Okato

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Okato is a small township in rural Taranaki, New Zealand, and has a population of about 520 people. It is situated about 25 minutes around the coast from New Plymouth on State Highway 45. The place offers popular rocky surfing spots around coastal beaches. Okato has a rich art community, with names like Dale Copeland, Alby Carter, Graham Kirk, Peter Lambert, Waldo, Paul Hutchinson and many others being from there.

Okato has all the elements of a vibrant New Zealand rural community: with sporting facilities (rugby grounds, bowling club, squash courts, tennis courts and swimming pool), Coastal Taranaki School, a local police station, and a volunteer fire brigade.

Okato was also notable as the home of Okato Cheese which was manufactured by the Okato Co-operative Dairy Company. This manufacturing site closed some years after merging to Egmont Co-operative Dairy.

Activities in the Okato area include the Stony River walkway which affords a number of wonderful locations to take photos of Mt Taranaki

Contents 1 Further reading 1.1 General historical works 1.2 Arts and literature 1.3 Business history 1.4 Churches 1.4.1 Anglican 1.4.2 Methodist 1.5 Maori 1.6 Maps 1.7 New Zealand wars 1.8 People 1.9 Schools

[edit] Further reading

[edit] General historical works

• History and reminiscences of Okato: Okato 100, 1865-1965, Okato, [N.Z.] ; New Plymouth, [N.Z.]: Okato Centennial Committee ; Taranaki Newspapers, 1965 
• Kahui-Newall School and districts, 75th jubilee, n.p.: Newall-Kahui Jubilee Committee, 1982 
• Hickford, Lawrence D. (1978), The land I have lived in and Okato as I knew it: reflections and recollections, New Plymouth, [N.Z.]: Taranaki County Council ; Taranaki Newspapers 
• Rye, K.J. (1990), Okato jubilee: 125 years, 1865-1990, Okato, [N.Z.]: Okato 125th Jubilee Committee 
• Skinner, W. H. et al. (1935), History and reminiscences of the Okato district written by W.H. Skinner, W.K. Howitt and residents of the district and republished from the "Taranaki Herald" on the occasion of the septuagenary celebrations and re-union, 1865-1935, New Plymouth, [N.Z.]: Taranaki Herald 

[edit] Arts and literature

• Virtual TART: art from Taranaki, New Zealand (CD-ROM), Okato, [N.Z.]: Puniho Art Press, 1999 
• Virtual TART: art from Taranaki, New Zealand (CD-ROM), Okato, [N.Z.]: Puniho Art Press, 2000 
• Copeland, Dale (1993), Book binding - an introduction, Puniho, [N.Z.]: Dale Copeland 
• Copeland, Dale (1994), Book binding - an introduction (revised and expanded), Puniho, [N.Z.]: Dale Copeland 
• Copeland, Dale (1995), Assemblage art: careful constructions of treasured articles, 1995, Puniho, [N.Z.]: Dale Copeland 
• Copeland, Dale (1995), The second half, Puniho, [N.Z.]: Dale Copeland 
• Copeland, Dale (1998), The Bridgeman collection: Doreen and Noel Bridgeman, 1998, Puniho, [N.Z.]: Puniho Art Press 
• Copeland, Dale (2001), Assemblage 100: a New Zealand exhibition celebrating the centenary of Joseph Cornell's birth, Okato, [N.Z.]: Puniho Press 
• Copeland, Dale & Guthrie, Pip (2001), The art of riding a camel (art and words from a determined optimist), Puniho, [N.Z.]: Dale Copeland 
• Dowding, Lesley (c.2003), Coat tales [sound recording], Okato, [N.Z.]: Lesley Dowding 
• Hutchinson, Toby (1994), The silver bird, Puniho, [N.Z.]: Dale Copeland 

[edit] Business history

• Okato and Puniho Co-operative Dairy Factory Company (1955), Golden jubilee, 1905-1955, New Plymouth, [N.Z.]: McLeod and Slade 

[edit] Churches

[edit] Anglican

• The centenary of St Paul's Church, Okato, 1897-1997 amd Okato Methodist Church (St Luke's), 1898-1998, Okato, [N.Z.]: Okato Co-operating Parish, 1997, ISBN 0-473-04613-X 

• One suspects that the date of this title (from the National Bibliographic Database) is very likely mistaken.

• Clemance, H.J. (1972), Saint Paul's, Okato: seventy-fifth jubilee of the parochial district, Okato, [N.Z.]: St. Paul's Anglican Parish 

[edit] Methodist

• The centenary of St Paul's Church, Okato, 1897-1997 amd Okato Methodist Church (St Luke's), 1898-1998, Okato, [N.Z.]: Okato Co-operating Parish, 1997, ISBN 0-473-04613-X 

• One suspects that the date of this title (from the National Bibliographic Database) is very likely mistaken.

[edit] Maori

• Prickett, Nigel (1983), Maori fortifications of the Okato District, Taranaki, Auckland, [N.Z.]: Auckland Institute and Museum 
• Smith, Lee & Benton, Richard (1982), The Maori language in New Plymouth and Okato / Purongorongo whakamohio ma nga kaiuru ki te toronga tuatahi, 1973-1978 [Information bulletin (Survey of Language Use in Maori Households and Communities) ; 7 ], Wellington, [N.Z.]: New Zealand Council for Educational Research 

[edit] Maps

• Town of Okato, Cape Survey District [Scale = 1:4 752 (i.e. 1/13.3 in. to the mile)], Wellington,[N.Z.]: New Zealand Department of Lands & Survey, 1906 

[edit] New Zealand wars

• The diaries of the local farmer Alexander Cassie are held at Puke Ariki. Access to them is restricted, but they contain the reminiscences of veterans of the New Zealand Wars and the Parihaka incident. See Cassie, Alexander, 1900- (B873). Retrieved on 2008-01-12.

[edit] People

• Okato man Malcolm Belcher published the following item:

• Belcher, Malcolm N. (1980), An open letter to whom (for the sake of humanity) it must (somehow be made to) concern (our New Zealand members of Parliament), Okato, [N.Z.]: M.N. Belcher 

• The diaries of the local farmer Alexander Cassie are held at Puke Ariki. Access to them is restricted, but they contain childhood reminiscences and incidents from the 1910s. See Cassie, Alexander, 1900- (B873). Retrieved on 2008-01-12.

• Some papers of the Okato doctor H. M. Levinge are held at the University of Auckland Library. They are concerned with his research into the chemical properties of the wood of the northern rata (Metrosideros robusta). See Levinge, H. M. (A855). Retrieved on 2008-01-12.

• The Okato doctor Tom Mulholland has published the following books:

• Mulholland, Tom (2003), Healthy thinking: how to turn life's lemons into lemonade, New Plymouth, [N.Z.]: Zenith Publishing 
• Mulholland, Tom (2003), Healthy thinking: your prescription for success, New Plymouth, [N.Z.]: New Challenge Press, ISBN 1-877-32810-3 

• The papers of the local historian and farmer Marc Voullaire are held at Puke Ariki.. This collection contains research carried out on the Taranaki dairy industry, the missionary station of Johann Riemenschneider (and other matters), and can be seen at Voullaire, Marc Frederic, 1885-1964 (B900). Retrieved on 2008-01-11.

[edit] Schools

• Kahui-Newall School and districts, 75th jubilee, n.p.: Newall-Kahui Jubilee Committee, 1982 
• Okato District High School and College, 1950-2000: 50th anniversary, Christchurch, [N.Z.]: Legacy Books, 2000 

Coordinates: 39°12′S, 173°53′E