track called Whirinaki (another[...]the next tribe in numbers in the upper Heretaunga Valley. These were people descended from Rangiheheke, of[...]o in Paekakariki and I’on'rua. Ngati Ira. migrating from the Waipukurau (T ukituki) area of Hawke's[...]ur of Tara, Wellington), in the Heretaunga (Hutt) valley, zuid on the coast at Porirua. In the upper reac[...]'Ihe west coast was at hand. beyond the Akatarawa valley. and it was beginning to reverberate with pressur[...]pace and opportunity. He was Te Rauparaha. In the valley of Heretaunga, as elsewhere about the Grea[...] |
| [...]the storm broke over Ngati lra in the Heretaunga valley, in 1819, it came from the north — via the sout[...]of events which would explode all the way up the valley known as Heretaunga or Wai—Orotu. After meeting the Ngati Ira the nonhemers retumed empty-handed[...]isoners in keeping stomachs from iumbling. If the valley in the distance. opening round the rim of the har[...]ain. The northemers sacked villages in the lower valley, and commandeered canoes to ride the river. They moved upstream, falling on defenders, banqueting, then recovering from their excesses. Their enth[...]passed through the gorge and presented the upper valley with its first challenge. 'lheir first conquest[...]yed their prisoners at the end of a hard days fighting; zuid the prison- ers could only hope the[...] |
| [...]Nales, or the olson. of the young 'obin g them. valley . short 1 their ) their tance. more leere(l teting. )aSSt‘(l .=en so ar the _‘ from ested-' d;[...]rs. the top II‘ll)CS and their established fighting chiefs had yielded place. in the despatches, to[...]icult. He was reported to have retreated down the valley. He rested his force ovemight. In the moming the young chief and his men made a show of leaving. departing into the bush. The (lay became quiet. The Ngati[...]uld leave a mark for all measurable time. In the Valley of the Heretaunga River the legacy of death zuid[...]ntact with other forces. In the path of the departing raiders the Wai-()rotu-Heretaunga tribe was down[...]Taranaki were settled at W aikanae — and in the valley of the Heretaunga. They had hosted Te Rauparaha b[...]pany fleet. in 18 years time. tribes in the Hutt Valley would be there by some kind of accommodati[...] |
| [...]ther first settlers who would make mark in upper Valley — Heretaunga River and Valley become Hutt — ill- fated return to New Zealand[...]th-east coast, then from London. Barton was migrating as one of the duke's men, one of the repr[...] |
| [...]oon. Barton recounted in a letter that he found a valley of many hundreds of thousands of acres of the fi[...]cted a small peninsula formed by the river of the valley at the head of the bay. He made a garden on it, w[...]m.’ The settlers understood that the river and valley were called Eritonga. Before the New Zeala[...] |
| [...]y well born; he was inventive, adventur- ous, sporting mainly with horses, single, and as attache to Lo[...]Henry Petre would be attracted mainly to the Hutt Valley's open spaces, an(l become a significant landown[...]Hon Henry was to dominate Anniversary Day race meetings. Cuba had reached Port Nicholson only slightly[...]ld and the other officials had no need to be scouting out the Petone beach and lower valley for their town. The original European acquisition[...]d dissuade officials and settlers alike from relating their plan to this strip between beach an[...] |
| [...]116 reached this place. As the emigrant ships continued to arrive. the chiefs, for their part. said th[...]the port mainly for muskets and ritles. The Hutt Valley was included in the selling, although a resident[...]eeks after the Sutherlands in Oriental, came a contin- gent of Scots in the companys first ship out of[...]d have some significance in the settlement of the valley called liritonga. Two months later the Zi[...] |
| [...]the proximity of guns an(l alcohol, soon reciprocating confusion with their ambivalent attitude to the[...]to cut a road 6ft wide through the forest of the valley. Surveyers were ahead of the road-builders. cutting a line up the east (their right—hand) side of[...]turalist with the expedition, was able to add the valleyvalley reconnaissance was to tiy him. He could not obtai[...]s joumey on 30 July — in mi(l— winter. In the valleys lower reaches, the naturalist found many[...] |
| [...]m. Next day they made their way through the upper valley, crossing the river in deeper waters and reading[...]ious strata. The forest on the river side of the valley was open. and in some parts consisted almost enti[...]d Port Nicholson, before they retired through the valley to the eastwood and to Palliser Bay, where they lived for some time in the dark recesses of the forest, continually issuing from their hiding places to h[...] |
| [...]dwelling place was Taranaki, knew nothing of the valley of the Hutt, nor were they aware of the existence[...]which they were acquainted. Looking back down the valley Dieffenbach confirmed it was covered in forest. w[...]they saw didn't exceed 30,000 acres. But after meeting Dr Dieffenbach he amended this: the acreage in h[...]ees,who would have particular impact on the upper valley, arrived in the harbour. They were aboard the barque Blenheim, from Greenock. emigrating at the invitation of the l.aird of M'I)onald, wh[...]to search for a harbour opening there. before getting its bearings. Inside the harbour it ancho[...] |
| ting that ;a- no more than 1100 country sections had[...]he had purchased 200 acres for £33. In the Hutt Valley on the adjacent hills he had two shepherds in cha[...]ralia 18 months before. =w And a few miles up the valley he had a 1()0acre section of the most fertile lan[...]years ago," he remarked. He had reached the upper valley by walking over the hill separating Stokes n- ' Valley and Silverstream. ()n the 1()(¥acre block[...] |
| [...]. 'lhe theory had not been established at this writing. Surviving at Port Nicholson. it might be though[...], and younger son W illiam. 7. in the lower llutt Valley, Francis Whiteman was to share in the gene[...] |
| [...]of living with floods (if you lived in the lower valley), getting through the bush (further up), and of negotiat- ing the gorge (if you wanted to break through to the upper valley). There were no problems with Maori villagers, probably because Dieffenbach was right and valley Maofis had gone, mostly through inter-tribal pop[...]06 Dieffenbach has adopted the name Him for the valley but stays with a version of Ileretaunga for the r[...]at some time. to have run behind the lookout. creating a t'ast-ntnning moat for it. The cliffin 1991 co[...]r in a memoir written at llpper llull said the meeting was convened in the Glasgow ;\thenaeum on 15 May. lblttl. Ile claimed the public attention resulting brought about the annexation ofthe island[...] |
| [...]Ewen had his team load an(1 fire it with the blasting powder they used in their work. The explosion ca[...]f more significance than the farm was his contracting: he prospected roads, including one that would cheat the gorge between lower and upper valleys. If ever built it would link the side valley to Whirinaki (Stokes Valley to Silverstream). At Alicetown in these p[...] |
| [...]ently going with my father in the canoe, and floating over the tops of the fences to the hotel. We'd g[...]flooding by moving upstream — even to the upper valley. The north had become a promised land. The Hon H[...]indicated the kind of future he saw for the Hutt Valley. He bought barley seed, and mulberry. peach and p[...]se of the generation's lack of interest in confronting Wairarapa tribes of the day, no one had expetien[...]hey identified as Pakuratahi — probably the meeting place of the two arms of the river, at Birchvill[...]the Hutt River. Kettle described the upper Hutt Valley as nothing more than a gorge, the waters approach[...]tt, and the road-making, marked the return to the valley of Maori villagers. 'Ihe new focus on land[...] |
| [...]ealand. He apologised (unnecessarily) for his writing but stressed that the truth of his personal obse[...]uture of the upper Hutt: the known portion of the Valley of the Hutt was considerable, he wrote. From the[...]lls there could be no doubt that numerous smaller valleys opened into or communicated with it. Henry Petr[...]one section of the road for another, also by lighting no fires. When trouble brewed they were required to join the militia, which had mainly a watching and reporting role. Brown left the survey to cut timbe[...] |
| [...]tmnan_ Mz'lit1'(m1an carrier's business, transporting timber and other goods between the growing town and the valley. Said James Jnr: “My father always took me in t[...]a(l to be worked according to the tide, so our boating was at all hours, day and night. We would genera[...]rip." James Brown Jnr wrote a letter to the Hutt Valley Independent in October 1911. on conditions in the[...]James Brown wanted to say that his sister, Mrs Martin, his brother George and he himself were no[...] |
| [...]ieffenbach in 1840, had moved through without sighting habitation. was at Lower Hutt. In lan(l disputes[...]Toa of the Kapiti coast, were playing in the Hutt Valley. This was more than 25 years since Te Rauparaha[...]south through Taranaki to Wellington and the Hutt Valley, where they slaughtered as they went. Were there ghosts stining in the valley. in the ravaged villages of the N gati Kahungunu[...]lessed by Ngati Toa as approved custodians of the valley of Heretaunga. N gati Kahungunu defied for a tim[...]nephew Rangihaeata expected to be able to use the valley at their convenience. and may have regarded it as[...]had declined to accept temis for land sale in the valley, the Ngati Toa chiefs, in mid-November 1844. ackn[...]pensation; his uncle was more experienced at accepting British pounds for land, as he demonstrated in a[...]ha, in 1845, came even to Wellington and then the valley to find a solution to the sale impasse. a[...] |
| (imrgr ll"7n'!mnan, M1'1iti(mI(1n a trail up the Horokiwi Valley. towards Paekakariki. It was replaced before the[...]500, and dropped back to the pa. It was the upper Valley's main involvement in the lzmd wars. The militar[...]sion at Upper Hutt. The great bam'er to the upper valley was the gorge above Taita, which could be negotia[...]foot across the hills on either side of a feeder valley which would be named after the surveyor Stokes. B[...]me hired help he took the bullock and cart up the valley by bush track to the gorge. Beyond that was a 3ft[...]he track would drop them over a ridge into Stokes Valley. The track continue(l over the other ridge and would drop them down[...]k regained the top job. On their line through the valley they'd have passed a property named Trenth[...] |
| [...]t, by a country mile. 0 Richard Barton, consolidating at Trentham, also had a son born in 1846. Hannah[...]at Wharekaka in the Wairarapa. 0 David McEwen continued to prospect roads and plot them. Taking a line[...]ancis Whiteman & Sons, sawmillers. discovered the valley named after him, while hunting pigs. This family too was settling in. S[...] |
| [...]he family followed the bush clearers to the upper valley. 'lhe final departure from Belmont would have co[...]o the hills. Brown took the southemmost snip. starting at Station Street; Downey the northemmost[...] |
| [...]tt caught Australizui gold—fever. From the Hutt Valley the great nish to the Victorian goldfields start[...]me was to be made out of support services like carting. One detail he referred to was his attendance at Mass at C hiistinValley. In later years some descendants speculat[...] |
| [...]xpence his father and William Golder were paid cutting slabs for the Hutt stockade. when the family liv[...]an(l recreation for travellers. And they were putting singlebuilding oases on the map. 'Ihomas Kempto[...]ons Street and extending to Pine Avenue; Brown continued to hold the northern side of the strip. which extended across to a line projecting through Logan Street. Downey sold this 50 acres[...]F arm, which matched his Wobum Farm in the lower valley, and his home, Wobum Hall. in what became Wobum Road. The sawmillers. starting up in business. had been joined byjames C[...] |
| [...]lane or wherever a community had formed. The Hutt Valley had been through its crisis, with some loss of life. in 1846. Now, in the late 1850s, when the shooting was far off. in Taranaki. Hutt settlers again were jumpy: they feared the fighting might spread their way.” At Fortune lane they[...]s well as fury had been the problem. They were getting established. but they looked over their shoulder[...]emises that the Rose of Sharon Lodge came fora meeting venue, after their formation at The Shepherd. Up[...]ese premises. on 23 March, 1860, that a public meeting was called to discuss protection for the settlers from attack in the continuing land wars. The Wellmgton Independent reported on the meeting next (lay: a petition would be forwarded[...] |
| [...]ssing room for football teams. den for scouts. meeting place for the Round ing. Table: always an histor[...]in. tild- It's a large wooden house with a bright tin top. ury And it stands down Fortune Lane.[...] |
| [...]arch being carried out on the geology of the Hutt Valley for the l’rovincial (}overnment, between 1861 a[...]asins within the ranges. He looke(l upon the Hutt Valley as a (lecisive test. for he regarde(l it as the great valley of the Tarartra. He reported, in 'l‘ra;zsaeti0[...]the Mangaroa swamp, without success, an(l in the valley of the I’akuratahi with similar result. Back i[...](lays to deliver through Mangaroa an(l Whitemans Valleys. It was while delivering stores as far away as Stokes Valley that he met school—teacher Mary Walker whom he[...]to Maheno near I’eil(ling, arr(l Iilizabeth (Martin) who remained on a farm at Upper‘ Hutt. The Wil[...]r Hutt. His brother George, fellow-veteran of carting on the Victorian goldfields. was 42 when[...] |
| [...]lfrey Estate. The family numbered 10. like the Martins they became prominent Brown descendants in the h[...]ult. The Andrew branch of the family in the Hutt Valley, still active in family commemorations, retains t[...]WThompson (103 and three-quarters acres, also fronting Ward Street), N Palfrey (100 acres), section 127[...]who became absentee landowners. lady Cavendish-Bentinck assumed title to land at Upper Hutt in 1[...] |
| [...]10(}acre blocks leased and sub-leased, until the valley became denuded of forest, and the spasmodic trade[...]was built, a railway from Wellington, through the valley and over the Rimutakas, was mooted. No menace the[...]sented almost 30 acres to the Govemment for the siting of its railway depot. The site was behind the Cr[...]at for any Wellington workers living in the other valley. It was a natural for the central Mangaroa and some Whiternans Valley fanners racing their horses and rattling milk can[...]fective storekeep ers was a newcomer to the upper Valley, young Jimmy Hazelwood. Sixteen years after the r[...]ion 119, the site of Wilkie’s second store, fronting Main Street. It was transferred to Mrs E B Green[...]arah (Wilson) in Feilding had 13, Eliza- beth (Martin) in Upper Hutt had 12, Andrew in Upper Hutt had 1[...]e. Elizabeth's first child, a daughter, Jane Martin, was said to have been the first white girl born in the upper valley, in 1855. She manied John Golder in 1876 a[...] |
| [...]ntenance costs $3,000 a year. '1he 1991 annual meeting of the Golder Homestead Museum Society admitted[...]of his working life developing roads in the upper valley and as a local authority inspector. He was active[...]1916, Andrew at Upper Hutt in 1926, liliiabeth Martin at Upper Hutt in 1929. References: 0 15 .\lrs G[...]amily of James and Janet. 0 lb‘ Letter to Hutt Valley lmlependent. ()ctol)er 191 1. 0 19 Misund[...] |
| [...]ngcs at Mangaroa — Prouse brothers at Whitemans Valley — Wagg. Alexander and Pcarse in Upper Hutt — John Whitcman family move from own valley to Akatarawa — pannerships round Karapoti. Huki[...]condary growth through marks of fire, the odd cutting or tramline, a rusting boiler. The first sawmiller was a former weaver[...]aring again, to graze stock of clients over—nighting at his hosteliy. One of the first of the professional sawmillers was James I)uff Cruickshank. operating above Upper Hutt as early as 1852. From Banffshi[...]Chalmers in 1850, and had lost little time in getting to his chosen ground. David Benge was an earlier settler in Wellington in 1841, and in the valley. He was at Taita, and a waggoner, till a flood moved him north in 1857. He bought into an existing mill at Mangaroa (then Mungaroa), and sustained[...]s in community affairs. Cruickshank, first operating a mill below Maoribank, probably about 1855, established himself as more advanced in techniques of cutting than did pit- sawyers who came after him. At Mao[...]orded by a clergyman's wife, Margaret Herring, writing home in October 1861. She noted that a three-hor[...]Hutt by open trap, through dense woods with a few tiny houses dotted along. Woods, woods, woods on each[...]umed to England from his attempt to settle in the valley. One reference indicated that another |
| [...]powering drew its water from the higher Mangaroa Valley. This was the largest-scale, best organise[...] |
| [...]d before him. The Englishman knew what he was writing about. When he landed with the first settlers h[...]n that 4in main shaft? I do.” When he was operating at the end of the road named after him, Cruicksh[...]Wairarapa) brought water from the higher Mangaroa Valley, where the Benges were establishing themselves. T[...]joy the banquet. Cruickshank cut out in the main valley and went over the hill to Mangaroa. Here he used[...]ged logs to the foot of the tramway in the higher valley, the capstan took the strain, and the circling horse hauled the trucks to the top before letting them down on the other side to the mill. The Cr[...]cle of a later owner of Maoiibank, Don Reid; Christina became Mrs Winks and later Mrs J E Blackbume, wi[...]rove about in a gig at a time when others were setting themselves up with sledges or drays." Alf Cudby[...]ding a pony alongside." When the writer began sifting the sawdust of the milling days, in 1949[...] |
| [...]he possibility that be- fore Cruiekshank was operating north of Upper Hutt a savrnniller was at work so[...]e many of the Upper Hutt sawrnillers, came up the valley after cutting out at Wainuiomata. Tom Scrimshaw. 77 in rnid- 1[...]lier stage, said he understood a steam plant operating at the Rose of Sharon hall site was owned by Ste[...]om Wainuiomata into the southern end of Whitemans Valley, about 1866, and established a mill on prop erty[...]ther, emigrant James Johnson, arrived from Stokes Valley by bridle track, and felled the bush on his own p[...]mill. After they had worked the Upper Whitemans Valley with bulloeks and then tramways, Prouse br[...] |
| [...]ing till 1888. A pit—saw mill was already operating at Te Marua, located where the southern water—[...]tle were other sawmillers who settled in Mangaroa Valley to establish an on-going community. They were joi[...]George Whiteman family at the southem end of the valley, who settled in the Flux Road area. All C udby,[...]d had bought out Gorries in Mangaroa. and was shifting the mill to the Moonshine, west of Trentham. Ill[...]. When sawmilling was at its height in the upper valley, Whiteman brothers operated at Deep Creek and Man[...]tarawa. for the Gorries at Wallaceville (Mangaroa Valley), and moved a Manakau mill (C S Gardner an[...] |
| [...], Andrew and Tom Gorrie at Wallaceville (Mangaroa Valley). 1c in Maymom, in Mzurgaroa Valley, was the largest and most upto-date of the at saw[...]d: “The whole thing seemed to operate by the setting of 3d gauges and the pulling of levers.“ logs[...]ll in Colletts Road, on the east side of Mangaroa Valley, later Hendersons’ farm. Arthur in 1910 became[...]training camp. Military stores buildings gave the valley its only appear- ~lo ance of industry. The[...] |
| [...]atest Teclmology 55 and staff of combined contracting companies excavating and fining the Rimutaka railway tunnel. At the[...]en later link, about the early 1970s in Whitemans Valley, was provided by sons of Alex Gorrie who tried sa[...]Hukinga road). It branched west off the Akatarawa Valley Road, seven miles north of Upper Hutt, and climbe[...]a block near Hukinga, over which they secured cutting rights from Price. They used Price's tram[...] |
| [...]sold out to Fletchers in 1960. In the Akatarawa Valley the road bridge to the side valley, over the Akatarawa River, was swept away in the[...]ks delivered twice a week in the Little Akatarawa Valley; being offered such a service was a measure of wh[...]he 19605. From his old mill at the top "2 of the valley, where the regular road begins to wind to Waikana[...]n the Strand camp on Dead- wood block, before shifting down to Chilly Brook. The Strand mill had been c[...]nd shareholder, interested Roger Redington in planting exotic trees, mainly radiata. Redington became |
| [...]ons settled in the milling hills of the Akatarawa valley. The firm, Exotic logs Supply, beczune forest ma[...]still available in the district. Mallaby Mills continued at Silverstream to the 1980s. Referenc[...] |
| [...]aches, classic names on the sides. The end of the valley wasn't the end of their world; when they creaked[...]water supply. Tom Kempton thought it was worth noting in a diary. Though the name Golden Fleece[...] |
| [...]ece opened in 1853 a string of hotels through the valley included the Travellers‘ Rest, Taita; also a ha[...]Upper Hutt. James Brown could have been concentrating on forest clearing or contracting; the lodge recorded it as the house of Mathew Sh[...]terion was at its peak when it hosted its most distinguished guest, the Duke of Edinburgh. It was his only hotel stopping place on a valley tour in 1867, and he came to lunch. At the time o[...]s about six. He recalled his father, George, assisting others to erect a welcome arch across the main r[...]have been added as acknowledgement ' ' of the siting of the Wellington racecourse. Flag statio[...] |
| [...]History skirted Fortune lane to crown the higher valley as king. When the line anived officially it continued on without drawing a breath. Upper Hutt was re[...]hold a yard of earth. When he first came up the valley from Lower Hutt as a youngster with his parents,[...]s with sharp curves and steep grades, and by resorting to a Fell system to drop 68% in two miles 20 cha[...]861 because of the death of her husband. At a sitting of the Hutt Licensing Court in mid—1875 the po[...]f the Railway, J ack (Gentleman John) Wilkins, getting about in a top hat. That was one way to e[...] |
| [...]e first of this family to settle in the Mangaroa Valley, was at Heretaunga, on his way home from carting produce to Wellington, when he saw a glow in the[...]n Jack Robbie's nephew Don Robinson, a Whiteman's Valley farmer, updated me on the family, be included the[...]t the Railway was TJ Walsh, who went to the lower valley. FJ McGovem presided over the building of a new h[...]ears, and gave the pub, also the district, its distinctive new name. Quinn's Post originally was the l[...]1915. He was killed a month later. Ted Quinn, writing home to his brother Dick, licensee of the[...] |
| [...]live(l frugally at Karori 6n and at the comer of Tinakori Road and Glenbervie Terrace. Seven years la[...]tt County would have suggested he was on Mangaroa Valley Road Oil extension, but a fanner’s disinclinati[...]used Whakatiki Street to be astray from any cross-valley line. is, As a small farmer McCurdy was eligible[...]out limits: within two years of arrival he was writing to a m. possible subdivider at Silverstre[...] |
| [...]r a move to permit the Press to remain through meetings, committee and all, obviously to breach editor[...]er or energy in those days was referred to as lighting. Under this heading the board was consulting Lower Hutt and Petone boroughs on harnessing the[...]lice Street, Wellington, to Town Clerk McCurdy, noting the event and adding that the land involved was[...]that time there was only a bush track through the valley. We rigged up a tent out of an old ship's[...] |
| [...]e was on the boil again. At the September 1920 meeting Town Clerk Chapman, more resilient than his pred[...]d that state ments had been published in the Hutt Valley Independent, edited by Board Commissioner McCurdy[...]ter, Laney and himself, of forgetfulness in collecting sanitation fees from tenants of railway cottages[...]the board resolved that steps be taken to have meetings reported in one of the Wellington dailies to pr[...]ration of the Record Hall, and at the May 1921 meeting a motion to investigate a Pelton wheel to genera[...]board had already proposed the organisation of a valley power authority, and by the end of that winter it[...]e of two plans of the original survey of the Hutt Valley as requested by J Barton. In June the board asked[...]unch, on the occasion of that board’s first meeting. 97 |
| [...]ening Post on 23 December, 1929 noted that Mrs Martin was the first lady elector in the upper Valley. After protests the following May (1930), a motion to the Upper Hutt Borough Council to rename Whitemans Valley Road Bathurst Street was rescinded. Another place[...]eet became Murray Street at the early December meeting, William Street became Martin Street, Mangaroa Road became Ward Street, Moonshi[...]acent to Pine Avenue) became Keys Street, a connecting street between Ebdentown and Henry streets becam[...]and the rugby club. At that time the Mayor of Hastings was thanking Upper Hutt for earthquake a[...] |
| [...]Battle ofthe Saloyards 107 He was still fighting the cause of the Quinn's Post area: the town pla[...]n, but it had to be out in the open of general meetings. Ed Nicolaus was to learn that in Upper Hutt it[...]so far north as to be almost into the head of the valley, where the hills come together beyond Maor[...] |
| [...]n was taken on 22 March, 1950, after a special meeting that was disrupted by a crowd which had come tog[...]951, and was dismayed by council and committee meetings which never began till 7.30pm because commuters[...]ome from Wellington and get their dinner. The meetings went on till any old time. Early in 1953 he stm[...]things done when a lot less time was spent on meetings. Hutt Timber and Hardware had begun a new home[...]ver fostered or infested whole areas in the upper valley. The HTH scheme, tied to Waikato mills, be[...] |
| [...]sawmiller had left there. No single gesture, denoting a new era, compare(l with removal of a horse tro[...]d in 1939, and moved to Upper Hutt from the lower valley in 1942. Just 18 months after the byelect[...] |
| [...]ith its past. In mid- December. 1962, a public meeting called by the Rotary Club and chaired by Malcolm[...]ibrarian) was secretary. The first committee meeting was held early in 1963 at Upper Hutt College, wh[...]included a 1963 decision to pay councillors a meetings attendance allowance. architects were report- i[...]e proposed Civic Centre, the City Engineer was getting into detail on requirements. and the Iibranan wa[...]was able to defeat a move to create a single Hutt Valley local authority. Prevailing on this issue was ano[...]eneration of a belief—in—itself for the upper valley. The local body amalgamation proposed would have[...]he separate background and character of the upper valley of the Hutt — the bowl past the Taita Gorge. I[...]t down his feelings for the district: "The upper valley remains distinct. On passing through the gorge the countr[...] |
| [...]place in later years. Gordon Cross came from Hastings to begin a 12-year term as Town Clerk; he was deputy town clerk an(l borough treasurer at Hastings. He had been a C()llI'1 registrar at T aihape a[...]ss needed all his experience within a week of starting. He was involved in the hearing of objections to[...]its single City of Heretaunga plan for the whole valley, including Eastboume and Wainuiomata. That was f[...]now provided rapid transport to jobs in the lower valley or Wellington, even to the Wairarapa through a ra[...]ry was burgeoning in Upper Hutt itself. The upper valley had come a long way in just a couple of decades.[...]is well documented as the last Maori name for the valley as well as for the river: before that, for[...] |
| [...]spent mainly in the Labour Department (first posting Gisbome), from which he retired, after 40 years[...]His greatest supporter was his wife Lydia. On meeting nights she was a constant l observer from the public gallery; one particular chair was understood to be hers, ] and other observers arriving in the gallery were warned if they seemed about to bag it. During the meetings she moved her head emphatically. for or against[...]the business that she could go up from the public gallery and direct him to the page and passage he wanted. When Mrs Kinsman remained in the gallery after the Council had voted to go into committee,[...]mbering he was chairman. During some committee meetings, held in the homes of councillors, she would wait outside in the car. A meeting which ran on longer than expected was reminded of the time by the tooting outside. Mrs Kinsman launched a petition[...] |
| [...]most impressive trees settlers found in the upper valley — Totara Park. Chosen street names, unfor1unat[...]time: “If a single tem'torial authority for the valley had come about by now it is probable I wouldn't b[...]rising population that needed jobs, in the upper valley if possible, discovered urban problems tha[...] |
| [...]s Wright and Camran transferred in 1969, incorporating Ward Street bookbinders L D Hanratty Ltd. Nicola[...]rom August 1977. Traffic officer training, graduating from 191?rvintage army prefabs. benefited from d[...]ment that would be the first in the greater Hutt Valley using entirely new principles of low maint[...] |
| [...], probably the most sophisticated industry in the valley as it manufactured its medical supplies and dealt[...]d a field station off Johnsons Road in Whitemans Valley south. It looked more industrial, yet anonymous,[...]l. Doris Turner Baker, with second name commemorating a relative, the Eng- lish landscape painter, was[...]affairs from the 1965 threat to Upper Hutt’s contin |
| [...]t days. Vine had come from Cambridge to the upper valley in the mid-'50s, to the Post Office accommodatio[...]heir central site opposite Station Street, and continued to promote with the flair of later retail gen[...]woods. Many opponents of the exclusion of Cars continued to oppose it. An eight-storey highest head ap[...]ly serial-drama, Country GP, located in Whitemans Valley. A Cenotaph had been completed in July 19[...] |
| [...]of a new church at S5 Brown ()wl for the cooperating paiish set up by Presbyterians and Methodists, a[...]was on the road from September 1975. With its inviting architecture, user—friendly atmosphere, book a[...]()0 loan raised by the Council. ll lit 3 It had a Valley background. It was proposed at Stokes Valley, at a meeting of it ”' 18. discussed further at Silverstream[...]ded the Maori settlers of Wellington and the Hutt Valley. " ‘St The marae was to achieve a milestone in[...]the participation of three boys in the kai hoe contingent to Waitangi. “ ,1, ad U The 1980 loc[...] |
| [...]arearea), said to have been resident in the upper valley, surveyed its territory from a high rock, while wood pigeons perched on a shield depicting river and bush. The latin translated to ‘Nothing Higher or More Be[...] |
| [...]id Thomas was back for a second temi, before departing to live in ()torohanga. Andrew Mark, son of a p[...]tributor. Shirley Russell had indicated on the hustings that she would be a colourful Councillor if her[...]on as she read a poem at a Civic Hall combined meeting, but she was taking a step along the way to deve[...]n Oldies, he wasn't expected to pass out of upper valley contention. Ray Tucker, whose last post w[...] |
| [...]ance). Over the first range of hills are Mangaroa Valley, then Whitemans. In a wayside of the Rive[...] |
| [...]was attached to a large rock in a lay—by on the valleytinuing its stage three of the River Road, from Totar[...]h the main road. The road ended above a new supporting wall. based on 69 piles drilled into bedr[...] |
| [...]ormation facility. The centre celebrated by reprinting with modern materials a 1929 map of the district[...]of Heretaunga—I’inehaven Community Council continuing for five years, an altera- tion would be mad[...]t names based on nearby Emerald Hill. A Mangaroa Valley sub-division with access from the bottom end of Whitemans Valley got under way. This was Mansfield, a 2640-acre b[...]ch would run till 1992, Jeff Berkett, a Whitemans Valley farmer, had succeeded Grant Campbell. Ralp[...] |
| [...]uture. The Mayor reported progress to a public meeting in November. The plan proposed to upgrade the en[...]unified city with carparks off Main Street, locating a shopping arcade through the Provincial tavern,[...], promote Upper Hutt more as a town (Top 0‘ the Valley) than a city, with recreational and tourist attra[...]nternational telecommunications contract confiibuting to a fibre optics submarine cable project. The[...]ed to deliver services from the other side of the valley, running under the Moonshine bridge, building of[...]ent Co Ltd was set up to handle immigration, marketing and sales of the project. Wholly-owned su[...] |
| [...]he was the first of the family to visit the Hutt Valley. She said a portrait of Sir Vlfilliam Hut[...] |
| [...]pecial Places Saga of the Whitemans — Mangaroa Valley — Te Mama's friendly ghost — Collins’ bull[...]tham as corner of l’orever-lingland VVhitemans Valley HE WAS A WIDOWER an(l sheepfanner, aged 40, and[...]from somewhere near the site of the Battle of Hastings, and that was so. Udimore, near Rye, Sussex, is in Hastings countiy, on a I‘lS€ between two valleys in which the rivers Brede and Tillingham run. Pa[...]shore line, and Dumb Woman’s lane was a deep cutting for most of its length. The Whitemans and anoth[...]In Wellington, Francis Whiteman was soon confronting the only options |
| 148 7710 second lrVhitemans Valley school, at the start of johnsons Road, had[...] |
| [...]est-felling. The forest at hzuid was in the great valley behind P ‘tone beach. An obvious site for sawmi[...]the entrance to the gorge that isolated northern valley from southem. About 1846 some of the family were pig-hunting, out of Stokes Valley in the Taita gorge. George is credited with being[...]ng a pig over the hills George found himself in a valley east of the Hutt an(l parallel to it, but smaller[...]In the militia during the land disputes with Hutt Valley zuid coastal Maoii tribes, including the aftermath of the fatal attack by visiting tribes on Boulcott stockade, lower Hutt, in earl[...]ter generations were more readily identified; the valley founder's wife seemed to have passed from[...] |
| Valley Road, near Russell Road. It was a born on the Har[...]e] M Whiteman homestead still stands in Whitemans Valley afler subdivision and _, ‘ sale of the[...] |
| vy 'I7re Special Places 151 particularly of the lower valley. No form was involved. The Anglican church at Low[...]Secretary (26 April, >1 1859) on that part of the valley of the Mungaroa discovered by Whiteman. A copy 1[...]per-plate script still exists. 1 Park judged the valley to be about seven miles long, containing about 17[...]into a basin, and there were two or more lateral valleys that might, with the basin, yield about 1500 acr[...]er a gravelly bottom, , with tributaries from the valleys. The tributaries were said to be about as large[...]avelled upwards. The timber was very fine, consisting chiefly of red, black and white pine, and rata,[...]a valuable acquisition: were a road made into the valley the I ,1. |
| [...]r or steam saw mills. One end was close to Stokes Valley which. if a line of road could be found, would fo[...]ened. Except that further examination of a Stokes Valley connection never came to anything. And the road a[...]inn’s Post; not Jimmie Brown’s. In Whitemans Valley, William took up a property on the north side of[...]r. VVilliam's property wasn't as spacious across- valley as his brothers; it funnelled into a minor gorge[...]t to east. Bush standing along a terrace still distinguished this old property in 1990. George took up[...]. The title which recognised his discovery of the valley is believed to have referred to a relatively smal[...]le in the Collett's Road area of central Mangaroa Valley, marry twice and develop a personality not unlike[...]am's, Robert who would farm opposite in Whitemans Valley. And Henry, who would not remain in Whitemans Valley at all. Of the family of five boys growing up in the valley, Robert was born eight years after his old[...] |
| [...]s George and William as sheepfarmers of Whitemans Valley, specified VVrnchelsea (Sussex) as William's bir[...]with her across the world. They moved to the Hutt Valley where] M Symons felled and milled timber, and his[...]um at St David's, married Alf Scholes of Mangaroa Valley. James] ohnson, an Englishman, was an early settler at the top end of Whiternans Valley, behind Silverstream. J ohnsons Road runs off the main Whitemans Valley Road in a southerly direction; it had for its big[...]the settler knew only a bridle track from Stokes Valley. He offered the logs of his first bush-fel[...] |
| [...]at Barkers Bridge, mnflzern end of Whiteman’s Valley. The propmy was first farmed by William Whiteman. 'lhe farmer Presbyterian Church, Wallaceville, Mangaroa Valley. The church became part of a Presbyterian Methadist Caoperating parish based in Upper Hutt. A village whi[...] |
| [...]ll became leading settlers of the upper Whitemans Valley, and established fanns that would soon have landm[...]n much of the lan(l at the south end of Whitemans Valley. They had arrived in 1857 with young children in the Oliver Lang, and cut a clearing down the valley for a punga and bark cottage on what became known[...]ceville Hill Road, then on foot over to Whitemans Valley. They rounded the swamp to George Whiteman's smal[...]rovisions ran low. He had a firm attitude to shooting — that it was only for meeting needs, not for sport. Jane's brother-in-law Robe[...]. Jane had her first children here in Whitemans Valley, starting with John Morshead (her father's second name) Wh[...]ve a stronger remaining connection with Whitemans Valley than any of them. George Whiteman had bec[...] |
| [...]of shot (one- eighth oz No 4). caps in dzunpproof tin in waistcoat pocket where they would be wann and[...](the boy writes, so many years later) was like hitting an anvil with a small hammer. The boy asks: “[...]. He had acquired milling nights in the Akatarawa Valley. 'llie fzunily seemed to have become settled in Whitemans ValleyValley. as it was at that time, must have been daunting to a mother who thought she had begun to[...] |
| [...]157 The Maher home in C olletfs Road, Mangaroa Valley, was on the former Edward Whiteman property. The[...]RNZU7 stores still dominate in central Mangaroa Valley. The Defence Department says it is working[...] |
| [...]Whitemans the Downings were old sawmillers in the valley. Boss Downing and his wife were perhaps William W[...]milling or wrestling with the farm they were creating in a narrow valley. JM Whiteman on the original holding marri[...] |
| [...]first inquiries about the Whitemans of Whitemans Valley. At this time JM's elder son Neville practised la[...]in Auckland. The parents. married again. both continued to live in Whitemans Valley. Ivan Whiteman offered 535 acres of the farm for auction in 1975, citing lack of available labour to farm the property to[...]not part of that first auction. Subdivisions continued. In portions, the Whiteman property passed thr[...]metimes re sold, in about four parcels at this writing. Where 334 acres of the best flats had sold for[...]ly half a million. At the north end of Whitemans Valley, where it approaches the Blue Moun- tains above S[...]Moore) had built field headquarters for their testing programmes. On the north side of the mai[...] |
| [...], and across to the flats. It is a tight little valley, Whitemans, full of history, full of character. It runs out into a wider, bigger valley, where every farmer is not every other man's neigh- bout Mangaroa Valley LINK ROADS FROM T HE Hutt Valley to Mangaroa run from Quinn's Post, Maoribank, and[...]well as the Silverstream access through Whitemans Valley. Mangaroa‘s greater elevation than the Hutt mad[...]ing days to pipe Mangaroa water down on to a Hutt Valley waterwheel. Its landmarks are its peat expanse in[...]acious residential properties. Not far across the valley is the river: to cross its bridge and move east p[...]r and Robinson farms are two of only three in the valleys still supplying town milk in 1991. The other is[...]he old Alexander block, and farm it while both continue with town interests — Coral as a food dehydra[...]red to Waikanae after farming the property and continuing with town interests. They lived in the[...] |
| [...]sawmill on the Downing property in 16H Mangaroa Valley, and cleared his 10(}acre block in his spare time[...]vision of Mansfield at the south end of Mangaroa Valley, Tn. offered in November 1976 by Crest Properties[...]lands Dominion Group, has its access W11 road starting between old Wallaceville and the former Whiteman[...]al and village development he dispersed round the valley edge. ire Access was to have swept round t[...] |
| Mangaroa Valley north, from the home of Mrs Phyllis Macnab, nee S[...]t to left), opposite to the direction in the main valley. Yhe former dairy factory shows in the middle gro[...]eorge Whiteman, pioneer settler of Whiternan ‘s Valley, spent his last days with his daughter—i[...] |
| [...]ansfield was estimated to be capable of accommodating 20.000 to 25,000 people. By 199() quality housi[...]bout to be prepared for sub—division nearer the valleys main road. In the northern valley the Defence stores complex recalls World War II.[...]ill. Te Mama TE MARUA. JUNCTION of the Mangaroa Valley with the highway north of Upper Hutt, was[...] |
| [...]o Te Mama runs east, into the top of the Mangaroa Valley. Motorists watched for traffic on the bends when[...]n that his spirit became a Stonestead ghost, lamenting the loss of his baby daughter. John Benge[...] |
| [...]'s bar door, with patrons climbing over him, or opting to go round to the back door, to get to the bar.[...]the Benges’ mill drover became all the more pertinent. It came to a head when Jolly had the good fortune to meet drover Darkie Thompson, in a narrow cutting on the road. The drover climbed a steep face and[...]rred to the turnoff from the Main Road, or to the valley reached by the ‘ J Maymom Road, the first comm[...]l. Perhaps they knew a private school in Mangaroa Valley (Mrs Bertha Seed's) would soon go public a[...] |
| [...]he name of the distxict It was understood to mean valley or hollow. The committee added another room to t[...]s for sale. She purchased it and set about converting a six-roomed house into tea rooms. She op[...] |
| [...]I‘lSlS. including cyclists and fishing and shooting parties. Good trout were in the Pakuratahi, and[...]he tunnel, the route became a weekend walk, attractinting of the highway was being considered. and support[...]y. Maoribank THE TROUBLES OVER IAND in the Hutt Valley in the mid—fotties were hardly to be compared i[...]orthern junction of roads - the Mangaroa. central valley, and new State Highway. |
| [...]Comeskey, at home ‘: , in the Akatarawa j ‘V Valley, shows a ‘ painting 0fKarap0ti ‘R srhool. last sited ¢__[...] |
| [...]e New Zealand Company was buying land in the Hutt Valley, and coastal chiefs Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata were assisting or frustrating them, Harata te Waipae Kiore and her people —[...]and her elders to live at Trakiwai at the foot of Tinakori Road. When a party of soldiers called, and[...]to give or show it the soldier tore it off, splitting the lobe. The old man complained to the Govemor.[...]which they did, to Pa Kuao nearby, then to Ohariu Valley. "lhey were from an area at Taita taken over by[...]he'd supply them with a good piece of land in the valley. On his return he told them the land was[...] |
| [...]ok its name from an old tree trunk. Seen from the valley below, it resembled a cannon. Near Cannon Point,[...]about 1910 a narrow track wound up from the main valley to Cannon Point trig, 1100ft, an extension of Ebd[...]hiteman, grandson of George Whiteman of Whitemans Valley, bulldozed a narrow road part of the way to open[...]tober, 1977) five whares at Haukaretu, one a meeting or entertainment place. The whares were made of |
| [...]ite pines) served Maori food hunters in the upper Valley as direction finders and conserva- tion boundarie[...]round the off—loading of the industrial land to tinns like AHI, who had an option on much of i[...] |
| [...]such a development alight. It succeeded in interesting Taiwanese investors in a scheme planned to provi[...]haps not even a majority. The Government, negotiating directly with the investors, indicated it would[...]entertainment uses. ’Ihe hearing was an interesting exercise in the mounting of rival legal arsenals. In January 1991, Immigr[...]many local jobs. The writer attended a public meeting on the issue at the end of July, 1990 — and dr[...]Flat on a misty morning in April 1991. At the meeting, in a Fraser Crescent intermediate school assemb[...]y spacious terrace. opening gates as we went, was Valley-bom Dennis M Ryan. I had asked his office to let me know when any Taiwanese were visiting. We had entered by the old cutting at the bottom of the Moonshine Road, just[...] |
| [...]wa was populated as an off-shoot of the main Hutt Valley, and Bob Dalton had plenty of background i[...] |
| [...]a cash store. Some would arrive in the Akatarawa valley in a taxi, and drive away in their own car[...] |
| [...]er was keen on his fishing, gardening and cultivating native plants; for the children pony riding spac[...]sawmillers were the first industrialists in the valley. 'Ihose who brought a family, either to camp in t[...]r his parents and the rest of the family left the valley at the turn of the century. Bert and his wife Gra[...]e the block passed to Keith Iindsay from Mangaroa Valley and his wife J 0 Campbell. 'lheir main challenge was in getting dry stock across the river after the bridge was[...]st Road, was a businessman who first came to the valley weekending below the sawdust paddock, alon[...] |
| [...]colourtul roadrnan. Jack Comeskey, who farmed Martin—l’oulson flats and hills towards the gorge,[...]vision of the properties into three blocks. He continued his links with historic places by following Dr[...]by John and Carol Simister in the upper Akatarawa Valley in 1972. They sold 21 Wellington dairy to get goi[...]ed parking for bush walkers. Thinning of new plantings over Water Board tenitory provided the beginnin[...]f forestry on the tops behind Birchville. New planting is to be seen behind the Clouston hills. In summ[...]with a folksy Birchville newsletter. Swimmers continued to swirl in the fusion of the Hull and[...] |
| [...]in the nearby river on summer (lays. While in the valley he produce(l some of his finest works. Charles W[...]n loan collection exhibited in the Wellington Art Gallery in 192() noted the choice bits of Silverstream. e[...]ter. and summer in the trees. Pumpkin Cottage continued to be a rendezvous for artists after Na[...] |
| [...]rees were estimated to take 30 years before harvesting. With a bulldozer. unique in 1939. they cleared[...]1920s. looking from Silverstream into Whiternans Valley, had become the three-bedroorned renovated[...] |
| [...]had most things before the remainder of the upper valley, such as the threat of attack on local riverside[...]Hutt became a priority. The River Road, a western valley expressway, alleviated local main road traffic. C[...]rd Reserve, the legacy of Miss E M North, was the valleytinued the outstanding career she developed with her[...]liest-sounding name. Trentham THIS WAS THE Hutt Valley's comer of England. It was an identity transplant[...]him. and saw them reestablished in a colonial setting. Trentham might have become the name not only of the middle region but of the entire upper valley. Trentham in Staffordshire formed part of the Kin[...]ts first abbess. William the Conqueror, confiscating royal J 9 1 ._9-_,'- . 191 5...; |
| [...]remained of it in modem times were the sculpture gallery with adjoin- ing clock—tower' and conservatory.[...]ry of Trentham (Staffordshire) Public Gardens, writing to the relevant local body about Trentham New Ze[...]Trentham Park was the great survivor in the Hutt Valley. as it was in Staffor(l- shire. And as it was lai[...]from nature. the opportunity existed in the Hutt Valley to super- impose a concept almost instantly. Ric[...]ll — all guaranteed Trentham New Zealand its lasting identity. One touch he might have overdo[...] |
| [...]established at 5,()()0. 1 While drainage work continued at Trentham an overflow camp was estab 04, lished at Mayrnom in the Mangaroa Valley. The racecourse was already in place lge and beca[...]ellington Iirmzing Past. 29 September, 1925. reporting the golden wedding of a son of (ieorge \\'hitema[...]y~ and l’auahautanui. also what time the llutt Valley men an(| other white settlers crossed the[...] |
| [...]hite across the screen. Mac's son Ken grabbed the tin of film and pitched it outside. The house lights[...]Because Mac's family were so prominent in supporting him in services such as delivering his newspaper an(l presenting cinema screenings, it was well—known th[...] |
| [...]first task on the morning after night council meetings in winter. He had to go round to the Record Hal[...]rs at each end to swing it mightily. That was excitintin of staples. When Brian became engaged to Vera. K[...]Mrs McCurdy's. He shared it with Ken after the cutting up. |
| tin >St )6!‘- Iutt he his vho son 'eet[...] |
| [...]a lot of houses. Percy Hazelwood did Whiteman’s Valley and Mangaroa. I did Kaitoke and Akatarawa. I'd ge[...]ank Strand who lived away at the top of Akatarawa Valley would always give you a nice meal. “It was a l[...]15—20ft deep to walk across; you saw people getting round the station in gumboots. He came t[...] |
| [...]ainst any closing up of the town. 1 advocated corrtin— ued use of a main street through the town. The[...]Their argument was that it would serve the whole valley. "lhey've never done anything to it, but they sti[...]ges. “Why?" Son Rex Kirton moved into Mangaroa Valley, in a house once the property of flax pioneer Si[...]by commentator, built a modem home further up the valley, at Parkes Line. Daughter Lynne (Mrs Hill)[...] |
| [...]d wit. He was 18 when he came from lower down the Valley to Upper Hutt to seek his fortune. His father, Wa[...]ide the Taita Gorge road, at the bottom of Stokes Valley. Walter told tales of a Hazelwood Castle that wer[...]old to T N Gibbs of Christchurch who had been scouting chain-store possibilites for the MacDuffs[...] |
| [...]of dual citizenship of the Wairarapa and the Hutt Valley. His parents were Daniel Hercock. a general carr[...]Vlfillizun had married Kate Reid (15) of Mangaroa Valley. These were the Hercocks who became part of the l[...]in mid-Canterbury before he shifted north. and continued to divide his time between these differ[...] |
| [...]he mill went back that far. and also to Whitemans Valley. In 1924 Freda inherited the shop she had once w[...], comprised the largest grocery store in the Hutt Valley. Second son Dudley joined the staff. before and[...]r of his bowls club. He mis- took an inaugural meeting of the Upper Hutt Marching Girls for a bowls meeting; as a result he became their first presi[...] |
| [...]ed 14 years of labour rule — which took some getting used to, compared with the overtum of a six—ye[...]ars more. This was a Scholes property in Mangaroa Valley. He bought a 9(}acre farm near Mangaroa railway station when the railway ran through that valley. When Jim Maher set out to clear one prope[...] |
| [...]e the family had three properties in the Mangaroa Valley, one at Te Mama lakes (specialising inJim’s favourite, town milk supply) and another in the Akatarawa Valley. At that timeJim's grandsons Ray and Keith found[...]nior rugby scrum. Keith was in the news after alerting police to a shooting involving tenants in the Mahers’ Collett‘s R[...]bying took Jim into politics, and that 14—year stint in Parliament. He played a large part in[...] |
| [...]pbe1l’s Mill in the hills west of the Akatarawa Valley. He liked the cut of the territory as he moved about it. He liked particularly the setting of the old Karapoti school, and the fact that it[...]He became a live~in tenant of the school. His starting age in legend—making would have been late in t[...]and development. and a scheme of his own for importing labourers to clear and develop his blocks. Their[...]of his life. The school was on the main Akatarawa Valley road, running past the Karapoti stream’s[...] |
| [...]was soon helping with herding of stock and the routine of milking. He wouldn't accept payment but he would accept milk. He was to continue this relationship with the Whiteman farm when i[...]an, with comcoloured to whitish hair, dark penetrating eyes, with a toby-jug nose. He looked as if he h[...]r scale of violin-making. PaIt—time farmer and valley neighbourjack Comeskey was with him when the vehi[...]he went out his boots had to be shiny. In the routine mishaps of roughing it he had applied rou[...] |
| [...]them that) great-grandparents living in the Hutt Valley. That is what putting down roots is all about. Jock Mcliwen came abou[...]oway. Davie Mcliwen was a road prospector in the valley, and later picked out routes for roading the Akatarawas to the coast, and from Stokes Valley to Whitemans Valley. Jock McEwen found his way back to the upp[...] |
| [...]years, when he gave meaning and purpose to the setting up of Orongomai urban marae and oversaw the comp[...]aught the subject at Naenae College. A strong continuing interest was in eliminating from Maori oral tradition some of the European s[...]involvement, and did so to this writer. Investigating claims of the Ngati Toa to Hutt Valley land, such as at Silverstream hospital, he came u[...]agreement that Ngati Toa had no claim to the Hutt Valley. Jock McEwen is a walking encyclopaedia o[...] |
| [...]Jack Comeskey descended from the Browns, the Martins an(l the Cudbys as if one pioneer line wasn't en[...]time, to Harry Holtham, and was witness to a shooting in the Maher house they rented in Collett's Road, Mzmgaroa Valley. in the early 1950s. One son, Ien, was bom of th[...]m, a few cows, and took their main income from cutting manuka and other secondary growth that had gener[...]ch never varied. She would settle down to her knitting in a bus shelter. Mattie was sublimely reconcile[...]for a sleeper berth. He was a big man, and negotiating the provisions could be a challenge. For[...] |
| [...]er life. They would follow the river to the upper valley, find their way to Harry's door, and make[...] |
| [...]iton are of the founder of a dame school for educating local women, before any other school was established in the upper valley. Mostly she disappeared behind the focus on her h[...]ap. She described Mrs Barton at the age of 45. Writing on 1 October, 1861. Mrs Herring reported[...] |
| [...]espoons and common brassy—looking forks and old tinting on but slowly. and they may be some weeks[...] |
| [...]ated with period pieces, in its fumiture, its paintings and its china. Stan Northcote—Bade had never[...]tment chaimran, to make the most of -11 the upper Valley's bush heritage. n “I don't know why he asked m[...]al society when one was ll: 0 established in the valley. But father and son were different. “Fat[...] |
| [...]learly in charge. Swanson Neighbours \Wiitemans Valley cheIislie(l a number of characters who became leg[...]an(l Delia (lorrie, who were leaving the no|1hem valley for the joys of retirement at Upper Hutt. GEORGE[...]stuff called water—pipe, and found that. by putting one end far enough upstream, water would run to[...]of neighbours all around. Old T] Devine, up the valley from Andrew, came across a flush lavatory[...] |
| [...]ad begins to climb to Waikanae. The method of setting up the mill village named Cloustonville was a mo[...]they all went off to a local or Wairaiapa race meeting. Inclusion in the Provincial party for race meetings was as close as locals came to a sense of being[...]cond wife, Norma, near the gorge in the Akatarawa Valley. The writer called there one night with the compa[...]top mill in the hills, up a steep track from the valley road. Norma was serving dinner to a big fa[...] |
| [...]lling- ton. The department was accustomed to assisting by recalling birth-dates sup- plied when childre[...]ribank, Mrs Burns’, at the turn-off to Mangaroa Valley. He learned his mother’s identity after[...] |
| [...]rever they lived, whether it was in the Akatarawa Valley just above the road at the gorge, or at Birchvill[...]by Gary, Patricia, Brian, Robert, Billy and Christine.'lhe mill business boomed: at one stage C[...] |
| [...]aint and hero —— maternity services worth fighting for — when a post office gave a village status[...]first place of formal leaming in the upper Hutt Valley. Miss H Hedge was the teacher. Mrs Barton, daught[...]t it would also serve as a community school. A meeting of settlers preferred this to an offer of accomm[...]supported by movable brackets, a pupil, James Martin, recalled in later years. The school occup[...] |
| [...]ydia, Richard and William Geange; Catherine, Christina, James, John, Margaret, Mary, Ann and Sarah Haga[...]Mabey; Alexander, Elizabeth, Helen and William Martin; Annie, Catherine, Charles, Edward, Polly and Tho[...]nding era in the schools history. It included shifting the school. That early school became a shelter[...]purchased from John Wilkins. Pressure on space continued. In 1897 other upper valley schools were at Wallaceville (3() on roll)[...] |
| [...]ok more interest, and in 1906 a crowded annual meeting elected a committee consisting of Messrs Hughes (chairman), Cudby (secretary),J[...]capable of action stations. After a battle over siting of the school, as between Trentham and Upper Hut[...]geon Bush . . . and the train to Wellington connecting with the ferry Duchess to Day's Bay. For the wh[...]eparate school in February 1929). Rolls round the Valley schools in 1922 were Upper Hut 363, Te Marua 47, Mangaroa 35, Karapoti 21, Whitemans Valley 13, Stokes Valley 12, Wallaceville 11. J J Rodgers, who was head a[...]lusion of fiveyearolds as an economy measure; continuation of the policy caused roll status to[...] |
| 236 Upper Hutt — the History with the Karapoti valley, across the river for children coming down from K[...]youngest sister, Gladys, came straight from Hutt Valleyting Proficiency at Upper Hutt . . . Ernie So[...] |
| [...]It was the first open—plan school in the upper valley. It was intended to relieve pressure on Oxford C[...]Andy Lovell and Maureen Scott. D Constable was acting principal at the start of 1991. The school was i[...]2. Mangaroa school's rolls were affected by this Valley's farming fortunes, by RNZAF use of stores buildi[...]s. A separate school served the Maymom end of the valley during tunnel construction. The school had its ba[...]have included C A Eves (1927—40, with Whitemans Valley school absorbed in 1936), A G S Jonathan (1945-59[...]Sims (1986), Chris Webb (1989) , Judith Hawkins acting Principal (1989-90), Bruce McMichael (199[...] |
| [...]blished) and a long association of reciprocal visiting with Devon Intermediate, New Plymouth, expressed[...]pecial needs students, with Trentham primary operating a unit, and Upper Hutt College. Some students us[...]ream, was the first secondary school in the upper Valley when it opened in 1931. It was basically t[...] |
| [...]r] W Dowling SM and eight priests, with five visiting part-time teachers. By 1966 the roll was at 500 (320 boarders), resident teaching staff numbered 21, visiting teachers 7 — a ratio reversed in later years b[...]wherever their talents might lie. The college continued to develop in replacement and extension of bui[...]k up duties in the third term of 199(). Stream continued to emphasise scholarship, and a variety of rec[...]54 it ended the years of train rides to the lower valley or the city. On opening day 142 third-formers wer[...]building construction had kept pace, and this continued over the years. It ceased to be the sole state[...]mented by Sir Roy McKenzie who was moving his trotting quarters elsewhere. It had 136 241 |
| Upper Hutt — the History A textured concrete wall, setting of the Central Institute of Technology, behind H[...]quare, challenges all architec- ture in the Upper Valley for bold design. |
| [...]ng of 1930. She was taken for a drive through the Valley. “As I passed through Upper Hutt with its many autumn—tinted trees I felt, I must make my home here." After seeing Dr Kemp next (lay, and getting little encouragement for a first hospital in the[...]agent's offer of a six—roomed house and was waiting for a bus. to depart, when she saw a picture of[...]titutions. some dedicated to his late mother, Kristina Jepsen. Sir Thomas and lady Duncan of Huntervil[...]muscular diseases at Silverstream in 1945, and continued it until 1953 when they transferred the[...] |
| [...]ive easier access from Upper Hutt to the Mangaroa Valley. and 25 miles of high country track was replaced[...]rs of a mile in the lines sweep through the lower valley. A second bridge swung across the Hutt River. and[...]ht became day in Main Street. Special displays of tiny bulbs round Santa sledges weren't needed then to[...]. late in the afternoon of Christmas Eve the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board, which had held its inaugural meeting at Upper Hutt more than a year earlier, t[...] |
| [...]s rejoiced in their up-todate system. The new lighting extended into streets which ha(l yet to become r[...]State in 1918 began to implement a plan for generating electricity from water power, and with the Electric Power Boards Act provi(le(l for the setting up of authorities to distribute electricity throughout town an(l country. Hutt Valley lilectric Power Bozu'd was constituted on 6 July. 1922. and held its inaugural meeting in the Upper Hutt Town Board chambers on 16 Augu[...]t one end, Petone at the other, with the gangs meeting just north of 'l‘aita gorge. 'Ihe system took[...]ime only, and at weekends. Another milestone for Valley power was completion in October, 15 53 of the fir[...]new Dunlop factory at Upper Hutt: when fully operating it became the board's largest consumer. From 1[...]e an(l Lower Hutt (ias Board, and became the Hutt Valley Electric Power and Gas Bo2u'd. At Upper Hi[...] |
| [...]Hutt River Board from 1956 when Upper Hutt (as distinct from Hutt County) was first covered, to 1973 w[...]s the vicinity of the Barley Mow Inn at the Upper Valley of the Hutt. This was understood later to[...] |
| [...]0 Histmy and linked with strong wire and wire-netting. proved to be effective from about 1918 on. Com[...]king from ratepayers before embarking on an upper valley scheme first raised by engineer Hubert Sladden in[...]. Commissioning works and stopbank extensions continued for another 11 years. Works comprising the original Upper Valley Scheme were extended in the 1980s with the develo[...]time. Drainage SEWAGE IS PIPEI) down the Upper Valley main sewer to a Hutt River crossing at Taita gorg[...]n south from there: on the west side of the lower valley the western hills main, and on the eastern side the Hutt Valley main. They connect to a main collecting sewer which pipes to a treatment plant at Seaview. An estimated 325m cost of a new sewer was a factor prompting assess- ment of separate treatment and disposal[...]of its tributaries. Since the 1930s in the Hutt Valley, local councils have sought to join forces to col[...]dispose of the area's sewage. This led to the setting up of a Hutt Valley Drainage Board in 1948. Its first task wa[...] |
| [...]Nicholson. as an impressive chairman of the Hutt Valley I)rainage Board, was probably the first woman to[...]him to proclaim that Constable Lyster was prosecuting in the court- house in 1872. All but two of the[...]The lock—up too? Any women's rights group operating in those times would would have consid- e[...] |
| [...]1 the library began a computer programme, constructing a data-base capable of running circulation, refe[...]when he moved to limit the coverage of council meetings and make his own paper exclusive, or to prevent[...]ther papers, and left a precedent for patch protecting that later papers were delighted to follow. And[...]was ambitious and comprehensive. It was the Hutt Valley 261 |
| [...]again without ceremony. Yet its background was distinguished. It was the hobby-horse of its founder, N[...]nths prior to November 1935, he had been contemplating establishing a little weekly paper in Upper Hutt[...]ed that the paper was set up by hand, and the printing of some 400 copies on an old Albion Hand Press p[...]r Angus] McCurdy, “who at one time ran the Hutt Valley Independent, a somewhat outspoken sheet that from[...]another of his little one page papers, besides editing Arena, a national literary quarterly. Th[...] |
| [...]e editorial office was in a specially constructed tin shed behind the Edwards and P apperell stores, on[...]nscious of an underlying eccentiicity, and who instinctively attrib uted it to their bowlof-hills, edge[...]e from in Queen Street. Interest in modern jobpiinting increased, and from 1964 the Leader was printed[...]th editor on 1 December, 1970. The new owners continued to have type set and formes made up by Goff As[...]lian Ashford, also a son of Ralph, was on the printing staff. Some of the original machinery went to Up[...]ex- pected to be included in a Bedplate Press printing museum incorporated in the 267 |
| [...]as the Bedplate Press museum president. When printing of the Leader moved to Taita the Upper Hutt offi[...]uring Charlie Cooper’s term, in mid—1983, the Valley Courier (joint owners Ron Malcolm and David and K[...]Upper Hutt, to 152 Main Street. In mid—1991 printing moved from Taita to a new INI. allcolour newspaper printing complex at Petone. References: 035 Lette[...] |
| [...]re. CHURCH OI“ ICNGIANI) activity in the upper Valley ha(l its fonnal beginnings in a little chapel alongside a marae and meeting house at Wliiiinaki. the earliest name for the d[...]licensed to the charge of the natives in the Hutt Valley and the English church people at Whirinaki in the[...]the following (Sunday) morning. had done some visiting. and preached his first sermon to a full congreg[...]Wellington to intro duce Mr Herring (from St Augustine's College, Czmterbury. England) to the natives,[...]k in the upper V alley he baptised James and Christina C ruickshank. Fem Ground (later Maoribank). Reve[...]nd, and found it beautifully written zuid illuminating. The church lzuid at St John's. Trentham[...] |
| [...]e in the bush. Mr Blackbume took his bride, Christina C ruickshank, in her father's gig to the top of[...]licensed not only to the same natives of the Hutt Valley but also to the English residents of Trent[...] |
| [...]they had other orphanagesupply farms at Mangaroa Valley and south of Maoribank. In 1911 Upper Hutt became[...]stages, was seen as testimonial to the quality of Valley timbers and workmanship. In any absence of the p[...]t time, and it was said that, so clear and penetrating were the notes, it was heard through the[...] |
| [...]. The Methodist Church was established in Stokes Valley in the 1850s. and in ,—:<-,--tin-'. %<f\O‘—-"1" <<>—"'r".<' —s(...[...] |
| [...](DU)(D '\J'F¢DJ'T The Clzurclzes Whitemans Valley in 1885. The Whitemans Valley church was moved to Upper Hutt in 1927.The Revere[...]are believed to have preached throughout the Hutt Valley in the 1840s. In 1845 a separate Hutt society was[...]t Primitive Methodist Church (1847-1857), was erecting churches in the Hutt Valley, in addition to Wellington. It was during the mi[...]Reverend W Cannell it was decided that Whitemans Valley replace Upper Hutt on the circuit plan, and that[...]the head of what became Pinehaven, into Whitemans Valley, where they settled. The Prouse brothers operate[...]A Mr Clements was said to have walked from Stokes Valley to Whitemans Valley to conduct services. When the mill worked out, ch[...]r Hutt. The building in Johnsons Road, Whitemans Valley, was leased to the Church of England in 1917, and[...]rown Jnr, Alexander Sinclair, farmer of Whitemans Valley, George Grant, student of the ministry. Ad[...] |
| [...]e was opened in December 1893. Upper Hutt Cooperating Parish, combining the church activities of Metho[...]rch. Ebdentown Street, zmd Wallaceville (Mangaroa Valley) Presbyterian Church had joined on a cooperating basis, and two Presbytenan churches joined them.[...]ed and the churches became centres of the co-operating parish. Ministers remained responsible for their[...]is. Within a year of the first moves a co—operating centre was built at Brown Owl and became automat[...]t they appreciated the greater opportunity for continued church worship. But as children followed paren[...]thodist, but children aware only of the co—operating centre at1nos— phere. Practical difficulties,[...]rst Beginning. published in 1979 by the co—operating parish and printed by Wright an(l Carman[...] |
| [...]than 60 yezu"s of the Salvation Anny in the upper Valley, three activities are all going strong: the corps[...]et. The Brethren community in those (lays held meetings at the Rose of Sharon hall and in private homes[...]st iii the community. Baptists opened a church seating 300 in Milton Street in 1974, and erected[...] |
| [...]yd May was president in 1991 when the club was meeting in unused school rooms and working towards estab[...]Clubs for Lionesses were established in the upper Valley, though women were also eligible for the regular[...]rmer Lions. Ages range from 55 to 82, and some meetings are held at the Hapai Club. Charitable w[...] |
| [...]rk and started by Miss Maddever in 1934. After meeting in houses for a few years the members met at St[...]ream CWI (1931-63). Miss P Young was elected Hutt Valley federation president in 1976. A Maymom CWI was i[...]uction camp and the Army installation in Mangaroa Valley. This institute won the May Martin Cup in 1965. ATrentham CW1 operated from 1934-56. Upper Valley Family Refuge Centre started a movement in New Zealand when it responded to inquiries by setting up in a vacant house in February 1979. The house[...]a, and was never empty. Chairman of the first meeting and honoured with life membership in August 1989[...]rs Charles praised men for their assistance in setting up and running the centre. The Hapai Club. Uppe[...]Town Clerk, Mrs Rita Hoskings, called a public meeting to inquire into the needs of senior citizens. Re[...]red the fonnation of some organisation. First meetings were held in private homes. When numbers exceed[...]of accommodation, church halls were used. The meetings become monthly. held at the rugby club's[...] |
| [...]s established dynasty in Upper Hutt — Community Gallery brought the arts together. THE PERFORMING ARTS m[...]e. The movements claim to an form was in lyric writing that reflected the realities of ordinary life,[...]rown Owl cabaret at the Main Road north-Akatarawa Valley Crossroad was host to some of the swing ba[...] |
| [...]recruits to a band which had 20 members and a waiting list in 1953. Tam Blewman was another pioneer me[...]roidery guild was formed in 1983 by a group completing classes at Heretaunga College. It exhibits annually at the Community Gallery. Members have worked on hangings for the G[...]50 — mainly painters or those interested in painting, and a few potters. 297 |
| [...]use /1jMeCurdy intended [0 build. Yhe Upper Hutt Valley to the Tararuas, from the hill south of Si[...] |
| [...]caife, fonnerly of Ward Street and now of ()han'u Valley, has works displayed in the library. Beryl Hawker[...]ream anist caught tones of the mists of the upper valley. And the arts merged when W Revelle Jackson, a fo[...]n many assignments together. Photographer Brian Enting has com- bined with potter Sally Exiting in exhibitions. Andy Chaplow, a member of the U[...]rt Society when he was still a schoolboy, was painting canvases well enough to sell them — before he[...]d life here in a caravan on a section in Mangaroa Valley. He thought parts were like Sun'ey. An aviator ol[...]s. When he retired it was to Deep Creek, Mangaroa Valley, on a few acres, with some hens, growing a[...] |
| [...]ined an interest and training in design. and marketing, with his photography, and showed the way by est[...]e member of the Camera Club, he says of the upper valley: “I wouldn’t live anywhere else. Innsbruck in[...]ills . . . the open spaces . . . it's a beautiful valley when you drive into it, from either end." The ar[...]y promoted by the community than when a Community Gallery was established in Upper Hutt. Its first exhibit[...]Drive, comer of Blenheim Street, into a community gallery. At a public meeting held in December 1982, a steering committee of v[...]ed $2500. Shortly after its tirst exhibition the gallery was incorporated. It established a display of art[...]nd the society’s most successful activity. The gallery established an art award, and invited appl[...] |
| [...]Recreations, Sports A lst XV of Upper llutt sporting greats — title shooters always in world class[...]y league makes national semi-linals and one grand-tinal — Maidstone cricketers win sequence of Valley cliampionships -— Heretaunga and Te Mama always picturesque golf courses — gliding makes most of Valley |
| Recreations, Sports During this time he continued to milk his cows on the property up the road,[...]go to Mike Gilbert, who came to Upper Hutt in sporting retirement, when All Blacks who had crossed to L[...]s the compre hensively titled Wellington and Hutt Valley P and A Association, whose original sponsors were the Hutt Valley Pony Club. Both organisations traced from[...] |
| [...]T i';tlt':.lJl"l ..'# .4 Recreations, Sports meeting held in mid-1945 at the home of Arthur Birkett,[...]ran. J C Crawford moved the formation of the Hutt Valley Pony Club, seconded by W Clifford. It was decided[...]Blewman, Geange, Crawford and Birkett. The Hutt Valley Horse and Cattle Show had its first meeting on 20 J uly, 1948, at J C Crawford's home at Heretaunga. At a joint meeting on 10 October, 1949, the two organisations became the nucleus of the Hutt Valley Pastoral and Agricul- tural Society, which was in[...]ded in December 1976. Te Mama branch of the Hutt Valley Pony Club, fonned in 1979, and centred on the sto[...]-hands, farmers and local businessmen were celebrating the return from Eltham of W Weston, who had just[...]0yds sprint, and Constable Dennis Mahoney the shifting a yard of gravel contest Viv McGhie won the big[...]owitt The next recorded chop was at Whiteman’s Valley in 1913. Odd camivals were held at Karapoti, Maid[...]itteeman killed in a motor accident before the meeting. The 1955 camival 305 |
| [...]d working bee in Hukinga forest. behind Akatarawa Valley, in the early 1970s. Club president Eric W[...] |
| [...]n opened with extended social rooms and a viewing gallery built into the stand, also plans for further exte[...]yed touch-rugby through the summer. And squash contin- ued to lease part of the premises. All Blacks a[...]olboys’ coach Ritchy MacDonald went on to coach valley and Wellington teams. The top team played Senior[...]rived from the King Country. Tyrone was soon directing the seniors through a decade of champions[...] |
| [...]ted headquarters to Maidstone Park. One of the meeting and training venues was the Record Hall, made av[...]anised two boys’ teams which competed in a Hutt Valley competition and won the Telford Cup in their fir[...]Heretaunga Boxing Club 1969 Inc looked back on a tingful of champions and achievements when it[...] |
| Recreations, Sports a meeting in the Majestic Theatre. The first club captain[...]ying surface. Upper Hutt won the all-grades Hutt Valley championship three times up to 1990, won 48 different championships, and its 10 senior wins included a continu- ous streak between 1961 and 1966. In the 1980s and 1990 the club had the largest junior membership in the Valley. Outstanding players included Bob Blair, a New Z[...], with internationals including Ian Chappell competing. Tony Locke won the final against John Reid. Be[...]f the club and a men’s team playing in the Hutt Valley association. Geny Marshall was a former na[...] |
| [...]VV1lliam, J McGhie and C Scholes. The first meeting, attended by 11, was held in the Majestic Theatr[...]under Jack Clark was chairman of the inaugural meeting, and Mayor Jim Blewman was elected the first Pr[...]epre- sented Wellington and New Zealand, while continuing to coach at Upper Hutt. 0 Golf: Heretaunga c[...]ere leading figures in the transfer to the upper Valley. The property comprised 188 acres of farml[...] |
| [...]went together until World War II inter- vened. Meetings were held everywhere but in the upper valley, yet in time these weekenders came to live at Upp[...]wly incorporated society the club was also celebrating independence. though it maintains the annual app[...]nt. The tennis section affiliated with the Hutt Valley association in 1919, a few years after its format[...]s added in 1959. and later a new pavilion and lighting. Neil Edwards, a railwayman and Upper Hut[...] |
| [...]t, made the recommendation to move further up the valley to a site that needed development but offered amp[...]£22,000. A fully detailed scheme was put to a meeting in August 19()4 and approved for action. Every[...]ary, 1906, was the Anniversary Handicap, commemorating the picnic race meeting held on the first anniversary of the arrival of[...]sion, and again Whyte was daring. Three stands seating 16,000 without pillar obstruction were to[...] |
| [...]y buying the name, assets and franchise of a competing promotion, New Zealand Magic Millions. providing[...]onshine Road, as vicepresident. 0 Gliding: Upper Valley Gliding Club grew out of a fomial discussion of e[...]jeweller, was chairman. A Masterton club was splitting into Paraparaumu. Upper Hutt and Wairarapa components. A further meeting was held at GM in Upper Hutt; later that year, a[...]mied on the Downing—Robinson farms in Whitemans Valley. A boundary fence was removed each time th[...] |
| [...]nd 128, each of 200 acres. each mnning across the valley. the tirst on the west ofthe main road run[...] |
| [...]ins make up our system T HE WH()I.Ii OF THE Hutt Valley lies parallel to the district's mountain struc- tures. The west wall is a direct continuation of the western shore of Wellington harbour;[...]that of the west for rrrost of its length, suggesting that during the stress of mountain forming the strip which became the Hutt Valley had insufficient support, and subsided, or was fa[...]rock masses resulted from west to east. while the valley itself was unmoved. The hills of the valley have been found to be composed of sands deposited[...]low and level state into mountain structures. The valley is believed to have been far deeper, before being[...]des. These are the deposits which built the lower valley flats. The raising of the floor of the valley was spectacular in 1855 when an earth movement pu[...]Waiwhetu stream. An early resident of the upper valley who took an interest in its geological origins wa[...]urch of St John, Trentham, who believed the upper valley had been a great lake. He understood from geologi[...]t rule out the possibility of a lake in the upper valley. or rule out the harbour covering the lower valley. The river which swings wide over the breadth of the lower valley, ranging from far west at Melling to east at its[...]der the western bills, as it flows down its upper valley bed. This is apart from an incursion at Maoribank, high in the valley — and starting point of the express River Road. The earliest written record of the valley as it appeared to the first Ifuropeans was set do[...]by their vertical section the manner in which the valley had been forme(l: an argillaceous slate wa[...] |
| [...], has rei11ai'ke(l”"‘ on a third basin in the valley system — the Kaitoke basin — in a(l(lition to[...]well as venically, so that the eastem side of the valley is diifting south compared with the west wall. 'lhe line ofthe fault crosses the floor of the valley a short distance to the west of Brown ()wl. climb[...]nt. Professor McKenzie obsewed, as it crosses the valley as a low step. and also shows quite clearly upstr[...]or wasn't fazed. To it. he said, we owe the llutt Valley system — so we can give it our thanks.[...] |
| [...]tlement between Silverstream and top of Whitemans Valley. 'll1e_v saw the hills as l)lue from their office[...]ons was recalled by Phil Davis for his help in getting Pine Avenue widened. and for selling lan(l to th[...]nga. close. So mooning place. Hukinga: head of a valley. ln Akatarawas. Kaitokez l\'ai food, or t[...] |
| [...]ad a rosette fastened on apex of collars. Stokes Valley: for Robert Stokes, sun/eyor.Taita: Dn'ftwood in[...]Heretaunga. then Hutt River Te Marua: Hollow or valley. Three Skulls: Trig west of Upper Hutt where sur[...]ville: Early settlement at north end of Whitemans Valley, surveyed for a village. It was possibly named af[...]lle travellers‘ nearest railway station in main valley. Waiora (Cottage): Living water. Brown ()[...] |
| [...]Chicheslcr. Wi Takoz Te Atiawa chief. Whitemans Valley: After (}e<)rgo Whitenmn, who tliscovcrecl and set1le(l in valley parzlllel to the Hull. 17? R(’S( 17$[...] |
| [...]t European to pass through from Wairarapa to Hutt Valley 1843: Charles Brees marks out road north to Pakuratahi; track developed between Stokes Valley-Silverstream; Wairau massacre 1844: To Rauparaha and Rangihaeata negotiate on sale to British of the Hutt Valley; 19 April. Richard Barton marries Hannah Butler[...]Upper Hutt fomied through Tajta gorge; Whitemans Valley named after discoverer 1848: earthquake;[...] |
| [...], Pon'rua inlet; F.li7,abeth Brown manies Alex Martin; 27 June, James 188 Brown's brother George and fa[...]1()()F (Manchester Unity) established at 189. meeting in Shepherd Inn Silve 1 858: Great F lood, 13 dr[...]lican) Church, Trentham. 1903 built; Waikato fighting dies. 1864: Februaiy. Catholic Church Upper Hutt[...]Trenthzun; Prouse milling at upper Whitemans 190' Valley; 20 August, Richard Barton dies; David Brown-Rosa[...]rigley marriage I9(): 1870: Road fomied in Stokes Valley Maid 1 87 1: 26 February, James Brown dies at Upp[...]ed 61: George Whiteman 190'. settles at Whitemans Valley posti 187 2: October, Francis Whiteman die[...] |
| [...], aged 77 1885: Methodist Church opens. Whitemans ValleyValley). Mur(ler at Silverstream 1894: 26 August. Mrs H[...]s l)uffCmicl<slr;urk dies. aged 79 (his wife Christina died 8 August previous year, aged 72): John Whit[...]or agricultural laboratory at W allaceville (Hutt Valley) 1906: l’ I) Davis builds first brick p[...] |
| [...]t Patrick's. Silverstream, first college in upper valley. Motor unit for bags Silverstream Fire Brigade MCCL 1932: 6 April] M Whiteman dies, at Whitemans Valley princi] 1933: Home of Compassion (Silverstream) f[...]New fire station Map C 1962: Wallaceville (Hutt Valley) has PO; Upper Hutt College (A D Hunter 19[...] |
| [...]1 989: Upper Hutt City incorporates whole upper valley; 31 October, Heretaunga Pinehaven District Commun[...]dore 3.8 last car assembled at GM, Trentham (operating from 1967); 28-30 December, Brown family[...] |
| [...]8 Gerard. Stephen (SG): 772e Story of the Hun‘ Valley from Earliest Times; 'l‘I’R Printing Co. Hamer & Nicholls, editors: The Making of We[...]Press, 1990. Hercock, Dudley G: Evergreen Is Our Valley — 125th jubilee review of Upper Hutt Sch[...] |
| [...]i, Rex: Energy on the Move, a history of the Hutt Valley Electric Power and Gas Board (1922-72), published[...]. Whitcombe & Tombs, 1926 Watts, M and P: Stokes Valley Through the Years. Commercial Printing & Publish- ing Co Ltd, 1953. Welch B: Maoribank[...]ening Post, 26 June, 1946: Memories of upper Hutt valley. Acti Aire Ale) Athl |
| [...]ns, Maria 141 Collins stream, 164, 168 Community Gallery, 301 Connell, F W 233 Cooper, Chas 269 C[...] |
| [...]Sir Charles 248 Ogilvie, Nurse 117, 247 Ohariu Valley, 174 O’Lea1y, S C 305 Old, Rev] S 282[...] |
| [...]pkins, R 168 Stokes, Robt 35 Tmy, 23, 25 Stokes Valley 149, 152, 153 Totara Park, 124, 140, 1802[...] |
| [...]hiteman family, 6, 29, 32, 62, 186, 288 Whitemans Valley, 147-160 Whiteman, Frank 8, 59, 63, 156, 1[...] |
| [...]egun hisjoumalism at the Evening Post, and had continued it at the Hawera Star and NZ Truth. He had als[...]He married at Hawera. joined The Dominion as Hutt Valley reporter. and lived again at Upper Hutt. H[...] |
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| [...]to even the more densely populated lower valley. Scots built the village, and slipped dis[...]and on the scraps of acreage in Whitemans Valley. The winds that blew Britannia township o[...]attracted some of the more canny of lower valley settlers, seeking refuge from flood water[...]ation company was rediscovering the upper Valley, capitalised and honed in the tech nologi[...]mpetitive Tai wan. If this wasn't Silicon Valley of the south it was still a comer[...] |
| [...]council I'D* lor, m em ber of the Upper H utt Valley 1990 Committee, foundation m em ber of the[...]f Pinehaven, a journalist with long experience of Valley affairs,[...]iey, Patricia Birchler, Kevin and Leonie Bold, Martin[...] |
| [...]s book began from an initiative of the Upper Hutt Valley 1990 Community Committee, which was collecting historical memoirs, and saw a need to le[...] |
| [...]stretched the floors of Mangaroa and W hitemans Valleys, paralleling the Hutt and so much higher. Immedi[...]known as Totara Park. To our right, down the main valley, as ever before or since, shimmered the blue of[...]tem an looked beyond the low hills, across to the valley of his forbears. "Some think M angaroa Valley over there is W hitem ans Valley," he said. "W hitem ans Valley is to the south -- that's w here the hom estead i[...]rought a sense of individual identity to an upper valley isolated by a gorge from its lower reaches, by h[...]Road and rail w ere to pierce it. But the upper valley would remain distinctive and separate -- even from the political fervour of the lower valley with its cum brous identification with the worki[...]road . . . absorbing county rid in g s. . . resisting the em brace of the lower valley. Perhaps it was the frosts. M ist ac[...] |
| [...]ll the Hutt. Heretaunga for the upper valley, which was to become, prosaically, the Upper Hutt. Eritonga, for the river, a distinguished naturalist with the settlement company[...]as he probed the water's course through the upper valley, in the malevolent middle of winter.[...]established on the Hawke's Bay plains, w here Hastings would spread its blos soms.[...] |
| [...]retaunga had T ara and Tautoki travelling in the valley north of the (Taita) gorge. They were said to ha[...]as -- one an open plain, the other a dense river valley -- to have that m uch in common. And Kairan[...]ow. These were the original name-droppers, signposting as they came. Judging by the num ber of p[...]or the river was appropriate, if the sense was resting place for the canoes (here meaning to fasten, t[...]the main m eans of movement in a heavily wooded valley. Villages here w ere all on river banks. T[...]on the Great Harbour of Tara, and moved into the valleys and on to the coastal strips which would[...] |
| [...]RD Eketahuna. At the entrance to the upper valley, in a turn of the track called Whirinaki (anothe[...]e next tribe in num bers in the upper H eretaunga Valley. T hese were people descended from Rangiheheke,[...]in Paekakariki and Porirua. Ngati Ira, migrating from the W aipukurau (Tukituki) area of Hawke's[...]r of Tara, Wellington), in the Heretaunga (Hurt) valley, and on the coast at Porirua. In the upper[...]he west coast was at hand, beyond the Akatarawa valley, and it was beginning to reverberate with pressur[...]pace and opportunity. He was Te Rauparaha. In the valley of Heretaunga, as elsewhere about the Gre[...] |
| [...]the storm broke over Ngati Ira in the Heretaunga valley, in 1819, it came[...]of events which would explode all the way up the valley[...]After meeting the Ngati Ira the northerners returned empty-han[...]soners in keeping stom achs from rumbling. If the valley in the distance, 1 opening round the rim of the[...]T he northerners sacked villages in the lower valley, and com m andeered[...]They moved upstream, falling on defenders, banqueting,[...]through the gorge and presented the upper valley with its first challenge.[...] |
| [...]raiders, the top tribes and their established fighting chiefs had yielded place, in the despatches, to[...]icult. He was reported to have retreated down the valley. He rested his force overnight. In the morning the young chief and his men m ade a show of leaving, departing into the bush. The day becam e quiet. The[...]ve a m ark for all m easurable time. In the Valley of the H eretaunga River the legacy of death and[...]with other forces. In the path of the departing raiders the Wai-Orotu-Heretaunga tribe was down[...]m Taranaki were settled at Waikanae -- and in the valley of the Heretaunga. They had hosted Te Rauparaha[...]any fleet, in 18 years time, tribes in the Hutt Valley would be there by some kind of accommodati[...] |
| [...]settlers who would make mark in upper Valley -- Heretaunga River and Valley become Hutt -- ill- fated return to Ne[...]st coast, then from London. Barton was migrating as one of the duke's men, one of the repr[...] |
| [...]on. Barton recounted in a letter that he found a valley of many hundreds of thousands of acres of the fi[...]ted a small peninsula formed by the river of the valley at the head of the bay. He made a garden on it,[...]The settlers understood that the river and valley were called Eritonga. Before the New Zeal[...] |
| [...]y well bom ; he was inventive, adventur ous, sporting mainly with horses, single, and as attache to Lo[...]Henry Petre would be attracted mainly to the Hutt Valley's open spaces, and becom e a significant lando[...]Henry was to dominate Anniversary Day race meetings. Cuba had reached Port Nicholson only sli[...]eld and the other officials had no need to be scouting out the Petone beach and lower valley for their town. The original European acquisition[...]d dissuade officials and settlers alike from relating their plan to this strip between beach a[...] |
| [...]eached this place. As the emigrant ships continued to arrive, the chiefs, for their part, said th[...]port mainly for m uskets and rifles. T he H utt Valley was included in the selling, although a resident[...]eeks after the Sutherlands in Oriental, came a contin gent of Scots in the company's first ship out of[...]ave som e significance in the settlem ent of the valley called Eritonga. Two m onths later t[...] |
| [...]the proximity of guns and alcohol, soon reciprocating confusion with their ambivalent attitude to the[...]to cut a road 6ft wide through the forest of the valley. Surveyers were ahead of the road-builders, cutting a line up the east (their right-hand) side of th[...]uralist with the expedition, was able to add the valley to inspections he had been making in the company[...]assignment from the New Zealand Company, but the valley reconnaissance was to try him. He could not obtai[...]its journey on 30 July -- in mid winter. In the valley's lower reaches, the naturalist found m an[...] |
| [...]Next day they m ade their way through the upper valley, crossing the river in deeper waters and reading[...]strata. The forest on the river side of the valley was open, and in some parts consisted almost ent[...]d Port Nicholson, before they retired through the valley to the eastwood and to Palliser Bay, w here they[...]some time in the dark recesses of the forest, continually issuing from their hiding places to h[...] |
| [...]dwelling place was Taranaki, knew nothing of the valley of the Hutt, nor were they aware of the existenc[...]ich they w ere acquainted. Looking back down the valley Dieffenbach confirmed it was covered in forest, w[...]ey saw didn't exceed 30,000 acres. But after m eeting D r Dieffenbach he am ended this: the acreage i[...],who would have particular impact on the upper valley, arrived in the harbour. They were aboard the barque Blenheim, from Greenock, emigrating at the invitation of the Laird of M 'Donald, who[...]to search for a harbour opening there, before getting its bearings. Inside the harbour it ancho[...] |
| [...]. The theory had not been established at this writing. Surviving at Port Nicholson, it might be thoug[...]9, and younger son William, 7, in the lower Hutt Valley, Francis W hitem an was to share in the ge[...] |
| [...]of living with floods (if you lived in the lower valley), getting through the bush (further up), and of negotiat ing the gorge (ifyou wanted to break through to the upper valley).T here were no problems with Maori villagers, probably because Dieffenbach was right and valley Maoris had gone, mostly through inter-trib[...] |
| [...]cEwen had his team load and fire it with the blasting[...]significance than the farm was his contracting: he prospected roads, including[...]at would cheat the gorge betw een lower and upper valleys. If ever built it would link the side valley to Whirinaki (Stokes Valley to Silverstream).[...] |
| [...]uently going with my father in the canoe, and floating over the tops of the fences to the hotel. W e'd[...]flooding by moving upstream -- even to the upper valley. T he north had becom e a prom ised land. T[...]indicated the kind of future he saw for the Hutt Valley. He bought barley seed, and mulberry, peach and[...]se of the generation's lack of interest in confronting W airarapa tribes of the day, no one had experi[...]they identified as Pakuratahi -- probably the meeting place of the two arms of the river, at Birchvil[...]utt River. Kettle described the upper Hutt Valley as nothing m ore than a gorge, the waters approa[...], and the road-making, m arked the return to the valley of Maori villagers. The new focus on land[...] |
| [...]d. He apologised (unnecessarily) for his writing but stressed that the truth of his personal obs[...]uture of the upper Hutt: the known portion of the Valley of the Hutt was considerable, he wrote. From the[...]s there could be no doubt that num erous smaller valleys opened into or comm unicated with it.[...] |
| carrier's business, transporting tim ber and other goods betw een the growing town and the valley. Said Jam es Jnr: "M y father always took m e in[...]ad to be worked according to the tide, so our boating was at all hours, day and night. W e would gener[...]Jam es Brown Jn r wrote a letter to the Hutt ValleyIndependent in October 1911, on conditions in t[...]m es Brown wanted to say that his sister, M rs Martin, his brother George and he himself were n[...] |
| then Dieffenbach in 1840, had moved through without sighting habitation, was at Lower Hutt. In land disputes[...]Toa of the Kapiti coast, were playing in the Hutt Valley. This was more than 25 years since Te Raupa[...]outh through Taranaki to Wellington and the H utt Valley, w here they slaughtered as they went. W ere there ghosts stirring in the valley, in the ravaged villages of the Ngati Kahungunu[...]essed by Ngati Toa as approved custodians of the valley of Heretaunga. Ngati Kahungunu defied for a time[...]nephew Rangihaeata expected to be able to use the valley at their convenience, and may have regarded it a[...]ad declined to accept term s for land sale in the valley, the Ngati Toa chiefs, in mid-November 18[...] |
| a trail up the Horokiwi Valley, towards Paekakariki. It was replaced before the[...]00, and dropped back to the pa. It was the upper valley's main involvement in the land wars. T he m[...]on at Upper Hutt. The great barrier to the upper valley was the gorge above Taita, which could be negotia[...]foot across the hills on either side of a feeder valley which would be named after the surveyor Stokes.[...]e hired help he took the bullock and cart up the valley by bush track to the gorge. Beyond that was a 3ft[...]he track would drop them over a ridge into Stokes Valley. T he track continued over the other ridge and would drop them down[...]k regained the top job. On their line through the valley they'd have passed a property named Trent[...] |
| [...]e family followed the bush clearers to the upper valley. T he final departure from Belmont would ha[...]he hills. Brown took the southernm ost strip, starting at Station Street; Downey the northernmo[...] |
| [...]Hutt caught Australian gold-fever. From the Hutt Valley the great rush to the Victorian goldfields start[...]me was to be made out of support services like carting. One detail he referred to was his attendance a[...]ir father estab lished himself in the lower Hutt Valley. In later years some descendants spe[...] |
| [...]e or wherever a community had formed. T he H utt Valley had been through its crisis, with som e loss of life, in 1846. Now, in the late 1850s, when the shooting was far off, in Taranaki, Hutt settlers again were jumpy: they feared the fighting m ight spread their way.19 At Fortune Lane[...]well as fury had been the problem. They were getting established, but they looked over their shoulde[...]ises that the Rose of Sharon Lodge came for a meeting venue, after their formation at The Shepherd, Up[...]premises, on 23 M arch, 1860, that a public m eeting was called to discuss protection for the settlers from attack in the continuing land wars. T he Wellington Independent reported on the meeting next day: a petition would be forwarde[...] |
| [...]ssing room for football teams, den for scouts, meeting place for the Round Table; always an historic m[...]. It's a large wooden house with a bright tin top, And it stands down Fortune La[...] |
| [...]rch being carried out on the geology of the Hutt Valley for the Provincial Government, between 1861 and[...]asins within the ranges. He looked upon the Hutt Valley as a decisive test, for he regarded it as the great valley of the Tararua. He reported, in Transaction[...]the M angaroa swamp, without success, and in the valley of the Pakuratahi with similar result. Bac[...]days to deliver through Mangaroa and W hitemans Valleys. It was while delivering stores as far away as Stokes Valley that he m et school-teacher Mary W alker whom he[...]s way to M aheno near Feilding, and Elizabeth (Martin) who rem ained on a farm at Upper Hutt. T he Wil[...]t. His brother George, fellow-veteran of carting on the Victorian goldfields, was 42 w he[...] |
| [...]y Estate. T he family num bered 10. lik e the Martins they became prominent Brown descendants in the h[...]T he Andrew branch of the family in the H utt Valley, still active in family commemorations, retains[...]hom pson (103 and three-quarters acres, also fronting W ard Street), N Palfrey (100 acres), section 1[...]ho became absentee landowners. Lady Cavendish-Bentinck assum ed title to land at Upper H utt in[...] |
| [...]100-acre blocks leased and sub-leased, until the valley becam e denuded of forest, and the spasm odic tr[...]as built, a railway from Wellington, through the valley and over the Rimutakas, was mooted. No m enace t[...]ented almost 30 acres to the Government for the siting of its railway depot. TJie site was behind the[...]for any Wellington w orkers living in the other valley. It was a natural for the central M angaroa and some W hitemans Valley farm ers racing their horses and rattling milk ca[...]ctive storekeep ers was a newcom er to the upper Valley, young Jim m y Hazelwood. Sixteen years after th[...]tion 119, the site of Wilkie's second store, fronting Main Street. It was transferred to M rs E B Gree[...]arah (Wilson) in Feilding had 13, Eliza beth (Martin) in Upper Hutt had 12, Andrew in Upper H utt had[...]Elizabeth's first child, a daughter, Jane Martin, was said to have been the first white girl bom in the upper valley, in 1855. She m arried John Golder in 1876[...] |
| [...]ance costs $3,000 a year. T he 1991 annual m eeting of the Colder Hom estead M useum Society admi[...]of his working life developing roads in the upper valley and as a local authority inspector. He was act[...]6, Andrew at Upper Hutt in 1926, Elizabeth M artin at Upper Hutt in 1929. References: |
| [...]enges at Mangaroa -- Prouse brothers at Whitemans Valley -- Wagg, Alexander and Pearse in Upper Hutt-- John Whiteman family move from own valley to Akatarawa -- partnerships round Karapoti, Huki[...]ondary growth through m arks of fire, the odd cutting or tramline, a rusting boiler. The first sawmiller was a former weaver[...]earing again, to graze stock of clients over-nighting at his hostelry. One of the first of the professional sawmillers was Jam es Duff Cruickshank, operating above Upper Hutt as early as 1852. From Banffshi[...]almers in 1850, and had lost little time in getting to his chosen ground. David Benge was an earlier settler in W ellington in 1841, and in the valley. He was atTaita, and a waggoner, till a flood moved him north in 1857. He bought into an existing mill at M angaroa (then M ungaroa), and sustaine[...]community affairs. Cruickshank, first operating a mill below Maoribank, probably about 1855, established himself as m ore advanced in techniques of cutting than did pit- sawyers who came after him. At Ma[...]ded by a clergyman's wife, M argaret Herring, writing hom e in O ctober 1861. She noted that a three-[...]utt by open trap, through dense woods with a few tiny houses dotted along. W oods, woods, woods on eac[...]ned to England from his attempt to settle in the valley. One reference indicated that another |
| [...]owering drew its water from the higher Mangaroa Valley. This was the largest-scale, best organi[...] |
| [...]ore him. The Englishman knew what he was writing about. W hen he landed with the first settlers[...]t 4in main shaft? I do." W hen he was operating at the end of the road named after him, Cruicksh[...]airarapa) brought water from the higher Mangaroa Valley, w here the Benges w ere establishing themselves.[...]he banquet. Cruickshank cut out in the main valley and went over the hill to Mangaroa. H ere he use[...]ged logs to the foot of the tramway in the higher valley, the capstan took the strain, and the circling horse hauled the trucks to the top before letting them down on the other side to the mill. T[...]le of a later owner of Maoribank, Don Reid; Christina becam e M rs W inks and later M rs J E Blackbum[...]rove about in a gig at a time when others were setting themselves up with sledges or drays." Alf Cudby[...]pony alongside." W hen the writer began sifting the sawdust of the milling days, in 1949[...] |
| [...]he possibility that be fore Cruickshank was operating north of Upper Hutt a sawmiller was at work sou[...]many of the Upper Hutt sawmillers, cam e up the valley after cutting out at Wainuiomata. Tom Scrimshaw, 77 in mid- 1[...]lier stage, said he understood a steam plant operating at the Rose of Sharon hall site was owned by St[...]Wainuiomata into the southern end of W hitem ans Valley, about 1866, and established a mill on prop erty[...]r, em igrant Jam es Johnson, arrived from Stokes Valley by bridle track, and felled the bush on his own[...]After they had worked the Upper W hitemans Valley with bullocks and then tramways, Prouse b[...] |
| [...]till 1888. A pit-saw mill was already operating at T e M arua, located w here the southern wate[...]le were other sawmillers who settled in Mangaroa Valley to establish an on-going community. They were joi[...]orge W hiteman family at the southern end of the valley, who settled in the Flux Road area. Alf Cud[...]had bought out Gorries in M angaroa, and was shifting the mill to the M oonshine, w est of Trentham .[...]W hen sawmilling was at its height in the upper valley, W hitem an brothers operated at Deep Creek and[...]rawa, for the Gorries at Wallaceville (M angaroa Valley), and moved a M anakau mill (C S G ardner[...] |
| [...], Andrew and Tom Gorrie at Wallaceville (Mangaroa Valley). M aymom, in M angaroa Valley, was the largest and m ost up-to-date of the saw[...]d: "T he whole thing seem ed to operate by the setting of gauges and the pulling of levers." Logs were[...]in Colletts Road, on the east side of M angaroa Valley, later H endersons' farm. A rthur in 1910 becam e[...]training camp. Military stores buildings gave the valley its only appear ance of industry. The tho[...] |
| and staff of combined contracting companies excavating and lining the Rimutaka railway tunnel. At the[...]later link, about the early 1970s in W hitem ans Valley, was provided by sons of Alex Gorrie who tried s[...]ukinga road). It branched w est off the Akatarawa Valley Road, seven miles north of Upper Hutt, and climb[...]a block near Hukinga, over which they secured cutting rights from Price. They used Price's tra[...] |
| [...]out to Fletchers in 1960. In the Akatarawa Valley the road bridge to the side valley, over the Akatarawa River, was swept away in the[...]s delivered twice a w eek in the little Akatarawa Valley; being offered such a service was a m easure of[...]n the 1960s. From his old mill at the top of the valley, w here the regular road begins to wind to W aika[...]the Strand camp on Dead- wood block, before shifting down to Chilly Brook. T he Strand mill had been[...]d shareholder, interested Roger Redington in planting exotic trees, mainly radiata. Redington became |
| [...]ns settled in the milling hills of the Akatarawa valley. T he firm, Exotic Logs Supply, becam e forest m[...]still available in the district. Mallaby Mills continued at Silverstream to the 1980s. References: |
| [...]es, classic nam es on the sides. T he end of the valley wasn't the end of their world; when they creaked[...]supply. Tom Kempton thought it was worth noting in a diary. Though the name Golden Fleec[...] |
| [...]ece opened in 1853 a string of hotels through the valley included the Travellers' Rest, Taita; also a har[...]pper Hutt. Jam es Brown could have been concentrating on forest clearing or contracting; the lodge recorded it as the house of Mathew S[...]terion was at its peak when it hosted its most distinguished g u est the Duke of Edinburgh. It was his only hotel stopping place on a valley tour in 1867, and he came to lunch. At the time[...]s about six. He recalled his father, George, assisting others to erect a welcome arch across the main[...]t to have been added as acknowledgement of the siting of the Wellington racecourse. Flag statio[...] |
| skirted Fortune Lane to crown the higher valley as king. W hen the line arrived officially it continued on without drawing a breath. Upper H utt was r[...]a yard of earth. W hen he first came up the valley from Lower Hutt as a youngster with his parents,[...]with sharp curves and steep grades, and by resorting to a Fell system to drop 689ft in two miles 20[...]cause of the death of her husband. At a sitting of the H utt licensing Court in mid-1875 the pol[...]of the Railway, Jack (Gentleman John) Wilkins, getting about in a top hat. That was one way to[...] |
| [...]first of this family to settle in the M angaroa Valley, was at Heretaunga, on his way hom e from carting produce to Wellington, when he saw a glow in the[...]ack Robbie's nephew Don Robinson, a W hitem an's Valley farmer, updated m e on the family, he included th[...]he Railway was T J W alsh, who w ent to the lower valley. F J McGovern presided over the building of a ne[...]ears, and gave the pub, also the district its distinctive new name. Quinn's Post originally was[...]915. He was killed a m onth later. Ted Quinn, writing hom e to his brother Dick, licensee of th[...] |
| [...]s, lived frugally at Karori and at the com er of Tinakori Road and Glenbervie Terrace. Seven yea[...]tt County would have suggested he was on Mangaroa Valley Road extension, but a farm er's disinclination t[...]sed Whakatiki Street to be astray from any cross-valley line. As a small farm er McCurdy was eligib[...]out limits: within two years of arrival he was writing to a possible sub-divider at Silverstrea[...] |
| [...]r a move to permit the Press to remain through meetings, committee and all, obviously to breach editor[...]er or energy in those days was referred to as lighting. U nder this heading the board was consulting Lower Hutt and Petone boroughs on harnessing the[...]lice S treet Wellington, to Town Clerk McCurdy, noting the event and adding that the land involved was[...]that time there was only a bush track through the valley. W e rigged up a tent out of an old ship'[...] |
| [...]was on the boil again. At the Septem ber 1920 m eeting Town Clerk Chapman, m ore resilient than his pr[...]at state m ents had been published in the Hutt Valley Independent, edited by Board Commissioner McCu[...]er, Laney and himself, of forgetfulness in collecting sanitation fees from tenants of railway cottage[...]he board resolved that steps be taken to have meetings reported in one of the Wellington dailies to pr[...]tion of the Record Hall, and at the M ay 1921 meeting a motion to investigate a Pelton wheel to genera[...]board had already proposed the organisation of a valley power authority, and by the end of that winter it[...]of two plans of the original survey of the Hutt Valley as requested by J Barton. In June the board asked[...]o lunch, on the occasion of that board's first meeting. |
| [...]r founding generation, M rs Elizabeth (Brown) Martin, died on 6 Decem ber, 1929. She was 91. H er husb[...]Post on 23 December, 1929 noted that M rs M artin was the first lady elector in the upper Valley. After protests the following M ay (1930), a[...]per Hutt Borough Council to renam e W hitemans Valley Road Bathurst Street was rescinded. Another plac[...]eet became Murray Street at the early December meeting, William Street becam e Martin Street, Mangaroa Road becam e W ard Street, Moon[...]cent to Pine Avenue) became Keys Street, a connecting street between Ebdentown and Henry streets becam[...]and the rugby club. At that time the Mayor of Hastings was thanking Upper Hutt for earthquake a[...] |
| He was still fighting the cause of the Quinn's Post area: the town pla[...], but it had to be out in the open of general meetings. Ed Nicolaus was to learn that in Upper Hutt it[...]so far north as to be almost into the head of the valley, w here the hills come together beyond Ma[...] |
| [...]was taken on 22 M arch, 1950, after a special m eeting that was disrupted by a crowd which had com e t[...]1, and was dismayed by council and comm ittee m eetings which never began till 7.30pm because com m ut[...]Wellington and get their dinner. T he m eetings w ent on till any old time. Early in 1953 he st[...]things done when a lot less time was spent on meetings. Hutt Timber and Hardware had begun a new[...]er fostered or infested whole areas in the upper valley. T he HTH schem e, tied to Waikato mills,[...] |
| [...]ler had left there. No single gesture, denoting a new era, compared with removal of a horse tro[...]in 1939, and moved to Upper Hutt from the lower valley in 1942. Just 18 m onths after the b[...] |
| [...]th its past. In mid- December, 1962, a public meeting called by the Rotary Club and chaired by Malcol[...]n) was secretary. T he first comm ittee m eeting was held early in 1963 at Upper H utt College,[...]included a 1963 decision to pay councillors a meetings attendance allowance, architects were report i[...]e proposed Civic Centre, the City Engineer was getting into detail on requirements, and the librarian[...]as able to defeat a move to create a single Hutt Valley local authority. Prevailing on this issue was an[...]regeneration of a belief-in-itself for the upper valley. The local body amalgamation proposed would have[...]e separate background and character of the upper valley of the Hutt -- the bowl past the Taita Gorge.[...]s feelings for the district: "The upper valley rem ains distinct. On passing through the gorge the[...] |
| [...]e in later years. Gordon Cross came from Hastings to begin a 12-year term as Town Clerk; he was deputy town clerk and borough treasurer at Hastings. He had been a court registrar at Taihape and[...]s needed all his experience within a w eek of starting. He was involved in the hearing of objections t[...]its single City of Heretaunga plan for the whole valley, including Eastbourne and Wainuiomata. T ha[...]now provided rapid transport to jobs in the lower valley or Wellington, even to the Wairarapa through a r[...]was burgeoning in Upper Hutt itself. T he upper valley had come a long way in just a couple of d[...] |
| [...]s spent mainly in the Labour Department (first posting Gisborne), from which h e retired, after 40 yea[...]His greatest supporter was his wife Lydia. On meeting nights she was a constant observer from the public gallery; one particular chair was understood to be hers, and other observers arriving in the gallery were warned if they seem ed about to bag it During the meetings she moved her head emphatically, for or against[...]the business that she could go up from the public gallery and direct him to the page and passage he wanted. W hen M rs Kinsman remained in the gallery after the Council had voted to go into committee[...]bering he was chairman. During some committee meetings, held in the hom es of councillors, she would wait outside in the car. A meeting which ran on longer than expected was reminded of the time by the tooting outside. M rs Kinsman launched a pe[...] |
| [...]ost impressive trees settlers found in the upper valley -- Totara Park. Chosen street names, unfort[...]time: "If a single territorial authority for the valley had com e about by now it is probable I wouldn't[...]yles, w ere available else where -- in W obum or Tinakori Roads. Small-farming had its era, its[...]rising population that needed jobs, in the upper valley if possible, discovered urban problem s t[...] |
| [...]W right and Carman transferred in 1969, incorporating W ard Street bookbinders L D Hanratty Ltd. Nico[...]rom August 1977. Traffic officer training, graduating from 1913-vintage arm y prefabs, benefited from[...]ment that would be the first in the greater Hutt Valley using entirely new principles of low main[...] |
| [...]probably the m ost sophisticated industry in the valley as it m anufactured its medical supplies and deal[...]a field station off Johnsons Road in W hitemans Valley south. It looked more industrial, yet anonymous,[...]Doris Turner Baker, with second name commemorating a relative, the Eng lish landscape painter, was[...]affairs from the 1965 threat to Upper Huff's continued independence as a separate community --[...] |
| [...]days. Vine had come from Cambridge to the upper valley in the mid-'50s, to the Post Office accommodation[...]eir central site opposite Station Street, and continued to promote with the flair of later retail gen[...]ods. M any opponents of the exclusion of cars continued to oppose it. An eight-storey highest he[...]serial-drama, Country GP, located in W hitem ans Valley. A cenotaph had been completed in Ju[...] |
| [...]ign of a new church at Brown Owl for the co-operating parish set up by Presbyterians and Methodists,[...]the road from Septem ber 1975. With its inviting architecture, user-friendly atmosphere, book and[...]20,000 loan raised by the Council. It had a Valley background. It was proposed at Stokes Valley, at a m eeting of the Awakairangi branch of the Maori W om en'[...]d the M aori settlers of Wellington and the H utt Valley. T he m arae was to achieve a milestone in[...]the participation of three boys in the kai hoe contingent to Waitangi. T he 1980 local bod[...] |
| [...]arearea), said to have been resident in the upper valley, surveyed its territory from a high rock, while wood pigeons perched on a shield depicting river and bush. T he Latin translated to `Nothing H igher or M ore Be[...] |
| [...]Thom as was back for a second term, before departing to live in Otorohanga. Andrew Mark, son of[...]tributor. Shirley Russell had indicated on the hustings that she would be a colourful Councillor if h[...]n as she read a poem at a Civic Hall combined meeting, but she was taking a step along the way to deve[...]Oldies, he w asn't expected to pass out of upper valley contention. Ray Tucker, whose last p[...] |
| [...]e ofhills are Mangaroa Valley, then Whiteman[...] |
| [...]e was attached to a large rock in a lay-by on the valley-to-Wellington side of the River Road. It reads:[...]lved in the proposed sub-division, and also in continuing its stage three of the River Road, from Tota[...]the main road. T he road ended above a new supporting wall, based on 69 piles drilled into bed[...] |
| [...]rmation facility. T he centre celebrated by reprinting with m odem materials a 1929 map of[...]Heretaunga-Pinehaven Community Council continuing for five years, an altera tion w[...]arby Em erald Hill. A M angaroa Valley sub-division with access from the bottom end of W hitemans Valley got under way. This was Mansfield, a 2640-acre bl[...]l 1992, Jeff Berkett, a W hitem ans Valley farmer, had succeeded Grant Campbell.[...] |
| [...]ure. T he Mayor reported progress to a public meeting in November. T he plan proposed to upgrade the[...]unified city with carparks off Main Street, locating a shopping arcade through the Provincial tavern[...]cy, promote Upper Hutt more as a town (Top o'the Valley) than a city, with recreational and tourist attr[...]ternational tele-communications contract contributing to a fibre optics submarine cable project T he f[...]ed to deliver services from the other side of the valley, running under the Moonshine bridge, building of[...]ent Co Ltd was set up to handle immigration, marketing and sales of the project. Wholly-owned s[...] |
| [...]he was the first of the family to visit the Hutt Valley. She said a portrait of Sir William Hutt s[...] |
| [...]es Saga of the Whitemans -- Mangaroa Valley -- Te Mania's friendly ghost -- Collin[...]rentham as corner of Forever-England Whitemans Valley HE WAS A WIDOWER and sheepfarm er, aged 40, an[...]from somewhere near the site of the Battle of Hastings, and that was so. Udimore, near Rye, Sussex, is in Hastings country, on a rise between two valleys in which the rivers Brede and Tillingham run. P[...]ore line, and Dum b W om an's Lane was a deep cutting for m ost of its length. T he W hitemans a[...]In Wellington, Francis W hiteman was soon confronting the only options |
| The second Whitemans Valley school, at the start ofJohnsons Road, ha[...] |
| [...]est-felling. The forest at hand was in the great valley behind Petone beach. An obvious site for sawmills[...]the entrance to the gorge that isolated northern valley from southern. About 1846 some of the family were pig-hunting, out of Stokes Valley in the Taita gorge. George is credited with bein[...]ng a pig over the hills George found himself in a valley east of the Hutt and parallel to it, but smaller[...]In the militia during the land disputes with Hutt Valley and coastal Maori tribes, including the aftermath of the fatal attack by visiting tribes on Boulcott stockade, Lower Hutt, in ear[...]r generations were m ore readily identified; the valley founder's wife seem ed to have passed fro[...] |
| Daybreak cheese factory, Whitemans Valley Road, near Russell Road. It was a bam on the Ha[...]M Whiteman homestead still stands in Whiteman's Valley after subdivision and sale o f the prope[...] |
| particularly of the lower valley. No form was involved. T he Anglican church at L[...]e Secretary (26 April, 1859) on that part of the valley of the M ungaroa discovered by W hiteman. A copy[...]-plate script still exists. Park judged the valley to be about seven miles long, containing about 17[...]nto a basin, and there were two or m ore lateral valleys that might, with the basin, yield about 1500 acr[...]ver a gravelly bottom, with tributaries from the valleys. T he tributaries were said to be about as large[...]velled upwards. T he tim ber was very fine, consisting chiefly of red, black and white pine, and rata,[...]valuable acquisition: w ere a road m ade into the valley the |
| [...]ge and William as sheep-farmers of W hitem ans Valley, specified W inchelsea (Sussex) as William's bir[...]ith her across the world. They moved to the Hutt Valley where J M Symons felled and milled timber, and hi[...]at St David's, m arried Alf Scholes of M angaroa Valley. James Johnson, an Englishman, was an early settler at the top end of Whitemans Valley, behind Silverstream. Johnsons Road runs off the main W hitem ans Valley Road in a southerly direction; it had for its bi[...]the settler knew only a bridle track from Stokes Valley. He offered the logs of his first bush-fel[...] |
| [...]at Barkers Bridge, northern end of Whiteman's Valley. The property wasfirst fanned by William White[...]mer Presbyterian Church, Wallaceville, Mangaroa Valley. The church became part o fa Presbyterian Methodist Co-operating parish based in Upper Hutt. A village w[...] |
| [...]l became leading settlers of the upper Whitemans Valley, and established farms that would soon have landm[...]m uch of the land at the south end of W hitem ans Valley. They had arrived in 1857 with young children in the Oliver Lang, and cut a clearing down the valley for a punga and bark cottage on what became kn[...]ville Hill Road, then on foot over to W hitem ans Valley. They rounded the swamp to George W hitem an's s[...]rovisions ran low. He had a firm attitude to shooting -- that it was only for m eeting needs, not for sport. Jane's brother-in-law Rob[...]Jane had h e r first children here in W hitem ans Valley, starting with John M orshead (her father's second name)[...]a stronger remaining connection with W hitemans Valley than any of them. George W hiteman h[...] |
| [...]f shot (one- eighth oz No 4), caps in damp-proof tin in waistcoat pocket where they would be warm and[...]he boy writes, so m any years later) was like hitting an anvil with a small ham m er. T he boy a[...]. He had acquired milling rights in the Akatarawa Valley. T he family seem ed to have becom e settled in W hitem ans Valley, John's family farm ing the east side of the riv[...]d an upheaval. T he descriptions of the Akatarawa Valley, as it was at that time, m ust have been daunting to a m other who thought she had begun to[...] |
| The Maher home in Collett's Road, Mangaroa Valley, was on theformer Edward Whiteman property. Th[...]RNZAF stores still dominate in central Mangaroa Valley. The Defence Department says it is worki[...] |
| [...]hitem ans the Downings were old sawmillers in the valley. Boss Downing and his wife w ere perhaps William[...]illing or wrestling with the farm they w ere creating in a narrow valley, JM W hiteman on the original holding mar[...] |
| [...]t inquiries about the W hitem ans of W hitem ans Valley. At this time JM 's elder son Neville practised[...]n Auckland. T he parents, m arried again, both continued to live in W hitem ans Valley. Ivan W hiteman offered 535 acres of the farm for auction in 1975, citing lack of available labour to farm the property t[...]art of that first auction. Sub-divisions continued. In portions, the W hiteman property passed th[...]etimes re sold, in about four parcels at this writing. W here 334 acres of the best flats had sold fo[...]a million. At the north end of W hitem ans Valley, w here it approaches the Blue M oun tains above[...]Moore) had built field headquarters for their testing programmes. On the north side of th[...] |
| [...]across to the flats. It is a tight little valley, W hitemans, full of history, full of character. It runs out into a wider, bigger valley, w here every farm er is not every other m an's neigh bour. Mangaroa Valley LINK ROADS FROM TH E Hutt Valley to M angaroa run from Quinn's Post, Maoribank, a[...]ell as the Silverstream access through Whitemans Valley. M angaroa's greater elevation than the Hutt m ad[...]ng days to pipe Mangaroa water down on to a Hutt Valley waterwheel. Its landmarks are its peat expanse i[...]cious residential properties. Not far across the valley is the river: to cross its bridge and move east p[...]and Robinson farm s are two of only three in the valleys still supplying town milk in 1991. T he other i[...]he old Alexander block, and farm it while both continue with town interests -- Coral as a food dehydra[...]d to W aikanae after farming the property and continuing with town interests. They lived in the[...] |
| [...]t a sawmill on the Downing property in M angaroa Valley, and cleared his 100-acre block in his spare time[...]vision of Mansfield at the south end of M angaroa Valley, offered in Novem ber 1976 by Crest Properties L[...]oadlands Dominion Group, has its access road starting between old Wallaceville and the former W hitema[...]tial and village development dispersed round the valley edge. Access was to have swept round[...] |
| Mangaroa Valley north, from the home o f Mrs Phyllis Macnab, n[...]to left), opposite to the direction in the main valley. The former dairyfactory shows in the middle g[...]George Whiteman, pioneer settler of Whiteman's Valley, spent his last days with his daughter-i[...] |
| [...]Mansfield was estimated to be capable of accommodating 20,000 to 25,000 people. By 1990 quality[...]about to be prepared for sub-division nearer the valley's main road. In the northern valley the Defence stores complex recalls World W ar II.[...]Te M ania TE MARUA JUNCTION of the M angaroa Valley with the highway north of Upper Hutt, was[...] |
| [...]e M arua runs east, into the top of the M angaroa Valley. M otorists w atched for traffic on the bends w[...]that his spirit becam e a Stonestead ghost, lamenting the loss of his baby daughter. John Benge[...] |
| [...]s bar door, with patrons climbing over him, or opting to go round to the back door, to get to the bar[...]the Benges' mill drover becam e all the m ore pertinent. It came to a head when Jolly had the good fortune to m eet drover Darkie Thompson, in a narrow cutting on the road. The drover climbed a steep face and[...]red to the turn-off from the Main Road, or to the valley reached by the M aym om Road, the first committe[...]. Perhaps they knew a private school in M angaroa Valley (Mrs Bertha Seed's) would soon go public[...] |
| [...]nam e of the district It was understood to m ean valley or hollow. The committee added anoth[...] |
| [...]tourists, including cyclists and fishing and shooting parties. Good trout were in the Pakuratahi, and[...]e tunnel, the route became a weekend walk, attracting soft-shoe hikers to Kaitoke as well as the back[...]e artificial storage lakes. By 1990 a 4 km re-routing of the highway was being considered, and support[...]Maoribank TH E TROUBLES OVER LAND in the Hutt Valley in the mid-forties were hardly to be com pared i[...]hern junction of roads -- the M angaroa, central valley, and new State Highway. |
| [...]915. Jack Comeskey, at home in the Akatarawa Valley, shows a painting ofKarapoti school, last sited alongside[...] |
| [...]e New Zealand Company was buying land in the Hutt Valley, and coastal chiefs Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata were assisting or frustrating them, Harata te Waipae Kiore and h er people --[...]d h er elders to live at Tiakiwai at the foot of Tinakori Road. W hen a party of soldiers called[...]to give or show it the soldier tore it off, splitting the lobe. T he old man complained to the Govern[...]which they did, to Pa Kuao nearby, then to Ohariu Valley. They were from an area atTaita taken over[...]e'd supply them with a good piece of land in the valley. On his return he told them the land[...] |
| [...]k its name from an old tree trunk. Seen from the valley below, it resem bled a cannon. Near Cannon Point,[...]about 1910 a narrow track wound up from the main valley to Cannon Point trig, 1100ft, an extension of Eb[...]eman, grandson of George Whiteman of W hitem ans Valley, bulldozed a narrow road part of the way to open[...]ber, 1977) five w hares at Haukaretu, one a meeting or entertainment place. The whares were made of |
| [...]te pines) served Maori food hunters in the upper Valley as direction finders and conserva tion bo[...] |
| [...]such a development alight It succeeded in interesting Taiwanese investors in a scheme planned to prov[...]not even a majority. The Government, negotiating directly with the investors, indicated it would[...]d entertainm ent uses. T he hearing was an interesting exercise in the mounting of rival legal arsenals. In January 1991, Immigr[...]cal jobs. T he writer attended a public m eeting on the issue at the end of July, 1990 -- and dr[...]Flat on a misty m orning in April 1991. At the meeting, in a Fraser Crescent intermediate school assem[...]spacious terrace, opening gates as we went, was Valley-bom Dennis M Ryan. I had asked his office to let me know when any Taiwanese were visiting. We had entered by the old cutting at the bottom of the Moonshine Road, jus[...] |
| [...]a was populated as an off-shoot of the main Hutt Valley, and Bob Dalton had plenty of background i[...] |
| [...]a cash store. Some would arrive in the Akatarawa valley in a taxi, and drive away in their own ca[...] |
| [...]er was keen on his fishing, gardening and cultivating native plants; for the children pony riding spa[...]y sawmillers were the first industrialists in the valley. Those who brought a family, either to camp in t[...]his parents and the rest of the family left the valley at the turn of the century. Bert and his wife Gra[...]the block passed to Keith Iindsay from M angaroa Valley and his wife Jo Campbell. Their main challenge was in getting dry stock across the river after the bridge was[...]t Road, was a businessm an who first came to the valley weekending below the sawdust paddock, alo[...] |
| [...]urful roadman. Jack Comeskey, who farmed Martin-Poulson flats and hills towards the gorge, kept[...]vision of the properties into three blocks. He continued his links with historic places by following D[...]by John and Carol Simister in the upper Akatarawa Valley in 1972. They sold a Wellington dairy to get goi[...]rking for bush walkers. Thinning of new plantings over W ater Board territory provided the beginn[...]f forestry on the tops behind Birchville. New planting is to be seen behind the Clouston hills. In sum[...]with a folksy Birchville newsletter. Swimmers continued to swirl in the fusion of the Hutt and[...] |
| [...]n the nearby river on sum m er days. While in the valley he produced som e of his finest works. Charles W[...]m loan collection exhibited in the Wellington Art Gallery in 1920 noted the choice bits of Silverstream, e[...]d sum m er in the trees. Pumpkin Cottage continued to be a rendezvous for artists after Na[...] |
| [...]rees were estimated to take 30 years before harvesting. With a bulldozer, unique in 1939, they cl[...]1920s, looking from Silverstream into W hitemans Valley, had become the three-bedroomed renovated[...] |
| [...]ad most things before the remainder of the upper valley, such as the threat of attack on local riverside[...]t becam e a priority. The River Road, a w estern valley expressway, alleviated local main road traffic. C[...]Reserve, the legacy of M iss E M North, was the valley's best kept secret. D rs H P and Cecily Pic[...]ialised in rhododendron growing when at home, continued the outstanding career she developed with her[...]-sounding name. Trentham THIS WAS TH E Hutt Valley's com er of England. It was an identity transplan[...]him, and saw them re-established in a colonial setting. Trentham might have becom e the nam e not only of the middle region b ut of the entire upper valley. Trentham in Staffordshire formed part of t[...]its first abbess. William the Conqueror, confiscating royal |
| [...]ained of it in m odem tim es w ere the sculpture gallery with adjoin ing clock-tower and conservatory. An[...]y of Trentham (Staffordshire) Public Gardens, writing to the relevant local body about T rentham New[...]T rentham Park was the great survivor in the Hutt Valley, as it was in Stafford shire. And as it was laid[...]from nature, the opportunity existed in the Hutt Valley to super impose a concept almost instantly.[...]all -- all guaranteed Trentham New Zealand its lasting identity. One touch he m ight have[...] |
| [...]stablished at 5,000. While drainage work continued at Trentham an overflow camp was estab lished at M aym om in the M angaroa Valley. T he racecourse was already in place a[...] |
| [...]hite across the screen. Mac's son Ken grabbed the tin of film and pitched it outside. T he house light[...]ecause M ac's family w ere so prom inent in supporting him in services such as delivering his newspaper and presenting cinem a screenings, it was well-known th[...] |
| [...]first task on the morning after night council m eetings in winter. He had to go round to the Record Ha[...]at each end to swing it mightily. T hat was exciting enough. T he climax was w hen som eone shouted,[...]little sods had even relieved themselves in his tin of staples. W hen Brian becam e engaged to[...]rs M cCurdy's. He shared it with Ken after the cutting up. |
| [...]lot of houses. Percy Hazelwood did W hitem an's Valley and Mangaroa. I did Kaitoke and Akatarawa. I'd g[...]nk Strand who lived away at the top of Akatarawa Valley would always give you a nice meal. "It was[...]s 15--20ft deep to walk across; you saw people getting round the station in gumboots. He[...] |
| [...]gainst any closing up of the town. I advocated contin ued use of a main street through the town. The t[...]heir argum ent was that it would serve the whole valley. "They've never done anything to it, but they st[...]`W hy?" Son Rex Kirton moved into M angaroa Valley, in a house once the property of flax pioneer Si[...]omm entator, built a m odem hom e further up the valley, at Parkes Line. D aughter Lynne (Mrs Hill) beca[...]had managed farm hom es at W hitemans Valley and Akatarawa. Her grand-daughter, Julia[...] |
| [...]wit. He was 18 when he cam e from lower down the Valley to Upper Hutt to seek his fortune. His father, W[...]de the Taita Gorge road, at the bottom of Stokes Valley. W alter told tales of a Hazelwood Castle that w[...]old to T N Gibbs of Christchurch who had been scouting chain-store possibilites for the MacDuff[...] |
| [...]dual citizenship of the W airarapa and the Hutt Valley. His parents were Daniel Hercock, a general[...]William had married Kate Reid (15) of M angaroa Valley. These were the Hercocks who becam e part of the[...]n mid-Canterbury before he shifted north, and continued to divide his time between these differ[...] |
| [...]mill went back that far, and also to W hitem ans Valley. In 1924 Freda inherited the shop she had o[...], comprised the largest grocery store in the Hutt Valley. Second son Dudley joined the staff, before[...]r of his bowls club. He mis took an inaugural meeting of the Upper Hutt M arching Girls for a bowls meeting; as a result he became their first presid[...] |
| [...]ed 14 years of Labour rule -- which took som e getting used to, com pared with the overturn of a six-y[...]more. T his was a Scholes property in M angaroa Valley. He bought a 90-acre farm near M angaroa railway station w hen the railway ran through that valley. W hen Jim M aher set out to clear one pr[...] |
| [...]the family had three properties in the M angaroa Valley, one atT e M arua lakes (specialising in Jim 's favourite, town milk supply) and another in the Akatarawa Valley. At that time Jim 's grandsons Ray and Keith foun[...]ior rugby scrum. Keith was in the news after alerting police to a shooting involving tenants in the M ahers' Collett's Road[...]obbying took Jim into politics, and that 14-year stint in Parliament. He played a large part in[...] |
| [...]pbell's Mill in the hills w est of the Akatarawa Valley. He liked the cut of the territory as he moved about it. He liked particularly the setting of the old Karapoti school, and the fact that it[...]becam e a live-in tenant of the school. His starting age in legend-making would have been late in the[...]nd development, and a schem e of his own for importing labourers to clear and develop his blocks. Thei[...]f his life. T he school was on the main Akatarawa Valley road, running past the Karapoti stream 's[...] |
| [...]as soon helping with herding of stock and the routine of milking. He wouldn't accept payment but he would accept milk. He was to continue this relationship with the W hitem an farm w h[...], with corn-coloured to whitish hair, dark penetrating eyes, with a toby-jug nose. He looked as if he[...]ale of violin-making. Part-time farm er and valley neighbour Jack Comeskey was with him when the ve[...]t out his boots had to be shiny. In the routine mishaps of roughing it he had applied rou[...] |
| [...]them that) great-grandparents living in the Hutt Valley. T hat is w hat putting down roots is all about. Jock McEwen came[...]. Davie McEwen was a road prospector in the valley, and later picked out routes for roading the Akatarawas to the coast, and from Stokes Valley to W hitemans Valley. Jock McEwen found his way back to the upp[...] |
| [...]ears, when he gave meaning and purpose to the setting up of Orongomai urban marae and oversaw the com[...]the subject at Naenae College. A strong continuing interest was in eliminating from Maori oral tradition some of the European[...]involvement, and did so to this writer. Investigating claims of the Ngati Toa to Hutt Valley land, such as at Silverstream hospital, h e cam[...]em ent that Ngati Toa had no claim to th e H utt Valley. Jock McEwen is a walking encyclopae[...] |
| [...]Jack Comeskey descended from the Browns, the Martins and the Cudbys as if one pioneer line[...]time, to Harry Holtham, and was witness to a shooting in the M aher house they rented in Collett's Road, M angaroa Valley, in the early 1950s. One son, Len, was bom[...], a few cows, and took their main income from cutting manuka and other secondary growth that had gene[...]never varied. She would settle down to h er knitting in a bus shelter. Mattie was sublimely reconcil[...]or a sleeper berth. He was a big man, and negotiating the provisions could be a challenge.[...] |
| [...]ton are of the founder of a dame school for educating local women, before any other school was established in the upper valley. Mostly she disappeared behind the focus on h er[...]. She described M rs Barton at the age of 45. W riting on 1 October, 1861, M rs Herring reporte[...] |
| [...]blespoons and common brassy-looking forks and old tin teapot. Yet hospitality was m ore genuine,[...]m arked that a house for them at T rentham was getting on but slowly, and they may be some w ee[...] |
| [...]ted with period pieces, in its furniture, its paintings and its china. Stan Northcote-Bade had ne[...]partment chairman, to make the most of the upper valley's bush heritage. "I don't know why he asked[...]storical society when one was established in the valley. But father and son w ere different. "Fath[...] |
| [...]rge. Swanson Neighbours Whitemans Valley cherished a number of characters who became legen[...]Gorrie, who were leaving the northern valley for the joys of retirement at Upper Hutt. GEOR[...]e stuff called water-pipe, and found that, by putting one end far enough up-stream, water would run t[...]ighbours all around. Old T J Devine, up the valley from Andrew, came across a flush lavatory[...] |
| [...]to climb to W aikanae. T he m ethod of setting up the mill village named Cloustonville was a mo[...]y all w ent off to a local or W airarapa race meeting. Inclusion in the Provincial party for race meetings was as close as locals cam e to a sense of bei[...]ond wife, Norma, near the gorge in the Akatarawa Valley. T he writer called there one night with the com[...]top mill in the hills, up a steep track from the valley road. N orm a was serving dinner to a big[...] |
| [...]ling ton. H ie department was accustomed to assisting by recalling birth-dates sup plied when childre[...]bank, M rs B um s', at the turn-off to M angaroa Valley. He learned his m other's identity after i[...] |
| [...]ver they lived, w hether it was in the Akatarawa Valley just above the road at the gorge, or at Birchvill[...]by Gary, Patricia, Brian, Robert, Billy and Christine.The mill business boomed: at one stage Cl[...] |
| [...]d hero -- maternity services worth fighting for -- when a post office gave a village status[...]first place of formal learning in the upper Hutt Valley. Miss H H edge was the teacher. M rs Barton, dau[...]it would also serve as a community school. A meeting of settlers preferred this to an offer of accomm[...]upported by movable brackets, a pupil, Jam es Martin, recalled in later years. The school occup[...] |
| [...]dia, Richard and William Geange; Catherine, Christina, James, John, Margaret, Mary, Ann and Sarah Hag[...]Mabey; Alexander, Elizabeth, Helen and William Martin; Annie, Catherine, Charles, Edward, Polly and Th[...]ing era in the school's history. It included shifting the school. T hat early school becam e a s[...]urchased from John Wilkins. Pressure on space continued. In 1897 other upper valley schools were at Wallaceville (30 on roll)[...] |
| with the Karapoti valley, across the river for children coming down from K[...]youngest sister, Gladys, came straight from Hutt Valley High school to relieve an indisposed Miss Lily O[...]w eather fo recasts. . . two of the Poulsons sitting Proficiency at Upper H u tt. . . Ernie So[...] |
| Drive. It was the first open-plan school in the upper valley. It was intended to relieve pressure on Oxford C[...]ndy Lovell and M aureen Scott. D Constable was acting principal at the start of 1991. T he school was[...]M angaroa school's rolls were affected by this valley's farming fortunes, by RNZAF use of stores build[...]A separate school served the M aymom end of the valley during tunnel construction. The school had its b[...]have included C A Eves (1927-40, with W hitemans Valley school absorbed in 1936), A G S Jonathan (1945-59[...]ims (1986), Chris W ebb (1989), Judith Hawkins acting Principal (1989-90), Bruce McMichael (19[...] |
| [...]blished) and a long association of reciprocal visiting with Devon Intermediate, New Plymouth, expresse[...]ecial needs students, with Trentham primary operating a unit, and Upper Hutt College. Some students u[...]eam, was the first secondary school in the upper Valley when it opened in 1931. It was basically t[...] |
| [...]J W Dowling SM and eight priests, with five visiting part-time teachers. By 1966 the roll was at 500 (320 boarders), resident teaching staff num bered 21, visiting teachers 7 -- a ratio reversed in later years b[...]erever their talents m ight lie. T he college continued to develop in replacement and extension of bui[...]k up duties in the third term of 1990. Stream continued to emphasise scholarship, and a variety of rec[...]4 it ended the years of train rides to the lower valley or the city. On opening day 142 third-formers w[...]building construction had kept pace, and this continued over the years. It ceased to be the sole state[...]ented by Sir Roy McKenzie who was moving his trotting quarters elsewhere. It had 136 |
| A textured concrete wall, setting offthe Central Institute o f Technology, behin[...]uare, challenges all architec ture in the Upper Valley for bold design. |
| [...]g of 1930. She was taken for a drive through the Valley. "As I passed through Upper H utt with its m any autumn-tinted trees I felt, I m ust m ake m y hom e here." After seeing D r Kemp next day, and getting little encouragem ent for a first hospital in t[...]n agent's offer of a six-roomed house and was waiting for a bus, to depart, when she saw a pict[...] |
| [...]e easier access from Upper Hutt to the M angaroa Valley, and 25 miles of high country track was replaced[...]of a mile in the line's sweep through the lower valley. A second bridge swung across the Hutt River, an[...]ht became day in Main Street. Special displays of tiny bulbs round Santa sledges w eren't needed then[...]Late in the afternoon of Christmas Eve the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board, which had held its inaugural meeting at Upper Hutt more than a year earlier,[...] |
| [...]rejoiced in their up-to-date system. T he new lighting extended into streets which had yet to become r[...]tate in 1918 began to implem ent a plan for generating electricity from water power, and with the Electric Power Boards Act provided for the setting up of authorities to distribute electricity throughout town and country. Hutt Valley Electric Power Board was constituted on 6 July, 1922, and held its inaugural m eeting in the Upper Hutt Town Board cham bers on 16 Aug[...]one end, Petone at the other, with the gangs meeting just north of Taita gorge. The system took powe[...]ly, and at weekends. A nother milestone for Valley power was completion in October, 1953 of the fir[...]w Dunlop factory at Upper Hutt: w hen fully operating it becam e the board's largest consumer. F[...]ne and Lower Hutt Gas Board, and becam e the Hutt Valley Electric Power and Gas Board. At Upper Hu[...] |
| [...]tt River Board from 1956 w hen Upper Hutt (as distinct from Hutt County) was first covered, to 1973 w[...]s the vicinity of the Barley Mow Inn at the Upper Valley of the Hutt. This was understood later to[...] |
| and linked with strong wire and wire-netting, proved to be effective from about 1918 on.[...]king from ratepayers before embarking on an upper valley scheme first raised by engineer H ubert Sladden[...]Commissioning works and stopbank extensions continued for another 11 years. W orks comprising the original Upper Valley Scheme were extended in the 1980s with the devel[...]me. Drainage SEWAGE IS PIPED down the Upper Valley main sewer to a Hutt River crossing at Taita gor[...]south from there: on the west side of the lower valley the western hills main, and on the eastern side the Hutt Valley main. They connect to a main collecting sewer which pipes to a treatm ent plant at Seav[...]imated $25m cost of a new sewer was a factor prompting assess m ent of separate treatment and disposal[...]ts tributaries. Since the 1930s in the Hutt Valley, local councils have sought to join forces to co[...]dispose of the area's sewage. This led to the setting up of a Hutt Valley Drainage Board in 1948. Its first task was[...] |
| Doris Nicholson, as an impressive chairman of the H utt Valley Drainage Board, was probably the first woman to[...]him to proclaim that Constable Lyster was prosecuting in the court house in 1872. All but two of the[...]T he lock-up too? Any wom en's rights group operating in those tim es would would have consid[...] |
| [...]he library began a com puter program m e, constructing a data-base capable of running circulation, ref[...]when he moved to limit the coverage of council meetings and make his own paper exclusive, or to preven[...]r papers, and left a precedent for patch protecting that later papers w ere delighted to follow. And[...]was ambitious and comprehensive. It was the Hutt Valley |
| [...]again without ceremony. Yet its background was distinguished. It was the hobby-horse of its found[...]hs prior to Novem ber 1935, he had been contemplating establishing a little weekly paper in Upper Hut[...]ed that the paper was set up by hand, and the printing of some 400 copies on an old Albion Hand Press[...]gus J M cCurdy, "who at one tim e ran the Hutt Valley Independent, a somewhat outspoken sheet that f[...]her of his little one- page papers, besides editing Arena, a national literary quarterly.[...] |
| [...]editorial office was in a specially constructed tin shed behind the Edwards and Pepperell stores, on[...]nscious of an underlying eccentricity, and who instinctively attrib uted it to their bowl-of-hills, ed[...]ront in Q ueen Street. Interest in m odem job-printing increased, and from 1964 the Leader was print[...]itor on 1 D ecem ber, 1970. The new owners continued to have type set and formes made up by Goff[...]ian Ashford, also a son of Ralph, was on the printing staff. Some of the original m achinery w ent to[...]ex pected to be included in a Bedplate Press printing m useum incorporated in the |
| [...]Bedplate Press museum president. W hen printing of the Leader moved to Taita the Upper H utt off[...]During Charlie Cooper's term, in mid-1983, the Valley Courier (joint owners Ron Malcolm and David an[...]pper Hutt, to 152 Main S treet In mid-1991 printing moved from Taita to a new INL all-colour newspaper printing complex at Petone. References: |
| [...]fire. CHURCH OF ENGLAND activity in the upper Valley had its formal beginnings in a little chapel alongside a m arae and m eeting house at Whirinaki, the earliest name for the d[...]icensed to the charge of the natives in the Hutt Valley and the English church people at Whirinaki in the[...]he following (Sunday) morning, had done some visiting, and preached his first serm on to a full congr[...]lington to intro duce M r H erring (from St Augustine's College, Canterbury, England) to the natives,[...]the registry) in July 1862, and back in the upper Valley he baptised Jam es and Christina Cruickshank, Fern Ground (later Maoribank). Reve[...]and, and found it beautifully written and illuminating. T he church land at St John's, Tre[...] |
| [...]e bush. M r Blackbum e took his bride, Christina Cruickshank, in h er father's gig to the top of[...]icensed not only to the same natives of the Hutt Valley but also to the English residents of Trent[...] |
| [...]lverstream. The Methodist Church at Whitemans Valley was transported to Upper Hutt when the sawmill[...]on moved away. It was incorporated in a co-operating parish's Wesley Centre in Benzie Avenue. |
| [...]ey had other orphanage-supply farms at M angaroa Valley and south of Maoribank. In 1911 Upper Hutt becam[...]tages, was seen as testimonial to the quality of Valley tim bers and workmanship. In any absence of[...]t time, and it was said that, so clear and penetrating were the notes, it was heard through the[...] |
| [...]T h e M ethodist Church was established in Stokes Valley in the 1850s, and in |
| W hitem ans Valley in 1885. T he W hitem ans Valley church was moved to Upper Hutt in 1927.The Rever[...]re believed to have preached throughout the Hutt Valley in the 1840s. In 1845 a separate Hutt society wa[...]Primitive M ethodist Church (1847-1857), was erecting churches in the H utt Valley, in addition to Wellington. It was during[...]everend W Cannell it was decided that W hitemans Valley replace Upper Hutt on the circuit plan, and that[...]ead of w hat becam e Pinehaven, into W hitem ans Valley, w here they settled. T he Prouse brothers[...]r C lem ents was said to have walked from Stokes Valley to W hitem ans Valley to conduct services. W hen the mill w orked out,[...]T he building in Johnsons Road, W hitem ans Valley, was leased to the Church of England in 1917, an[...]n Jnr, Alexander Sinclair, farm er of W hitemans Valley, George Grant, student of the ministry.[...] |
| [...]ened in D ecem ber 1893. Upper Hutt Co-operating Parish, combining the church activities of Metho[...]h, Ebdentown Street, and Wallaceville (M angaroa Valley) Presbyterian Church had joined on a co-operating basis, and two Presbyterian churches joined the[...]ed and the churches became centres of the co-operating parish. Ministers remained responsible for thei[...]basis. Within a year of the first moves a co-operating centre was built at Brown Owl and became automa[...]they appreciated the greater opportunity for continued church worship. But as children followed paren[...]Methodist, but children aware only of the co-operating centre atmos phere. Practical difficulties, exp[...]st Beginning, published in 1979 by the co-operating parish and printed by W right and Carman[...] |
| [...]than 60 years of the Salvation Army in the upper Valley, three activities are all going strong: the corp[...]eet. The Brethren community in those days held meetings at the Rose of Sharon hall and in private hom[...]st in the community. Baptists opened a church seating 300 in Milton Street in 1974, and erecte[...] |
| [...]y was president in 1991 w hen the club was m eeting in unused school room s and working towards est[...]lubs for Lionesses w ere established in the upper Valley, though wom en were also eligible for the regula[...]er Lions. Ages range from 55 to 82, and som e m eetings are held at the Hapai Club. Charitable[...] |
| [...]and started by Miss M addever in 1934. After m eeting in houses for a few years the m em bers m et at[...]am CWI (1931-63). Miss P Young was elected H utt Valley federation president in 1976. A M aymom CWI[...]tion camp and the Army installation in M angaroa Valley. This institute won the M ay M artin Cup in 1965. A T rentham CWI operated from 1934-56. Upper Valley Family Refuge Centre started a movement in New Zealand when it responded to inquiries by setting up in a vacant house in February 1979. T he hou[...]na, and was never empty. Chairman of the first meeting and honoured with life m em bership in August 1[...]Charles praised m en for their assistance in setting up and running the centre. T he Hapai Club[...]wn Clerk, M rs Rita Hoskings, called a public meeting to inquire into the needs of senior citizens. Re[...]he formation of some organisation. First meetings were held in private homes. W hen num bers exce[...]of accommodation, church halls were used. The meetings become monthly, held at the rugby club'[...] |
| [...]hed dynasty in Upper Hutt -- Community Gallery brought the arts together. TH E PERFORMING ART[...]e m ovem ent's claim to art form was in lyric writing that reflected the realities of ordinary life, a[...]own Owl cabaret at the Main Road north-Akatarawa Valley crossroad was host to some of the swing ba[...] |
| [...]cruits to a band which had 20 m em bers and a waiting list in 1953. Tam Blewman was another pioneer m[...]oidery guild was form ed in 1983 by a group completing classes at Heretaunga College. It exhibits annually at the Community Gallery. M embers have worked on hangings for the[...]50 -- mainly painters or those interested in painting, and a few potters. |
| [...]aife, formerly of W ard Street and now of Ohariu Valley, has w orks displayed in the library. Beryl Hawke[...]m artist caught tones of the m ists of the upper valley. And the arts m erged w hen W Revelle Jackson, a[...]n many assignments together. Photographer Brian Enting has com bined with potter Sally Enting in exhibitions. Andy Chaplow, a m em ber o[...]Society w hen h e was still a schoolboy, was painting canvases well enough to sell them -- before he c[...]life here in a caravan on a section in M angaroa Valley. He thought parts were like Surrey. An aviator o[...]W hen he retired it was to Deep Creek, M angaroa Valley, on a few acres, with some hens, growing[...] |
| [...]ined an interest and training in design, and marketing, with his photography, and showed the way by es[...]em ber of the Cam era Club, he says of the upper valley: "I wouldn't live anywhere else. Innsbruck in Au[...]the hills.. . the open spaces... ifs a beautiful valley when you drive into it, from either end."[...]promoted by the community than when a Community Gallery was established in Upper Hutt. Its first exhibiti[...]ive, com er of Blenheim Street, into a community gallery. At a public m eeting held in D ecem ber 1982, a steering committee o[...]500. Shortly after its first exhibition the gallery was incorporated. It established a display of ar[...]he society's m ost successful activity. The gallery established an art award, and invited appl[...] |
| [...]s, Sports A 1st XV of Upper Hutt sporting greats -- rifle shooters always in world class -[...]and-final -- Maidstone cricketers win sequence of Valley championships -- Heretaunga and Te Mar[...]golf courses -- gliding makes most of Valley thermals -- axemen chop way into 1990s --[...] |
| m eeting held in mid-1945 at the hom e of A rthur Birkett[...]ran. J C Crawford moved the formation of the Hutt Valley Pony Club, seconded by W Clifford. It was decide[...]n, Geange, Crawford and Birkett. T he Hutt Valley Horse and Cattle Show had its first m eeting on 20 July, 1948, at J C Crawford's hom e at Heretaunga. At a joint m eeting on 10 October, 1949, the two organisations becam e the nucleus of the Hutt Valley Pastoral and Agricul tural Society, which was in[...]ecem ber 1976. Te M arua branch of the Hutt Valley Pony Club, form ed in 1979, and centred on[...] |
| [...]working bee in Hukinga forest, behind Akatarawa Valley, in the early 1970s. Club president Eri[...] |
| [...]n opened with extended social rooms and a viewing gallery built into the stand, also plans for further ext[...]yed touch-rugby through the summer. And squash contin ued to lease part of the premises. All Bla[...]oolboys' coach Ritchy MacDonald went on to coach valley and Wellington teams. T he top team played[...] |
| a meeting in the Majestic Theatre. T he first club captain[...]surface. Upper Hutt won the all-grades Hutt Valley championship three times up to 1990, won 48 different championships, and its 10 senior wins included a continu ous streak betw een 1961 and 1966. In the 1980s[...]club had the largest junior m em bership in the Valley. Outstanding players included Bob Blair, a[...]with internationals including Ian Chappell competing. Tony Locke won the final against John Re[...] |
| [...]t together until W orld W ar II inter vened. M eetings w ere held everywhere but in the upper valley, yet in time these w eekenders cam e to live at[...]wly incorporated society the club was also celebrating independence, though it maintains the an[...] |
| [...]d 128, each of 200 acres, each running across the valley, the first on the west of the main road r[...] |
| [...]ins make up our system TH E WHOLE OF TH E Hutt Valley lies parallel to the district's mountain struc tures. T he w est wall is a direct continuation of the western shore of Wellington harbour[...]that of the w est for m ost of its length, suggesting that during the stress of mountain forming the strip which became the Hutt Valley had insufficient support, and subsided, or was fa[...]rock masses resulted from west to east, while the valley itself was unmoved. The hills of the valley have been found to be composed of sands deposited[...]low and level state into mountain structures. The valley is believed to have been far deeper, before bein[...]es. These are the deposits which built the lower valley flats. T he raising of the floor of the valley was spectacular in 1855 w hen an earth movement[...]hetu stream. An early resident of the upper valley who took an interest in its geological origins w[...]rch of St John, Trentham, who believed the upper valley had been a great lake. He understood from geolog[...]t rule out the possibility of a lake in the upper valley, or rule out the harbour covering the lower valley. T he river which swings wide over the breadth of the lower valley, ranging from far west at Melling to east at its[...]der the western hills, as it flows down its upper valley bed. This is apart from an incursion at Maoribank, high in the valley -- and starting point of the express River Road. T he earliest written record of the valley as it appeared to the first Europeans was set do[...]their vertical section the m anner in which the valley had been formed: an argillaceous slate was[...] |
| [...]lington, has rem arked38 on a third basin in the valley system -- the Kaitoke basin -- in addition to th[...]l as vertically, so that the eastern side of the valley is drifting south com pared with the west wall. The line of the fault crosses the floor of the valley a short distance to the west of Brown Owl, climb[...]t, Professor McKenzie observed, as it crosses the valley as a low step, and also shows quite clearly upst[...]or wasn't fazed. To it, he said, we owe the Hutt Valley system -- so we can give it our thanks.[...] |
| [...]ent betw een Silverstream and top of W hitem ans Valley. They saw the hills as blue from their office wi[...]ns was recalled by Phil Davis for his help in getting Pine Avenue widened, and for selling land to the[...]ga, close. So mooring place. Hukinga: head of a valley. In Akatarawas. Kaitoke: Kai food, or to[...] |
| [...]ad a rosette fastened on apex of collars. Stokes Valley: for Robert Stokes, surveyor.Taita: Driftwood in[...]Heretaunga, then Hutt River Te Marua: Hollow or valley. Three Skulls: Trig west of Upper Hutt where sur[...]le: Early settlem ent at north end of W hitem ans Valley, surveyed for a village. It was possibly nam ed[...]ille travellers' nearest railway station in main valley. W aiora (Cottage): Living water. Brown O[...] |
| [...]chester. Wi Tako: T e Atiawa chief. W hitem ans Valley: After George W hiteman, who discovered and settled in valley parallel to the Hutt. |
| [...]ropean to pass through from W airarapa to Hutt Valley 1 8 4 3 : Charles Brees marks out road north to Pakuratahi; track developed between Stokes Valley-Silverstream; Wairau m assacre 1844: T e Raupa[...]aeata negotiate on sale to British of the Hutt Valley; 19 April, Richard Barton m arries Hannah Butler[...]Upper Hutt formed through Taita gorge; W hitemans Valley named after discoverer 1848: earthqu[...] |
| [...]d, Porirua inlet; Elizabeth Brown marries Alex Martin; 27 June, Jam es Brown's brother George and fa[...]dge 100F (M anchester Unity) established at meeting in Shepherd Inn 1858: Great Flood, 13 drown a[...]nglican) Church, Trentham , built; Waikato fighting 1864: February, Catholic Church Upper Hutt ch[...]Trentham ; Prouse milling at upper W hitemans Valley; 20 August, Richard Barton dies; David Brown-Rosa[...]gley m arriage 1 8 7 0 : Road formed in Stokes Valley 1871:26 February, Jam es Brown dies at Upper Hutt, aged 61; George W hiteman settles at W hitem ans Valley 1872: October, Francis W hiteman dies a[...] |
| [...]ged 77 1885: M ethodist Church opens, W hitemans Valley (moved to Upper Hutt 1927) 1 8 8 9 : Provincia[...]3: Presbyterian Church at Wallaceville (Whitemans Valley). M urder at Silverstream 1894: 26 August,[...]Duff Cruickshank dies, aged 79 (his wife Christina died 8 August previous year, aged 72); John W[...]agricultural laboratory at Wallaceville (Hutt Valley) 1906: P D Davis builds first brick pre[...] |
| [...]t Patrick's, Silverstream, first college in upper valley. M otor unit for Silverstream Fire Brigade 1 9 3 2 : 6 April, J M W hitem an dies, at W hitem ans Valley 1 9 3 3 : Hom e of Compassion (Silverstream) fou[...]: New fire station 1 9 6 2 : Wallaceville (Hutt Valley) has PO; Upper Hutt College (A D H unter[...] |
| 1989: Upper H utt City incorporates whole upper valley; 31 October, Heretaunga- Pinehaven District Co[...]ore 3.8 last car assem bled at GM, Trentham (operating from 1967); 28-30 D ecem ber, Brown fa[...] |
| [...]1988 Gerard, Stephen (SG): The Story of the Hutt Valley from Earliest Times', TPR Printing Co. Ham er & Nicholls, editors: The Making of[...]ess, 1990. Hercock, Dudley G: Evergreen Is Our Valley -- 125th jubilee review of Upper H utt[...] |
| [...]i, Rex: Energy on the Move, a history of the Hutt Valley Electric Power and Gas Board (1922-72), publis[...]W hitcombe & Tom bs, 1926 Watts, M and P: Stokes Valley Through the Years. Commercial Printing & Publish ing Co Ltd, 1953. W elch B: Maor[...]ing Post, 26 June, 1946: M em ories of upper Hutt valley. |
| [...]8,267,297,300 Cauchi, S 260 Bradley, Martin 6,181 Cavendish, Lady 51[...], Maurice, 51,107 Community Gallery, 301 Brown Owl, 168-171,293[...] |
| [...]117,247 Pool, Bob 6 Ohariu Valley, 174 Porirua, 1[...] |
| [...]Tompkins, R 168 Stokes, Robt 35 Stokes Valley 149,152,153 Tory, 23,25 Stonest[...] |
| [...]hitem an family, 6,29,32, 62,186,288 W hitem ans Valley, 147-160 W hiteman, Frank 8, 59,63,156,17[...] |
| [...]n his journalism at the Evening Post, and had continued it at the Hawera Star and NZ Truth. He had al[...]e married at Hawera, joined Hie Dominion as Hutt Valley reporter, and lived again at Upper Hutt[...] |
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| [...]grew out of the earlier efforts of the Upper Hutt Valley 1990 Community Committee to collect local[...] | |
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