1901: Hawera High School

December 22, 2022

By AHNZ

Hawera High School celebrated its 100th year in 2019 but has a continuity going back to 1875 or beyond. The end of this legacy is 27 January, 2023, replaced by a new educational paradigm on 28 January, 2023 under the name Te Paepae o Aotea.

All of New Zealand itself is currently being edited, redacted, and re-written according to a new paradigm called Aotearoa New Zealand culture. Older generations and their ways of being a New Zealander are subject to Othering and alienation by a new Conformity. There’s nothing new about this process. Every new cultural era seeks to oust the previous one by claiming to be more true, pure, and elder; True heirs to the nation. Aotearoa New Zealand plays on an ancient framework of words and rules and ‘tangata whenua’ heritage that was largely developed over the last 30 or 40 years by university academics.

Hawera is no exception to what’s going on in New Zealand Aotearoa, the town’s very name captured with a Macron Maori mark over the ‘a’ in mid-2019; Hāwera. Hawera was already an original Maori name in the first place but that wasn’t enough. Further humiliation came when Mt Egmont was changed bit by bit to Mount Taranaki and then Taranaki Maunga. The ultimate hegemonic capture came in mid-2022 when the school was re-branded Te Paepae o Aotea in a shock move without consulting the community. Poor Hawera community, they’re really whipped!

The earliest Hawera School was pretty basic, matriculating in its early years within the original military blockhouse around which Hawera Town was formed. The Hawera Star printed that the school gained its own building in 1875 and officially came into being on the 13th of May as marked by a 60th jubilee in 1935. By then the primary school had grown into a District High School (1901) and then Hawera Technical  High School (1919.)

For reasons best known to themselves, Hawera High School, in 2019, decided to disown their formative 45 years or so in favor of celebrating a 1919 birthday. Ref. Hāwera High School’s centennial draws hundreds of former students, Stuff (2019)

After 75% of the neighboring Hawera Intermediate School was burned down in 2015 the Principal of Hawera High, Rachel Williams, said it was a “no brainer” to centralise both schools. Her loyalty to Labour 6.0’s new amalgamation play paid off when Williams was appointed the Principle of the new Te Paepae o Aotea Super School. Ref. One super school to replace Hāwera intermediate and Hāwera high school, Taranaki Daily News (2021)

“On 30 December 1865 Major-General Trevor Chute fought his way into the Hawera district from Wanganui and by early January 1866 had established a base on the Tawhiti Stream, near the present town….Colonel G. S. Whitmore succeeded McDonnell in command, but it was not until March 1869 that the front was advanced to the Hawera district. A blockhouse was erected in 1870 at Hawera, but was never used for defensive purposes. The township of Hawera grew around the blockhouse in the early 1870s.” – An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand,  McLintock, (1966,) Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand

“The Hawera school is still held in the old blockhouse, without any proper furniture.” – Patea Education Board, Patea Mail (1875,) Papers Past

“Changing the name to Te Paepae o Aotea, does not include Tanagta W’enua who did not come from a Waka or Immigeants (those who came by Waka, Plane/European boats) within the South Taranaki district. Suggestion of name  – TE HĀWERA HIGH SCHOOL” – Change name to Te Hāwera High School – Opposing the name Te Paepae o Aotea, petition of Eugenia Te Ngeru, Petitions.nz

“The name and guiding vision for a new South Taranaki school has been revealed…On Matariki Day, more than 100 people filed into the high school’s wharenui to listen as South Taranaki kaumatua Sandy Parata invited the team behind the establishment of the new school to reveal the name, logo, accompany whaktauāki, and set of guiding values and principles.” – New school, new name: Te Paepae o Aotea to open in Hāwera in 2023, Taranaki Daily News (2022)

Hawera High School has well and truly been colonised by Aotearoa New Zealand now. Hawera community was founded by men and women pushing back the frontier of insurgent Maori rebels. They also faced off against the Hauhau Cult and, when the Government proved useless, formed the The Republic of Hawera to smash the Parihaka Cult. The Hawera school literally began within the defensive blockhouse that Hawera was build around. The people of Hāwera have forgotten their origin story and been diluted to the point of being unable to withstand the New Conformity of Aotearoa New Zealand. They lost the Taranaki War after all, it just took 150 more years.

Te Paepae o Aotea is the new school name which we are told translates into ‘place of learning’ for the people of the ‘Aotea’ Great Migration canoe. This is a literal capture of Hawera High School and the minds of her future generations. They are now on Aotea Maori territory where they will learn Aotea Maori lessons as guests of Aotea Maori. The teachers who could not get on board with the transition have been replaced. The old Houses have now become Whares with course booklets and architecture to match. Ref. p3, Te Paepae o Aotea Charter

Another translation of paepae, closer to original Maori language, is offered by Te Rangi Hiora/Peter Buck in his 1906 Departmental Report to the Department of Public Health. The Maori latrine, paepae, was a basic sitting board over an open hole. Winding back the modern academic astro-turfed and drawing on authentic Maori language from the 1800s we get a very different name for the new Super School. It’s The Toilet Pit of the Aotea. Ref. 1906: The Maori Communistic System, AHNZ

Interestingly, the new Paepae o Aotea logo does look quite a bit like a bare brown tattooed bottom about to dump metaphorical lessons onto the people below. The logo seems to be using Mt Egmont either as the paepae (toilet seat) or else as the cess pit below. Could this be a deliberate part of the conquest of Hawera or is it just subliminal?

How well or how poorly the expensive new government Super School performs will be clear soon enough and be a legacy for Labour 6.0 and Minister Chris Hipkins. Judging by Haeata Community College (2017) in Christchurch a school run along Woke ideological lines has “teething problems” followed by violence and animal abuse. The blame for that hell hole goes to Minister of Education for National 5.0 Hekia Parata but the public has forgotten. Rather than be charged with a crime Parata’s latest charge is leading the well-paid Royal Commission of Inquiry into Labour 6.0’s COVID Pandemic performance. Her results are not due until a safe space well after the General Election of 2023, of course. By the time we find out how badly Chris Hipkins has wrecked New Zealand and education in Hawera he too will have exited politics and enjoying golden parachutes and golden boardroom chairs. Some time New Zealanders should snap out of it and stop letting their enemies, politicians, school their children.

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Image ref. Hawera Technical High School (c.1957.) Alexander Turnbull Library; Colorised by AHNZ (2022)

Image ref. Overthrown crest of Hawera High School with its Latin motto, Infirmioribus Succurrendo Fortior; Strength Through Service

Image ref. New Paepae o Aotea logo

Image ref. Minister Hipkins is down with the hip kids or hip with the down kids or hip with kids going down. Academically.

Ref. HAWERA SCHOOL. BUILT IN 1875, Hawera & Normanby Star (1924,) Papers Past

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