- Hukerenui
Infobox Settlement
name = Hukerenui
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name =New Zealand
subdivision_type1= Region
subdivision_name1=Northland Region
subdivision_type2= District
subdivision_name2=Whangarei District
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latd = 35
latm = 31
lats = 13
latNS = S
longd = 174
longm = 12
longs = 2
longEW = EHukerenui is a settlement in Northland,
New Zealand . State Highway 1 passes through the area.Kawakawa is northwest, andHikurangi is southeast. [cite book|title=Reed New Zealand Atlas|year=2004|id=ISBN 0-7900-0952-8|author=Peter Dowling (editor)|publisher=Reed Books|pages=map 5] [cite book|title=The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand|year=2005|id=ISBN 1-877333-20-4|author=Roger Smith, GeographX|publisher=Robbie Burton|pages=map 24]History
The settlement began as Hukerenui South in 1886, with a request made by a group of local people for the land under the Village Homestead Special Settlement system. The village was opened to the first 25 settler families the following year. Although the main road from Whangarei to Kawakawa passed through it, the road was only a dirt track, and was impassible during winter. Gum digging was one of the initial sources of income, but the Government cancelled gum-digging licences after fires in early 1888.cite book|title=Hukerenui... in the beginning|last=Menefy| first=Diana|year=1988|isbn=0-473-006-41-3|pages=pp 5-6] A flax mill at
Towai provided some jobs. Some were employed to build and improve the roads. [Menefy, pp 10, 29]The North Auckland railway line reached Hukerenui in 1901 or 1902. [Menefy, p 32, says 1902; H. J. Hansen and F. J. Neil, "Tracks in the North" (Auckland: H. J. Hansen, 1992) pp 86-88 says it was opened
1 March 1901 ] It was extended north to Towai in February or May 1910, and to Kawakawa in 1912 or 1911 [First date given is Menefy's, second is Hansen's.]Education
Hukerenui School Years 1-8 is a coeducational full primary (years 1-8) school with a decile rating of 5 and a roll of 142. [cite web|url=http://www.tki.org.nz/e/schools/display_school_info.php?school_id=1017|title=Te Kete Ipurangi - Hukerenui School|publisher=Ministry of Education] The school was founded in 1889, and amalgamated with other small schools to a new site in 1949. Hukerenui School moved in 1975 to the site of the former Hukerenui District High School. It changed its name from "Hukerenui School" to "Hukerenui School Years 1-8" in 1997. [cite web|url=http://www.hukerenui.school.nz/history.htm|title=History|publisher=Hukerenui School Years 1-8]The school included a Form 3 class in 1946, and this was expanded into a secondary department. This eventually split to form the Hukerenui District High School, which operated from March 1957 to December 1972. [Menefy, p 2]
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External links
* [http://www.hukerenui.school.nz/ Hukerenui School website]
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