Remember the Hokianga / compiled by Olive Harris ; edited by Chris Lancaster.
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Waikanae, N.Z. :
O. Harris,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Te Karae block & nearby. Ray & Mary Wiggins. Charles and Arthur Hick, Te Karae settlers. Jim Hick reminisces. Arthur Hick. Harold & Syd Mansbridge : farming up the Six Foot Track. Frederick James Nash and Kate Archibald. Cleon & Kosuth Newman, mill owners and farmers. The mills in and adjoining Te Karae block. Wyn Gunn (née Wiggins) : Our local schools. The Newtons of Glen Weem. Dr Smith. The Craigs of Tutekehua. The Mulcahy family of Tutekehua. The Baxters of Mangataipa. Lucy Baxter writes of her young married life. Memories of Mangataipa. A pig hunting story
- 2. Nearby Broadwood and Runaruna. Fred Fergusson of Broadwood Winifred (Winnie) Alexander (née Fergusson) 1904-1979. Tom Hehir. Val Hawkins remembers, written on November 1st 1987. Life in the Hokianga as a child in the 1930s & 1940s. John Hawkins reminisces. Diary kept by Charles (Re) Irvine, Jr, of Runaruna, near Broadwood. Jim Kennedy and Flora (née Hick) and families at Broadwood. Old Bill Dyer, born 1917, died 2004. Some schooldays recollections
- 3. The 1930s, unemployment and the fifty acre blocks. The fifty acre blocks and the unemployment camps. Joe Julian. The fifty-acre settlers on the second Te Karae block. Alf and Kathleen Tadman. The Six-Foot Track : Kauaepepe road and mountain. Frank and Trix Welch. The unemployment camps in North Hokianga
- 4. Pioneers reminisce. Discovering the Hokianga, from 1870. Reminiscences of my early life in the Hokianga. The Cauty story of pioneering at Omahuta. David Maxwell remembers his early life in Hokianga. Patsy Merhulik (née Robertson)
- 5. Outlying districts. Death of a district. The years 1945 to 1964 at Motukaraka. At Kohukohu, Hokianga 1996. The Holland family of Runaruna. Another story from Norma Cauty. Diary of a land girl, 1942-46. A biography of William Grounds of Paponga. Doug and Mary Maxwell (née Guest). David Newman. Tutekehua School. Early history of Mangamuka River and Tutekehua District
- 6. Stories of the churches. Excerpts from the Reverend Robson's diary, starting from April, 1914. Kohukohu and its church. A country ministry diary. A brief history of St Mark's Anglican Church, Broadwood. The Roman Catholic Church. Pa Henare Tate recalls the past for us at Purakau. Reverend William McDonald of the Methodist church. Hokianga Lodge, no. 69
- 7. Our first voting ladies. Helen Archibald 1848-1914. Annie Tweedie Beazley 1855-1918. Mary Catherine Danaher 1852-1923. Mary Dyer 1839-1904. Margaret Finnigan 1838-1930. Isabella Melville Glass 1864-1926. Emma Gurney 1857-1942. Mary Helen Harding 1856-1929. Lillian Harris of Te Tio. Mary Elizabeth Harris 1864-1926. Mary Ann Harrison 1845-1924. Ann Hartley 1834-1903. Lucy Kate Hawkins 1847-1932. Neta Kendal (or Kendall) c1856-1933. Margaret Lees 1872-c1965. Augusta Lester 1864-1937. Louisa McGechie 1868-?. Elizabeth Ann Martin 1851-1917. Edith Minchin c1853-1933. Mary Taffard 1855-1927. Mary Josephine Triphook c1854-1932.