Topic: Pioneers of Foxton : Book Five.
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The "pioneers" featured in this booklet all lived in the twentieth century, most of them in the memory of older folk of the community. While most were relatively unimportant people, they were "leading lights" in many local businesses and affairs.
This probably would have been a period of consolidation in the district. We did see the construction of many flood controls, sealing of roads, construction of the water tower and water reticulation, new bridges, the opening of the woolpack factory but we also lost our river port due to flood control works, then our railway, then the flax industry collapsed.
Foxton is now almost a "backwater" although we are trying to promote it as a tourist town with our windmill, murals and museums as well as our beach and bird sanctuary.
Accurate information is now impossible to obtain from family members apart from bare facts.
Click to read about the following pioneers:
 Mark Edwin Perreau |
 The Petersen Family |
 Walter Edward Barber |
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 William Hamer |
 George Otho Barber and son George Easton Barber |
 James Chrystall and son John |
 Harold Henry Podmore |
 Abraham King |
