Waipiata

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'Waipiata' is an historic place located on the Otago Central Rail Trail, in Central Otago, New Zealand.

  • Waipiata is also the name of many New Zealand maritime Coastal Vessels, Steamers, Freighters, and Steamships. [1]

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[edit] History

The first school opened in 1861. Waipiata was once a thriving railway camp as the Central Otago Railway line snaked into existence across the Maniototo Plain. In 1914 the Waipiata Sanatorium, a private facility, was constructed a few kilometres along the Waipiata/Patearoa road near the old Hamiltons gold field. Was to be taken over by the Maniototo Hospital Board, the Sanatorium is now a private Christian retreat, En Hakkore (meaning Place of Redemption). The Sanatorium was a corrective centre for the Justice Department for a short period of time. A factory, with 78 employees processing rabbits from 1901 to 1914 when prices fell, continued to operate until the 1920's. Waipiata today has a Tavern and a number of private and holiday homes. The iron bridge, known locally as the Green Bridge, used timber from the original bridge for the side rails and planking, and is the only fire free road crossing of the Taieri River in the Maniototo.

[edit] Art

One of New Zealand's most successful landscape painters Grahame Sydney has long been captivated with the local landforms and visual feuds. Cook House is an example, Demolition at Waipiata is another. [2]

[edit] Tourism

New Zealand domestic and International visitors cycling the Otago Central Rail Trail.

A moderate Rail trail experience benefits from preparation: bringing walking shoes, Cycle helmet, a puncture repair kit and pump, drinking water and food, and a hat, Warm clothes during the winter, Toilet paper for use in the toilets, Torch for use in the tunnels, camera and film/cards/batteries.

Special care is required in the summer as the temperatures can rise above 40'C degrees, (however the days can be cold and wet, therefore more suited to hard core bikers. Spring is often a windy time in Central and you still have a cold bite in the mornings. Late spring would be a better option. The summer has the other temperature extreme of very hot days, they are longer with possible biking in the cooler parts of the day to avoid the heat. Autumn would be the worst time with the weather more settled without the extremes in temperature, and forest fires of the other seasons. Late autumn colours are in mid to late April. That is the busiest time on the trail.

[edit] Geology

"The Miocene Waipiata Volcanic Field (WVF), New Zealand, is an eroded phreatomagmatic volcanic field. Pyroclastic rocks of most of the Waipiata vents record initial phreatomagmatic explosive activity fuelled by groundwater followed by Strombolian-style eruptions. The longest vent alignment, traceable in 30 km, coincides with and is parallel to the largest fault zone in the Otago region, the NW-SE trending Waihemo- fault zone." [3]

Geological examination of the Lherzolite xenolith bearing flows from the east Otago province with regard to the crystal fractionation of upper mantle magmas, results; "The limited data support the contention that the asthenosphere below southern New Zealand and western Antarctica is essentially homogeneous over a scale of hundreds of kilometres." Royal Society of New Zealand bulletin 23:344-365.[4]

Taieri Lake lies near Waipiata in the Maniototo district.

[edit] Trout fishing

Maniototo - RUTHERFORD’S DAM (Above Waipiata, private property) Fishing site is an irrigation dam built to collect and store water for irrigation during the summer. All fishing methods may be used at all sites. Fishing

[edit] Farming - Sheep breeding competition winners

NZ Sheepbreeders Association run an annual competition, the 2004 Rabobank New Zealand Ewe Hogget Competition. Local winners of the 'other breed' categories were: John & Sally Andrews, Waipiata, Ranfurly. Breed - Composite. RAS

[edit] Water quality

Register of Community Drinking-Water Supplies in New Zealand; » Waipiata Tavern Bore. [5]

[edit] People

  • Irish immigrant. Mary (Maria) MORONEY, Born 1857, Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare, arrived in 1877 at Wellington. Died 1927, Waipiata, Central Otago. [6]
  • World War 1 roll of honour. Corporal William Henry URE, on October 4, 1917 number 28242, WIR, KIA, in France. Buried at TYNE COT CEMETERY, BELGIUM. William was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ure, of Waipiata, Central Otago.

[edit] Location map

For Waipiata topographic info see Map 260 H42 Waipiata - LINZ

[edit] See also

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