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AddBy: Pae Koroki11th Apr 2026 2:24PMMark N Isabel Todd recall "Wow, I think I'm in there these we're some of my classmates, Mark Ngatai, Haumata, Tukere Walker, kaiako's Mrs Dickinson, Mrs Ngatai ( Marks Muma) .
Them we're the days, a comment made was we walked ae, we also in the summer walked to the beach from our school to the Maungatapu Bridge to have swimming lessons yeah that's right wr never had a swimming pool. We didn't complain just laughed got up to no good happy kids. See the kids today can do that??? the Blondie girl was Brenda Smith, they where the farmers who practically only pakeha family there at the time. We came there about 1967/ 68 my uncle the Chinese he brought land there to grow market gardens. George Lim -Sun." (Facebook, 22 December 2025)
Them we're the days, a comment made was we walked ae, we also in the summer walked to the beach from our school to the Maungatapu Bridge to have swimming lessons yeah that's right wr never had a swimming pool. We didn't complain just laughed got up to no good happy kids. See the kids today can do that??? the Blondie girl was Brenda Smith, they where the farmers who practically only pakeha family there at the time. We came there about 1967/ 68 my uncle the Chinese he brought land there to grow market gardens. George Lim -Sun." (Facebook, 22 December 2025)
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Matapihi Primary School children on rail bridge (2 May 1972). Pae Korokī, accessed 02/06/2026, https://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/nodes/view/108976
