1. Star, 7/9/01, 8/9/14.

2. H. G. Philpott, A History of the New Zealand Dairy Industry, 1840–1935, Wellington, 1937, pp.376–403.

3. Star, 26/2/07, 22/4/08, 1/5/08, 13/9/09.

4. Star, 14/5/12 (advt).

5. Star, 29/3/05.

6. Star, 23/3/01; Kaponga Dairy Co Ltd, minutes, 7/7/98.

7. Star, 17/8/06; Kaponga Dairy Co Ltd, minutes, 9/12/02; ‘Egmont Box Co: Minute Book 1906–1914’, MS, Massey University Library, Palmerston North.

8. Star, 8/9/98, 8/9/99.

9. Star, 26/2/07.

10. Star, 21/11/07, 10/12/07.

11. Star, 13/8/06, 3/9/07.

12. Star, 22/12/08, 7/9/09.

13. Star, 3/9/12.

14. Star, 8/9/14.

15. Following the Auckland A & P shield win mentioned below.

16. Star, 30/7/01.

17. Star, 25/6/07, 27/7/07, AJHR, 1908, H-11, p. 65.

18. Star, 24/9/10.

19. See e.g. Star, 16/12/05, 1/8/07.

20. Philpott, op. cit., pp. 131, 133.

21. AJHR, 1912, Sess. II, H-18, pp. 397–99.

22. Department of Agriculture, Report, 1900, p. 84; 1902, p. 41; 1903, p. 128.

23. Ibid., 1903, p. 129; Star, 29/10/00 (‘Our Own’).

24. Star, 3/5/06 (‘Our Own’), 25/6/06 (advts); AJHR, 1905, 1–12B, p. 11.

25. Star, 17/12/06 (advt).

26. Star, 19/11/07.

27. Star, 14/3/10.

28. See e.g. Star, 30/7/01, 6/1/05, 21/2/06, 20 & 22/10/06, 26/11/07, 8/10/08.

29. Star, 24/2/06.

30. Star, 23/2/06.

31. AJHR, 1912, Sess. II, H-18, p. 262.

32. Star, 12/12/08 (editorial); Department of Agriculture, Reports, 1908-, passim.

33. A Swiss Club has flourished in Kaponga since 1952 as a focal point for Taranaki's Swiss.

34. Philpott, op. cit., p. 65.

35. See e.g. Star, 20/6/01 (Farm & Dairy), 12/5/03 (advt), 5/3/05 (Correspondence), 2/3/06 & 10/5/06 (court case), 15/7/09 & 23/1/08 (court case).

36. Star, 14/11/10.

37. T.W.H. Brooking, ‘Agrarian Businessmen Organise’, PhD thesis, University of Otago, 1978, p. 325.

38. Star, 1/11/13.

39. Star, 22/6/04; Department of Agriculture, Report, 1903, pp. 307–12.

40. Star, 7/10/04, 23/2/06; Department of Agriculture, Report, 1905, pp. 171–73.

41. Star, 7/10/04 Supplement.

42. Harold Perkins, The Rise of Professional Society: England Since 1880, London, 1989, p. 2.

43. References may be found in Betty Arnold, Kaponga People. A fuller discussion may be found in Rollo Arnold, ‘Women in the New Zealand Teaching Profession, 1877–1920’, in R. Openshaw and D. McKenzie, eds, Reinterpreting the Educational Past, Wellington, 1987.

44. Wanganui Education Board, School Rolls 1897, ABDV/W3571, National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington. This gives the Kaponga roll on the 1897 examination day as 101.

45. Manawatu Evening Standard, 6/1/1966; Turakina: The Centenary of a Country School, [1959], p. 42. (He ended his career in 1935 after 15 years as headmaster of Turakina School.)

46. On her death in November 1968 she was buried in the family plot in Kaponga cemetery.

47. Awatuna School & District: Centennial Celebrations 1893–1993, 1993, p. 23.

48. Wanganui Education Board, School Rolls 1897, ABDV/W3571, National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.

49. Wanganui Education Board, Minute Books, ABDV/W3571, National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.

50. Ibid.

51. Star, 4/6/11.

52. Ibid.

53. Star, 10/7/13.

54. Makaka School 1909–1959: Souvenir Booklet, [1959].

55. Ibid.

56. Amberley School Jubilee 1879–1948.

57. CNZ, I, p. 847; Star, 16, 18, 21 & 24/9/09, 24/2/10.

58. AJHR, 1911, E-5, p. x; AJHR, 1915, E-5, p. 34.

59. AJHR, 1909, E-5, p. 41.

60. AJHR, 1906, E-5, p. 24.

61. AJHR, 1910, E-5, p. 45.

62. AJHR, 1915, E-5, p. 34.

63. Ibid., p. 36.

64. AJHR, 1911, E-5, p. x.

65. Ibid.; AJHR, 1912, Sess. II, E-12, pp. 465–66.

66. Star, 1/11/11, 23/7/12.

67. AJHR, 1915, E-5, p. 35.

68. See e.g. Star, 25/6/06, 27/5/07.

69. AJHR, 1915, E-1, pp. 34–36.

70. Star, 26/1/10; AJHR, 1913, E-5, pp. 46–47.

71. Star, 12/8/02 (advt), 11/12/95 (‘News & Notes').

72. D.W. Maclagan to Mrs C.J. Brooks, 6/8/1962, MS 127 Waldegrave, Taranaki Museum, New Plymouth.

73. On this see P.H.J.H. Gosden, Self-help: Voluntary Associations in the 19th Century, London, 1973, pp. 112–13.

74. Harold Perkins, The Rise of Professional Society: England Since 1880, London, 1989, pp. 428–29.

75. Eltham Argus, 28/1/04, 11/2/04.

76. Star, 19/3/14.

77. Star, 12/8/07.