Waipukurau is the largest town in the Central Hawke's Bay District on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on the banks of the Tukituki River,7 kilometres south of Waipawa and 50 kilometres southwest of Hastings.
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited was once the biggest shipping line in the southern hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer. It was incorporated by James Mills in Dunedin in 1875 with the backing of a Scottish shipbuilder,Peter Denny. Bought by shipping giant P&O around the time of World War I it was sold in 1972 to an Australasian consortium and closed at the end of the twentieth century.
The 1924 Chatham Cup was the second annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.
Edward "Hone" Tyne (1879-1959) was a New Zealand rugby footballer who was part of the professional 1907-1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain.
Edmund Giblett Allen (1844–1909) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
William Cowper Smith was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
Kisber was a Hungarian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1875 to 1876 he ran seven times and won three races. In the summer of 1876 he became the third of six horses to win both The Derby and the Grand Prix de Paris. He was the second foreign-bred horse,after Gladiateur in 1865,to win the Derby:he remains the only Hungarian-bred horse to do so. At the end of the season he was retired to stud.
Blair Athol (1861–1882) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted little more than three months in the summer and autumn of 1864,he ran seven times and won five races including one walk-over. His wins included The Derby and the St Leger. Despite the brevity of his racing career,he was regarded by contemporary experts as one of the best British racehorses of his era and arguably the greatest horse ever trained in the North of England. He went on to become a highly successful stallion,siring the winners of many races.
William Arthur Greener Penlington was a New Zealand school principal and educationalist.
Oruawharo Homestead is an historic homestead built in 1879 in Takapau,Central Hawke's Bay,New Zealand. It was designed by Wellington architect Charles Tringham in the Italianate style and built from native timbers for Sydney and Sophia Johnston by Sydney's father,the politician and merchant John Johnston. Johnston senior of Wellington was the original purchaser of the run in the 1850s. Sydney Johnston had the nearby Takapau township surveyed in 1876.
The Northern Steam Ship Company Ltd (NSS) served the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand from 1881 to 1974. Its headquarters,the Northern Steam Ship Company Building,remains in use on Quay Street,Auckland as a bar and is listed by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I Historic Place.
Ormondville is a locality in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located inland,south of Waipukurau and west of Flemington,Hawke's Bay.
SS Go Ahead was a twin screw-steamer,launched on the afternoon of Saturday 20 April 1867 by Seath and Connell,of Rutherglen,for the Clyde Shipping Company,with a plan to use her in New Zealand coastal trading. She had 30,or 35 hp (26 kW),high pressure engines,and tubular boilers from Campbell &Son's foundry.
Matamau is a small village,on a ridge between the Matamau and Whakaruatapu Streams,tributaries of the ManawatūRiver,in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. State Highway 2 and the Palmerston North–Gisborne line run through the village. It has a rare surviving example of a basic railway station,a cafe,developed from the former post office and store about 1969,and a truck repair workshop. Until the 1870s it was densely forested,but most of the trees were felled and milled by 1910 and replaced by farms.
Makotuku is a locality in the Manawatu-Whanganui Region of New Zealand's North Island,about 3 km2 (1.2 sq mi) west of Ormondville.
Hatuma is 7 km (4.3 mi) south of Waipukurau,in Central Hawke's Bay in the east of the North Island of New Zealand. Meshblock 7016748,which covers 19.3 km2 (7.5 sq mi) from the edge of Waipukurau to Marakeke,had a population of 153 in 2018.
Kopua in New Zealand is now a sparsely populated area,immediately south of the border of the Manawatū-Whanganui and Hawke's Bay regions,with 150 people scattered over a 40 km2 (15 sq mi) meshblock. For two years it briefly flourished as a village,centred on a railway station on the Palmerston North–Gisborne line,opened on 25 January 1878,when it became the southern terminus of the line from Napier and Spit. Building to the south was delayed by the need to erect 3 large viaducts over the ManawatūRiver and its tributaries,so the extension to Makotuku didn't open until 9 August 1880. Kopua then declined until the station closed on 8 May 1977. Only a single line now passes through the station site and there are remnants of cattle yards.
Piripiri is a sparsely populated area in the Tararua District,in the Manawatū-Whanganui Region,on State Highway 2 and the Palmerston North–Gisborne line. It is 3 mi 8 ch (5.0 km) north of Dannevirke,and has 150 people scattered over a meshblock of 21.8 km2 (8.4 sq mi).
Rissington is a farming settlement 15 km (9.3 mi) north west of Napier,New Zealand. It lies in Hawke's Bay Region,between Sherenden and Napier,in the Mangaone River valley,on the road to Patoka and Puketitiri. A fire station,cemetery and a war memorial are the only remaining public structures,but it once had several more and was home to the country's first Women's Institute,co-founded by Amy Hutchinson and Bessie Spencer.
