NORSEWOOD is situated east of the Ruahine Mountain range and is located 20 kilometres northeast of Dannevirke. Norsewood was founded by Scandinavian settlers in 1872 as a loggers settlement


Norsewood-Te Whiti settlement (the correct name is Te Whiti-atara) was bought from the Maori by the Government, surveyed into sections and balloted for, on the 19th June 1912


22 June 1912 DANNEVIRKE, last night
... A ballot was held at Norsewood today for 17 sections of the Te Whititara block.
There were 395 applications, the sections ranging from 64 acres to 100 acres.
the results were:
(in section number order at link - placed here in name alphabetical order)


L. G. BAINS, Ormondville - section 18

John A. BANNIN, Tariki, Taranaki - section 186

Susannah BERKAHU, Makotuku - section 196

William L. BERTHIN (?), Dannevirke - section 193

John CONSIDINE, Te Uri, Ormondville - section 195

Rose DAHLBERG (1880-1972), Te Rehunga - section 182

Mrs HARNETT, Escrett, Napier - section 190

Andrew LAWRENCE (1887-1965), Wanganui - section 180

Cornelius Richard MURPHY, Kuangaroa, Fordell - section 192

John MURRAY, Fordell - section 189

Mary G. NICHOLSON, Gisborne - section 183

Samuel James NOBLE, Waikohu, Gisborne - section 198
- served in WWI as Rifleman 25/223 with NZEF, 3rd Battalion, B Company. KILLED IN ACTION,Somme, France 15 Sep 1915. Next of kin, his wife, Jane Emma (BRADLY) in Tahataka, Northern Wairoa

Thomas SMITH, Ormondville - section 200

Timothy Augustus TEAHAN (1878-1958), Masterton - section 194

James Robert THOMPSON (1878-1939), Waipukurau - section 181

Margaret TUOHY, Hastings - section 18




PHOTO
1872 Norsewood Land Ballot