Rangitaeki 1956?

[charlotteCH]

Can someone tell me what sort of place Rangitaeki was in 1956?

Was it a township? village?  Where was the nearest city? a Guess at the population numers back then..
What sort of dwellings were there?

Is Wharerangi Cemetery  in Rangitaeki?  or how far away?

Just had someone turned up as living there at the time of his death  in 1956, so am curious, and anything anyone can tell me will be of interest.

Thanks,
charlotte

[Mk2_Zephyr]

lol, my guess is,  its still same, 

[charlotteCH]

lol, my guess is,  its still same, 

Trouble with that is, I don't know what it was to start with!

[Jean Price]

Hi,

Wharerangi is a suburb of Napier (east coast of the North Island)

The Rangitikei River starts in the Kaimanawa Mountains, (central North Island) and flows west to end up in the Tasman Sea. So it is not an area as such.

Who is your person?   Have just read the other posting.

Jean

[charlotteCH]

Thanks Jean,   
When you say"it's not much of an area", are you referring to the size of it as a  settlement or to its affluence?
The reason I'm trying to get an understanding of it in 1956 is that Edward Hastings- my man- had left England in 1927 under a cloud. In England  he'd been "of independent means" but the death info I now have shows his occupation as "roadworker".  So I am wondering under what conditions he had lived in NZ.
I'm also interested in whether he married in NZ- all the usual family history stuff.

Thanks for you reply- NZ is a mystery to me but I am learning a little now.

charlotte

[Jean Price]

Hello Charlotte,

We are getting into a quagmire here.

Rangitikei is not an area, village, locale, etc. It is a river which flows through about three provinces of NZ. (If you are in England then translate province into county).

I have relations who would say that they live in the Rangitikei - but they really mean the Manawatu which is a large region on the lower west side of the North Island.

I do wish some North Islanders would step in here!!!!
Jean

[charlotteCH]

Hello Jean and thank you for your help.  Let's wait to see if some N. Islanders step in with some local knowledge.
Thanks again,

charlotte

[cmclayton]

Hi Charlotte

Use google maps you can get a satellite view.

It is spelt Rangitaiki

http://maps.google.com/

Thanks heaps Christine

PS - Wharerangi Cemetery is in Cato Road Napier,  found a great satellite view.

[charlotteCH]

Christine,
Thanks for your interest and for the spelling correction.  What I had came from the archives- maybe a typo and maybe that explains why google had such a poor offering when I put it in incorrectly.

Will go to google now and see the view.

Thanks again,
charlotte