Arapito
Arapito Promised Land | |
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Locality | |
Arapito from the Zig Zag Track, South Terrace | |
41°16′S 172°10′E / 41.267°S 172.167°E / -41.267; 172.167 | |
Country | New Zealand |
Region | West Coast |
District | Buller District |
Electorates | West Coast-Tasman Te Tai Tonga |
Arapito is a town in the Karamea area of New Zealand. Arapito is a farming community on the south side of the Karamea River, upriver from the main Karamea township.[1]
Name
The settlement was originally named Promised Land; confusingly, the settlement on the opposite, north bank of the Karamea River was named Land of Promise (later redubbed Umere). The name was changed to Arapito (Māori: 'End of the path')[2] in 1909 when a post office and telephone bureau was established in the town. The area was originally a Māori hunting trail, hence the name.[1]
History
The original "Special Settlement" of Karamea in 1875 was on the South Terrace, which although safe from floods had infertile soil and was worthless for agriculture. Local tradition holds that the King brothers were out searching for pigs that had strayed from the Terrace to the south side of the Karamea River, and discovered the fertile flats there. They cleared a patch and planted seeds, which showed such progress that the settlers moved down from the Terrace to this "Promised Land"—aside from the Biblical reference, the settlers had been promised a further allotment of 5 acres from the Government.[3] By the 1880s the settlers had spread across the river to the Land of Promise (Umere).
As settlers moved to the flats it became obvious a school was required, and in 1882 a local committee petitioned the Education Board. The first school building was destroyed by fire, and in1884 a replacement was approved and built for £150. The Karamea School Committee complained that pupils were being drawn away from their school district, and the Land of Promise residents argued that the school should have been sited further upriver at a more convenient crossing. Pupils from Land of Promise crossed the river in canoes, and later a punt, until their own school opened in 1890. The Promised Land School roll rose from 18 to 25 by 1887, and an additional building was added in 1893. The roll stayed constant until the First World War, when it dropped to 15 or 16. After the war the population of Arapito fell, and in 1947 the school was consolidated with the Karamea District High School; the empty building was moved to become the High School's Manual Training Block.[3]
Climate
Climate data for Arapito (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 21.0 (69.8) | 21.6 (70.9) | 20.4 (68.7) | 18.1 (64.6) | 15.9 (60.6) | 13.4 (56.1) | 12.9 (55.2) | 13.6 (56.5) | 14.8 (58.6) | 16.0 (60.8) | 17.4 (63.3) | 19.5 (67.1) | 17.1 (62.7) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 16.3 (61.3) | 16.7 (62.1) | 15.3 (59.5) | 13.2 (55.8) | 11.2 (52.2) | 8.9 (48.0) | 8.2 (46.8) | 9.0 (48.2) | 10.3 (50.5) | 11.7 (53.1) | 13.0 (55.4) | 15.2 (59.4) | 12.4 (54.4) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 11.7 (53.1) | 11.8 (53.2) | 10.3 (50.5) | 8.4 (47.1) | 6.5 (43.7) | 4.5 (40.1) | 3.4 (38.1) | 4.4 (39.9) | 5.9 (42.6) | 7.4 (45.3) | 8.7 (47.7) | 10.9 (51.6) | 7.8 (46.1) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 177.3 (6.98) | 127.1 (5.00) | 146.5 (5.77) | 175.1 (6.89) | 196.7 (7.74) | 199.3 (7.85) | 183.4 (7.22) | 185.9 (7.32) | 212.4 (8.36) | 239.2 (9.42) | 190.2 (7.49) | 211.4 (8.32) | 2,244.5 (88.36) |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 210.3 | 183.4 | 187.5 | 155.7 | 126.7 | 104.1 | 119.6 | 141.7 | 141.7 | 157.5 | 172.4 | 180.1 | 1,880.7 |
Source: NIWA[4] |
References
- ^ a b Reed, A. W. (2002). The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Place Names. Auckland: Reed Books. ISBN 0-7900-0761-4.
- ^ "1000 Māori place names". New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 6 August 2019.
- ^ a b Harmon, Dulcie (2007), Karamea – a story of success (2nd ed.), Karamea, Wikidata Q113332465
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "CliFlo – National Climate Database : Arapito Ews". NIWA. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
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