Taradale 1886-1986 Centenary Salute

TARADALE      1886 – 1986

Centenary salute

1 A Daily Telegraph publication      August 2, 1986

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Foreword:  With my own eyes
It is my privilege to provide the foreword to this special publication marking the centenary of the Taradale Town Board.
My grand-uncle settled in Meeanee prior to 1866, and my father and mother came to Taradale in 1901.
I was born here nearly 80 years ago, and have seen the growth of the district from rural to urban over that period.
It was my good fortune to know some of the early settlers and later on to work with and live with their descendants.
I have among my collection of photographs one taken at the 50th anniversary of the town district in which are shown many of the descendants of the early settlers.  In those days we were a fairly close-knit community, small enough to know practically everyone.
Today, 50 years on, we are now a large part of the City of Napier, and have, perhaps, lost some of our identity.  Not all, however, and that is the reason for the present celebrations:  To keep alive the history of Taradale, and to do honour to those early settlers.
Part of the story will be reflected in the following pages.  The Maoris were, of course, in occupation of the time of the coming of the pakeha in the persons of Alley and Tiffen.  These two gentlemen were the original owners of the district, which they purchased from the government in 1858 for five shillings per acre.
From that time Taradale has been in the forefront of the cultural, social and sporting activities of the district.  Churches, schools and sporting clubs were established at an early date, several now being over 100 years old.
Today Taradale is a thriving community with a progressive shopping area and complete facilities for sporting and social life.  It is no longer a rural district of small farms and market gardens, but an urban part of Greater Napier.
Let us remember and do honour to those early settlers during our week of celebrations.
J. A. McDonald

FRONT COVER:  Mr Arthur Miller, last Mayor of Taradale and still thought of as the district’s “first citizen”, at the door of the former borough council chambers.  On August 11, he will provide over a re-enactment of the council’s last meeting before the merger with Napier.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:  Production of this publication has been greatly aided by access to the photo collection of the late Mr Doug Shearer and to the extensive research done for the Taradale Centennial Committee by Mrs Irene Lister.  Other important sources include the Hawke’s Bay Art Gallery and Museum, the 1919 publication Narrative of the Plains, the Taradale Town District golden jubilee booklet of 1936, and a history of the St Mary’s Meeanee and Greenmeadows Scholasticate produced in 1963.

Truly Taradale family
Mr T B (Tom) McDonald
Much of the early business and industrial development of Taradale was due to the industry and interest of the McDonald family, and business undertakings they established are still flourishing, enhancing the employment opportunities and economy of the district.
As a boy of 15, Tom McDonald obtained employment with a local wine maker named Steinmetz, and at the age of 21, when Steinmetz returned to Europe, Mr McDonald took over the undertaking, which at that time comprised 5¼ acres.
The name of the winery was changed from Steinmetz to McDonald’s.
Amalgamation with McWilliam’s Wines took place in 1962, with both companies retaining their identities until 1975 when Tom McDonald retired.
Other enterprises to benefit from the McDonald influences are McDonald Transport Co. Ltd. McDonald’s Supermarket and Waiohiki Sand and Shingle Co (now Napier-Taradale Shingle Co.).
Tom McDonald served as a member of the Hawke’s Bay Harbour Board for nine years.
He was president of the Hawke’s Bay Winemakers’ Association for 40 years, and is also past president of the Wine Institute of New Zealand and one of only two fellows of the institute still living.  Only four fellows have been appointed during the institutes history.
He was president of the Omarunui Bowling Club over 50 years ago, and president of the Hawke’s Bay Bowling Centre in 1941, and holds life membership of the Taradale Rugby Football Club, Taradale Cricket Club and Napier Park Racing Club.
He was awarded the OBE in 1974.
His father, Lewis McDonald, served two terms on the Taradale Town Board, being deputy chairman in 1911 and officiating at the opening of the original Taradale Town Hall.
The late Jack Macdonald also served on the Taradale Town Board and Hawke’s Bay Harbour Board.

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… to 1896

This engraving from the illustrated London News in the 1860s shows a chief speaking at Pa Whakairo, Waiohiki.  The chief was expressing uneasiness at European military preparations.
Donald McLean, leading representative of the European community, listened, and later explained that the precautions were against possible attack by rebel tribes from Waikato.
Sitting in the wheelbarrow is the chief Porokuru, too old and infirm to walk, but the first speaker.  The calabashes in the foreground contained cooked mutton birds for the visitors’ refreshment.
Pa Whakairo was burnt down in 1867, and a move to Pa Waiohiki was made soon afterwards.
– Hawke’s Bay Art Gallery and Museum photo

THE Greenmeadows Methodist Church, opened for worship in 1888.  The vestry extensions at left and rear were added early this century.  The present St Mark’s Church building was opened in April, 1968.

ANOTHER tiny building from the early days, but one with a rather different use – Taradale’s first lock-up.

Milestones along the way …
European settlement in the Greenmeadows – Taradale area began in 1858, when Henry Alley and H S Tiffen bought land there.
Alley named his property “Taradale” after his birthplace in County Meath, Ireland.  He built the district’s first house in 1860.
He subdivided a block of his land into half-acre and quarter-acre sections to form a new township also named “Taradale”.  It was advertised as “the prettiest and most remunerative township in Hawke’s Bay”.  Among the buyers were T Gebbie, W Harpham, H Howard and J Hammond.
Taradale’s warm climate and fertile soil soon attracted other settlers, including dairy farmers and market gardeners.
The township also played an important part in the district transport.  It was a starting point for bullock or horse teams on their way to sheep farming areas, notably Puketapu, Redcliffe, Tunanui and inland Patea.
Taradale, in common with most areas of the Heretaunga Plains, suffered during the great floods of 1893 1897 and 1924, and floods remained a danger until the diversion of the Tutaekuri River (1936) and the Ngaruroro River (1960s).
As its population grew, Taradale became a focus for social and cultural activities.  It acquired hotels, schools, churches, sports clubs and the like.
Presbyterian’s built Taradale’s first church in 1866.  All Saints’ Anglican (still in use) followed in 1875.  Roman Catholics belonged to Meeanee Parish (1858), one of the oldest Catholic parishes in New Zealand.  St Mary’s in Greenmeadows was built in the 1970s.
For its opening decades, Taradale enjoyed modest prosperity as a service town for adjacent farmers, Greenmeadows, a township founded by H S Tiffen’s land sales in 1855 and 1887, had a similar role.
Taradale became a town district in 1866, was declared a borough in 1953 and enjoyed another 15 years of rapid growth before its merger with Napier City in 1968.
The earthquake of February 3 1931, left a trail of destruction in the Taradale-Greenmeadows area, where 32 people lost their lives.  Among the buildings destroyed were the town hall, band rotunda, infant school, Omarunui Masonic Temple and Taradale Hotel.
The town clock, built in 1923 as a World War I memorial became a well known landmark.  After the 1931 earthquake it had a slant of over two feet, but the damage was repaired.
Taradale – Greenmeadows continues to grow, with new subdivisions for housing available, many on elevated sites on the western hills.  It is a popular suburb for incoming residents.
The population is now reckoned to be about 16,000.

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In settler days
Richard Neagle, one of the earliest settlers and a member of the first Taradale Town Board in 1886.   After marrying in Meeanee in 1865 and farming for a time at Wairoa he returned to Taradale where he was a butcher for a spell before taking up farming again.
Richard Neagle’s Meeanee Road home – typical of the settlers’ houses before the turn of the century, as the horse and gig were typical as family transport in those times.
BELOW:  A family wedding group at the Neagle home in 1906.

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… to 1896

Headed first board
John Drummond, chairman of the first Taradale Town Board, elected on December 20, 1886.  The other members were Robert Davidson, George Bradley, Richard Martin and Richard Neagle.

The original Taradale Road, seen from Napier Hill, above Northe Street.  In the middle distance is the road’s bridge across the Tutaekuri River.
Taradale Road was opened in 1874.  Before that, road access from Napier to Taradale and the farming areas beyond was via Awatoto and Meeanee.
Tolls were levied at first to pay for the new road’s construction and maintenance.
– Hawke’s Bay Art Gallery and Museum photo

TARADALE School, which opened on its present site, on August 18, 1879, under headmaster Mr James A Smith.
It was built originally to house 150 pupils.
Extra rooms were added in 1883 and 1898, and again in 1952 and 1963.
Soon after that the old school was demolished and replaced.

ALL SAINTS’ Anglican Church, opened in 1875 and still in use.  The schoolroom at right was completed first, in 1874.
Anglican worship in the area begun in the 1860s in the Presbyterian Church in Meeanee, and then was held in rooms in Gloucester Street owned by the Oddfellows Lodge before All Saints’ was built.

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1897 – 1906

Grape-picking at the Mission vineyards in Meeanee about 1905.
The mission’s vineyards were the first to be planted in New Zealand.
The men whose faces can be seen are, from left, Brothers Athansius, Eugene and Cyprian.  The boy is said to be Vincent McGlone, who later became Fr McGlone.

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1897 – 1916

THE Roman Catholic Church’s Hawke’s Bay Mission was first established at Pakowhai, in 1851, with the move to Meeanee being made in 1858.  The first little church separate from the mission buildings was erected in 1863 and extended in 1875 and again in 1892.
This picture of the church was taken across the grounds of the St Mary’s Scholasticate – the mission seminary – as they had been developed in 1905.  The statue is of Mary and Jesus, and the fountain had come from St Mary’s in Wellington.
But on the very day in 1905 on which it was blessed, yet another flood was occurring, with the water reaching the base of the statue’s pedestal.  In 1910 the scholasticate’s move to the higher ground at Greenmeadows was made.
St Mary’s Church remained at Meeanee.  In the 1940s, however, services were also held in St Joseph’s School, Guppy Road, and Reignier Hall, and the new St Mary’s in Osier Road was blessed in 1972.  In 1981 St Mary’s at Meeanee was leased to the Taradale Pottery Group.

A SECTION of the seminary on the move.  The contractors for the job were Messrs R Holt and Sons, of Napier.

MT ST MARY’S Seminary at Greenmeadows as it looked about 1915.

PAGE TEN

1907 – 1916

TARADALE’S first post office operated from the beginning of 1871 in James Barry’s general store, Meeanee Road, with Barry as postmaster.  It was later in several other shops till the government built this combined office and residence in 1911.  It was moved aside in 1985 to allow a new building to go up.

THE substantial Taradale Hotel pictured in the second decade of this century.  The building was ruined in the 1931 earthquake.  The first hotel, built of wood and known as the “Duke of Edinburgh”, was erected in 1869  and destroyed by fire in 1889, the building shown here going up in its place straight away.  The present single-storey hotel was put up in 1932.

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1907 – 1916

THE TARADALE TOWN ALL, built in 1911.  It consisted of a public hall seating 800, a supper room to accommodate 70 guests, a public library and reading room, librarian’s residence, town clerk’s office and town board chambers.

THE building in ruins after the 1931 earthquake.

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THE replacement town hall, opened in 1932.  Separate town board offices were built at the rear in 1934, and the main building was extended and renovated in 1978.

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1917 – 1926

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PAGE THIRTEEN

1917 – 1926

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PAGE FIFTEEN

1927 – 1936

THE chapel at Mt St Mary’s Seminary on February 3, 1931.  Two priests and seven students died amid the falling debris.

THE earthquake damage to the then newly completed kitchen and dormitory block at Mt St Mary’s.  The northern end had fallen 1.3 metres.  In one of the biggest jacking jobs done in New Zealand to that time, 18 hydraulic jacks, each able to lift at least 50 tons, were brought in to lift the ferro-concrete building and allow the reconstruction of its ground floor.

Quake takes its toll
Taradale and Greenmeadows suffered at least 21 deaths and much property damage in the Hawke’s Bay earthquake of February 3, 1981.
Nine were killed in the Mt St Mary’s Seminary chapel – two priests and seven students – and a Taradale woman visiting a former matron at the seminary was killed in the crumbling of the maids’ cottage.
A teacher was killed in St Joseph’s Convent, Guppy Road.  The building collapsed, and was not rebuilt.
Three children died when the brick infant school at Greenmeadows collapsed.  The school was replaced in wood.
The two-storey Taradale Hotel collapsed and a man outside was killed.
A child was killed when the Otatara homestead collapsed.
Three more Taradale residents died at their homes, a Taradale woman died in Napier, and another died in Hastings.
Also demolished in the Taradale town board area were the town hall, library and board offices, and damaged were the Masonic Hall, police station, Howard’s Garage and seven shops, while the town clock was left with a severe lean.

PAGE SIXTEEN

1927 – 1936

ALL that was left of the Taradale Hotel after the earthquake.
– Hawke’s Bay Art Gallery and Museum photo

EARTHQUAKE damage to the Redcliffe [Redclyffe] Bridge, which had been standing since 1881.  A new one was already in the planning stages, but this one was repaired to serve till the present concrete and steel structure was ready in July 1934.
– Hawke’s Bay Art Gallery and Museum photo

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1927 – 1936

ABOVE:  The present-day Taradale Hotel, built in 1932, in the style of the times, to replace the two-storey brick building destroyed in the earthquake.

LEFT:  The present Redcliffe Bridge, built of reinforced concrete and steel in 1934, is seen here being strengthened in 1975.

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PAGE EIGHTEEN

1927 – 1936

Golden Jubilee town board
The Taradale Town Board of 1936, the golden jubilee year.
From left:  Back row, J A Wilkinson, G D Webb, W G Jarvis (town clerk), and J Gilmour; front, F O Anderson, W H C Howard, J Williamson (chairman), J B Wainscott and Miss E M Jarvis (assistant clerk).
Taradale population at that time was 1206.

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PAGE NINETEEN

1927 – 1936

The Greenmeadows School building erected in 1932 to replace a brick one that was destroyed, with the loss of three pupils’ lives, in the 1931 earthquake.
The school traces back to private classes held in the Methodist Church and the back of Colwell’s store.
It became a public infant school, operating under the Taradale Primary School, in 1911, and the brick building was put up in 1921.
The school became independent of the Taradale one in 1945.

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PAGE TWENTY

1927 – 1936

Long service at Maori girls’ college
Sister Mary Crescentia photographed last month outside St Joseph’s Maori Girls’ College, Greenmeadows, of which she was principal from 1933 to 1935.
The school was established on a Napier Hill site in 1867 by the Sister of Our Lady of the Missions.
Opportunity was taken to change the site in 1935 when a new building became necessary, and the new school was opened in June, 1935.
At that stage Sister Mary Crescentia  recalls, the college had a staff of three and 38 pupils.
Now it has 230 pupils, about 20 teaching staff and about 30 part-time hostel staff.
Sister Mary Crescentia, after retiring as the college principal became head of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions in the North Island, but since retiring from that position in 1977 has returned to reside at St Joseph’s.  She is now in her early 80s.
In the 1962 New Year honours list she was made a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for community service and service to the Maori people.
Though most of her work at the school has been teaching, her activities have not been limited to the classroom.  They have also extended into the home and the community through contact with former students and their families.

AN EARLY picture of the college in Greenmeadows.

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PAGE TWENTY ONE

1937 – 1946

In 1945 Mr Gilbert Atkins took over the Taradale horse-and-cart milk delivery service which his father, Mr A P Atkins, in turn, had taken over from Mr W Chapman from 1938.
The service had begun about 1918, and horses were to continue to be used till Gilbert retired in November 1984.  It was the last such horse-and-cart service in New Zealand.
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Also in service at that stage were Meg, Kate, Dolly and Algie.
Even now Mr Atkins and his horse and cart have not been entirely lost of Taradale – they still frequently ply a shopping centre route carrying passengers of all ages.

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PAGE TWENTY TWO

1946 – 1956

The last Taradale Town Board before the area became a borough on October 1, 1953.  The members are, from left;  Back row, F G Shaw, A Stafford, J L Dean; front, R V Leman (town clerk), E V Howard, J F Ewan (chairman), C F Northe and Miss C E McCarthy (assistant clerk).  Absent:  B O Miller.  The borough began with a population of about 2900.

The pride of the Hawke’s Bay Motor Company’s fleet in 1948.

The first mayor and mayoress of Taradale borough, Mr and Mrs Fred Yeo.  Mr Yeo had been town board chairman from 1946  to 1950, and was borough mayor from 1953 to 1959.

The crest of the Borough of Taradale

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PAGE TWENTY FOUR

1957 – 1966

ONE of Napier’s most heavily used passive reserves, Anderson Park, at Greenmeadows was once Napier’s racecourse.
The Napier Park Racing Club set up its headquarters at the 40-hectare site in 1886 and it was a racecourse till 1961, when the club transferred its activities to the Hastings course.
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In 1931 the park area was the site of a vast field hospital for those injured in the earthquake.
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PAGE TWENTY FIVE

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PAGE TWENTY SIX

1957 – 1966

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“Watch your step my girl, or you’ll be married into that family too!”
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PAGE TWENTY SEVEN

Century of sport

Hurdler
NOTABLE sportsmen tracing to Taradale have included hurdler J M “Dutch” Holland (above).  He won a silver medal (440 yards hurdles) and a bronze (4 x 440 yards relay) at the Auckland Empire Games in 1950.
He also represented New Zealand at the Olympic Games in London in 1943 and in Helsinki in 1952, winning a bronze medal in the 400 metres hurdles in Helsinki.

Javelin-thrower
TARADALE javelin thrower Mike O’Rourke – Olympic and Commonwealth Games representative in the late 1970s and ’80s.  He won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada in 1978.

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Olympic Games boxer
PADDY DONOVAN, star product of the Greendale Boxing Club, won bronze medals for New Zealand at the 1958 and 1962 Empire Games, and also represented New Zealand at the Olympics in 1956 and 1964.
He is seen below (at left in the picture) having a workout with fellow New Zealand team member B Maunsell at the 1964 Olympics.
The Greendale club was formed in 1943, meeting first at the Labour Hall, then at the Napier Park racecourse, and later at Tommy Donovan’s barn.

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PAGE TWENTY EIGHT

Century of sport

Rugby
The Taradale Rugby Club can boast one of the best records in inter-city competition its 11 championship titles, bettered only by Napier Old Boys and Colenso Pirate.
Ten of those Maddison Trophy successes were between 1971 and 1983, with seven in succession from 1971.
The club was formed in 1898, has Taradale Park as its headquarters, and emerged as a senior force by winning its first senior title in 1947.
Taradale’s most celebrated player was 1963-64 and 67-70 All Black centre Bill Davis, who played for the club from 1962 to 1971.  Davis, a key member of Hawke’s Bay Ranfurly Shield teams of the late 1960s, played 53 times (including 11 tests) for his country.
He also achieved double All Black status by winning selection in New Zealand softball teams in 1973 and 1976.
Two members of this year’s senior Taradale rugby lineup, halfback Paul Blake and flanker Craig Ferguson, have gained national honours.  Blake has worn the New Zealand Maori jersey on several occasions, while Ferguson was a New Zealand colt and junior in the early 1980s.

Cricket
THE Taradale Cricket Club took many years to establish itself as a force in Hawke’s Bay senior competition but is now regarded as the club with the greatest strength and depth in the province.
The sport in Taradale had hazy beginnings, with reports that games were played as early as 1871, but the club was not formed till August 1, 1883.
Pictorial records show Taradale won the 1896-97 Hawke’s Bay junior championship, and the club finally achieved senior status in 1969-70.
Relegated for the 1976-77 season, Taradale made an emphatic comeback with recent New Zealand one-day wicketkeeper Ervin McSweeney (who subsequently moved to Wellington) leading the seniors to their first-ever Hawke’s Bay senior title the following season.
In recent seasons the club has concentrated on building a sound base and has international Martin Crowe as an affiliated member.  Because of heavy commitments, Crowe has made few visits to Napier, but the club also has a Young New Zealand representative in Scott Briasco, who is also a Central Districts batsman and Hawke’s Bay captain.
The club has also been a leader in the importing of English players in recent seasons.

THE 1981 Taradale senior rugby team, joint winners of the Maddison Trophy with Marist.  They are from left; Back row, Craig Faulknor, Craig Ferguson, Neil Porter, Brett Smith, John Tickner, Brent Deverell, Kit Brooks, Raymond Blake; middle row, Graham Lewis (coach), Scott Wedd, Rex Dolden, Kerry Kupa, Sean McKinley, Bobby Crawford, Rob Wheatley, Reka Eden, Phil Sivewright (manager); front row, Ralph Sparks (club captain), Bruce Lewis, Benton Bower, Tony Porter, Paul Balke (captain), Billy Henderson, Hugh Paterson, Mike Combs (club president).

Leading players from Taradale
B A Grenside, All Black 1928-29
E R G Steere, All Black 1928-31
R N Williams, All Black 1932
Bill Davis, All Black 1963-64 and ’67-70
Paul Blake, NZ Maori rugby rep.
Craig Ferguson, NZ rugby colt and junior
Scott Briasco “Young NZ” cricket cap
Ervin McSweeney, NZ “one-day” wicketkeeper.
THE Taradale senior cricket XI of 1976.  From left; Back row, D M Jamieson, R Lumsden, D Boyd, K Hawker, R Atkins, R Roy; middle row, C MacDonald (scorer), I Storkey, M Flavell, R Bryan, D Cleverley (coach); front row; G Smith, M Roche, Mr J Spence (president), R Hamilton.

PAGE TWENTY NINE

1957 – 1966

THREE descendants of participants in the Battle of Omarunui pictured on October 12, 1966, with Mr H Phillips, chairman of the Hawke’s Bay regional committee of the National Historic Places Trust, after he had placed a wreath to mark the centenary of the battle.
The battle was fought between European soldiers and settlers and Hawke’s Bay Maoris on the one side, and Hauhau invaders threatening to move on the town of Napier.|
Those shown with Mr Phillips are (front) Edward James and Miss E Hamlin, descendants of a European who fought in the battle, and Mr M R Tomoana, whose father had led local Maoris.
The memorial stands beside Omarunui Road, opposite the scene of the engagement.

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PAGE THIRTY

1967 – 1976

FIRST-DAY pupils at Taradale High School – 192 third-formers – lined up with teachers and guests in the school grounds on February 3, 1970.  Diane Willis had arrived at the entrance at 5.30am to earn the distinction of being the school’s first pupil.

MR R B TWADDLE, principal of Taradale High School from its 1970 opening till be retired in 1984.

MR J N MORRIS, principal of Taradale Intermediate School from its opening in 1967.  He is retiring this month.

THE Hawke’s Bay Community College under construction at the end of 1974.  It opened to its first classes of apprentices the following year.
This photograph shows temporary classroom blocks at right, the library (centre left), and the complete workshop block.
In 1939, Mr and Mrs F Hetley bought the old-established Otatara Estate at Taradale, and in 1960 Mrs Margaret Hetley, now widowed, gave 20 hectares to “the people of Hawke’s Bay” as a site for a university.
The gift was a memorial to her husband and to commemorate the Hawke’s Bay Centennial which had fallen in 1958.
The idea of a university for the region was modified to that of a “community college”, a new concept in tertiary education involving less than a university but more than a technical institute, and this project went ahead on the Hetley land.  It was to be the first community college in New Zealand. (See also Page 38).

PAGE THIRTY ONE

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PAGE THIRTY TWO

1967 – 1976

TARADALE’S first Presbyterian Church was in Meeanee Road, opposite John’s Road.  It was dedicated on September 30, 1866.
However, because of frequent flooding the church was moved in 1906 to Napier Road, now Gloucester Street. Traction engines were used to haul the building to the new site.
The original church was moved to the rear of the site in 1953 to make way for the construction of the new St Columba’s, which was designed by Mr R Martin Yeoman, built at a coast of $36,411, and dedicated on November 29, 1969.
A congregation of about 350 is seen here listening to the church’s minister, the Rev. Duncan Jamieson, who was at that time also moderator of the Hawke’s Bay Presbytery, at the dedication of the new church.
The exterior of the new St Columba’s.
THE old St Columba’s Church on its Gloucester Street site, flanked by its social hall, built in 1916, and manse.

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1967 – 1976

THE new St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Osier Road.
The church bought the land for it in 1969, but it was in October 1972 that the building was ready and blessed.
The complex now includes a parish house and hall.

‘Assistant mother’ to 4500
WHEN Sister Mabel Morris (pictured) retired as Taradale’s longest-serving Plunket nurse in 1970 she had been in the job since 1939, and “assistant mother” to about 4500 babies.
First moves to form a separate Taradale Plunket Society branch were made at the end of 1946 and the branch was founded a year or so later.
The Plunket rooms, which are also a World War 2 memorial, were officially opened in a delayed ceremony on February 17, 1952.
The memorial tablets were unveiled by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr W A Bodkin, and the rooms were declared open by Mrs Bodkin, who was the New Zealand president of the Plunket Society.

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PAGE THIRTY FOUR

1967 – 1976

COUNCILLORS and mayors at the final meeting of the Taradale Borough Council on March 26, 1968.  From left round the table they were: Councillors R A Bayliss, D O Haskell (Taradale Deputy Mayor), C G Thomas and L Morgan, Mr L V Leman (town clerk), Mr Peter Tait (Mayor of Napier), Mr A W Miller (Taradale Mayor), Mr A M Linton (Mayor of Rotorua), and councillors J Warnock, N G Cooper and B A O Marshall.

As a token of the union of Taradale Borough with Napier City, Mr Miller handed his chain of office to the Napier Mayor, Mr Peter Tait (now Sir Peter), during the final borough council meeting.
According to Dr M D N Campbell’s centennial history of Napier, Mr Miller and his council disliked the city’s proposal of a merger when it was put forward in 1963.
However, questions of road finance, and the prospects of additional subsidy money from the National Roads Board, persuaded them to change their minds, and Taradale residents finally approved the amalgamation in a March 1968 poll by 71 per cent to 29 per cent.
The amalgamation became official on April 1.
Taradale’s 6450 people lifted the population of Napier to 37,030, making it New Zealand’s tenth-largest city.

Taradale’s leaders
TOWN BOARD CHAIRMEN
J Drummond      1886 – 1890
Geo Rymer      1890 – 1892
W Waterhouse      1892 – 1894
W Harpham      1894 – 1896
I Jeffares      1896 – 1898
G Ridley      1898 – 1900
W Waterhouse      1900 – 1902
R J Pothan      1902 – 1904
W Waterhouse      1904 – 1908
W H C Howard      1908 – 1916
W G Jarvis      1916 – 1922
J Ellis      1922 – 1926
H W Whitton     1926 – 1928
R D Kelly      1928 – 1932
J Williamson      1932 – 1944
J F Ewan      1944 – 1946
F G Yeo      1946 – 1950
J F Ewan      1950 – 1953
BOROUGH MAYORS
F G Yeo      1953 – 1959
A W Miller      1959 – 1968

William Harpham
George Rymer

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PAGE THIRTY SIX

1977 – 1986

OUTSIDE and inside the Taradale Friendship Centre on the building’s opening day, August 12, 1977.
The building has been extended twice since – by six metres within six months of the opening, and six metres more in 1979.
Members recently voted to go ahead with a further $50,000 extension, subject to finance.
Membership, originally 9 currently stands at about 320.
The centre’s building in White Street, erected at a cost of $65,000, was opened by the MP for Hawke’s Bay, Mr Dick Harrison, later Sir Richard Harrison, Speaker of the House.
The centre was the brainchild of Mrs Hazel Wheatley (later Dawson), with the support of the Korokipo branch of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers.
Mrs Dawson is pictured speaking at the opening.  Sitting at far right is the then Napier MP Mr Gordon Christie.
The centre was set up to provide companionship and friendship for senior citizens, and to provide a hot meal each weekday at a reasonable cost.
Meals are prepared by voluntary groups and organisations.
The centre started in the Taradale Rugby Football Club gymnasium in 1973, then moved to the St John Ambulance hall before the move to have a building of its own.

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PAGE THIRTY SEVEN

1977 – 1986

DR GERALD ARBUCKLE, the then rector of Mt St Mary’s, in the seminary’s new library, built in 1980.

THE oldest book in the collection of rare editions at the seminary – an encyclopedia written in Latin and published in 1491, only 14 years after the invention of printing.  The library also has an edition of Thomas á Kempis of the imitation of Christ printed about that time.  The new library includes a temperature-controlled security room for the housing of these treasures.

IF IT’S history you want to find in Taradale and Greenmeadows you can’t do much better than go to the Mt St Mary’s Seminary, “the Mission”, as it is still widely known.
Not only does its own history trace back to the very earliest days of the district, with its establishment in Meeanee in 1858; it also claims for the observatory once associated with it the word’s first photograph of Halley’s Comet on its 1910 visit; and its library of 40,000 books includes some of the world’s rarest and oldest printed volumes.
Hinges on the doors of the new library building came from the old seminary chapel at Meeanee.

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PAGE THIRTY EIGHT

1977 – 1986

College’s tranquil setting
THE Hawke’s Bay Community College photographed in 1986 from the air.  Under construction to the right of the central block is a new administration building.  At the top right of the picture is the Redcliffe Bridge.

PAGE THIRTY NINE

1977 – 1986

CONTRACTOR for the new shopping precinct in Taradale’s Gloucester Street Mr Keith Hulena helping install seats as the work reached its final stages this week.

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August 2      Grand Parade, 11.30am
“Top school” contest, 1pm
August 7, 8, 9      Art and craft fair
August 10      Centennial celebration service, 2.30pm
August 11      Re-enactment of last Taradale Borough Council meeting, 7.30pm
August 14      Early Settlers’ day
Toastmasters v High School debate
August 16      International day, 12.30pm
August 19, 20      100 Years of Family Fashions
August 21, 22, 23      Antique Fair
August 23      RSA Concert Party concert
August 23, 24      Pottery exhibition and Mission Vinery display (at old St Mary’s Meeanee Road)
August 30      Centennial dinner and ball

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