33-505: Tokanui may refer to the following in New Zealand: In Southland [ edit ] Tokanui, Southland , a locality Tokanui Branch , a former branch line railway Tokanui River , a river flowing into Toetoes Bay In Waikato [ edit ] Tokanui, Waikato , a locality Tokanui Psychiatric Hospital , a former psychiatric hospital Topics referred to by
66-447: A Southland Hospital Board member, and opened about 1956. There were several sawmills, milling trees such as rimu . Bauchop's mill burnt down in 1912 and narrowly escaped another fire in 1917. There were 3 timber mills in 1921. Some of the sawmills were linked to their bush by tramways , between at least 1902 and 1925. One extended 2.5 km (1.6 mi) from the railway station towards Waikawa. A woodchip mill started in
99-496: A distinct self-identity . Australians and New Zealanders attach the term "bush" to any number of other entities or activities to describe their rural, country or folk nature through terms such as "bush telegraph", an informal human network through which news is passed on; "bush carpenter", a rough-and-ready builder; "to go bush", to escape from your usual haunts; "bush cricket ", " bush music " (Australian folk music); "bush doof "; and bushrangers , 19th-century criminals mainly in
132-540: A large flat area, nothing remains of the station, except part of the platform. Most of the rocks in the area are of the early Middle Jurassic Ferndale Group, a part of the Murihiku Terrane , mainly sandstone deposited in shallow water, with mudstone and conglomerate . The river valleys are formed of recent alluvium . Tokanui is a name made up of the Māori words for rock (toka) and large, or many (nui). It
165-406: A roll of 48 students as of August 2024. The 2018 Education Review Office report said there were then 110 pupils. Children are brought to the school on 4 bus routes, serving the south coast from Fortrose to Waikawa and north to Fortification . A 2009 proposal to move Fortrose students to Waimahaka School was opposed by parents and Tokanui School. Waimahaka School closed in 2012. Quarry Hills
198-445: Is a scattered settlement, 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Tokanui. In 2013 meshblock 309671, which covers a large area, to the edge of Tokanui, had a population of 69 and meshhblock 3096800, to the south of the main road, had 18. In 1891 a post office opened. Waikawa Valley school opened in 1891 and was renamed Quarry Hills in 1893. A cemetery opened in about 1895 and a public hall in 1928. The hall closed between 1968 and 1976 and
231-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tokanui, Southland Tokanui is a community in the eastern portion of Southland District Council , located on the Southern Scenic Route about 56 km (35 mi) east of Invercargill and 107 km (66 mi) southwest of Balclutha , New Zealand . The Tokanui River runs just to
264-441: Is to cut through heavy brush and other vegetation to pass through tangled country: "We had to do quite a bit of bushwhacking today to clear the new trail." The other meaning is to hide in such areas and then attack unsuspecting passers-by: "We were bushwhacked by the bandits as we passed through their territory and they took all of our money and supplies." The Bushwhackers were also a New Zealand professional wrestling tag team that
297-472: Is used for 6 locations in North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui), including Tokanui , Waikato , though there the name is thought to be a corruption of tāiko nui, a large petrel . On 3 February 1912 a proposal was made to change the name of the railway station from Tokonui to Tokanui. However, for over 30 years the names were often used interchangeably. By 1911 Tokanui had a population of 119, but in 2013
330-971: The Urewera Ranges , and the catchment of the Whanganui River . Significant stands remain in Northland and the ranges running south from the Coromandel Peninsula towards Ruapehu, and isolated remnants cap various volcanoes in Taranaki, the Waikato, the Bay of Plenty and the Hauraki Gulf. From the word comes many phrases including: In South Africa, the term ( Afrikaans : die bos ) has specific connotations of rural areas which are not open veldt . Generally, it refers to areas in
363-455: The 1980s, using kāmahi and beech and, from 1985, replaced the native trees as its feedstock, with locally grown eucalyptus . Tokanui was allocated £41 13s 4d towards the building of a 60 ft (18 m) x 30 ft (9.1 m) Coronation Hall, which opened on 13 October 1911. It was burnt down in 1949 .The first replacement Memorial Hall was built in 1954, however, it was also burnt down by an arsonist in 1965. The replacement
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#1732798376405396-567: The Australian population. Bush poets such as Henry Lawson (1867–1922) and Banjo Paterson (1864–1942) revered the bush as a source of national ideals, as did contemporaneous painters in the Heidelberg School such as Tom Roberts (1856–1931), Arthur Streeton (1867–1943) and Frederick McCubbin (1855–1917). Romanticising the bush in this way through folklore was a big step forward for 19th-century Australians in developing
429-677: The bush is typically native to the region, although exotic species may also be present. The expression has been in use in Australia from the earliest years of British settlement, and it has inspired many derivative Australian English terms, such as bush tucker , bush ballad and bushranger . The term is also widely used in Canada and the American state of Alaska to refer to the large, forested portions of their landscapes. The concept of "the bush" has become iconic in Australia. In reference to
462-451: The bush. It can mean to revert to a feral nature (or to "go native"), and it can also mean to deliberately leave normal surroundings and live rough, with connotations of cutting off communication with the outside world – often as a means of evading capture or questioning by the police. The term bushwhacker is used in Australia and New Zealand to mean someone who spends his or her time in the bush. The verb to bushwhack has two meanings. One
495-499: The eastern colonies who hid in the bush to escape from authorities. In New Zealand, bush primarily refers to areas of native trees rather than exotic forests. However, the word is also used in the Australian sense of anywhere outside urban areas, encompassing grasslands as well as forests. Areas with bush (i.e. native forest) are found in both the North Island and the South Island , some of it bordering towns and cities, but
528-410: The landscape, "bush" refers to any sparsely-inhabited region, regardless of vegetation. "The bush" in this sense was something that was uniquely Australian and very different from the green European landscapes familiar to many new immigrants. The term " Outback " is also used, but usually in association with the more arid inland areas of Australia. "The bush" also refers to any populated region outside of
561-437: The line show only that station. A 1910 contract for the station buildings at Te Peka and Tokonui was won by P A Lyders of Dunedin for £1827. They were finished by August 1911, when Tokanui had a station building, platform, 30 ft (9.1 m) x 20 ft (6.1 m) goods shed, loading bank, cattle yards, coal shed, 5 sidings, an engine shed and, in 1912, also a turntable . The engine shed closed on 1 January 1960. There
594-425: The major metropolitan areas, including mining and agricultural areas . Consequently, it is not unusual to have a mining town in the desert such as Port Hedland (population 14,000) referred to as "the bush". Indigenous Australians lived a nomadic life in remote areas of the bush for thousands of years, and during that time developed ways of utilising natural resources for survival , mainly with bush tucker and
627-538: The majority of bush is found in large national parks. Examples of predominantly bush clad areas are Whanganui National Park , on Taranaki volcano, on which the bush extends in a uniformly circular shape to the surrounding farmland, and Fiordland in the South Island. Much of Stewart Island/Rakiura is bush-covered. In the North Island , the largest areas of bush cover the main ranges stretching north-northeast from Wellington towards East Cape , notably including
660-511: The north of the country that would be called savanna . "Going to The Bush" ( Bos toe Gaan ) often refers to going to a game park or game reserve. Areas most commonly referred to as The Bush are the Mpumalanga and Limpopo Lowveld , The Limpopo River Valley, northern KwaZulu-Natal or any other similar area of wilderness. The Bush in Alaska is generally described as any community not "on
693-443: The north of the village and occasionally floods the lower parts, as it did when the railway yard flooded in 1935. Tokanui has a fire station, public halls, school, store, garage, pub, recycling area and a Rugby Club. A mobile library visits once a month. There have been several archaeological finds on the coast south of Tokanui and a couple further up the valley, including an adze ( Māori : toki) at Quarry Hills. The area
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#1732798376405726-431: The official opening being on Wednesday 20 September 1911, initially with trains on Saturdays and Tuesdays. From time to time trains ran daily, but mainly ran only a few days a week. Trains were speeded up in 1924, cutting the journey time to Invercargill to 2h 25m. A request for a stationmaster was rejected in 1920, so that Waimahaka remained the only station on the line with a stationmaster and all records of traffic on
759-447: The population of meshblock 3096200 was 66 and 3096900 was 45. The 1944 map and 1956 aerial photos show settlement around the railway station and dairy factory. Since then buildings have been enlarged and altered and driveways added, but the pattern of development remains similar. A sewage treatment plant, built in 1972, to the west of Tokanui, beside the river puts up to 55 m (12,000 imp gal)/day of treated waste into
792-400: The river. The effect on river quality is claimed to be minimal. Tokanui School opened about 1885, a temporary teacher was appointed in 1886 and Tokanui School was built in 1887. When it opened it had with a roll of 14 students. The school was enlarged in 1993, when Fortrose, Ōtara and Quarry Hills schools closed. It is now a co-educational contributing primary school for years 1 to 8 with
825-467: The road system", making it accessible only by more elaborate transportation. Usage is similar in Canada; it is called la brousse or colloquially le bois in Canadian French . In Canada, "the bush" refers to large expanses of forest and swampland which sprawl undeveloped, as well as any forested area. The term "to go bush" has several similar meanings all connected with the supposed wildness of
858-466: The road was still very muddy in 1885. A post office opened in 1887 and a dairy factory on 29 November 1897, which closed in 1945. A cemetery, opened in about 1891, where 22 graves are listed. There were flaxmills in the area from at least 1899 to 1930. A police station opened in 1918. In 1926 the first petrol pump was put in by Tokanui Motor Company. Tokanui Medical Centre was formerly Golden Memorial Maternity Hospital, named after Thomas Golden,
891-410: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tokanui . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tokanui&oldid=987747792 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
924-461: The school closed in 1993 and is now a house. A war memorial was erected in 1920. Quarrying ended about 1920 and had restarted by 1970, but the quarry is now closed. The bush " The bush " is a term mostly used in the English vernacular of Australia , New Zealand and South Africa , where it is largely synonymous with hinterlands or backwoods . The fauna and flora contained within
957-459: The spiritual healing of bush medicine . For more than a century after the first British settlement in 1788 onwards, land was granted or sold to settlers, resulting in many generally small but permanent human settlements in vast tracts of bush. Closer settlement in Australia has often resulted in fragmentation of the bush, and bushfires , an ever-present hazard in many areas in summer months, have also increased with increasing suburbanisation of
990-399: Was a Post Office at the station from 6 February 1953 to 31 March 1966. Although electric power reached Tokanui in 1926, it wasn't until 1932 that it lit the stockyards, 1936 when it was noted a railway house had electricity and 1946 for station lighting. There were 3 railway houses in 1912 and another was added in 1919. On Sunday, 31 July 1966 the station closed to all traffic. Apart from
1023-579: Was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2015. In New Zealand, "The Bush" is a nickname for the Wairarapa Bush provincial rugby team . The team was formed by an amalgamation of two earlier teams, Wairarapa and Bush. The latter team had represented an area on the boundaries of the Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay which was in former times known as Bush due to its dense vegetation cover. In
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1056-498: Was part of the 1853 Murihiku purchases (6,900,000 acres (28,000 km ) bought by the government for £2,600), the injustices of which have since been partly redressed by the 1998 Ngāi Tahu Settlement . Peter Dalrymple (1813-1901) started a sheep station in 1857, which he sold in 1878. Around 1880 work started on draining what had been a wetland area and, in 1883, a road was built linking Fortrose and Waikawa , thus facilitating government sales of land to settlers . However,
1089-536: Was rather larger 12 m (39 ft) x 20 m (66 ft), built on a different site. and opened in 1967. There is also a Lions Club , which was started in 1979. Tokanui was a flag station at the eastern terminus of the Tokanui Branch railway line, operating from Invercargill , 37 mi 67 ch (60.9 km) away. The line was extended 8 mi 11 ch (13.1 km) and with gradients as steep as 1 in 50, from Waimahaka to Tokanui,
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