Hinuera

Hinuera
Location of Hinuera in New Zealand

Hinuera is a settlement in the Waikato Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located along State Highway 29, approximately halfway between the cities of Hamilton and Tauranga. It also contains the Hinuera cliffs along State Highway 29.

Mangawhara School opened in 1908,[1] though the Education Board had a lease of a railway cottage from 1893.[2] Electric street lights came in 1923.[3]

Hinuera had a butter factory from 1922[4] to 1987.[5]

James Cotter, MLC was from Hinuera.

Demographics

Hinuera's area unit had these census results -[6]

Year Population Households Average income National average
2001 891 297 $27,200 $18,500
2006 891 324 $32,800 $24,100
2013 906 336 $37,900 $27,900

Railway station

Hinuera was a flag station[7] off Hinuera Rd,[8] on the Kinleith Branch, from 8 March 1886. The station was renamed from Mangawhara to Hinuera on 1 April 1897. It was used as a transfer point during construction of Horahora power station in 1911,[9] for additional turbines in the 1920s.[10] The station became staffed[4] and expanded to 3 tracks in 1919.[11] It closed to passengers on 12 November 1968 and to freight on 29 March 1981.[12]

Hinuera Stone

Hinuera Stone, or Ongatiti Ignimbrite,[13] is a Late Pleistocene,[14] light-brown rock containing angular fragments of pumice in a fine-grained ash matrix.[15] It has been quarried since at least 1893,[16] though not on the present scale until 1954,[13] and is sold as Hinuera Stone for cladding and other decorative uses.[17] The stone is soft enough to be quarried by cutting with saws.[18] One of the first houses built with Hinuera stone was the Bishop's House in Ponsonby in 1893.[19]

References

  1. ↑ "The Waikato Argus [published Daily.] a Guaranteed Circulation of Over 8000 Weekly. Monday, July 27, 1908". 1908-07-27. p. 2. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  2. ↑ "Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives — 1893 Session I — D-14 Page 13". atojs.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  3. ↑ "HINUERA. (Matamata Record, 1923-05-07)". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  4. 1 2 "HINUERA. (Matamata Record, 1924-11-10)". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  5. ↑ Waikato Times (19 May 2007). "Te Poi's buzzing and Big John is smiling". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  6. ↑ "2013 Census map – QuickStats about a place". www.stats.govt.nz. Retrieved 2015-10-27.
  7. ↑ "Page 6 Advertisements Column 2". New Zealand Herald. 1886-08-21. p. 6. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  8. ↑ "Sheet N066 Matamata". www.mapspast.org.nz. 1944. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  9. ↑ "HINUERA. (Waikato Argus, 1911-09-27)". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  10. ↑ "HINUERA. (Matamata Record, 1924-12-01)". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  11. ↑ "DISTRICT NEWS (Waikato Times, 1919-12-05)". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  12. ↑ Scoble, Juliet (2010). "Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations" (PDF). Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand.
  13. 1 2 "International Inter-INQUA Field Conference and Workshop on Tephrochronology, Loess, and Paleopedology" (PDF). February 1994.
  14. ↑ Briggs, R.M. "GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND 1981 CONFERENCE" (PDF). University of Waikato.
  15. ↑ McLean, Alastair; Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Hinuera ignimbrite". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
  16. ↑ "THROUGH WAIKATO. (New Zealand Herald, 1893-05-06)". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
  17. ↑ "Hinuera Stone Specialists Ltd. - The Quarry". www.hinuerastone.co.nz. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
  18. ↑ "The other Quarrying Dimension". Institute of Quarrying. 2006-06-16. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  19. ↑ "Bishop's House (Catholic)". www.heritage.org.nz. Retrieved 2018-07-15.

Coordinates: 37°52′48″S 175°45′40″E / 37.880°S 175.761°E / -37.880; 175.761

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