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Dannevirke ( "
work
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of the
Danes
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", a reference to
Danevirke
The Danevirke or Danework (modern Danish spelling: ''Dannevirke''; in Old Norse; ''Danavirki'', in German; ''Danewerk'', literally meaning '' earthwork of the Danes'') is a system of Danish fortifications in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. This his ...
; mi, Taniwaka, lit= or ''Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua'', the area where the town is), is a rural service town in the
Manawatū-Whanganui
Manawatū-Whanganui (; spelled Manawatu-Wanganui prior to 2019) is a region in the lower half of the North Island of New Zealand, whose main population centres are the cities of Palmerston North and Whanganui. It is administered by the Manawat ...
region of the North Island, New Zealand. It is the major town of the administrative of the
Tararua District
The Tararua District is a district near the south-east corner of New Zealand's North Island that is administered by the Tararua District Council. It has a population of and an area of 4,364.65 km². The Tararua District Council was created b ...
, the easternmost of the districts of which the
Horizons Regional Council has responsibilities.
The surrounding area, a catchment and source of the
Manawatu River (approximately 20 Min drive north of town) has developed into
dairy
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, beef cattle and
sheep
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farming, which now provides the major income for the town's population of .
History
Before European settlers arrived in the 1870s, the line of descent for Māori in the area was from the
Kurahaupō
''Kurahaupō'' was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand in Māori tradition.
In Taranaki tribal tradition, ''Kurahaupō'' is known as ''Te Waka Pakaru ki te moana'' or 'The Can ...
waka. The tribe of the area is
Rangitāne
Rangitāne is a Māori people, Māori iwi (tribe). Their rohe (territory) is in the Manawatū-Whanganui, Manawatū, Horowhenua, Wairarapa and Marlborough Region, Marlborough areas of New Zealand.marae
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at Makirikiri near Dannevirke at about the same time as the first Nordic settlers arrived from
Napier and Hawkes Bay.
The town was founded on 15 October 1872 by
Danish
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,
Norwegian
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and
Swedish
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settlers, adherents of
Scandinavism
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List
New Zealand
*The Public Works Act 1876 (40 Vict No 50)
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, built their initial settlement in a clearing of the
Seventy Mile Bush
The Seventy Mile Bush was a heavily forested area of New Zealand extending from Wairarapa to Central Hawkes Bay and out to that coast. It was cleared and settled by Scandinavians, assisted immigrants in the 1870s. On arrival they walked from the ...
.
The
Dannevirke after which the town was named is an extensive
Viking Age
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fortification line in Denmark which had a strong emotive symbolic role for 19th-century Danes, especially after the site had
fallen into German hands in the
German-Danish War
The Second Schleswig War ( da, Krigen i 1864; german: Deutsch-Dänischer Krieg) also sometimes known as the Dano-Prussian War or Prusso-Danish War was the second military conflict over the Schleswig-Holstein Question of the nineteenth century. T ...
of 1864 – a recent and very painful event for these settlers. The settlement quickly earned the nickname of "
sleeper town", as the town's purpose was to provide
tōtara
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sleepers for the
Napier–Wellington railway line. At one stage the area had 50 operating sawmills. After the native bush was cleared, the land was turned into pasture for grazing
animal
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s.
On 27 October 1917, much of the town's business district was destroyed by fire. The fire had started in the Andrew's Hotel on the corner of High and Station Streets at about 2pm. Flames blew across the road engulfing the Dannevirke Co-operative Association's store. As the fire spread through adjoining shops another hotel, the Masonic was engulfed. By about 5pm the Dannevirke and Woodville Fire Brigades, along with assistance from the local community had brought the fires under control. In total 27 business premises and 2 hotels were destroyed with damage estimated at £200,000.
Demographics
Dannevirke, comprising the statistical areas of Dannevirke West and Dannevirke East, covers .
It had a population of 5,508 at the
2018 New Zealand census
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, an increase of 429 people (8.4%) since the
2013 census, and a decrease of 51 people (-0.9%) since the
2006 census
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. There were 2,178 households. There were 2,613 males and 2,892 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.9 males per female, with 1,137 people (20.6%) aged under 15 years, 978 (17.8%) aged 15 to 29, 2,166 (39.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 1,233 (22.4%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 75.2%
New Zealand European
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/
Pākehā
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, 33.1% Māori, 2.3% Pacific peoples, 3.9% Asian, and 1.0% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities).
The proportion of people born overseas was 8.5%, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people objected to giving their religion, 46.8% had no religion, 37.1% were Christian, 0.4% were Hindu, 0.6% were Muslim, 0.4% were Buddhist and 7.1% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 330 (7.5%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 1,380 (31.6%) people had no formal qualifications. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 1,743 (39.9%) people were employed full-time, 666 (15.2%) were part-time, and 204 (4.7%) were unemployed.
Papatawa statistical area
The Papatawa statistical area covers
to the west of Dannevirke, but does not include
Papatawa. It had a population of 1,302 at the
2018 New Zealand census
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* ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the sho ...
, a decrease of 24 people (-1.8%) since the
2013 census, and an increase of 9 people (0.7%) since the
2006 census
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number.
In mathematics
Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...
. There were 486 households. There were 669 males and 633 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.06 males per female. The median age was 43.8 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 279 people (21.4%) aged under 15 years, 183 (14.1%) aged 15 to 29, 624 (47.9%) aged 30 to 64, and 222 (17.1%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 85.9%
New Zealand European
European New Zealanders, also known by the Māori-language loanword Pākehā, are New Zealanders of European descent. Most European New Zealanders are of British and Irish ancestry, with significantly smaller percentages of other European anc ...
/
Pākehā
Pākehā (or Pakeha; ; ) is a Māori term for New Zealanders primarily of European descent. Pākehā is not a legal concept and has no definition under New Zealand law. The term can apply to fair-skinned persons, or to any non-Māori New Ze ...
, 22.6% Māori, 0.9% Pacific peoples, 2.1% Asian, and 0.9% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities).
The proportion of people born overseas was 8.8%, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people objected to giving their religion, 45.6% had no religion, 44.0% were Christian, 0.2% were Hindu, 0.2% were Buddhist and 3.9% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 117 (11.4%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 255 (24.9%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $36,600, compared with $31,800 nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 573 (56.0%) people were employed full-time, 168 (16.4%) were part-time, and 18 (1.8%) were unemployed.
Culture
Dannevirke has three
marae
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(tribal meeting grounds) of the
Rangitāne
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(sub-tribes); each marae has a
wharenui
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(meeting house). Kaitoki Mare is affiliated with the Ngāti Pakapaka and Ngāti Te Rangiwhakaewa hapū, and includes the Kaitoki Memorial Hall. Mākirikiri is affiliated with Ngāti Mutuahi and Ngāti Te Rangiwhakaewa hapū, and includes the Aotea Tuatoru wharenui. Whiti te Rā marae, also known as Poherau marae and is of Ngati Kahungunu iwi, is affiliated with Ngāti Ihaka Rautahi te hapu, and includes Whiti te Rā wharenui.
Totara College hosts the Dannevirke Garden and Craft Expo, an annual event that has grown to a considerable size.
Sport
Dannevirke has produced a number of sports men and women in a number of different disciplines, among them
rugby
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** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
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** Rugby union: 1 ...
player
John Timu, who made New Zealand teams in both
union
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and
league
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.
Ewen Chatfield
Ewen John Chatfield (born 3 July 1950) is a former New Zealand cricketer. A medium-pace bowler, though Chatfield played 43 Tests and 114 One Day Internationals for his country, he is also remembered for having been hit in the head by a ball w ...
, who was an important member of the successful New Zealand cricket team of the 1980s Hadlee-Coney-Crowe era, is from Dannevirke, as is former All Black Duncan Hales, who now resides in the United States.
Other Dannevirke All Blacks were Colin Loader (1950s), Blair Furlong (1970 to South Africa), Lui Paewai who is widely acknowledged as the youngest All Black in history at just 17 years old (1924 Invincibles) and whose brother, nephews and grand-nephews (Doc, Hepa, Nathan and Murdoch respectively) went on to have good careers for Hawkes Bay and the New Zealand Maori side, and
Roy White
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(post-war All Black in 1946 and 1947). Other All Blacks who spent time in Dannevirke included 1981 All Black tourist to Romania and France
Wayne Neville, who attended Dannevirke High School, and
John Ashworth John Ashworth may refer to:
* John Ashworth (cricketer) (1850–1901), English cricketer
* John Ashworth (footballer), English professional footballer
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*John Ashworth (preacher) (181 ...
, who moved from Canterbury to a farm near Dannevirke late in his career.
The Dannevirke Sports Club and Aotea Sports Club are the major outlets for sport in the town with netball, cricket and soccer teams as well as a rugby team that compete in the Premier Manawatu Senior Competition and the Hawke's Bay 1st Division.
Climate
Dannevirke has an
Oceanic climate
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, (
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* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
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:''Cfb''). Due its high altitude the summer temperatures are often cooler compared to other Eastern North Island towns, such as
Masterton
Masterton ( mi, Whakaoriori), a large town in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand, operates as the seat of the Masterton District (a territorial authority or local-government district). It is the largest town in the Wairarapa, a r ...
,
Napier and
Gisborne, while in winter Dannevirke can regularly experience frosts as in other parts of New Zealand. Snow is rare, the latest snow to hit Dannevirke was 15 August 2011.
Schools
![Totara College](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Totara_College.jpg)
Dannevirke High School is the town's co-educational state secondary school,
with a roll of as of .
Dannevirke has three co-educational state primary schools: Dannevirke South School,
with a roll of ,
Huia Range School,
with a roll of ,
and Ruahine School,
with a roll of .
St Joseph's School is a co-educational state Catholic primary school,
with a roll of .
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tamaki Nui A Rua is a co-educational Year 1-13
Māori language immersion school,
with a roll of .
Totara College of Accelerated Learning is a co-educational state-integrated Year 1-13 school,
with a roll of .
Notable residents
* Sir
William Ian Axford - Space Scientist
*Bob Bell - Farmer at
Ākitio
Ākitio is a coastal community in the Tararua District of the lower east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. The Ākitio River runs for approximately 35 kilometres in a southeast by northwest direction, leading to the town of Weber, ...
(Marainanga Station), Owner of the Ruahine Club, and Ruahine Lodge (Dannevike), and campaigner of the famous
Condor Yachting campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s.
* Sir
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
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- Australian politician and Premier of
Queensland
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*
Victor Bleasdale
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- Brigadier General, US Marine Corps, awarded
Navy Cross
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twice for heroism in World War 1
*
Rangi Chase
Moutoa Lance "Rangi" Chase (born 11 April 1986) is a rugby league footballer who plays for the Rochdale Hornets in RFL League 1.
He played at representative level for the New Zealand Māori before moving to Britain and playing for the Exiles ...
- Rugby league player, capped for England
*
Ewen Chatfield
Ewen John Chatfield (born 3 July 1950) is a former New Zealand cricketer. A medium-pace bowler, though Chatfield played 43 Tests and 114 One Day Internationals for his country, he is also remembered for having been hit in the head by a ball w ...
- New Zealand test cricketer
*
Peter Connell - Irish cricketer
*
Peter Cullinane - Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Palmerston North
*
Lauris Edmond
Lauris Dorothy Edmond (née Scott, 2 April 1924 – 28 January 2000) was a New Zealand poet and writer.
Biography
Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, Edmond survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a child. Trained as a teacher, she raised a fam ...
- New Zealand poet
*
Blair Furlong
Blair Donald Marie Furlong (born 10 March 1945) is a former New Zealand cricketer and rugby union player.
Career Rugby
At just 18, one year out of Dannevirke High School, Furlong played for Hawke's Bay in their midweek match against the tou ...
- New Zealand international rugby player
*
Bryan Gould
Bryan Charles Gould (born 11 February 1939) is a New Zealand-born British former politician and diplomat. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994. He was a member of the Labour Party's Shadow Ca ...
-
Rhodes Scholar
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Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...
, Deputy Leader of the
British Labour Party
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,
Dux
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of Dannevirke High School.
*
Duncan Hales - New Zealand international rugby player
*
Aaron Hape
Aaron Hape is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and in 2017 became the first person of Māori descent to be invested as an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
Background and education
Hape was raised in Dannevirke and un ...
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
*
Weller Hauraki
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He has played for the Parramatta Eels in the NRL, and Crus ...
- Rugby league player
*
Jack Kerr - New Zealand test cricketer
*
Charlotte Kight
Charlotte Kight (born 8 June 1988 in Dannevirke, New Zealand) is a New Zealand netball player. Kight started in the National Bank Cup with the Western Flyers in 2005, under head coach Yvette McCausland-Durie. She played with the Flyers for two ...
- Of
Ākitio
Ākitio is a coastal community in the Tararua District of the lower east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. The Ākitio River runs for approximately 35 kilometres in a southeast by northwest direction, leading to the town of Weber, ...
b. Dannevirke,
Silver Fern
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Netballer.
*
Phil Lamason
Phillip John Lamason, (15 September 191819 May 2012) was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the Second World War, who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concentrat ...
- World War II pilot
*
Megan Larsen
Megan Larsen is a natural and organic skin care entrepreneur and author. She is the founder of Sodashi, a natural skin care range, supplying more than 70 luxury spas in more than 25 countries.
Early life
Larsen was born in Dannevirke, New Z ...
- organic skincare entrepreneur
*
Colin Loader
Colin James Loader (10 March 1931 – 19 June 2021) was a New Zealand rugby union player who represented the All Blacks between 1953 and 1954.
Born in Dannevirke in 1931, Loader was educated at Hutt Valley High School, where he was a member of ...
- New Zealand international rugby player
*
Sue McCauley - Playwright, author of 'Other Halves'
*
Robin Maconie
Robin John Maconie (born 22 October 1942) is a New Zealand composer, pianist, and writer.
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Maconie studied with Frederick Page and Roger Savage at the Victoria University of Wellington, receiving a Master of Arts in t ...
– composer, pianist, and writer
*
Clint Newland - Rugby union player
*
W. H. Oliver - historian and poet
*
Lui Paewai
Lui Paewai (10 August 1906 – 2 January 1970) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A five-eighth and full-back, Paewai represented Hawke's Bay and Auckland at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blac ...
- New Zealand international rugby player, youngest All Black ever
*
Murray Parker - New Zealand test and one-day cricketer
*
Bill Phillips - New Zealand and Australian economist, creator of the
Phillips curve
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* Sir
Alfred Ransom
Sir Ethelbert Alfred Ransom (19 March 1868 – 22 May 1943) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party, then its successor the United Party, and from 1936, the National Party. He was a cabinet minister from 1928 to 1935 in the United ...
(1868–1943), Mayor of Dannevirke (1910–1919) and Member of Parliament (1922–1943)
*
Hans Madsen Ries (1860–1926), Mayor of Dannevirke (1903–1905, 1906–1910)
*
Luke Ronchi
Luke Ronchi ( ; born 23 April 1981) is a New Zealand-Australian cricket coach and a former cricketer. He represented both the Australia national cricket team and New Zealand national cricket team in international cricket. Ronchi is the only play ...
- Dual international (Australia and New Zealand) T20, one-day and test cricketer
*
Katrina Shanks
Katrina May Shanks (born 12 May 1969) is a former New Zealand politician who was a list member of parliament for the National Party from 2007 to 2014.
Early years
Shanks was born in Dannevirke in 1969, and attended St Matthew's Collegiate ...
- Politician, Member of Parliament
*
John Timu - Dual rugby and rugby league international
*
Joe Ward - Rugby union player
*
Sonny Wool Sonny Wool (2008–2020) was a sheep from the North Island of New Zealand. Born in Dannevirke circa 2008, he was named after All Black Sonny Bill Williams. He became famous after his feeding behaviour was used to correctly predict the winner of e ...
- Psychic sheep of the 2011 Rugby World Cup (b. Dannevirke)
References
External links
Tararua District Council- List of Dannevirke All Blacks
{{Tararua District
Populated places in Manawatū-Whanganui
Tararua District
Populated places on the Manawatū River