Hikuai 1920's Re-hab Soldier settlement.

[Fresh Fields]

Hello.

Have spent several days researching the above.  As a result have amassed quite a number of newspaper clippings, and Auckland Libraries, NZ MAP 3579 of the Settlement Ballot plan.

This I have notated with details of the ballot; and other press copy [roading matters - flooding etc], and am prepared to make copies available upon request. Family names in the ballot were:-

1.   84a  J W GRIBBLE  –  Hikuai.
2.   173a  G PETERSEN  –  Orini
3.   94a  W JOHNSTONE  –  Dunedin
4.   107a  J R McCALL –  Amodeo Bay
5.   149a  W E PATTERSON  –  Komata
6.   76a  G H HAMNLYN  –  Auckland
7.   136a  F P MILLEA  – Patetonga
8.   154a  W PHILLIPS  –  Wellington
9.   91a  E A HAMMOND  –  Nelson
10.   132a  G E COXON – Bay of Islands
11.   See below -
12.   196a  W W OGSTON  –  Turua
13.   112a F RUSSELL  -  Matamata
14.   256a  I V LOWE - Dominion Road (? Auckland)
15.   118a   J BRUCE  -  TeNgae
16.   118a (?130a) A POTTS  -  Frankton
2nd class land
11.   398a J MORRISON  -   Hikuai
17.   325a  G M T OTTO  -  Kaihere.

3rd class lots not allocated.

NZ Herald 27/10/1921 p3
Auckland Star 27/10.1921 p10

E & O E - Fresh Fields Research.

- Alan.

[hurworth]

I imagine it's underwater right now!

[Fresh Fields]

Could be as we here in the Waikato had 80 mm over night and it is still raining. A Farmers delight.

[Thamesite]

Would make a great article in The Treasury Journal if you had time to pull it all together.
Bye
Althea

[Fresh Fields]

Hi Althea.

Two wet days let me have a play with this interesting [for me] subject, but I already have too many PHD's on the go, including a 200 page one promised to a Waikato District Council Trust, some time ago.

Will probably enquire if the local school would like a file containing over 100 clippings and images collected for the period 1920 - 1930. I'm sure the local kids would find some of the clippings interesting. Life was so different then. The pioneers worked very hard, and were very resilient.

- Alan.