Hinuera

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.

Hinuera
Location of Hinuera in New Zealand

Hinuera had a butter factory from 1922 to 1987.[1][2] Electric street lights were introduced in 1923.[3]

Geography

Hinuera Stone, or Ongatiti Ignimbrite,[4] is a Late Pleistocene,[5] light-brown rock containing angular fragments of pumice in a fine-grained ash matrix.[6] It has been quarried since at least 1893,[7] though not on the present scale until 1954,[4] and is sold as Hinuera Stone for cladding and other decorative uses.[8] The stone is soft enough to be quarried by cutting with saws.[9] One of the first houses built with Hinuera stone was the Bishop's House in Ponsonby in 1893.[10]

The Hinuera Gap, a geological feature stretching west and southwest from the locality towards Piarere, was in prehistoric times the path of the Waikato River, which had its outlet in the Firth of Thames. The river's course was altered to its current outflow by the massive Oruanui eruption about 26,500 years ago.[11] A remnant river, the Waitoa River, now flows through the gap, with its source lying less than one kilometre from the Waikato River, close to the junctions of SH1 and SH29.[12] The route of the latter of these roads takes it through the Hinuera Gap.

Demographics

Hinuera's area unit had these census results -[13]

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[14] off Hinuera Rd,[15] 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,[16] for additional turbines in the 1920s.[17] The station became staffed[1] and expanded to 3 tracks in 1919.[18] It closed to passengers on 12 November 1968 and to freight on 29 March 1981.[19]

Education

Hinuera School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students,[20][21] with a roll of 158 as of March 2020.[22]

The area's first official school, Mangawhara School, opened in 1908,[23] though the Education Board had a lease of a railway cottage from 1893.[24]

Notable people
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gollark: Just patch the interpreter?
gollark: GPUs do this, kind of. GPUs are fast. Therefore, do this.
gollark: Obvious objections:- "what do you even mean, gollark, that sounds like just ILP but stupider" - maybe, yes, the main difference being execution of separate bits of the program at once- "why did you just invent SIMD but worse, ish" - oops- "but cache contention" - too bad, consume bees
gollark: Well, the obvious* solution to program counter counterness is to just add more program counters, by which I mean hardware-accelerated greenerer threads with no context-switching overhead for more effectively utilizing execution units.

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

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