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January 1900
About this time, the Clevedon Polo Club is founded. Except during World War II, this fields teams at least annually until its dissolution in 1954 (see also 23 February 1957).
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1 January 1900
A post office is opened at 'Otau', the name soon afterwards being changed to Paparimu. The Paparimu post office closes on 22 April 1921, with the introduction of rural delivery to the area, but a telephone office continues operating in the locality until 17 June 1941.
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6 January 1900
An 'organising branch' of the New Zealand Farmers' Union is formed at Pukekohe. This is one of the earliest branches of the union established in the area (a Bombay branch had been set up in 1899). A Pukekohe representative is present at the union's first Auckland conference on 19 March 1900.
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10 February 1900
A new mounted rifles troop is formed in Waiuku. This, the Waiuku Mounted Rifles, is formally gazetted in November (see also 12 June 1901).
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March 1900
James Ashby, who was in the 1860s the first European to settle in the Orere area, finishes building a new house at Tapapakanga, on a property he had bought the previous year. The house is today part of Tapapakanga Regional Park (see also 25 March 1995).
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Photo: The Ashby family home at Tapapakanga [n.d.] (Manukau Libraries, Kawakawa Bay Historical Society Collection, CLE: I, 1 no. 3)

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3 March 1900
The newly formed Papakura Hack Racing Club holds its inaugural meeting on the old racecourse at Glenora Park, Takanini (see also 14 July 1926).
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19 March 1900
The first New Zealand Farmer's Union conference begins, held in the Agricultural Association Rooms in Queen Street, Auckland. The father of the union is usually regarded as Mr Arthur Glass, a farmer from the Hokianga; however, local accounts suggest that some inspiration at least may have come from a Clevedon resident, Sam. A. Browne (see also 3 July 1902).
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23 March 1900
St Paul's Anglican Church at Buckland, near Tuakau, is dedicated.
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29 March 1900
Waiuku's first full-time police constable is sworn in. According to one account, the town's new police station and residence is officially opened on the same day (see also 15 July 1972).
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May 1900
A new one-lane bridge across the Turanga Stream on the Whitford to Maraetai road is opened. This replaces an earlier bridge beside the ford upstream, and is in turn replaced when the road through the village is realigned in 1954.
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16 May 1900
The Franklin Mounted Rifle Volunteers, a volunteer militia corps, is accepted into service, its first meeting being held on 2 June 1900. Based in Clevedon, this can be regarded as a successor to the Wairoa Rifle Volunteer Corps, which had been disbanded in 1893 (see also 12 June 1901).
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4 June 1900
The Governor of New Zealand, the Earl of Ranfurly, visits Pakuranga. He inspects the Pakuranga school, planting a tulip tree in the school gardens to commemorate his visit. In December 1907 the school receives another vice-regal visit, when the new Governor, Lord Plunket, plants a pohutukawa.
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5 June 1900
A small public library is established at Alfriston. This takes over the books of a library the Papakura Valley Mutual Improvement Society has maintained in the Brookby School for several years. The Alfriston library is later moved to the Alfriston public hall (see also 11 November 1946).
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17 June 1900
A memorial service is held in Christ Church Alfriston, in honour of a local man, Trooper James Jenks, who had died of fever while serving in the South African war (see also 12 June 1901).
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17 September 1900
A creamery is opened at Aka Aka (see also 27 January 1916).
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31 March 1901
According to the 1901 census, the population of Manukau County is now 12,306 (excluding Maori). Most of the area remains rural. Although still officially a road district, Otahuhu (1211) is now in reality a town. Other road districts (in descending order of population) are Pukekohe West (1153), Waipipi (905), Wairoa (792), Mangare [Mangere] (702), East Tamaki (580), Waiuku (492), Awhitu (413), Pokeno (398), Drury (382), Mauku (380), Maungatawhiri (378), Papakura (373), Paparata (373), Opaheke (369), Pakuranga (271), Hunua (266), Manurewa (260), Mercer (229), Turanga (227), Karaka (188), Papatoitoi [Papatoetoe] (176), Paparoa (166), Pollock [Pollok] Settlement (88) and Maraetai (82). The main Maori tribal groups recorded in the county are 'Waikato' (552) and 'Ngatimaru' (161).
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5 May 1901
A new Methodist church building is opened at Woodside, or Wiri. The old chapel building, dating back to 1854, continues to serve for some time as a Sunday school. A cemetery is gazetted beside the church on 29 April 1901 (see also 23 February 1909).
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8 June 1901
The Pukekohe West Road Board trials its recently acquired stone-breaker. The machine produces enough gravel to surface 25 yards of road per day.
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10 June 1901
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (the future King George V and Queen Mary) arrive at Auckland on the first stage of a 17-day tour of New Zealand. On 13 June 1901 the royal train passes through Franklin on its way to Rotorua. Much of the population of Pukekohe turns out to watch the train pass; at Mercer the chief Tohi Kuri and members of his tribe give a waiata of welcome when it stops to take on water.
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12 June 1901
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York inspect the Auckland militia companies at Potter's Park. Among the companies present are the Franklin Mounted Rifles, the Pukekohe Mounted Rifles and the Waiuku Mounted Rifles. During the ceremony medals are presented to men who have seen service in South Africa, including troopers from Mangere, Pukekohe and Waiuku (see also 5 June 1902).
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