St Thomas Shop to Manawa Wetlands
20 January 2015, Updated 21 September 2016
By Mark Farquharson
Sequence in New Lynn, Auckland.
Sequence Starts:
Previously St Thomas Opportunity Shop, Now JK Hair Design
Church of the Nazarene, Next door to JK Hair Design.
Lawson Park. Seen Heron like bird here at one time.
Down path into side of Titirangi golf course.
Maui Reserve.
Walked pasted the street that St Thomas Church is on.
Titirangi Golf Club front entrance.
Large black dog, “It’s not my dog.” Refer comments for more on the dog.
Bob Hill Reserve
Loop back caming back to the street that St Thomas Church is on.
St Thomas Church
Samoan church, next to St Thomas Church.
New Lynn School, with stone laid on 29 November 1913.
Ambrico Kiln: An old brick kiln
St Austell’s Church, Methodist-Presbyterian.
New Lynn Samoan Seventh-day Adventist Church, across road from entrance to wetland.
Manawa Wetlands. The pond can dry up in the summer.
End Sequence
Dates: I may have refer to dates in the past for this sequence. I do not at this time support any of those dates.
Comments:
Shown part of the sequence on 4 April 2012:
St Thomas Opportunity Shop: I went inside to ask directions to St Thomas church. The woman said that it was next to a Samoan church.
Pasted Church of the Nazarene: Next door to St Thomas Opportunity Shop. Jesus was a Nazarene because in his childhood he stayed in Nazareth.
Pasted Lawson Park
Pasted Samoan church: Next to St Thomas Church
St Thomas Church: I went inside, the Wednesday service had just finished and had a look around before leaving. I did not talk to anyone there except I think I said hi to someone. Back down the road and passed the Samoan church.
Pasted Ambrico Kiln: An old brick kiln in New Lynn
Walked through Manawa Wetland
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Shown most of the sequence on 5 June 2012, you should notice some differences:
Pasted St Thomas Opportunity Shop
Pasted Church of the Nazarene
Pasted Lawson Park
Down path into side of Titirangi golf course.
Walked through Maui Reserve.
Walked pasted the street that St Thomas Church is on.
Pasted Titirangi Golf Club front entrance.
After going past the entrance to the golf course, this large black dog ran across the road over to me. It ran back and forth across the road. Then the dog came up to someone running, who point the dog back in my direction. I caught up to the stopped runner and said “It’s not my dog.” Told him that it was friendly and that it had just come up to me.
Left the dog behind, and went passed Bob Hill Reserve. Looping back I came back to the street that St Thomas Church is on.
Pasted St Thomas Church and the Samoan church.
Noticed a sign in New Lynn School, that read GJ Garland Esq. laid the stone on 29 November 1913.
Pasted St Austell’s Church, Methodist-Presbyterian, in New Lynn
Walked into Manawa Wetland and sat down in the hexagon shaped seating thing with the pointed roof.
End Sequence
Manawa
Manawa is the Maori name of a species of mangrove tree, which is commonly known as grey mangrove or white mangrove. Notice that the first part of the name spells the word Mana.
Now for a bit of Maori myth:
Nga Manawa, in a tradition of the Ngati Awa, a Maori tribe of the eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island, was the collective name for the Fire Children, the five sons of Mahuika and Auahituroa. The names of the Fire Children are the names of the five fingers of the human hand:
Takonui (thumb)
Takoroa (forefinger)
Mapere (middle finger)
Manawa (ring finger)
Toiti (little finger)
The names of the fire children differ in the various regions of New Zealand, simply because the name of the fingers differ. For example, to the Ngati Kahungunu people of the East
Coast of the North Island, they are:
Konui (thumb)
Koroa (forefinger)
Mapere (middle finger)
Manawa (ring finger)
Koiti (little finger)
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nga_Manawa
Copyright © Mark J Farquharson 2015
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