Takapau

Last updated

Takapau
Rural community
Takapau 1958.jpg
Takapau in 1958
Takapau
Coordinates: 40°02′S176°21′E / 40.033°S 176.350°E / -40.033; 176.350
Country New Zealand
Region Hawke's Bay
Territorial authority Central Hawke's Bay District
WardAramoana-Ruahine
Electorates
Government
 • Territorial Authority Central Hawke's Bay District Council
 • Regional council Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Area
[1]
 • Total3.18 km2 (1.23 sq mi)
Elevation
235 m (771 ft)
Population
 (June 2023) [2]
 • Total680
 • Density210/km2 (550/sq mi)

Takapau is a small rural community in the Central Hawkes Bay in New Zealand. It is located 20 kilometres west of Waipukurau, off State Highway 2, and has a population of more than 500. [3]

Contents

The original township was founded in 1876 by farmer Sydney Johnston from Oruawharo station. Johnston's family donated land for a school and churches, and built the local library, public hall and, later, Plunket rooms. Many streets are named after members of the family. [3]

Takapau was once the centre of a large flax milling industry, and the community takes its name from the flax that grew in the expansive Takapau plains. The Māori word translates literally as "mat" or "carpet". [3]

The largest business in Takapau is now the Silverfern Farms meat-processing plant, founded by the Hawke's Bay Farmers’ Meat Company in 1981. Kintail Honey, one of country's largest honey-packing and beekeeping operations, is also based in the town. [3]

There are two schools in Takapau. The Trappist monastery, the Southern Star Abbey, is also located nearby.

Demographics

Statistics New Zealand describes Takapau as a rural settlement, which covers 3.18 km2 (1.23 sq mi) [1] and had an estimated population of 680 as of June 2023, [2] with a population density of 214 people per km2. It is part of the larger Makaretu statistical area. [4]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
2006516—    
2013525+0.25%
2018597+2.60%
Source: [5]

Takapau had a population of 597 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 72 people (13.7%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 81 people (15.7%) since the 2006 census. There were 216 households, comprising 309 males and 288 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.07 males per female, with 126 people (21.1%) aged under 15 years, 102 (17.1%) aged 15 to 29, 261 (43.7%) aged 30 to 64, and 99 (16.6%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 71.9% European/Pākehā, 41.7% Māori, 2.5% Pacific peoples, 3.0% Asian, and 1.5% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 54.8% had no religion, 29.1% were Christian, 4.5% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.5% were Hindu, 0.5% were Muslim, 1.5% were Buddhist and 2.5% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 33 (7.0%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 150 (31.8%) people had no formal qualifications. 24 people (5.1%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 234 (49.7%) people were employed full-time, 51 (10.8%) were part-time, and 18 (3.8%) were unemployed. [5]

Marae

The local Rongo o Tahu Marae is a tribal meeting ground for the Ngāti Kahungunu hapū of Ngāi Toroiwaho. [6] [7]

Education

Takapau School is a Year 1–8 co-educational state primary school, [8] [9] with a roll of 121 as of February 2024. [10] [11] The school opened in 1879. [12]

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Takapau is a Year 1–8 is a co-educational state Kura Kaupapa Māori school, [13] with a roll of 23 as of February 2024. [10] [14] The school opened in 1994. [15]

Railway station

J Class loco at Takapau June 1901 Takapau with a J Class loco.jpg
J Class loco at Takapau June 1901

Takapau had a railway station from 12 March 1877 to 27 September 1981. [17] It was the terminus of the line from Spit for 10 months, until 25 January 1878, when the extension to Kopua opened. [18] Takapau at that time was on the northern edge of the Seventy Mile Bush. [19]

Edmund Allan and Samuel [20] Kingstreet [21] had a £14,100 contract to build the 14 mi (23 km) extension of the Napier to Waipukurau railway south to Takapau. [22] They built a 5th class station in 1875 and Donald McLeod, a Waipukurau carpenter, [23] built a goods shed and platform in 1877. Initially, only one train a day ran from Takapau. [24] In 1890 there were two trains a day. [25] There was a post office at the station from 1887 to 1911. By 1896 there were 30 ft (9.1 m) x 20 ft (6.1 m) and 40 ft (12 m) x 30 ft (9.1 m) goods sheds and also a cart approach, loading bank, cattle yards, stationmaster's house, urinals and a passing loop for 24 wagons, extended to 55 in 1911 and further extended in 1940. In 1905 a verandah was added and the platform extended. Electric lights were installed in 1921. Railway houses were built in 1928 and 1946. [17]

On 27 September 1981 [17] the old station closed and a new station [16] and loop line opened near Oruawharo, 3.78 km (2.35 mi) [26] to the east. [27] The loop is still in use, with sidings linking to the Silver Fern Farms works and a platform and shelter remain, [28] which appear weed-grown in a 2015 photo. [29] There has been no regular passenger train since at least 1995. [30] There is now only a single line passing through the original Takapau station site. [31]

There was also a passing loop at Whenuahou, 4 mi 42 ch (7.3 km) south of Takapau, which was originally used for construction of the viaduct to the south. [16]

 Former adjoining stations 
Kopua
Line open, station closed
9.36 km (5.82 mi)		  Palmerston North–Gisborne Line   Oruawharo
Line open, station closed
4.7 km (2.9 mi)

Climate

Climate data for Takapau (1991–2020)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)22.3
(72.1)		22.3
(72.1)		20.2
(68.4)		17.0
(62.6)		14.2
(57.6)		11.4
(52.5)		10.7
(51.3)		11.8
(53.2)		13.8
(56.8)		15.8
(60.4)		17.9
(64.2)		20.2
(68.4)		16.5
(61.6)
Daily mean °C (°F)16.7
(62.1)		16.8
(62.2)		14.8
(58.6)		12.1
(53.8)		9.9
(49.8)		7.6
(45.7)		6.8
(44.2)		7.6
(45.7)		9.3
(48.7)		11.2
(52.2)		12.9
(55.2)		15.1
(59.2)		11.7
(53.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)11.1
(52.0)		11.2
(52.2)		9.5
(49.1)		7.2
(45.0)		5.5
(41.9)		3.7
(38.7)		3.0
(37.4)		3.4
(38.1)		4.9
(40.8)		6.6
(43.9)		7.8
(46.0)		10.0
(50.0)		7.0
(44.6)
Average rainfall mm (inches)83.0
(3.27)		68.1
(2.68)		71.6
(2.82)		91.9
(3.62)		74.9
(2.95)		100.1
(3.94)		120.8
(4.76)		86.5
(3.41)		86.7
(3.41)		92.7
(3.65)		74.0
(2.91)		74.5
(2.93)		1,024.8
(40.35)
Source: NIWA [32]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rotorua</span> City in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

Rotorua is a city in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is sited on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua, from which it takes its name. It is the seat of the Rotorua Lakes District, a territorial authority encompassing Rotorua and several other nearby towns. It has an estimated resident population of 58,900, making it the country's 13th largest urban area, and the Bay of Plenty's second-largest urban area behind Tauranga.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ngāruawāhia</span> Town in Waikato, New Zealand

Ngāruawāhia is a town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Hamilton at the confluence of the Waikato and Waipā Rivers, adjacent to the Hakarimata Range. Ngāruawāhia is in the Hamilton Urban Area, the fourth largest urban area in New Zealand. The location was once considered as a potential capital of New Zealand.

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Te Awamutu</span> Town in Waikato, New Zealand

Te Awamutu is a town in the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the council seat of the Waipa District and serves as a service town for the farming communities which surround it. Te Awamutu is located some 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Hamilton on State Highway 3, one of the two main routes south from Auckland and Hamilton.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ōtorohanga</span> Town in Waikato, New Zealand

Ōtorohanga is a north King Country town in the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 53 kilometres (33 mi) south of Hamilton and 18 kilometres (11 mi) north of Te Kūiti, on the Waipā River. It is a service town for the surrounding dairy-farming district. It is recognised as the "gateway" to the Waitomo Caves and as the "Kiwiana Town" of New Zealand. Until 2007, Ōtorohanga held a yearly 'Kiwiana Festival.'

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Central Hawke's Bay District</span> Territorial authority district in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

Central Hawke's Bay District is in the Hawke's Bay Region in the North Island of New Zealand. Formed in 1989, it covers an area of 3,333 square kilometres, from Pukehou in the north to Takapau in the south, and from the western Ruahine Range to the Pacific coast in the east. It has a population of 16,000, up from 14,142 in the 2018 census and 12,717 in the 2013 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Waipawa</span> Town in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

Waipawa is the second-largest town in Central Hawke's Bay in the east of the North Island of New Zealand. It has a population of 2,400.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Putāruru</span> Town in Waikato, New Zealand

Putāruru is a small town in the South Waikato District and the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It lies on the western side of the Mamaku Ranges and in the upper basin of the Waihou River. It is on the Oraka Stream 65 kilometres south-east of Hamilton. State Highway 1 and the Kinleith Branch railway run through the town.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pukehou</span> Place in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

Pukehou is a farming locality in southern Hawke's Bay, in the eastern North Island of New Zealand.

Ōtāne is a town in the Central Hawke's Bay District and the Hawke's Bay region, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The small village, has a school, general store, cafe and pub, and is located just off State Highway 2.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Enderley</span> Suburb of Hamilton, New Zealand

Enderley is a suburb of Hamilton, New Zealand. It became a part of Hamilton in the 5th boundary extension in 1949. It is the highest ranking suburb for socio-economic deprivation in eastern Hamilton.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oruawharo Homestead</span>

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ormondville</span> Settlement in Manawatū-Whanganui Region, New Zealand

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Castlecliff</span> Suburb of Whanganui, New Zealand

Castlecliff is a suburb of Whanganui, in the Whanganui District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. The name was given by the Harbour Board, on the suggestion of the future Prime Minister, John Ballance, when it established the township on what were described as "barren sandhills" in 1882. Many of the streets were named after Harbour Board members. The northern harbour breakwater extended 900 ft (270 m) by 1885. The freezing works was built in 1891.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Longlands, New Zealand</span> Rural community in Hawkes Bay Region, New Zealand

Longlands is a rural community in the Hastings District and Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Island. The area is on the southern and western outskirts of Hastings city.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Te Aute railway station</span> Railway station in New Zealand

Opaparailway station is a preserved station on the Palmerston North–Gisborne Line in New Zealand's North Island that closed in 1981. It is in the Hastings District of Hawke's Bay, 23.56 km (14.64 mi) south of Hastings city, in a census meshblock with a population of only 222 in 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matamau</span> Place in Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand

Matamau is a small village, on a ridge between the Matamau and Whakaruatapu Streams, tributaries of the Manawatū River, 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.

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kopua railway station</span> Railway station in New Zealand

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 Manawatū River 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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Waipawa railway station</span>

From at least 1870 Waipawa was served by mail coaches running between Napier and Waipukurau.

References

  1. 1 2 "ArcGIS Web Application". statsnz.maps.arcgis.com. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Subnational population estimates (RC, SA2), by age and sex, at 30 June 1996-2023 (2023 boundaries)". Statistics New Zealand . Retrieved 25 October 2023. (regional councils); "Subnational population estimates (TA, SA2), by age and sex, at 30 June 1996-2023 (2023 boundaries)". Statistics New Zealand . Retrieved 25 October 2023. (territorial authorities); "Subnational population estimates (urban rural), by age and sex, at 30 June 1996-2023 (2023 boundaries)". Statistics New Zealand . Retrieved 25 October 2023. (urban areas)
  3. 1 2 3 4 Pollock, Kerryn. "Takapau". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  4. ↑ 2018 Census place summary: Makaretu
  5. 1 2 "Statistical area 1 dataset for 2018 Census". Statistics New Zealand. March 2020. 7016705, 7016706, 7016708 and 7016709.
  6. ↑ "Te Kāhui Māngai directory". tkm.govt.nz. Te Puni Kōkiri.
  7. ↑ "Māori Maps". maorimaps.com. Te Potiki National Trust.
  8. ↑ "Official School Website". takapau.school.nz.
  9. ↑ "Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
  10. 1 2 "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  11. ↑ "Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.
  12. ↑ "Takapau Primary School : 125th Jubilee". Auckland Museum. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  13. ↑ "Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
  14. ↑ "Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.
  15. ↑ "Hītori". Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Takapau. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  16. 1 2 3 Wheeler, Thomas S (1994). "All Aboard the Train" (PDF).
  17. 1 2 3 "Station Archive". NZR Rolling Stock Lists. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  18. ↑ "OUR HOME LETTER. HAWKE'S BAY HERALD". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 2 February 1878. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  19. ↑ "NAPIER AND TAKAPAU RAILWAY. HAWKE'S BAY HERALD". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 14 March 1877. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  20. ↑ "Family Notices". South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900). 16 May 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  21. ↑ "OBITUARY. OAMARU MAIL". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 20 December 1909. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  22. ↑ "Telegraphic Intelligence. HAWKE'S BAY TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 21 April 1874. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  23. ↑ "Personal Items. WAIPAWA MAIL". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 25 June 1908. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  24. ↑ "HAWKE'S BAY HERALD". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 30 April 1877. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  25. ↑ "TIME TABLE N. Z. RAILWAYS. WAIPAWA MAIL". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 6 March 1890. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  26. ↑ New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas (First ed.). Quail Map Co. 1965. pp. 3 & 4.
  27. ↑ "1:50000 map Sheet: U23 Dannevirke". www.mapspast.org.nz. 1985. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  28. ↑ "465 Oruawharo Rd". Google Maps. December 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  29. ↑ Anthony 851 (25 January 2015), Takapau Railway Station. , retrieved 3 September 2021{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  30. ↑ 23 April 1995 Bay Express timetable.
  31. ↑ "4 Takapau-Ormondville Rd". Google Maps. July 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  32. ↑ "CliFlo – National Climate Database : Takapau Plains Aws". NIWA. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.