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Orepuki or Aropaki - Town & District Schools, Class Photos from 1920-1942
Orepuki or Aropaki - Town & District Schools, Class Photos from 1920-1942:
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Photo 1 - Orepuki School class, taken c1939 to 1941; Sepia Tone Class Photo of 26 children. Known pupils are: Shirley Alison Lee, at left of front row; Elsbeth (Betty) May Macdonald in front row 2nd from right; Neil McAllister is fifth in from left in second row. And if you recognize anyone else from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please get in touch or pop the names in a commentPhoto 2 - Orepuki School pupils outside the School "War Memorial Gates", but no year; Sepia Tone Photo of school children with the school behind the gates. Known pupils are: Elsbeth (Betty) May Macdonald in second row from front and 4th from right. If you recognize anyone from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please get in touch or pop the names in a comment
Photo 3 - Orepuki School class, taken c1941-42; Black & White Photo of 28 children. Known pupils are: Elsbeth (Betty) May Macdonald later Higgins in the front row 6th from left or 4th from right and she was born March 1931. We have been told that its likely to be Shirley Lee in the second row first on the left, by her daughter (Shirley appears to have been born September 1930, so these names fit the date). If you recognize anyone from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please get in touch or comment with names.
Photo 4 - Orepuki School class, taken c1937; B & W Photo of 30 children. The known pupils are: Elsbeth (Betty) May Macdonald later Higgins in the back row first on left. If you recognize anyone else from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please get in touch or comment with the names.
Photo 5 - Orepuki School class, taken we think in the late 1930's; B & W Photo of 30 and 1/2 children (should be 31, but sadly 1 is half chopped off on right!)
It is thought that the girl in the striped jacket on the right in the back row may be Myra Hogg (she was born in 1931) & Raymond George Herrick (born 1928) is said to be in the front row third from left by his own daughter, so we will presume this is correct. These dates do fit presumed year for photo. If you recognize anyone else from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please do get in touch, or put the names in the comments section.Photo 6 - Orepuki School Class, taken 1920; B & W Photo of 23 children; The known pupils are: Doris May Finn later Macdonald in the back row second from right. We have also been told that the child in the middle row on the far right is Bessie Butler later Lee. If you recognize anyone else from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please get in touch or comment.
The school at Orepuki (or originally Aropaki) has a varied and extremely interesting background, as does the township, more of which can be read in the early history written further below.
Formerly a large gold town, after that had dried up and coal mining was overtaken by the Nightcaps companies, along with the Shale Works closing in 1902, most of Orepuki ended up deserted. It became only the farming community that stayed on to support the township in its fight for survival.
Of course, the school was also affected, as it was downsized considerably. It somehow struggled on over the years though and stayed open. Over the 1-4 of Feburary 1934, is when the Orepuki School had its 50th year Diamond Jubilee. We would love some photos of this event, do you have any that you can contribute to our Community Archives of this event?
The newest Orepuki School was not built until 1968 and it was erected directly behind the old school that was moved there prior, then the old building was then taken down. From this point on, children in the Orepuki township and district could attend their local school only up until the old Standard Four, at which time they had to then bus to the Aparima College in Riverton, which had the old Forms 1-7. For many years the Orepuki School, which somehow managed to carry on, continued to contribute its students to Riverton’s new Aparima College. But in 2003 the school at Orepuki was finally closed.
But this did not end the controversy over getting children from Orepuki to school safely. In 2017 it was reported that plans to move the school bus stop had been withdrawn, after Aparima College, Riverton ...
Central and Western Murihiku Southland Archive via DigitalNZhttp://api.digitalnz.org/records/59454316/source
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Orepuki or Aropaki (Garfield, Hirstfield) - Town & District Schools History, 1910-1930
Orepuki or Aropaki (Garfield, Hirstfield) - Town & District Schools History:
The school at Orepuki (or originally Aropaki) has an interesting background, as does the township. In 1872 the first school in the area was established, and ended up being run under the name of Garfield-Orepuki School, in the newly moved township of Garfield. The Otago Education Board who were the oversight for the new school at Orepuki, used its “difficult and remote location” to justify not visiting the school to do the usual reports on the building and teaching.
The roll in the beginning was just 16 children, but by the time the first year was out, the roll stood at over 30 students, and kept growing steadily from its opening date. This made the school itself too overcrowded and unsuitable and it was to be rebuilt twice – the first time four years after it opened, when the original building was turned into the schoolhouse for accommodation of teaching staff. As it was one of the first of many buildings eventually erected in the township, many district events were held on the site and in the building, which doubled as a public hall, dance hall, and even a church.
The second school also proved inadequate, and it was replaced again by a much larger three roomed affair, but this was not to remain where it was either, even though it was the last building to be moved from the Garfield site. Fascinatingly, miners ended up digging a rich vein which led them right to the School Reserve in the Gully. The school land plus that of the whole township was mined, after a resolution was reached with the Education Board for the miners to pay to move the school!
By 1874 a School Committee was formed, in line with the requirements of the Education Act. This was made up of the following men: Chairman, D Hunter; Secretary, JL Currie; plus - J Callaghan, H Creasey, R Cupples, TH Devonshire, AJ Jolly, FH McLean, and R Riddle.
An interesting news report from 1882 tells us the school was closed (again!) and that this was a regular occurrence over the last three years. More details emerge about the rain “driving in through the windows like a shower bath”, leading to all the children having to be moved away from the back. It was also noted that there was a current contract let for repairs to the schoolhouse at this time.
After Garfield was demolished by gold mining, the school was forced to relocate to the third and final resting place of the ever moving local township, which came about from its closeness to the local coalmining works and the 1885 railway connecting the two. After the railway opening, the newly erected town of Orepuki was to grow and prosper beyond all belief over the next 20 years with around 3,000 people living there at the height of its existence. By 1900 there was a huge township, which necessitated the continual enlarging of the local public school. The photo shown here is of the old school after it had got its 3 room extensions built.
But after the gold dried up and coal mining being overtaken by the Nightcaps companies, along with the Shale Works closing in 1902, most of Orepuki became deserted again. It became only the farming community that stayed on to support the township in its fight for survival. Of course, the school was also affected, as it was downsized considerably. It somehow struggled on over the years though and stayed open. Over the 1-4 of Feburary 1934, is when the Orepuki School had its 50th year Diamond Jubilee. We would love some photos of this event.
The newest Orepuki School was not built until 1968 and it was erected directly behind the old prior moved school. The old building was then taken down. From this point on, children in the Orepuki township and district could attend their local school only up until the old Standard Four, at which time they had to then bus to the Aparima College in Riverton, which had the old Forms 1-7.
For many years the Orepuki School, which somehow managed to carry on, continued to contribute its students to Riverton’s new Aparima College. But in 2003 the school at Orepuki was finally closed. But this did not end the controversy over getting children from Orepuki to school safely. In 2017 it was reported that plans to move the school bus stop had been withdrawn, after Aparima College, Riverton Primary School and Waiau Area School had agreed to leave the current stop where it was.
But then in 2018 there was continued angst from the residents about plans to move the school bus stop yet again. W...
Central and Western Murihiku Southland Archive via DigitalNZhttp://api.digitalnz.org/records/50737132/source
#Settlers #Murihiku #Pioneers #Southland #Farming #EarlyTravel #School #Education #OrepukiOrAropaki #GarfieldAnd #Gold #Mining #Railways #ShaleWorks #OtagoEducationBoard #SouthlandEducationBoard #Nightcaps #Aparima #Churches #TownHalls #TimberMilling #SchoolBuses #Waiau #DigitalOnlyImageInArchive
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CBS News And The Free Press Plan Series Of Town Halls And Debates; JD Vance, Sam Altman And Wes Moore Among Those Slated
#Politics #BariWeiss #ElectionLine #TheFreePress #Townhallshttps://deadline.com/2025/12/bari-weiss-cbs-news-free-press-town-halls-1236652379/
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"Make no mistake: the summer of 2025 will be remembered as the season Republican lawmakers stopped pretending they represented their districts. Their town halls became confessionals; not of sins, but of incompetence. And every one of those voters who chanted “shame” meant it. The GOP can either face that shame head on or keep running out the back door. But the people? They’re not going anywhere." --Michael Cohen
https://therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/p/maga-cowards-run-from-voters
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@keithedwards.bsky.social discusses how #Republican Senator #SusanCollins was met with boos and chants of “shame!” during a ribbon-cutting in #Searsport, #Maine, as constituents LAMBASTED her LONG absence of #townhalls and controversial votes on #SupremeCourt nominees youtu.be/jsrgzijRtlk?...
BOOS POUR DOWN as Susan Collin... -
#Winning! #MAGA-style! Feeling the sting from the cuts? VOTE THOSE F*CKERS OUT!
‘Heartbreaking’ #transportation cuts hit home in #GOP districts
Across the U.S., communities are grappling with the fallout of the GOP’s sprawling domestic policy law — including in Republican districts.
By Chris Marquette and Sam Ogozalek, 08/20/2025
"A city in southwestern Utah was poised to benefit from an $87.6 million federal grant to help reconnect neighborhoods split by an increasingly congested Interstate 15.
"But the money intended for the project in St. George vanished after President Donald Trump signed the GOP’s massive tax and spending package last month.
"The solidly Republican community isn’t alone. Across the country, the new law rescinded more than $2.2 billion in unobligated dollars from a $3.2 billion Biden-era program aimed at helping reconnect disadvantaged neighborhoods divided by roadways, according to records reviewed by POLITICO. Areas hit by the cuts include some represented by GOP lawmakers who voted for the law — in the latest example of Trump’s most significant legislative triumph complicating life back home for his allies in Congress.
"In Bowling Green, Kentucky, the law canceled 93 percent of an $11 million grant meant to boost pedestrian safety on a roadway. In western Montana, it wiped out money aimed at improving a highway on the Flathead Indian Reservation and better connecting Missoula-area communities. And on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the law ended more than $4 million in funding that would have gone toward addressing similar concerns in two municipalities.
"It 'felt like the carpet was pulled out from underneath of us,' said Zack Tyndall, the mayor of Berlin, Maryland. Mayoral elections there are non-partisan. 'We’re still trying to figure out how we can move forward.'
"In St. George, a short drive from Zion National Park’s stunning views and sandstone cliffs, the $87.6 million would have helped address the increasingly busy interstate highway that bifurcates the rapidly growing city. Residents in the area voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2020 and 2024. But now they’re feeling the impacts of Republicans’ quest to scrub the government of Biden-era programs that conflict with Trump’s priorities."
#TrumpRegrets #BigUglyBill #TransportationCuts #TransportationFunding #InfrastructureFunding #USPol #Regerts #TownHalls #GOPSucks
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#MAGA calls for #TownHalls with GOP Reps demanding they vote to release the #Epstein files - My aspirational headline.
Polling says #MAGA wants answers about Epstein, so the Reps SHOULD show up & answer questions.
They could brag about the OBBB.DOGE cut waste, fraud & abuse!
They fIred Deep State workers, DEI hires & cut the giveaways to Solar & Wind in the Inflation Redution Act.
They could own the cuts to SNAP, Medicare & Medicaid.
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There are #MedicaidCuts in the #BigBeautifulBill
And #Project2025's #RussellVought is a scumbag LIAR!
Call elected officials, show up at #townhalls, and vote these anti-poor nazi scum OUT when it's time to #vote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_rkx-IMKhc
🚨 #GNP #Republican makes accidental CONFESSION on national TV
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfGMeQHG6Hw
#GNP are Getting COOKED at #TownHalls for Supporting Trump's (childishly named) '#BigBeautifulBill'
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I have followed with interest many '#Townhalls' in which questions were asked to #Republican #MAGA '#Representatives'
I have heard the questions and listened to the 'NON-answers'if I had the opportunity to participate....
I would Not ask question to the MAGA representatives
but to the 'represented'> Why did you vote to be represented by people like that ?
> how could you expect something different from what is happening in your #Nation
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Feeling a bit defensive? GOOD!
"Get the f**k out of my face": #GOP Rep. Mace shouts at constituent who asked her about #TownHalls
The GOP rep. from #SouthCarolina was up in arms after a constituent asked her about upcoming town halls
By Alex Galbraith
April 20, 2025"Town halls have not been going well for members of the GOP. So, we can see why the mere mention of speaking to constituents sets Rep. #NancyMace's teeth on edge.
"The Republican representative from South Carolina shared a video on Saturday, showing an argument she had with a constituent inside a beauty supply store.
" 'Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today. Dems are nuts. So I went off - and I won’t be backing down,' she captioned the post. 'I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Try me.'
"In the clip, Mace repeatedly dodges a question about upcoming town halls and asks when the man she's speaking to will stop 'harassing' her.
" 'I asked if you were doing any [town halls] this year. It was one simple question,' he said.
"The conversation takes a turn when Mace says, without prompting, that she 'voted for gay marriage twice.' The pair gets into a shouting match where Mace states that 'people on the left' are 'absolutely f**king crazy.' She tells the man in the video to 'get out of my f**king face' and repeatedly shouts "f**k you" across the store."
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The narrative that nothing is happening to oppose #Trump and his attempts to break our #democracy is a lie. In the courts. In the streets. In town halls, and around dinner tables. Americans are voicing their anger and concern.
#TeslaTakedown #TownHalls #Indivisable #uspol #uspolitics #resist
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/16/anger-erupts-town-halls-lawmakers/83116024007/ -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G4G-ue4Mr0
U.S. Republicans STILL Getting Ruthlessly Mocked and Berated at #TownHalls
#NancyMaceOUT #MarjorieTaylorGreeneOUT
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"They basically want to kill me": GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring
Even conservatives can't muster pity for a whining billionaire coming for Granny's Social Security
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/20/they-basically-wanna-me-efforts-to-turn-musk-into-a-maga-martyr-are-backfiring/"At #TownHalls across the country, #Republican congressmen are finding it nearly impossible to defend #Musk from jeering crowds who do not believe Granny should lose her #SocialSecurity check so a billionaire can get even richer."
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#gop #republicans #townhalls Good morning!! 🤣🤣
“Shouts of “January 6” and “tax the rich” flooded a town hall in Laramie, Wyoming, on Wednesday, where GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman faced a hostile crowd as she attempted to drown out the noise and answer questions – the latest such Washington lawmaker to be grilled in their home states.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/politics/angry-town-halls-lawmakers-clash?cid=ios_app
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Republican Rep. Sparks Fury After Telling Town Hall He Supports Musk
Representative Mike Flood of #Nebraska was booed incessantly at his own town hall.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192905/republican-representative-mike-flood-town-hall-musk-fury"This is yet another installment in the string of tense, confrontational #TownHalls that have occurred as #Republicans have to answer for the actions of #Trump & #DOGE—actions that are directly hurting the people who put them in office."
#Resist #Resistance #Musk #Coup #Corruption #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
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Is Governor Walz onto something big? In a bold move, Democratic Governor Tim Walz is touring Republican districts in Iowa and Nebraska to address growing frustration among constituents over the actions of Trump and Musk. This comes as GOP representatives avoid town halls to dodge discontent. Walz's first stop is Iowa's 3rd District, home to Republican Zach Nunn. Discover the full insights [here](https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/walz-visits-red-districts-where-chickensht). #Politics #MN #Iowa #TownHalls
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Are town halls really fading from the political scene? Democratic Rep. Jake Auchincloss highlights a fascinating debate featuring GOP Congressman Tony Gonzales on CNN. While Gonzales champions town halls as vital for public dialogue, he's caught at odds with party trends favoring virtual engagement. This contradiction reflects a deeper divide on transparency and public communication strategies within the GOP. Discover the insights behind this political tension. [Read more](https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/it-popular-cut-healthcare-40-percent-kids) #TownHalls #Politics #GOP #PublicDialogue #Transparency
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[Mayors:] Are you aware of any immigrants roaming around in your cities with 34 felony convictions?"
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Boom! I told you Rachel Maddow was brilliant.
"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night:
Let's Create “Town Hall Night in America” ~ ® It's time for Democrats to institutionalize our oldest form of democracy
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@kevinrns Absolutely. We can all raise our voices. ❤️ 🤍 💙
Look up protests that matter to you and if you can’t go just protest at home! Hundreds at a townhall and thousands in unison in their own neighborhoods has exponentially more impact!
#Resist
#ResistEverywhere
#RaiseYourVOICE
#Townhalls
#AfternoonNotesToAmerica
#trump #musk #USPol
