Tangiteroria

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Tangiteroria

Tangiteroria is a small rural community in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located halfway between Whangarei and Dargaville on State Highway 14 on the banks of the Northern Wairoa river.

It consists of a primary school, service station, pub, Catholic church, marae, community centre (pot luck dinner once a Month on a Friday), the local cricket team, play either Kirikopuni or Pukehuia once a week through the summer.

Kirikopuni and Pukehuia both had railway ststions on the Dargaville Branch for the movement of stock throughout Northland and a passenger service this small rural town has a school with all the requirement that was well ahead of most in the 60's and the local farmers would ride their horse to the window and order their beer and pies while the stock was passing as a rugby area games were a yearly event against Tangiwaihine also netball in a paddock with a hangi to follow and drinks in someones woolshed.

[edit] History

A Wesleyan mission station was set up by James Wallis in 1836,^[1] and then run by James Buller.^[2] The station lasted until 1853.^[3] Kauri logs were sent down the river to be milled in the mid 1860s.^[4] A flax mill operated in the late 19th century.^[5]

A steamer service up the Wairoa River was established to Tangiteroria by the Tangihua in 1878, and Watson's Landing and store flourished there in 1881. The S.S. Blanche ran a service between Dargaville and Tangiteroria in 1891-2, and the S.S. Ethel was doing the run twice a week in 1896. It was replaced by the S.S. Naumai from 1903-1920. The service finished in 1929^[6] Road access was established in the 1890s.^[7]

[edit] Education

Tangiteroria School is a coeducational full primary (years 1-8) school with a decile rating of 5 and a roll of 39.^[8] The school was established in 1886.^[9]