Johnsonville : the School and the District

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TitleJohnsonville : the school and the districtAuthor/ContributorR. J. MeyerCollectionSchool Jubilee HistoriesPublisherJohnsonville School Centenary CommitteeDate Published1967Place of publicationWellingtonDescription

Note that the formal title given on the title page differs from that given on the cover which is Johnsonville : Souvenir of the School Centenary, 1967.

Copy signed by the author and donated to the Wellington Public library by the institution's former local history librarian, A. K. Bristow.

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Organisation Johnsonville SchoolLocationJohnsonville

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Holding InstitutionWellington City Libraries Institution CollectionAotearoa New Zealand Reference CollectionCall NumberRef 372.99363 MEYAccess to originalAvailable to read within the library

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Johnsonville : the School and the District

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	[...]modation for the whole district at Kaiwharawhara, Ngauranga and Johnsonville there was no need for an[...]
	[...]irua went this way. Another track up the Waitohi (Ngauranga) Stream joined it here in Johnsonville. Th[...]
	[...]ed. This road, when completed, followed the Ngaio Gorge Road from Kaiwharawhara for a few chains and then[...]e of Old Porirua Road. Climbing high up above the Gorge Road on the opposite side to the railway i[...]
	[...]l Government to help construct a road through the Ngauranga Gorge. The meeting was well attended and the general op[...]nd that a better road could be obtained along the Ngauranga Valley, as it was then called. So great was the f[...]the November 1850 meeting under the title of the Ngauranga Road Association. While this was going on, the m[...]rthquake of 1855, small boats could negotiate the Ngauranga Stream as far as the North Island Main Tru[...]
	[...]o. 2. About the beginning of 1851 members of the Ngauranga Road Association asked for Government assistance in making the Ngauranga Gorge Road. It was not until 1855 that the sum o[...]
	[...]e Russian scare of 1886 Fort Kelburn was built at Ngauranga under the supervision of the Governor, Sir Willia[...]in 1963 to make way for a better connection from Ngauranga Gorge to the Hutt Road Motorway. Residents prot[...]
	[...]feet under the supervision of the Town Board. At Ngauranga the Wellington Meat Export Company erected[...]
	[...]walking distance for people who either worked at Ngauranga or in Wellington. Originally they had to walk nea[...]for wheeled trafﬁc after reconstruction of the Ngauranga Gorge in 1940. It is hard to believe that buses serving the Newlands-Paparangi area used this road while the gorge was being reconstructed. Johnsonville fro[...]
	[...]werage system to serve the area. A septic tank in Ngauranga Gorge dealt with the sewer— age. With progres[...]
	[...]erick Road and Bould Street in 1937. By 1930 the Ngauranga Gorge and the main road had been widened and sealed as[...]ted for the Centennial Exhibition at Rongotai the Gorge’s capacity had to be increased. It was c[...]
	[...]treat- ment plant replaced the old septic tank in Ngauranga Gorge and one was also built at Glenside to serve the n[...]e on the Motorway bypass connecting Ngau— ranga Gorge with the Motorway in 1957. This changed the inner[...]rway reclamation under way between Aotea Quay and Ngauranga, an opportunity to provide an up crawler lane in the Gorge presented itself in 1961, but this has not[...]
	[...]Foxton in those days told of an enjoyable run to Ngauranga and then up the gorge to reach a “small settlement under the n[...]