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DO YOU REMEMBER
Our local unsung heroes, people who have set Waverley, Waitotara and Patea apart in their own special way. 
SMILEY JAKE HOOPER
NEW ZEALAND POST CHRISTMAS STAMP - 2007 ISSUE The Design a Stamp Awards competition drew some 17,000 art submissions from children between the ages of 6 and 12 years from all over New Zealand. A design by Jake Hooper (Aged 8) a Year Four student from Waverley Primary School in South Taranaki was one of the five winners chosen |
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LARAINE SOLE - CURRENT DAY SOCIAL HISTORIAN
Meet Laraine Sole, a former teacher at the Waverley High School in the 1970s, now a successful author of several histories about the local people and places around the Whanganui region
Laraine Sole's histories of Waverley and its families are a wonderful introduction to this town for anyone moving to "South of South Taranaki", and planning on it being a permanent place of residence. Her references to and stories about the background of the farming community here and the historic places that are all around us, capture people's interest, to the extent, that It only seemed logical in the progression of this website that she should be featured as one of the locals who has done so much towards the preservation of the community's history that will carry forward into the future.
Anyone who has the pleasure of meeting Laraine will be regaled with colourful and often humorous stories of the beginnings of Whanganui, the changes in the landscapes around the region and the fabric of its society that leads us to what we see and know today.
Laraine is passionate, articulate and fiercely protective of her "community".
>>> more about the writer:
Meet Laraine Sole, a former teacher at the Waverley High School in the 1970s, now a successful author of several histories about the local people and places around the Whanganui region
Laraine Sole's histories of Waverley and its families are a wonderful introduction to this town for anyone moving to "South of South Taranaki", and planning on it being a permanent place of residence. Her references to and stories about the background of the farming community here and the historic places that are all around us, capture people's interest, to the extent, that It only seemed logical in the progression of this website that she should be featured as one of the locals who has done so much towards the preservation of the community's history that will carry forward into the future.
Anyone who has the pleasure of meeting Laraine will be regaled with colourful and often humorous stories of the beginnings of Whanganui, the changes in the landscapes around the region and the fabric of its society that leads us to what we see and know today.
Laraine is passionate, articulate and fiercely protective of her "community".
>>> more about the writer:
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PATEA MAORI CLUB and their classic music video from the 80's of Poi E that brought cultural Maori music into main-stream popularity and has gone on to become an iconic sound recognised all over the world >>> https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/video/poi-e |
and below is a later rendition of this beautiful song sung again by our Patea Maori Club in 2008 Such magic - So proud >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geh9fNJ5F8U |
LOCAL TEEN PAGEANT TO MISS EARTH NEW ZEALAND 2009
FOUNDER OF CATTLE SCHEME FOR HOSPICE WANGANUI RECOGNISED - New Zealander of the Year Awards 2012 Eric Weir, Waverley - Eric is a longstanding member of the Waverley community and has made great contributions of his time, skill and no doubt his finances for many years to Hospice Wanganui.
After his wife's struggle with cancer and her last wish for him to do something to support Hospice Wanganui (where she spent her last days) he set up the Farming Friends of Wanganui Hospice Charitable Trust.
After his wife's struggle with cancer and her last wish for him to do something to support Hospice Wanganui (where she spent her last days) he set up the Farming Friends of Wanganui Hospice Charitable Trust.