Rawene

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Rawene
Geographical location
Rawene (New Zealand)
Rawene
Coordinates 35 ° 24 ′  S , 173 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 35 ° 24 ′  S , 173 ° 30 ′  E
Region ISO NZ-NTL
Country New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
region Northland
District Far North District
Ward Kaikohe-Hokianga Ward
Residents 471 (2013)
height 30 m
Post Code 0473
Telephone code +64 (0) 9
Photography of the place
Rawene from the water.jpg
Rawene by ferry from the Hokianga Harbor seen from
This building was originally the site of a carpenter's workshop that made doors, windows and coffins.

Rawene is a village in the Far North District of Northland on the North Island of New Zealand .

geography

The village is located around 51 km west of Kawakawa , around 83 km northwest of Whangarei and around 68 km north-northwest of Dargaville , on the tip of a headland, the north side of which extends into Hokianga Harbor . To the west of the village is the estuary with the estuary of the Omanaia River and east of the village of the estuary with the estuary of the Waima River .

history

To 1900

Rawene emerged in the early 19th century as a logging center with sawmills and shipyards. An attempt at settlement by the first New Zealand Company in 1826, however, failed. Captain of the Providence , James Herd , had in 1822 with his ship the first Kauri -Baumstämme from the area around the Hokianga Harbor fetched. When he returned to Hokianga Harbor on the Rosanne in 1825 as an agent of the New Zealand Company , 60 settlers who wanted to settle on the banks of the water accompanied him on the Rosanne and the Lampton . Herd negotiated the purchase of a large area on land, the contract of which, however, was considered controversial. For decades the settlers referred to the area as “ Herd's Point ”. Later it was named " Hokianga Township " and in 1884 the name " Rawene ", possibly to identify the post office and the telegraph office . The post office was in service from 1845 and was one of a total of eight post offices in the entire country at the time.

In 1862, James Reddy Clendon , previously consul of the United States in New Zealand, settled in Rawene and served as magistrate under the Native Circuit Courts Act until 1867 . His house is now open to the public as a museum and is managed by Heritage New Zealand .

In 1872 Rawene owned two hotels and two shops. There was a Methodist Church in which the Roman Catholics used a section. In the so-called Dog Tax War of 1898, Rawene was evacuated as tax rebels threatened to move against the place. On May 5, 1898, 120 men moved from Rawene to Waima to fight the revolting. However, the dispute was settled without her.

From 1900

In 1910 a small rural hospital was built in Rawene . George McCall Smith presided over the hospital from 1914 to 1948 and developed a unique system of health care for the Hokianga area . Smith began practicing "painless childbirth" in the early 1930s by anesthetizing the barbiturate Nembutal in conjunction with hyosin. This soon drew women from far away areas to Rawene . The births rose from 30 to 200 a year. In 1937 a " Commission of Inquiry into Rural Maternity Services " was established, which Smith's practice saw as the most important field of investigation. Smith countered with the files of his last 200 patients, which stood up to any comparison.

The area was declared a " Special health area " in the 1940s . This model had already been passed by parliament on September 1, 1941, before a trial period came about, but it lasted until September 1945. After that, the medical staff of the Hokinanga received a state salary, all doctor visits, medication, examinations and hospital stays were free. The model was financed by a head lump sum.

population

In the 2013 census, the village had 471 inhabitants, 7.5% more than in the 2006 census.

Infrastructure

Road traffic

Starting from New Zealand State Highway 12, Rawene can be reached via a country road which leads north from the state highway to the village. After a ferry connection on the other side of the natural harbor, the road continues north via Kohukohu and connects to the New Zealand State Highway 1 18 km north-northeast .

Ferry traffic

From Rawene there is a permanent ferry connection to the northern side of Hokianga Harbor , where a landing stage around 2 km east-northeast of Rawene creates a connection to Kohukohu , which is around 3 km further northeast .

Education

With the Rawene School, Rawene has a primary school with grades 1 to 8. In 2016, 94 students attended the school.

In 2017, the village owned the Rawene Learning Center, an educational facility that was operated by NorthTec ( Northland-based Tertiary Education Institute ) as a branch and in which the educational offer in the village was supplemented in a small computer laboratory, a construction workshop and a garden .

Personalities

Web links

  • Claudia Orange : Northland places Rāwene . In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , December 12, 2005, accessed October 5, 2017 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2013 Census QuickStats about a place : Rawene . Statistics New Zealand , accessed October 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed October 7, 2017 .
  3. ^ Claudia Orange : Northland places Rāwene . In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , December 12, 2005, accessed October 7, 2017 .
  4. ^ The contract is in the National Archives in Wellington , a copy of which is owned by the Hokianga Historical Society .
  5. ↑ Hilda McDonnell : The Rosanna Settlers . with Captain Herd on the coast of New Zealand 1826-7 . Wellington 2002, Chapter 8 - Northern New Zealand ( online [accessed October 7, 2017]).
  6. ^ Felicia Myra Jean Irvine : Township of Rawene . Self-published, Rawene 1976 (English).
  7. ^ Claude John Enright : Post Office - History . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed October 7, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Jack Lee : Clendon, James Reddy . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Volume 1 . Allen & Unwin , Wellington 1990 (English, online [accessed October 7, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Clendon House . Heritage_New Zealand , accessed October 7, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Olive Harris, Chris Lancaster : The Pioneers Reminisce - Memoirs of Alfred Cooke Yarborough . Remember the Hokianga . Allen & Unwin , Wellington 2006, pp.  164 (English).
  11. ^ Bernard John Foster : Hokianga and Harbor . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed October 7, 2017]).
  12. ^ Claudia Orange : Northland region - Hospital service . In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , May 4, 2015, accessed October 7, 2017 .
  13. ^ WF Parkes : A Northland Legend: Dr GM Smith of Rawene 1883-1958 . Ed .: The Auckland Medical History Society . Auckland 2004, ISBN 0-476-00851-4 (English).
  14. ↑ Parkes : A Northland Legend: Dr GM Smith of Rawene 1883-1958 . 2004, p.  18th f .
  15. ↑ Parkes : A Northland Legend: Dr GM Smith of Rawene 1883-1958 . 2004, p.  22nd f .
  16. ^ Rawene School . Education Review Office , accessed October 7, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Rāwene . North Tec , archived from the original on October 8, 2017 ; accessed on May 9, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).