remembering miss newey
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Lisa J Truttman
January 2012
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At the time of writing, a 90-year-old cottage which was
removed from Henderson in 1987/1988, relocated at Western
Springs on land leased from Auckland City Council to the
Auckland Horticultural Society to serve as a “caretaker’s
cottage”, then removed again in September 2011, is inHobsonville awaiting either sale or demolition.
It would be beneficial to the community memory
remaining if one of Henderson’s 20th century identi-
ties of the cottage could return to the district in which
it was built.
Eileen Rosie May ewey, described in 1987 as one of
Henderson's oldest residents when she died, left the Hender-
son Borough Council her land at the corner of Edmonton andGreat North Road as a reserve, establishing Newey's Corner.
Edges of the property were used to widen the intersection,
with Miss Newey's approval. The Council advised the
Western Leader at the time that the house "will be made avail-
able free for removal to an approved community group." The
mayor ofHenderson at the time, Assid Corban, described Miss
Newey as a school teacher of many years, who took great in-
terest in the Henderson community. "She taught me at school, and many generations of Henderson
people, she went beyond the bounds of a normal school teacher in the area."
Memories of Miss ewey (gathered by Trevor Pollard)
Chris Tunks (Oratia) delivered the paper ( Herald). He would roll it up tight and try to throw it down
on to Miss Mewey’s verandah. She was his teacher at Henderson School.
Jack Morris said Miss Newey, a lovely lady, lived with her parents on the corner of Great North
Road and Edmonton Road. She asked him once to go from school to Henderson Village to buy her
lunch. Her umbrella turned inside out, and he feared punishment but Miss Newey just patted him on
the head and said, “It’s all right, just an umbrella.”
Lionel Fuller said his 5 older brothers were taught by Miss Newey. She was greatly respected.
Mary McIntosh (nee Corban), volunteered to go down to Miss Newey’s cottage. This was keenly
sought after as her mother would give you a sweetie or cake. She was also Mary’s Sunday school
teacher at St Michael’s, as well as an accomplished lawn bowler. Well-respected and kind — Miss
Newey also taught several of the Corban family.
From Henderson Primary School Centenary (1873-1973) booklet, page 31
“Miss Newey, who still lives in Henderson, has in her own words, “Taught two generations of chil-
dren.” Hers has been a long association with Henderson School, as pupil 1920-1925, probationaryassistant 1931, assistant teacher 1936-1937 and 1943-1947 and as infant mistress 1959-1963. In all
Detail from DP 7645, LINZ records, crowncopyright
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Miss Newey has spent eleven years of her teaching career at the school, which is a fine record in-
deed.
“The children she taught, now grown to adult-hood, may be in all parts of the country, but they will
never forget their early days at Henderson School under Miss Newey’s expert guidance. They all say,
with one voice, “Oh yes, we remember Miss Newey, she was one of the best teachers WE had.”
The eweys of Henderson
The Newey family arrived in Henderson in 1920 from the city of Coventry in Warwickshire, Eng-
land. They purchased the corner site beside the Oratia Stream from Mrs Annie Elizabeth Roberts in
November that year, so the cottage is likely to date from around this time. Ernest Newey (c.1880-
1958) was a turner and engineer. His wife Sarah Anne pre-deceased him in 1946, and his son Phil
was married and living with his wife and daughter at the time of Ernest's death. Eileen Newey re-
mained with her father from the 1940s until his death and inherited the property and the cottage from
him.
On two occasions, in the late 1950s, and again in 1974, the local authorities made efforts to have the
Newey’s property rezoned and taken for planned widening of Edmonton Road. In the last case, Miss
Newey appealed against the Henderson District Scheme (Second Review, 1974) on the grounds that
taking part of her property would mean possible limitations on sale, devalue her property, and that
the road already came very close to her cottage. She had asked for compensation so she could live
elsewhere, and the construction of a neat stone wall to give her privacy, but the matter eventually
went to the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board.
She must have won, to a certain extent. She remained in place, there by an increasingly busy corner,
until her death in 1987 at the age of 75. In her will she wrote:
“I give my property at 331 Great North Road, Henderson, to the Mayor and Councillors for the time
being of the HENDERSON BOROUGH COUNCIL and express the firm wish but without creating a
binding trust that in accepting this gift the Mayor and Councillors arrange for removal of the dwell-
ing and retain the land as a reserve and name it “Newey’s Corner.” I acknowledge that the Council
could require a small portion of the land for roading purposes.”
Sources (other than those already stated:
Death certificates for Ernest Newey and Eileen
Death notice, Z Herald , 27 October 1958
Electoral Roll information
“ERM Newey—Proposed public open space and road widening”, file ref. 36/2/8/11a, Auckland
Council Archives, West Auckland
Images: Front cover: (top) Western Leader 28 September 1987, (bottom) L Truttman, 2011.
Back cover: (top and middle) Trevor Pollard, 2012, (bottom) L Truttman, 2010
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