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Murchison earthquake the schoolroom was threatened by erosion, and was relocated in 1931 at a cost of £189 to the middle of the settlement, beside the main road to Westport. The school closed in 1946 when Little Wanganui was integrated with Karamea: a teacher-driver took the pupils the 12 miles to Karamea, and the school building was sold and dismantled.
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constructed in 1916 which followed the coast. After the 1929 earthquake, the coastline was elevated between 40 and 100 feet and suffered enormous slips and landslides. This necessitated a new inland route over the
Karamea Bluffs to Westport – a two hour trip on a road that was steep, muddy, and often
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Māori, and later by
European sealers in 1836 and gold miners in 1864. Organised settlement started in the 1870s, helped by a government settlement scheme. The wharf was at first a mooring pile in the middle of the river, replaced by a proper wharf about 500 m upstream from the river mouth around 1900
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The first school in Little
Wanganui was a room in the Rasmussen farmhouse, and a government-sponsored schoolroom opened in 1894; the first teacher, Miss Julia Curtin, was on a salary of £20. A school building was constructed at the beachfront in 1902, and replaced in 1907 at the cost of £225; the
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struck the area, causing extensive slips and damage to buildings. A huge natural dam formed in the Little
Wanganui gorge; this burst three months later, the flood of mud and boulders destroying 4 miles of road and numerous structures, but causing no loss of life.
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pilings and matai flooring, it opened on 17 December 1954. In 1955, the Little
Wanganui Hotel was also relocated 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the former port to the Karamea Highway; the timber from the old hotel was used to build the new pub.
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to allow for the loading of timber. A signal station was staffed to let boats know when the tide would allow them to enter. In the early 1900s there were monthly arrivals of supply ships from
Westport, which would continue on to
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in the area was installed at the school in 1928. In the 1930s, the Marris and
Wollett sawmill began operating in the valley, but the population of Wangapeka gradually fell until the school closed in 1935.
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trees donated by a local farmer were felled in Wangapeka and milled at Granite Creek, and a team of locals volunteered their time and skills to build the hall and wire it for electricity. With
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and Blue Duck Creek. Wangapeka children walked to school in Little Wanganui, several miles away, until a schoolhouse was built in 1921. One of the first
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