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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Manawaru

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Manawaru.

Manawaru is a farming district in the county of Piako. It is 122 miles from Auckland. There is a bi-weekly mail, and the nearest telegraph office is at Te Aroha, seven miles away.

The Manawaru Creamery. This creamery, which is the property of the New Zealand Dairy Association, is situated at Manawaru on the main road to Matamata. The building was removed in 1899 from Te Aroha West, where it had been in use for two years. There is a four horse-power boiler and a six horse-power engine, with two Alexandra separators; No. 1 has a capacity for 300 gallons per hour, and No. 2 for 200 gallons per hour. There were fifteen suppliers in the season of 1900, representing about 400 cows. Cream is sent daily to the Te Aroha railway station, and thence to Ngaruawahia.

Mr. Samuel Whitburn, Manager of the Manawaru Creamery, was born in Cornwall, in 1856, and educated in London. He was a bricklayer by trade, and worked for about six years for one firm, and followed his trade in the Old Country for fifteen years altogether. In 1883, Mr. Whitburn came by the ship “Tongariro,” to Auckland, where he worked at his trade for some time, and then removed to Northern Wairoa. There he was unfortunate enough to break his arm, in consequence of which he was compelled to discontinue following his own trade. He then went to Melbourne, where he found employment in “slating and pointing,” for about two years. In 1891 he went to London with a patent, and worked intermittently at his trade in the Old Country. Mr. Whitburn then returned to New Zealand by the s.s. “Ionic,” and joined the New Zealand Dairy Association. He went through a course of training at the Central Factory, Ngaruawahia, and was sent out the same season, to take charge of the creamery at Te Kohia. Subsequently Mr. Whitburn was in charge of the Pirongia creamery, and afterwards the Te Aroha West creamery, which was removed under his direction to Manawaru. He was married, in 1896, to the daughter of the late Mr. James Little, of Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs S. Whitburn.

Mr. and Mrs S. Whitburn.

Osborne, Henry Hewlitt, Farmer, Manawaru. This settler was born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1856. At the age of sixteen, he left home and visited various parts of New South Wales and Victoria. He worked on farms till 1887, and was for twelve years on the Murray river. During his residence in Australia, Mr. Osborne was farming on his own account for about eighteen years, and was engaged at Golconda, Tasmania, for seven years. He settled in New Zealand in 1894, and, after being four years in the Waikato, he removed to Manawaru, and purchased his farm of 311 acres. Mr. Osborne was married, on the 13th of February, 1878, to a daughter of Mr. J. E. Dalton, of Cohuna, and has two sons and three daughters.