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Oringi
Oringi camp in 1913, with the Ruahine Range in the background
Oringi camp in 1913, with the Ruahine Range in the background
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Coordinates: 40°12′22″S 176°05′58″E / 40.20611°S 176.09944°E / -40.20611; 176.09944
CountryNew Zealand
RegionManawatū-Whanganui
Territorial authorityTararua District
Ward
  • North Tararua General Ward
  • Tamaki nui-a Rua Maori Ward
Electorates
Government
 • Territorial AuthorityTararua District Council
 • Regional councilHorizons Regional Council
Postcode(s)
4930

Oringi is a small village on State Highway 2 and the Palmerston North–Gisborne line, in a rural area south of Dannevirke, in the Manawatū River valley, of the Manawatū-Whanganui region, with 165 people (2018 census) scattered over a 30 km2 (12 sq mi) meshblock.[2] A PPCS slaughterhouse closed in 2008,[3] due to a reduction in sheep farming. The 57 ha (140 acres) freezing works closure caused 466 job losses.[4] The works has been converted to a business park for Scanpower (Tararua's electricity distribution business) and other companies, employing about 200.[5] Fonterra's (until 2001 Kiwi Co-operative Dairies) milk factory closed in January 2015, when production was transferred to its enlarged Pahiatua factory.[6] The factory was demolished in 2016.[7]

History

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The area was part of the Ngāti Raukawa rohe.[8] Its name had an origin with a besieged pa. A young woman there was admired by one of the attackers, Takaringi (or Takarangi), who gave water to the young woman, ending the conflict. The spring where he got the water was named Ko te Puna Ringi (The spring of Ringi), possibly a pun, as Oringi has the same meaning as Orini.[9]

Oringi was a clearing near the south end of the Seventy Mile bush. Contracts to clear a line, 66 ft (20 m) wide for what later became SH2, were let in 1871.[10] The road reached Oringi by January 1874.[11]

The 17,000 acres (6,900 ha) Oringi estate was leased,[12] or bought, by Henry Gaisford in 1871,[13] or 1874.[14] He farmed, wheat, oats[12] and about 5,200 sheep on it.[15] A steam powered flour mill was started[12] in 1884.[16] He also leased Oringi Reserve from 1888.[17] 516 acres (209 ha) were sold in 1903 for small farms.[18] A further 341 acres (138 ha) were sold to ex servicemen in 1948.[19]

There was a creamery from about 1905, which became a butter producing dairy factory in 1908.[20] By 1918 there was a large cheese factory.[21] In 1922 more frequent trains were provided for carrying cheese,[22] which also came from Tamaki Co-operative Dairy Co at Te Rehunga.[23] From 1997,[24] until the 2015 closure, trains carried milk from Oringi for processing at Hāwera.[25]

Military training camps were held on the north side of Oringi[26] from 1909[27] to 1913,[28] after which the camp was moved to Takapau, possibly due to the compensation paid to farmers in 1913.[29] In 1913 a railway siding was extended to hold up to 30 wagons and a loading bank for horses was lengthened by 40 ft (12 m), as the Defence Department planned larger Brigade Camps at Oringi.[30][31]

The sheep freezing works opened in October 1981,[32] for Pacific Freezing (NZ) Ltd, at a cost of $22m.[33]

Oringi railway station
Oringi in 1962
General information
Coordinates40°15′46″S 176°01′28″E / 40.262703°S 176.024308°E / -40.262703; 176.024308
Elevation165 m (541 ft)
Owned byKiwiRail
Line(s)Palmerston North–Gisborne Line
DistancePalmerston North 47.24 km (29.35 mi)
History
Opened22 March 1887
Closed27 September 1981
Services
Preceding station   Historical railways   Following station
Maharahara
Line open,
station closed
3.49 km (2.17 mi) towards PN 		  Palmerston North–Gisborne Line
KiwiRail 		  Tahoraiti
Line open,
station closed
4.34 km (2.70 mi) towards Napier

Railway station

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Oringi railway station opened on 22 March 1887[34] and closed on 27 September 1981,[34] though milk continued to be carried from the dairy factory until its closure in January 2015.[6] The branch to the factory has since been lifted,[35] but a passing loop and a loading ramp remain at the station site.[36]

1887 timetable
DC4398 shunts milk tanks at Oringi 11th December 2008

History

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By 1879 10 mi (16 km) south to Oringi was being surveyed and the line beyond was being explored and contoured.[37] However, a Royal Commissioner reported adversely on the Napier line extension to Woodville, which stopped until the end of 1881, except for a few short lengths for unemployment relief just before the 1881 election.[38] Therefore it wasn't until October 1886 that Mullinger and Brett[39] extended the rails beyond Oringi.[40]

Oringi station opened as a flag station on 22 March 1887, with the 15 mi 10 ch (24.3 km) Tahoraiti (later Tapuata) to Woodville section.[41] It started with 2 trains a day,[42] which were still running in 1891.[43]

A shelter shed and 30 ft (9.1 m) x 15 ft (4.6 m) goods shed were built in 1886[44] and by 1896 there was also a platform, urinals and a passing loop for 26 wagons. In 1898 the loop was for 33 wagons and further lengthened in 1939 to 80 wagons.[30] By 1909 there was also a loading-bank.[45]

Sawmills were set up as soon as the line opened.[46] From 1902,[47] or another source says 1899, Palmerston North Sash & Door Co had a tramway from their Kiritaki sawmill,[48] along Sturdy Rd (now Kiritaki Rd).[49] It was dismantled in 1908.[50] Matai, rimu and totara were the main timbers cut at the mill.[51] It closed in 1906.[52] Totara Sawmill Co. had a private siding from 1901 to 1912.[30]

In 1887 there was a petition for cattle yards and next year the yards at Tahoraite were moved to Oringi. In 1890 it was suggested they and the goods shed be moved to Matahiw, but that didn't happen and the yards were improved in 1940[53] and again in 1947. They closed on 25 February 1980 and were removed in July that year.[30]

From 1890 J Whitaker, took ballast from a pit at Oringi.[30] A railway house was built in 1919 and 6 more in 1949.[30] In 1931 Dannevirke Chamber of Commerce asked NZR not to remove a telephone from the station, as it was used by dairy farmers. NZR agreed.[54]

In 1952 a loading shelter was built at the north end of the yard by A R Morris (Morris & Longman), Woodville. A siding for bulk lime and fertiliser for Tamaki Co-op Dairy Co was added in 1955 and in 1959 a siding, lifted in 1936, reopened for Fieldair Ltd, for top-dressing fertiliser storage.[30] Another siding opened in 1963 and the loading bank was moved south of the goods shed, with extra lighting.[30] In 1981 a private siding to Pacific Freezing (NZ) Ltd's works opened and the yard was modified to hold 75 class UK container wagons, and 2 other sidings to hold 25 wagons each.[30]

Bridges

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Bridge 136, over a stream almost a kilometre south of Oringi, is 15.123 m (49.62 ft) long, bridge 136A, (SH 2 crossing of the railway, just north of the station,[55] which replaced a level crossing[56] in 1937)[57] is 48.753 m (159.95 ft) long and bridge 137, about a kilometre north of Oringi, over the Oruakeretaki Stream is 57.381 m (188.26 ft) long.[55]

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