Matangi

Frederick Daniell designed home 1919.

An early British settler farm house, Briarley was built between late 1876 and late 1879, being well-established with several outbuildings including a cottage, orchards and plantations by early 1880.

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The historic Potuwha Pa, a site is of great significance to Ngati Haua and one of the best preserved pa in the Waikato.

In 1914 the N.Z.D.A. built this as a cheese factory. When the Glaxo factory was built,1917-1919, this building became a workers hostel for the Glaxo employees.

First used as a Dairy Factory site with a cheese factory in 1885 the  Matangi factory site developed and grew in importance and activity. Touted as the ‘largest Dairy Factory in the Southern Hemisphere’ at the time the ‘Glaxo’ building, opened in 1919, can still be seen and appreciated. The site continued to develop and was an actively operating Dairy Factory until 1987.

The original Matangi Hall was built in 1904. It was used for church services for several denominations for some years as well as for community club and social events. From 1910 it was the Matangi School for 7 years. It was an important gathering place for the wider district during WW1 and was the local Plunket Room. After major community fundraising it was extended in the 1920s.

The “Seven Sisters and Two Brothers” Dairy Factory houses designed by Fredrick Daniell and built for staff as part of the project to build the “Glaxo” building at the Matangi Dairy Factory constructed 1917 – 1919.

Matangi School opened in 1910 in the Matangi Hall. A two classroom new building opened in 1917 near the factory. It was moved to the current site in 1920 and is still in use.

Matangi, a small village in a rural setting south east of Hamilton, is 4 kilometres west of the Te iti o Haua Marae at Tauwhare, and falls within the area home to the numerous Ngati Haua iwi that by the 1800s extended from between the Upper Waihou and the Waikato River, from Te Aroha to the Maungatautari ranges, and to the present site of Hamilton.