"The Hole In The Bush" or Te Waerenga i te Ngahere: A Tūātapere Centennial Review - compiled by Des Williams (Pt 1), INTRODUCTION & DEDICATION.

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"The Hole In The Bush" or Te Waerenga i te Ngahere: A Tūātapere Centennial Review - compiled by Des Williams (Pt 1), INTRODUCTION & DEDICATION. Published here with permission from the Copyright holder. Text from this above name book section reads as follows: Image 1 - Cover "The Hole in the Bush, A Tuatapere Centennial Review, by Des Williams." Image 2 - "The Hole in the Bush, Te Waerenga i te Ngahere. Fiordland Mountains from Groveburn Valley (Des Williams photo)" Image 3 - "The Hole in the Bush - A Tuatapere Centennial Review. "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." (GK Chesterton) Compiled by Des Williams, Last Side Publishing Limited, Hamilton, New Zealand." Image 4 - "Also by Des Williams: 1950 – The Year of the Lions (1988). Last Side to Glory – The Golden Shears Open Championship 1961-1990 (1991). Gone West for the Shearing (1993). Top Class Wool Cutters (1996). Born to Thunder – Champions of New Zealand Cycling (2006). © Copyright Des Williams 2009. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission. Wherever possible, the original source of photos and stories included in this book is noted at the place of use and copyright in those items remains with the original source as attributed throughout the pages of this book. All attempts have been made to verify statements and facts quoted in this book. Opinions expressed are, however, personal views and reminiscences of those interviewed and must be regarded as such. Printing: Sycamore Print Ltd, PO Box 162, Invercargill 9840. www.sycamoreprint.co.nz Publishing: Last Side Publishing Ltd, PO Box 102, Hamilton 3240. Email: tewaewaebay@yahoo.co.nz Front cover: Tuatapere’s first dedicated school room, opened in 1913. (Bill Howden photo collection) Back cover: Map showing Maori place names provided to the Surveyor- General in the early 1890s by Horomona Paatu of Aparima (Land Information New Zealand). (See also, copy of letter at page 80.) ISBN 978-0-473-15258-1" Image 5 - "A Tuatapere Centennial Review, Page 5, DEDICATION: To the teachers and educators who have come in the footsteps of Hugh McFeely to schools in Tuatapere and surrounding districts over the past century and given their all to preparing their pupils for the big wide world. And to those early pioneers of the district who, with axe and saw, created the hole in the bush that came to be known as Tuatapere, and to the settlers and supporting industries that followed in their wake. May the ingenuity and tenacity they displayed in overcoming obstacles and setbacks, inspire and sustain the people of the district for the next 100 years and beyond." Image 6 - "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A cast of thousands (well, dozens) provided able and willing assistance in the production of this book, without which it would never have seen the light of the second century in Tuatapere, its school and surrounding districts. I offer my thanks in random alphabetical order to the following: Alan Johnston, Alastair Borthwick, Alastair McLachlan, Allan and Noeline Campbell, Allen Templeton, Alex McKillop, Alma McKerchar, Andrew Sutherland, Anne McCracken JP, Arthur Diack, Barry Pont, Bev Clarke, Bill Faulkner, Brian Turner, Bruce Banwell, Bryan Carroll, Catherine Hill (Te Hikoi Museum Riverton), Cathie Smith (Hinchcliff), Christine Jones, Clara Stancombe, Clarence Acker, Cynthia Laurie, David and Pam McNay, David Dudfield (Southland Museum), David Hubber, Dean Whaanga, Des and Marjorie McMahon, Donald Egerton, Dorothy Devery, Dorothy Dowling, Eileen Dowling, Florence Dennison, Geoff Erskine, George and Elaine Charlton, George Griffiths, Gerald Arthur (NZ Geographic Board), Dr Graham Weir, Gregor Ridder, Hamilton City Library, Ian Evans, Invercargill City Library, Iona Black, Jean and (the late) Rhon Davies, Jeanette and Keith Egerton, Jeffrey Keast, Jenny Linehan, Jim and Shirley Tillard, Jim Hansen, Jimmy and Margaret Kirkpatrick, Jocelyn Broughton, Joe and Janice Evans, John and Isobel Fraser, John Harvey, John Purey-Cust, John Simpkin, Johnny Henderson, Judy Maslin, Kerri Brown, Kevin Suddaby, Land Information Services Invercargill (Tony McGowan and Milton Smith), Leo and Kathie Henderson, Les and Alison Scott, Lesley Gray, Lindsay and Margaret Faulkner, Lindsay Dey, Logan Jenkins, Lorna Crow, Lynette Denty, Malcolm and Betty Garrett, Margaret and (the late) Lindsay King, Margaret Thomas, Murdoch Riley, Murray and Beverley Hamilton, Murray Dowling, Neil Jenkins, Neville Stronach, Neville Valli, Neville Wilson (Te Hikoi Museum Riverton), Ngarita Dixon, Nina Templeton, Pam Robb, Peter Templeton, Peter Verstappen, Quinton and Dorothy Donald, Rachael Egerton, Robin Startup, Rodney Trainor, Ron Hampton, Russell Lawson, Staff at Archives New Zealand (Dunedin and Wellington), Syd Harvey, Ted McDowell, Terry and Pat Berridge, Trevor Phillips, Tuatapere School Centennial Book sub-committee (Wayne, Ngarita, Kerri), Ulva Belsham, Val and Helen McKay, Val and Slim Simpson, Warwick Roger, Wayne Edgerton, Chas Williams, Kevin Williams, Wings Williams, Zona Pearce. Special thanks to Terressa Kollat for many hours of historical research, transcribing of tapes and interviews in support of this project, and to Bill and Shirley Howden for assistance with photos and the answers to a thousand related questions. And apologies to anyone inadvertantly missed. Assistance from the following organisations who have provided funding support for this project is also gratefully acknowledged: • Community Trust of Southland • Pub Charity • Tuatapere & District Promotion Inc. • Waiau Town and Country Club" Image 7 - "CONTENTS, and Page No. Acknowledgements 6 Prologue 10 Preface 14 Chapter One - the decade 1901-1910 15 Chapter Two - the decade 1911-1920 38 Chapter Three - the decade 1921-1930 67 Chapter Four - the decade 1931-1940 87 Chapter Five - the decade 1941-1950 108 Chapter Six - the decade 1951-1960 131 Chapter Seven - the decade 1961-1970 158 Chapter Eight - the decade 1971-1980 197 Chapter Nine - the decade 1981-1990 222 Chapter Ten - the decade 1991-2000 250 Chapter Eleven - the decade 2001-2010 270 Appendix (Tuatapere teachers and support staff 1910-2010) 308 Bibliography 310 Important note: The stories presented in this compilation are placed as closely as possible to the year and time in which they took place. In many cases however this has required an “intelligent guess” based on scant information available to the author. For example, if someone related an incident from “the early 1950s” the story may have been placed somewhere between 1950 and 1953." END OF SECTION TEXT These entries will be added to as more pages and chapters are entered into the Community Archives from the above book. And these will be numbered consecutively. If you or anyone you know has any more information or photos to share or accounts of early Tūātapere during the years, please do share this with us in the comments section. You can do this by making a comment in the space provided under the image page. Or you can make contact with us as per the archive front page.