Normanby, Taranaki

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Normanby is a small village in South Taranaki, New Zealand. It is approximately 5 km inland from Hawera along State Highway 3. At the 2001 census, there were 873 people living in Normanby and its surrounding hinterland. The town was founded at the site of the Waihi redoubt, which was established as a field headquarters in September 1866 by colonial military forces fighting Hauhau Māori in the Second Taranaki War^[1][2]

Contents 1 Ketemarae Pa 2 References 3 External links 4 Further reading 4.1 General historical works 4.2 Business history 4.3 Churches 4.3.1 Presbyterian 4.4 Maps 4.5 People 4.6 Schools

[edit] Ketemarae Pa

Located near Normanby is Ketemarae Pa, a local historic centre for Maori settlement. It is an entry point for the Whakaahurangi track to Kairoa Pa, near Lepperton. This track linked northern and southern Taranaki before British settlement.^[3][4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Statistics NZ: Normanby Community Profile
• Map of Normanby census ward

[edit] Further reading

[edit] General historical works

• Fryer, Arthur (2001), Normanby and its school, 1876-2001, Normanby, [N.Z.]: Normanby School 125th Jubilee Committee, ISBN 0-473-07470-2 

[edit] Business history

• Records pertaining to Gibsons Ltd. (a Patea business, with a branch in Normanby) are held at South Taranaki District Museum in Patea. For a summary of these records, see Gibsons Ltd, Patea (A1). Retrieved on 2008-01-11.

• Normanby Co-operative Dairy Factory Company Limited (incorporated 28th August, 1884): jubilee 1897-1944., n.p.: n.p., 1944 

[edit] Churches

[edit] Presbyterian

• Normanby, Okaiawa, Ararata Presbyterian church centennial 1879-1979, Hawera, [N.Z.]: Centennial Committee, 1979 

[edit] Maps

• The township of Normanby: for sale by public auction ... 1st November, 1875., Wellington, [N.Z.]: Lyon & Blair, 1875 

[edit] People

• Records pertaining to John Hall (a settler with written recollections of the development of Normanby) are held at Puke Ariki. For a summary of these records, see Hall, John (B884). Retrieved on 2008-01-11.

[edit] Schools

• Normanby School Centennial Jubilee committee: schedule of enrolments no. 1, n.p.: n.p., 1976 
• School Index: Normanby School 1876-1984, Ohangai 1906-1984, n.p.: n.p., 1984 
• A short history of the Normanby School: being extracts from log books etc 1876-1936 (compiled by the school children on the occasion [sic] of the Diamond Jubilee 20/3/36), Normanby, [N.Z.]: Normanby School, 1936 
• Free, Edna A. (1956), Normanby School eightieth jubilee, 1876-1956: souvenir programme : Normanby, Taranaki, 4th, 5th, and 6th May 1956, Normanby, [N.Z.] ; Hawera, [N.Z.]: Normanby School Jubilee Committee ; Hawera Star Print 
• Free, Edna A. (1976), Normanby School centennial, 1976, Normanby, Taranaki, 7th, 8th, 9th May 1976, Normanby, [N.Z.] ; Eltham, [N.Z.]: Normanby School Centennial Committee ; Rosen Argus 
• Fryer, Arthur (2001), Normanby and its school, 1876-2001, Normanby, [N.Z.]: Normanby School 125th Jubilee Committee, ISBN 0-473-07470-2 

Coordinates: 39°32′S, 174°16′E

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