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By: 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.

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AuthorJ. A. Kelleher Last edited by: Tracey Butler

PublisherCape Catley Last edited by: Tracey Butler

Upper Hutt City Council Last edited by: Tracey Butler

Date of publication1991Description‘Upper Hutt: The History’ is the standard written history of Upper Hutt. Its author, Jack Kelleher, was a Wellington-based journalist who worked in the Upper Hutt area at two different times. The first was as editor of the 'Upper Hutt Times' newspaper (1949-1951). During this period he prepared a manuscript history of Upper Hutt, 25 copies of which were published by the Upper Hutt Library from stencils in 1971. Two decades later he was commissioned to substantially revise this work by the Upper Hutt History Book Committee, which took responsibility for overseeing the project. This committee grew out of the earlier efforts of the Upper Hutt Valley 1990 Community Committee to collect local historical memoirs. With support from the Upper Hutt City Council the completed volume, was published in 1991. ‘Upper Hutt: The History’ has remained a popular source of local heritage information ever since.

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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'but[...]
	[...]s book began from an initiative of the Upper Hutt Valley 1990 Community Committee, which was collec[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]as he probed the water's course through the upper valley. in the malevolent middle of winter. The[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]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 meetin[...]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[...]passed through the gorge and presented the upper valley with its first challenge. 'lheir first co[...]
	[...]Nales, or the olson. of the young 'obin g them. valley . short 1 their ) their tance. more leere(l te[...]icult. He was reported to have retreated down the valley. He rested his force ovemight. In the moming the[...]uld leave a mark for all measurable time. In the Valley of the Heretaunga River the legacy of death zuid[...]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 Z[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]Henry Petre would be attracted mainly to the Hutt Valley's open spaces, an(l become a signiﬁcant landown[...]eed to be scouting out the Petone beach and lower valley for their town. The original European acqu[...]
	[...]the port mainly for muskets and ritles. The Hutt Valley was included in the selling, although a resident[...]d have some significance in the settlement of the valley called liritonga. Two months later the Zi[...]
	[...]to cut a road 6ft wide through the forest of the valley. Surveyers were ahead of the road-builders. cutti[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]ees,who would have particular impact on the upper valley, arrived in the harbour. They were aboard[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...], 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 n[...]orge (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 fo[...]
	[...]hat 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[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]
	[...]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. Hen[...]
	[...]and other goods between the growing town and the valley. Said James Jnr: “My father always took me in t[...]rip." James Brown Jnr wrote a letter to the Hutt Valley Independent in October 1911. on conditions[...]
	[...]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[...]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 wo[...]k regained the top job. On their line through the valley they'd have passed a property named Trenth[...]
	[...]ancis Whiteman & Sons, sawmillers. discovered the valley named after him, while hunting pigs. This[...]
	[...]he family followed the bush clearers to the upper valley. 'lhe final departure from Belmont would[...]
	[...]tt caught Australizui gold—fever. From the Hutt Valley the great nish to the Victorian goldﬁelds start[...]eir father estab lished himself in the lower Hutt Valley. In later years some descendants speculat[...]
	[...]F arm, which matched his Wobum Farm in the lower valley, and his home, Wobum Hall. in what became[...]
	[...]lane or wherever a community had formed. The Hutt Valley had been through its crisis, with some los[...]
	[...]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 w[...]
	[...]ult. The Andrew branch of the family in the Hutt Valley, still active in family commemorations, re[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]have been the first white girl born in the upper valley, in 1855. She manied John Golder in 1876 a[...]
	[...]of his working life developing roads in the upper valley and as a local authority inspector. He was active[...]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[...]earlier settler in Wellington in 1841, and in the valley. He was at Taita, and a waggoner, till a ﬂood m[...]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[...]
	[...]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 circ[...]
	[...]e many of the Upper Hutt sawrnillers, came up the valley after cutting out at Wainuiomata. Tom Scrimshaw.[...]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[...]
	[...]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,[...]. 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[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]ons settled in the milling hills of the Akatarawa valley. The ﬁrm, Exotic logs Supply, beczune fo[...]
	[...]aches, classic names on the sides. The end of the valley wasn't the end of their world; when they c[...]
	[...]ece opened in 1853 a string of hotels through the valley included the Travellers‘ Rest, Taita; also a ha[...]nburgh. It was his only hotel stopping place on a valley tour in 1867, and he came to lunch. At the[...]
	[...]History skirted Fortune lane to crown the higher valley as king. When the line anived officially it conti[...]hold a yard of earth. When he ﬁrst came up the valley from Lower Hutt as a youngster with his pa[...]
	[...]e ﬁrst of this family to settle in the Mangaroa Valley, was at Heretaunga, on his way home from carting[...]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[...]
	[...]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 el[...]
	[...]that time there was only a bush track through the valley. We rigged up a tent out of an old ship's[...]
	[...]d that state ments had been published in the Hutt Valley Independent, edited by Board Commissioner McCurdy[...]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 boar[...]
	[...]s 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. Anothe[...]
	[...]so far north as to be almost into the head of the valley, where the hills come together beyond Maor[...]
	[...]ver fostered or infested whole areas in the upper valley. The HTH scheme, tied to Waikato mills, be[...]
	[...]d in 1939, and moved to Upper Hutt from the lower valley in 1942. Just 18 months after the byelect[...]
	[...]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 g[...]
	[...]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[...]
	122 Upper Hutt — the History Gabites and Beard[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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 anon[...]
	[...]t days. Vine had come from Cambridge to the upper valley in the mid-'50s, to the Post Ofﬁce accommodatio[...]ly serial-drama, Country GP, located in Whitemans Valley. A Cenotaph had been completed in July 19[...]
	[...]()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[...]ded the Maori settlers of Wellington and the Hutt Valley. " ‘St The marae was to achieve a miles[...]
	[...]arearea), said to have been resident in the upper valley, surveyed its territory from a high rock,[...]
	[...]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 valley-toWellington side of the River Road. It re[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...], promote Upper Hutt more as a town (Top 0‘ the Valley) than a city, with recreational and tourist attra[...]ed to deliver services from the other side of the valley, running under the Moonshine bridge, build[...]
	[...]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[...]s in Hastings countiy, on a I‘lS€ between two valleys in which the rivers Brede and Tillingham[...]
	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 aftermat[...]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[...]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[...]. 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[...]
	[...]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[...]. Jane had her ﬁrst children here in Whitemans Valley, starting with John Morshead (her father's second[...]ve a stronger remaining connection with Whitemans Valley than any of them. George Whiteman had bec[...]
	[...]. 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 da[...]
	[...]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[...]ling 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[...]arried again. both continued to live in Whitemans Valley. Ivan Whiteman offered 535 acres of the farm for[...]ly half a million. At the north end of Whitemans Valley, where it approaches the Blue Moun- tains[...]
	[...], 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 ot[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]
	[...]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 ben[...]
	[...]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 ro[...]
	[...]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 sr[...]
	[...]e New Zealand Company was buying land in the Hutt Valley, and coastal chiefs Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaea[...]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 t[...]
	[...]ite pines) served Maori food hunters in the upper Valley as direction finders and conserva- tion bo[...]
	[...]y spacious terrace. opening gates as we went, was Valley-bom Dennis M Ryan. I had asked his office[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]st Road, was a businessman who ﬁrst came to the valley weekending below the sawdust paddock, alon[...]
	[...]by John and Carol Simister in the upper Akatarawa Valley in 1972. They sold 21 Wellington dairy to[...]
	[...]in the nearby river on summer (lays. While in the valley he produce(l some of his ﬁnest works. Ch[...]
	[...]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 valleyValley's comer of England. It was an identity transplant[...]only of the middle region but of the entire upper valley. Trentham in Staffordshire formed part of[...]
	[...]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 instantl[...]
	[...]p was estab 04, lished at Mayrnom in the Mangaroa Valley. The racecourse was already in place lge and beca[...]y~ and l’auahautanui. also what time the llutt Valley men an(\| other white settlers crossed the[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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 t[...]
	[...]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 o[...]
	[...]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. befo[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]pbe1l’s Mill in the hills west of the Akatarawa Valley. He liked the cut of the territory as he moved ab[...]of his life. The school was on the main Akatarawa Valley road, running past the Karapoti stream’s[...]
	[...]r scale of violin-making. PaIt—time farmer and valley neighbourjack Comeskey was with him when t[...]
	[...]them that) great-grandparents living in the Hutt Valley. That is what putting down roots is all about. J[...]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[...]
	[...]er. 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[...]
	[...]her house they rented in Collett's Road, Mzmgaroa Valley. in the early 1950s. One son, Ien, was bo[...]
	[...]er life. They would follow the river to the upper valley, find their way to Harry's door, and make[...]
	[...]ore any other school was established in the upper valley. Mostly she disappeared behind the focus o[...]
	[...]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[...]of neighbours all around. Old T] Devine, up the valley from Andrew, came across a ﬂush lavatory[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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 Bi[...]
	[...]ﬁrst place of formal leaming in the upper Hutt Valley. Miss H Hedge was the teacher. Mrs Barton,[...]
	[...]Pressure on space continued. In 1897 other upper valley schools were at Wallaceville (3() on roll)[...]
	[...]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[...]
	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 Valley High school to relieve an indisposed Miss[...]
	[...]It was the ﬁrst open—plan school in the upper valley. It was intended to relieve pressure on Oxford C[...]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 ([...]
	[...]ream, was the first secondary school in the upper Valley when it opened in 1931. It was basically t[...]
	[...]54 it ended the years of train rides to the lower valley or the city. On opening day 142 third-form[...]
	[...]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 it[...]
	[...]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[...]. late in the afternoon of Christmas Eve the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board, which had held its i[...]
	[...]te electricity throughout town an(l country. Hutt Valley lilectric Power Bozu'd was constituted on 6 July.[...]ime only, and at weekends. Another milestone for Valley power was completion in October, 15 53 of the fir[...]e an(l Lower Hutt (ias Board, and became the Hutt Valley Electric Power and Gas Bo2u'd. At Upper Hi[...]
	[...]s the vicinity of the Barley Mow Inn at the Upper Valley of the Hutt. This was understood later to[...]
	[...]king from ratepayers before embarking on an upper valley scheme first raised by engineer Hubert Sladden in[...]her 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 whi[...]of its tributaries. Since the 1930s in the Hutt Valley, local councils have sought to join forces to col[...]ea'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 wo[...]
	[...]was ambitious and comprehensive. It was the Hutt Valley 261
	[...]r Angus] McCurdy, “who at one time ran the Hutt Valley Independent, a somewhat outspoken sheet th[...]
	[...]uring Charlie Cooper’s term, in mid—1983, the Valley Courier (joint owners Ron Malcolm and Davi[...]
	[...]re. CHURCH OI“ ICNGIANI) activity in the upper Valley ha(l its fonnal beginnings in a little chapel alo[...]licensed to the charge of the natives in the Hutt Valley and the English church people at Whirinaki[...]
	[...]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 o[...]
	[...]. The Methodist Church was established in Stokes Valley in the 1850s. and in ,—:<-,--tin-'. %<f[...]
	[...](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[...]ch (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[...]
	[...]rch. Ebdentown Street, zmd Wallaceville (Mangaroa Valley) Presbyterian Church had joined on a coope[...]
	[...]than 60 yezu"s of the Salvation Anny in the upper Valley, three activities are all going strong: th[...]
	[...]Clubs for Lionesses were established in the upper Valley, though women were also eligible for the r[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]rown Owl cabaret at the Main Road north-Akatarawa Valley Crossroad was host to some of the swing ba[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]Drive, comer of Blenheim Street, into a community gallery. At a public meeting held in December 1982,[...]
	[...]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
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]owitt The next recorded chop was at Whiteman’s Valley in 1913. Odd camivals were held at Karapot[...]
	[...]d working bee in Hukinga forest. behind Akatarawa Valley, in the early 1970s. Club president Eric W[...]
	[...]olboys’ coach Ritchy MacDonald went on to coach valley and Wellington teams. The top team played[...]
	[...]anised two boys’ teams which competed in a Hutt Valley competition and won the Telford Cup in the[...]
	[...]ying surface. Upper Hutt won the all-grades Hutt Valley championship three times up to 1990, won 48 diffe[...]the club had the largest junior membership in the Valley. Outstanding players included Bob Blair, a New Z[...]f the club and a men’s team playing in the Hutt Valley association. Geny Marshall was a former na[...]
	[...]ere leading ﬁgures in the transfer to the upper Valley. The property comprised 188 acres of farml[...]
	[...]d. Meetings were held everywhere but in the upper valley, yet in time these weekenders came to live at Upp[...]nt. The tennis section afﬁliated with the Hutt Valley association in 1919, a few years after its[...]
	[...]t, made the recommendation to move further up the valley to a site that needed development but offe[...]
	[...]onshine Road, as vicepresident. 0 Gliding: Upper Valley Gliding Club grew out of a fomial discussion of e[...]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- t[...]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[...]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;[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]
	[...]8 Gerard. Stephen (SG): 772e Story of the Hun‘ Valley from Earliest Times; 'l‘I’R Printing Co. Ham[...]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-[...]ening Post, 26 June, 1946: Memories of upper Hutt valley. Acti Aire Ale) Athl
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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,[...]
	[...]s book began from an initiative of the Upper Hutt Valley 1990 Community Committee, which was colle[...]
	[...]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[...]d 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[...]as he probed the water's course through the upper valley, in the malevolent middle of[...]
	[...]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[...]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,[...]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[...]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[...]through the gorge and presented the upper valley with its first challenge.[...]
	[...]icult. He was reported to have retreated down the valley. He rested his force overnight. In the morning t[...]ve a m ark for all m easurable time. In the Valley of the H eretaunga River the legacy of death and[...]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 retur[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]Henry Petre would be attracted mainly to the Hutt Valley's open spaces, and becom e a significant lando[...]ed to be scouting out the Petone beach and lower valley for their town. The original European acqu[...]
	[...]port mainly for m uskets and rifles. T he H utt Valley was included in the selling, although a resident[...]ave som e significance in the settlem ent of the valley called Eritonga. Two m onths later t[...]
	[...]to cut a road 6ft wide through the forest of the valley. Surveyers were ahead of the road-builders, cutt[...]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 he[...]
	[...]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[...],who would have particular impact on the upper valley, arrived in the harbour. They were aboard[...]
	[...]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 n[...]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[...]
	[...]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).[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]
	[...]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.[...]
	[...]nd other goods betw een the growing town and the valley. Said Jam es Jnr: "M y father always took m e in[...]Jam es Brown Jn r wrote a letter to the Hutt ValleyIndependent in October 1911, on conditio[...]
	[...]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 w[...]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 w[...]
	[...]Hutt caught Australian gold-fever. From the Hutt Valley the great rush to the Victorian goldfields start[...]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 lo[...]
	[...]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 w[...]
	[...]T he Andrew branch of the family in the H utt Valley, still active in family commemorations, r[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]have been the first white girl bom in the upper valley, in 1855. She m arried John Golder in 1876[...]
	[...]of his working life developing roads in the upper valley and as a local authority inspector. He[...]
	[...]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[...]arlier settler in W ellington in 1841, and in the valley. He was atTaita, and a waggoner, till a flood[...]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[...]
	[...]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 cir[...]
	[...]many of the Upper Hutt sawmillers, cam e up the valley after cutting out at Wainuiomata. Tom Scrimshaw,[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]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[...]
	[...]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, an[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]ns settled in the milling hills of the Akatarawa valley. T he firm, Exotic Logs Supply, becam e fo[...]
	[...]es, classic nam es on the sides. T he end of the valley wasn't the end of their world; when they c[...]
	[...]ece opened in 1853 a string of hotels through the valley included the Travellers' Rest, Taita; also a har[...]nburgh. It was his only hotel stopping place on a valley tour in 1867, and he came to lunch. At th[...]
	skirted Fortune Lane to crown the higher valley as king. W hen the line arrived officially it co[...]a yard of earth. W hen he first came up the valley from Lower Hutt as a youngster with his p[...]
	[...]first of this family to settle in the M angaroa Valley, was at Heretaunga, on his way hom e from cartin[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]that time there was only a bush track through the valley. W e rigged up a tent out of an old ship'[...]
	[...]at state m ents had been published in the Hutt Valley Independent, edited by Board Commissioner McCu[...]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 boar[...]
	[...]s 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. Anoth[...]
	[...]so far north as to be almost into the head of the valley, w here the hills come together beyond Ma[...]
	[...]er fostered or infested whole areas in the upper valley. T he HTH schem e, tied to Waikato mills,[...]
	[...]in 1939, and moved to Upper Hutt from the lower valley in 1942. Just 18 m onths after the b[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]
	Gabites and Beard assisted from 1962 with a sta[...]
	[...]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[...]rising population that needed jobs, in the upper valley if possible, discovered urban problem s t[...]
	[...]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 anon[...]
	[...]days. Vine had come from Cambridge to the upper valley in the mid-'50s, to the Post Office accommodation[...]serial-drama, Country GP, located in W hitem ans Valley. A cenotaph had been completed in Ju[...]
	[...]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[...]d the M aori settlers of Wellington and the H utt Valley. T he m arae was to achieve a milest[...]
	[...]arearea), said to have been resident in the upper valley, surveyed its territory from a high rock,[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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.[...]
	[...]cy, promote Upper Hutt more as a town (Top o'the Valley) than a city, with recreational and tourist attr[...]ed to deliver services from the other side of the valley, running under the Moonshine bridge, buil[...]
	[...]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[...]x, is in Hastings country, on a rise between two valleys in which the rivers Brede and Tillingham[...]
	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 aftermat[...]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[...]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 Presbyteria[...]
	[...]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[...]Jane had h e r first children here in W hitem ans Valley, starting with John M orshead (her father's seco[...]a stronger remaining connection with W hitemans Valley than any of them. George W hiteman h[...]
	[...]. 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[...]
	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[...]ng 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[...]ied again, both continued to live in W hitem ans Valley. Ivan W hiteman offered 535 acres of the fa[...]a million. At the north end of W hitem ans Valley, w here it approaches the Blue M oun tain[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]
	[...]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 b[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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, las[...]
	[...]e New Zealand Company was buying land in the Hutt Valley, and coastal chiefs Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihae[...]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 t[...]
	[...]te pines) served Maori food hunters in the upper Valley as direction finders and conserva tion bo[...]
	[...]spacious terrace, opening gates as we went, was Valley-bom Dennis M Ryan. I had asked his office[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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 wa[...]t Road, was a businessm an who first came to the valley weekending below the sawdust paddock, alo[...]
	[...]by John and Carol Simister in the upper Akatarawa Valley in 1972. They sold a Wellington dairy to[...]
	[...]n the nearby river on sum m er days. While in the valley he produced som e of his finest works. Ch[...]
	[...]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[...]-sounding name. Trentham THIS WAS TH E Hutt Valley's com er of England. It was an identity transplan[...]nly of the middle region b ut of the entire upper valley. Trentham in Staffordshire formed pa[...]
	[...]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 instantl[...]
	[...]was estab lished at M aym om in the M angaroa Valley. T he racecourse was already in place a[...]
	[...]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. "[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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,[...]
	[...]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 Kei[...]
	[...]pbell's Mill in the hills w est of the Akatarawa Valley. He liked the cut of the territory as he moved ab[...]f his life. T he school was on the main Akatarawa Valley road, running past the Karapoti stream 's[...]
	[...]ale of violin-making. Part-time farm er and valley neighbour Jack Comeskey was with him when[...]
	[...]them that) great-grandparents living in the Hutt Valley. T hat is w hat putting down roots is all about.[...]. 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[...]
	[...]r. 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[...]
	[...]er house they rented in Collett's Road, M angaroa Valley, in the early 1950s. One son, Len,[...]
	[...]re any other school was established in the upper valley. Mostly she disappeared behind the focus o[...]
	[...]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[...]ighbours all around. Old T J Devine, up the valley from Andrew, came across a flush lavatory[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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 Bi[...]
	[...]first place of formal learning in the upper Hutt Valley. Miss H H edge was the teacher. M rs Bart[...]
	[...]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[...]
	Drive. It was the first open-plan school in the upper valley. It was intended to relieve pressure on Oxford C[...]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 ([...]
	[...]eam, was the first secondary school in the upper Valley when it opened in 1931. It was basically t[...]
	[...]4 it ended the years of train rides to the lower valley or the city. On opening day 142 third-form[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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[...]Late in the afternoon of Christmas Eve the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board, which had held its i[...]
	[...]te electricity throughout town and country. Hutt Valley Electric Power Board was constituted on 6 July, 1[...]ly, and at weekends. A nother milestone for Valley power was completion in October, 1953 of the fir[...]ne and Lower Hutt Gas Board, and becam e the Hutt Valley Electric Power and Gas Board. At Upper Hu[...]
	[...]s the vicinity of the Barley Mow Inn at the Upper Valley of the Hutt. This was understood later to[...]
	[...]king from ratepayers before embarking on an upper valley scheme first raised by engineer H ubert Sladden[...]r 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 wh[...]ts tributaries. Since the 1930s in the Hutt Valley, local councils have sought to join forces to co[...]a'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 wo[...]
	[...]was ambitious and comprehensive. It was the Hutt Valley
	[...]gus J M cCurdy, "who at one tim e ran the Hutt Valley Independent, a somewhat outspoken sheet th[...]
	[...]During Charlie Cooper's term, in mid-1983, the Valley Courier (joint owners Ron Malcolm and D[...]
	[...]fire. CHURCH OF ENGLAND activity in the upper Valley had its formal beginnings in a little chapel alo[...]icensed to the charge of the natives in the Hutt Valley and the English church people at Whirinaki in the[...]the registry) in July 1862, and back in the upper Valley he baptised Jam es and Christina Cruicksh[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]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 abs[...]
	[...]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[...]h (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.[...]
	[...]h, Ebdentown Street, and Wallaceville (M angaroa Valley) Presbyterian Church had joined on a co-op[...]
	[...]than 60 years of the Salvation Army in the upper Valley, three activities are all going strong: t[...]
	[...]lubs for Lionesses w ere established in the upper Valley, though wom en were also eligible for the[...]
	[...]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[...]
	[...]own Owl cabaret at the Main Road north-Akatarawa Valley crossroad was host to some of the swing ba[...]
	[...]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[...]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[...]
	[...]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."[...]ive, com er of Blenheim Street, into a community gallery. At a public m eeting held in D ecem ber 19[...]
	[...]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 --[...]
	[...]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 2[...]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[...]
	[...]oolboys' coach Ritchy MacDonald went on to coach valley and Wellington teams. T he top team played[...]
	[...]surface. Upper Hutt won the all-grades Hutt Valley championship three times up to 1990, won 48 diff[...]club had the largest junior m em bership in the Valley. Outstanding players included Bob Bl[...]
	[...]M eetings w ere held everywhere but in the upper valley, yet in time these w eekenders cam e to l[...]
	[...]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 t[...]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[...]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[...]
	[...]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,[...]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 Dist[...]
	[...]1988 Gerard, Stephen (SG): The Story of the Hutt Valley from Earliest Times', TPR Printing Co. Ham[...]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 Post, 26 June, 1946: M em ories of upper Hutt valley.
	[...]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[...]
	[...]e married at Hawera, joined Hie Dominion as Hutt Valley reporter, and lived again at Upper Hutt[...]
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