Hawarden, New Zealand

Hawarden is a small town in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is located near Waikari, just off State Highway 7.

Hawarden
Town
High St, the main street of Hawarden
Hawarden
Coordinates: 42°56′S 172°38′E
CountryNew Zealand
RegionCanterbury
Territorial authorityHurunui District
Time zoneUTC+12 (New Zealand Standard Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+13 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
Postcode
7385

From 15 December 1884 until 15 January 1978, the town was served by the Waiau Branch, a branch line railway that at one stage was planned to become the Main North Line to Nelson and Blenheim.[1] The Weka Pass Railway restoration project once had plans to retain the line through Hawarden, but later chose to terminate their line in Waikari. Some relics of the old railway line still remain at the site of Hawarden's railway station.[2]

The town is home to the Flaxmere Gardens and is located in a scenic area near the Lake Sumner Forest Park, with a number of other lakes also in the vicinity.

Education

Hurunui College is a co-educational state area school for Year 1 to 13 students,[3][4] with a roll of 219 as of March 2020.[5]

Notable people

References
  1. Cyclopedia of New Zealand - Hawarden. Cyclopedia Company Limited. 1903.
  2. Dew, Leslie (2001). The Great Northern - the story of the Waiau Branch. Weka Pass Railway Inc. ISBN 0-473-07188-6.
  3. "Official School Website". hurunuicollege.school.nz.
  4. "Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
  5. "Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.
  6. Brooker, Sally (24 April 2015). "Spin crossover with thermal hysteresis: practicalities and lessons learnt". Chemical Society Reviews. 44 (10): 2880–2892. doi:10.1039/C4CS00376D. PMID 25907385. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  7. Findlater, Gordon (5 September 2019). "Munich's highs and lows". The Star. Christchurch. p. 29. Retrieved 6 September 2019.


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