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Hawera and Normanby Star
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27 June 1905

Lengthy article describing Auroa school
concert.

HNS 15 Nov 1905
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Auroa School annual examination.

After living three years on Taikatu Rd, Otakeho John Kenyon recalls:

“Leaving there we again shifted to Manaia to a farm of 196 acres, one side bounded
by the sea with cliffs somewhere about 170 – 180 feet high in places and in others a
sheer drop. The Maoris had a strip of land along the cliffs (reserve) but unfenced, so
when they came down there to fish they would turn their horses loose and soon 20 or
so horses would eat out our good grass.”

This farm was at the end
of Lower Normanby
Rd., facing the Tasman
Sea. It was probably
James George Kenyon’s
first freehold farm.

The cliffs at the end of
Lower Normanby Rd.
Tide out, rocky beach
exposed below.
Photo Lance Kenyon 2013

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