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SEATOUN SOCCER: Seventy-five years Bob O’Brien

Seatoun Association Football Club (Inc) administrators planned a re-union of members and supporters over Easter 1984 to acknowledge the seventy-fifth season of soccer playing at Seatoun Park (and elsewhere in New Zealand). A publication that recorded something of the history of the club and reported on the various jubilee functions was deemed desirable. Secretary, Bob O’Brien, undertook the role of researcher, author and publisher. His workload at Hutt Valley Outpost was influenced by the downturn in secondary school teacher training intakes, so the new skills and learning arising from this project allowed him to model the “lifelong learning” being promoted by the NZ Education Department. He took much satisfaction from the collaborative nature of current and past members’ involvement; the skills and time of Jean Gee (the Outpost secretary); and the generosity and collaboration of other friends of the club in making the book and the celebration a worthy enterprise.

SEATOUN ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB (INC)

AN EDUCATIONAL OUTPOST: a record of the Hutt Valley Teacher Training Centre 1969 - 1987 Bob O’Brien

Published 1992 ISBN 0-908957-05-X Soft board; 87pp; NZD25; p&p NZD5

Secondary teacher training to service schools in the Greater Wellington area was administered from a site on the campus of Hutt Valley High School as an outpost of Christchurch Teachers College. Harry Guthrie, a former senior teacher from Rongotai College, was the founding Director of “the Outpost” as it became identified as, and he and his mainly part-time colleagues developed a school-based model of pre-service secondary teacher training that was later adapted in other parts of New Zealand where teacher recruitment was similarly a matter of political sensitivity.

In 1979 Bob O’Brien became the Director after Harry’s retirement, but demographic factors and a faltering national economy allowed politicians and state service officials to devise appreciable retrenchment policies for teacher education, and the Outpost intakes were considerably reduced from 1982.

Wellington College of Education Council became the Outpost’s controlling authority during 1987 and the School of Secondary Education, sited at Karori, assumed responsibility for the on-going preparation of graduate student teachers. By this time the effect of the policies of the early years of the decade meant that school boards of governors in many areas once again had to respond to shortages of teachers, particularly in some subject areas, so Bob and his colleagues soon found themselves meeting the training needs of increasing numbers of graduates. The “Outpost model” had to change in the new environment and unfortunate location. Hence this record.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE OF EDUCATION TE WHANAU O AKO PAI KI TE UPOKO O TE IKA

BELOW THE BLUFF AT NIKAO: Tereora Boarding School, Rarotonga, 1893 - 1911

Bob O’Brien

This work is a detailed report on life at the first Anglophone school of higher education in the Cook Islands. Bob O’Brien has also included material about the political, social and economic conditions that existed in communities that supplied pupils to the London Missionary Society school. During the time of the school’s operation New Zealand became the colonial power responsible for the administration of the islands and, by implication, the well-being of the people. The story of the school’s decline an eventual closure, mainly recounted through the words of the teachers, students and agents of the government and society, illuminates some aspects of Wellington’s first attempts at imperialism.

The book also records some of the reactions of adolescent Polynesians to the steadily intruding European culture and the conflicts of values represented at first by the missionaries and later by traders and government functionaries. Much of the detail is the very stuff of soap opera. The minor, but significant, other players are the island leaders (Maori and papa’a), the parents of the students, the officials in London, Sydney and Wellington, and the “immoral, drunken, lecherous, superstitious, reprehensible” others in the villages who put temptation before the Tereora boys and girls

EMMA OF THE HILL COUNTRY: the story of Emma Beaufoy

as told by her grand-daughter Betty Nina Verona Beaufoy

This is the story of Emma Beaufoy (nee Longstaff) a pioneer of Poverty Bay, New Zealand. In 1873 she emigrated to the colony, alone, when she was sixteen, sailing from London on Douglas and docking in Wellington. She became nanny to the children of Charles Pharazyn, at “Longwood” farm near Featherston. In 1876 Emma married, at Greytown, Herbert Beaufoy, the manager of another Pharazyn farm on the south coast of Wairarapa, before travelling by coach through the 70 Mile Bush to Napier. The Beaufoys went by boat to Tolaga Bay, a genuine frontier settlement at that time, and after a period there relocated to the slightly less isolated Poverty Bay flats at Te Arai where the presence of Te Kooti continued to alarm the pakeha settlers. Success in a government land ballot in 1895 gave the Beaufoys the chance to hew a farm out of the bush at Rakauroa (which Emma named) in the hill-country approximately 64 km from Gisborne. Emma, with one of her sons, inadvisedly bought 810 ha at Te Kauwhata in the Waikato after World War One - the fourth land purchase that she was involved in.

Emma’s story is one of survival, triumphs and tragedies, of her coming to terms with a broken marriage and, though facing tremendous difficulties, the creation of a successful dairy farm with the help of her six children. She made a notable holiday trip to Britain and Europe in 1913, but thereafter the faltering rural and national economy and her own errors of judgement led to a decline in her fortunes and a thwarting of her ambitions for her family.

Her indomitable spirit was equalled in many of her contemporaries as they, too, battled in an alien environment to establish security for themselves and their families. The hill-country farmers of New Zealand, nearly all emigrants who sailed to a far-off land with little or no capital nor appropriate agricultural experience, have never been recognised sufficiently. Betty Beaufoy has written her tribute to those men and women, particularly the women, who deserve more than a passing thought.

(Betty Beaufoy)

WHAT HO, CRAWFORD, OLD CHAP: an Anglo-Scot Chinese Interpreter (1850-1903)

Bob O'Brien

ISBN: 0-476-00285-0 Book (226pp, illustrated, soft cover) - NZD30 Packaging and postage in New Zealand - NZD2-50 abroad - NZD15-00

Occasional references to another son of JC Crawford, James Dundas Crawford, increasingly gained my interest as my research about the history of Seatoun advanced. An old Etonian, he visited New Zealand in 1869 and somehow got to writing a letter from the Wanganui hinterland the night before an expected skirmish with Titokowaru and his war-party. Next, his letters show him to be in Peking learning Mandarin as a cadet in the Foreign Office. He journeyed on horseback to Outer Mongolia for a month in 1871. His linguistic facility later had him in eastern Australia during 1877 gathering intelligence about the Chinese communities at the various goldfields. As a cover for this adventure he visited his family in Wellington and while there chanced to fall in love with the daughter of a very affluent politician and trader. He reported on his mission in Australia and returned to Shanghai in the hope that his career would be advanced, and that May Rhodes would be allowed to accept his proposal. Neither eventuated and a mental breakdown led to his repatriation to Britain.

(Bob O’Brien)

PĀKEHÄ SKIN MÄORI BLOOD

KIRI MÄ TOTO MÄORI

Jim MacGregor Hëmi Makarika

ISBN 0-476-01378-X Book (308 pp, illustrated, soft cover) - NZ$35.00 Packaging and postage: in New Zealand -NZ$2.50 abroad - NZ$15.00

Here is part-Pakeha Jim MacGregor’s last contribution to improving the chances of better race relations in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is an account of Jim’s early life and how part-Maori Hemi Makarika, Jim’s other self, came into being about forty years after their “specific blobs of protoplasm” were born in Stratford in 1923. Their joint achievement included: almost five years of secondary schooling; service in army, air force and Fleet Air Arm; a forestry cadetship; study at Victoria University College and Wellington Teachers’ College; a career in teaching and school administration; and an unabiding enthusiasm for world travel.

A growing interest in the cause of Maori education led to the acquisition of te reo, tikanga Maori, and further development of ideas that had been initially formulated during Jim’s time as Principal of Wainuiomata College. Retirement at Hokio Beach, Levin was busy. Study, teaching children, adolescents and adults were interspersed with regular travel abroad and among whanau, who were becoming ever more a focus of attention. Whakapapa was researched and promoted at a series of hui in Horowhenua, Whanganui and Hastings. Jim/Hemi died suddenly in 2004, shortly after the composition of the last chapters of this autobiography. He believed that he had proved himself in both Pakeha and Maori cultures. (Bob O’Brien)

CONFLICT: the story of Te Kooti and the settlers Betty Beaufoy

ISBN : 0-473-11015-6 Book (156 pp, illustrated, soft cover) - NZD35 Packaging and postage: in New Zealand : NZD2.50 abroad : NZD15.00

Betty Beaufoy’s Poverty Bay childhood was strongly influenced by the life achievements and personality of her paternal grandmother, Emma, a pioneer, solo woman farmer of Rakauroa, inland from Gisborne. Even as Betty was fulfilling an ambition to research and write Emma of the Hill Country (1997) she developed a growing commitment to share the family folklore about relationships between the early settlers and iwi during the years when Emma resided at Te Arai, before she and her children began developing a successful dairy farm.

Te Kooti was more than just an historical identity. Betty’s family discussions and later reading gave her to understand that the pakeha versions of Poverty Bay history did not do the man justice. The revision of Te Kooti’s abilities and treatment that Judith Binney’s Redemption Songs (1995) advanced, and the decision of the Waitangi Tribunal to prepare a report on the early colonial years of Te Tai Rawhiti district, motivated Betty to press on, in spite of declining health, with the intention of recording what she had long remembered about the adolescent Te Kooti’s links with the missionaries and the settlers of the river flats drained by the Te Arai and Waipaoa Rivers near Turangi.

Hence the title of this work that she completed just a few months before her death in January 2006.

(Bob O’Brien)