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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts]

Waverley

Waverley.

Waverley is a dairying and farming township thirty-two miles north-west by rail from Wanganui. It is in the Waverley riding of the County of Patea. The affairs of the town are managed by the Waverley Town Board. The rateable value of the district is £32,000, and an annual rate of one penny in the £ is struck. There is a domain about nineteen acres in extent, laid out in tennis courts, a bowling green, and a cycling track. Weekly stock sales are held in Waverley, and the half holiday is kept on Wednesday. The Waverley-Waitotara Racing Club holds its annual meeting in November on the local racecourse. The Churches are represented by the Anglican, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic denominations, and services are also held in a Gospel Hall. There are branches of the Bank of New South Wales and the Bank of Australasia. The post office stands on part of the Waverley redoubt, and has fifteen sub-offices and six bureau connections. Mails are received and despatched daily. The public school—one of the oldest on the coast—has an average attendance page 623 of 170; the head-master is assisted by two certificated teachers and two pupil-teachers. Waverley is a police district, with a resident constable in charge, and a monthly sitting of the Magistrate's Court is held. At the census of 1906 the population of Waverley was 471.

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at Waverley occupies a site of several acres in the Main Street. The first church services were held in the early “eighties.” The Waverley parish of the Presbyterian Church includes the settlements of Kohi, Waitotara, Moturoa, and Momahaki, and fortnightly services are held at the two latter places. St. Andrew's has accommodation for 300 persons, and there is a Sunday school in connection with the church. The Rev. William White was inducted to the charge of the Waverley parish in the year 1904.

St. Andrew's Church.

St. Andrew's Church.

Wilson, Thomas Emerson, Land, Estate, Grain, Stock, and General Commission Agent, Main Street, Waverley. This business was established by Mr T. P. Fookes, and was the first of its kind in Waverley. In 1906 it was acquired by the present proprietor. Mr Wilson is agent for the National and New Zealand Fire Insurance Companies, the Government Accident Department and the Wanganui Chronicle Company, Limited. He is also agent for the Deputy Official Assignee, clerk of the Whenuakura-Waitotara and Waitotara-Momahaki Road Boards, and secretary of the Waverley branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, and of the Waverley Football Club. Mr Wilson was born in Wanganui, and was educated at the Waitotara public school and Wanganui College. He afterwards joined the Bank of New South Wales at Patea, was subsequently transferred to Waverley, and later to Wellington. Finally Mr Wilson left the service of the Bank in order to settle in Waverley.

Denton, photo.Mr. T. E. Wilson.

Denton, photo.
Mr. T. E. Wilson.

Dixon, A. E., and Company (Albert Edward Dixon, proprietor). Hair-dresser, Tobacconist, and Billiard Saloon proprietor, Main Street, Waverley. This business was established in the year 1904, and in 1906 a billiard saloon, fitted with one of Alcock's tables, was added. The premises consist of a wood and iron building, which contains a shop, a hair-dressing saloon, suitably fitted up, and a billiard saloon.

Clarendon Hotel.

Clarendon Hotel.

Denton, photo.Mr. A. E. Dixon.

Denton, photo.
Mr. A. E. Dixon.

Clarendon Hotel (G. W. Oakenfull, proprietor), Main Street, page 624 Waverley. This commodious hostelry was established in the year 1878, the original building having since been replaced by the modern premises of to-day. It contains twenty-nine rooms, including eighteen bedrooms, four sitting rooms, a commercial room, and a splendid dining room, with accommodation for fifty guests. The hotel is up-to-date in every respect, the cuisine is good, and the tariff moderate. Adjoining the hotel are well-appointed stables.

Mr George William Oakenfull, proprietor of the Clarendon Hotel, was born in the year 1877, at Waipawa, Hawke's Bay, where he was educated. He was brought up to hotel keeping under his father, who conducted an hotel in Waipawa for some years. Subsequently Mr Oakenfull, senior, acquired the “Clarendon” at Waverley, which he carried on for two years, when it was taken over by his son. Mr. G. W. Oakenfull is vice-president of the Waverley Football Club, and a member of the Waverley Bowling Club and Racing Club. He is also a member of the Egmont Hunt Club. In 1904 he married a daughter of Mr Henry Percy, of Waipawa, and has one son.

Balfour, William, Seed, Produce, and Manure Merchant, Main Street, Waverley. The proprietor maintains a well-assorted stock of genuine seeds, suitable for the requirements of both farmers and gardeners. He is an importer from London of the well-known seeds of Messrs. Hurst and Son, and also buys largely in the Dominion. Mr Balfour is further referred to as an old colonist.

Dalton, John B., Dairy Farmer, Waverley. Mr Dalton is known as a breeder of Lincoln stud sheep, also cattle. He was born in the year 1878, in Taranaki, was educated and brought up to pastoral life under his father, until he bought his present farm in 1897. The homestead is of two storeys, and contains fourteen rooms.

Mr William Balfour is a colonist of over forty years' standing, and has long been associated with the development of local industries. He was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, afterwards came to New Zealand in the ship “Sir William Eyre,” and landed at the Bluff in the year 1863. He first settled in Southland, and afterwards became associated with South Canterbury, where he was manager of a branch of the New Zealand Meat Preserving Company—near Timaru, one of the first established in the colony—for thirteen years. In 1895 Mr Balfour left Timaru, and went to the North Island, where he was engaged in business for two years at Napier. He then removed to Waverley, with which district he has since been actively associated. While resident in South Canterbury he was for about nine years chairman of directors of the Timaru Milling Company, the first roller mill in the Dominion, and for a number of years was chairman of the Geraldine County Council, a member of the Levels Road Board, a governor of the Timaru High School, and for nine years treasurer of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Mr Balfour is a member and has been treasurer of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church since 1898, and is a member of the Waverley Bowling Club, in the formation of which he took an active part.

Dinton, photo.Mr. W. Balfour.

Dinton, photo.
Mr. W. Balfour.