The Lower Hedgehope Public School stands on an acre of ground, and has an average attendance of about twenty-five children. The Upper Hedgehope school, which serves another part of the same district, and is taught by the same teacher, stands on ten acres of land, and there is a residence of six rooms attached to it. The school has an average attendance of about twenty children.

Miss Janet Lind , Teacher (in 1904) of the Hedgehope half-time school, was born at Makarewa, and is a daughter of the late Mr W Lind, of that district. She was educated at Makarewa, and at the Girls' High School. Invercargill. After passing her examination in 1898, Miss Lind served a two years' pupil-teachership, and afterwards acted as relieving teacher for a year. She had charge of the half-time schools of Springhills and Lower Hedgehope for about fifteen months, and when Upper and Lower Hedgehope were combined as half-time schools, she was appointed mistress. Miss Lind holds a D4 certificate.

Hanning, Thomas , Farmer, Hedgehope. Mr Hanning, who is a successful farmer, in the district, also owns a farm at Mabel Bush, and he has altogether, 350 acres. He was born in 1839, at Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, and was brought up to farming on his father's farm. In 1861, he came to Port Chalmers, by the ship “Melbourne,” and started work on Captain Hamilton's station. Mr Hanning afterwards took part in the Tuapeka and Dunstan “rushes,” and then started carting to Kingston. He left this, however, to go to the diggings on the West Coast, where he spent about a year, and on his return bought a farm at Mabel Bush, now occupied by his sons. In 1883, Mr Hanning acquired his property at Hedgehope, where he now resides. He served for several years on the Mabel Bush school committee, and was for some time chairman. Mr Hanning was married, in 1862, to a daughter of the late Mr Coleman Ross, farmer, Cloyne, Ireland, and has a family of four sons and three daughters.

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Mr. And Mrs T. Hanning.

Lawrence, Cornelius Henry , Farmer, “Greenhead,” Hedgehope. Mr Lawrence was born in 1866, at Makarewa, where his father is a farmer, and was educated in Victoria, to which his parents had removed when he was about eleven years old. After ten years in Victoiia, the family returned to New Zealand, and Mr C. H. Lawrence, in partnership with two brothers, farmed at Makarewa from 1890 to 1899. Subsequently, he removed to the Hedgehope district, and bought his present property of 518 acres, on which he conducts mixed farming. His house is situated within a short distance of the Hedgehope railway station. Mr Lawrence is president of the local branch of the Farmers' Union, chairman of the Public Hall Committee, a director of the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and he has also been a page 996 member of the school committee, and chairman of the Athletic Society. When in Melbourne he took part in athletic contests, and in running and rowing events. Mr Lawrence was married, in 1898, to a daughter of Mr W. Lind, farmer, Makarewa, and has three daughters and one son.

Millar, James , Farmer, Hedgehope. Mr Millar has a farm of 1,000 acres between the Makarewa and Hedgehope streams. He also owns 200 acres in the Mabel hundred, and one thousand acres of leasehold in the Forest Hill hundred; the latter property being named “Pebbly Hills. His home is at Hedgehope. Mr Millar was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1833, and was brought up to farming. He came to Port Chalmers by the ship “Agra” in 1857, and obtained farmwork in the Tokomairiro district, where he remained some years. At the time of the gold rush, however, he left, and was one of the first arrivals at Gabriel's Gully. After spending some time driving to the diggings, Mr Millar started a store in the Lake district, and then bought a farm at Myross Bush, which he afterwards sold in order to take up land in the Hedgehope district. He was one of the first to introduce steam threshing mills into Southland, and has had threshing machines continuously up to the present time. Mr Millar is a member of the Makarewa-Hedgehope River Board, was for seven years a member of the Lindhurst Road Board, and served for many years on the Grove Bush school committee, of which he was for some time chairman. He was married, in 1863, to a daughter of the late Mr Millar, farmer, Morningside, Edinburgh, but his wife died in 1872, leaving three sons and one daughter. In 1879, Mr Millar married a daughter of the late Mr Donald Noble, and there is one son by this marriage.