Hawksbury also known as "Cherry Farm" (and sometimes erroneously as "Evansdale") is a small residential and industrial area beside State Highway 1 between Dunedin and Waikouaiti. State Highway 1 State Highway 1 is the most significant single element of the New Zealand roading network State Highway 1 can be considered as a single highway running the length of both main islands, a total of 2027 km. ... Dunedin (ÅŒtepoti in Maori) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the region of Otago. ... Waikouaiti is a small town in East Otago, New Zealand, within the city limits of Dunedin. ...

Cherry Farm Hospital

Cherry Farm Hospital, a psychiatric hospital serving the Dunedin area opened here in 1952 ^[1] and patients from Seacliff Mental Hospital at Seacliff were relocated here. Cherry Farm Hospital epitomised the village-asylym atmosphere in name and design^[1], contrasting with the harsh conditions in the fortress-like Seacliff hospital^[1]. An MRI scan of a human brain and head. ... The hospital in what has been called a Gothic-themed fantasy castle design. ... This article is about Seacliff, New Zealand. ...

When the hospital closed in 1992, some patients were transferred to Wakari Hospital in Dunedin while others were re-housed in the community as part of a mainstreaming policy. Dunedin (ÅŒtepoti in Maori) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the region of Otago. ... Look up mainstream in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

One of the re-housing projects was the Hawksbury Community Living Trust which according to its website was "initially set up in 1992 to provide quality residential support for people with intellectual disabilities. The service opened its first home in Dunedin April 1992 and has since opened 10 further homes in Dunedin and Christchurch."

Hawksbury today

Hawksbury has a looped network of curving streets in a typical post-war "public works" plan. There were a number of small hospital residential buildings known as "villas", some have been converted and modernised as houses and many others have been demolished.

There are also shops, a post office, library and school, all of which are unused. The former hospital chapel is used regularly by a local Christian group. For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ...

Larger multi-storey office and accommodation buildings have been developed as low-cost rental housing.

A swimming pool, Moana Gow Pool, remaining from the hospital days, serves the surrounding areas of Waikouaiti, Karitane and Blueskin Bay. (This should not be confused with the olympic-sized pool in Dunedin with a similar name.) Waikouaiti is a small town in East Otago, New Zealand, within the city limits of Dunedin. ... The seaside settlement of Karitane is located within the limits of the city of Dunedin in New Zealand, 35 kilometres to the north of the city centre. ... Blueskin Bay is an estuary in coastal Otago, about 25km north of Dunedin. ...

Hawksbury's main business and attraction to passing traffic is the Evansdale Cheese factory and shop, which relocated here from Evansdale when it outgrew its old premises.

There is also a local Kyokushin Karate club that runs in Hawskbury Hall with members from the surrounding areas of Waikouaiti, Palmerston, Karitane and Macraes. Kyokushin is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Masutatsu Oyama (大山倍達) who was born under the name Choi Yeong-Eui (최영의). Kyokushinkai is Japanese for the society of the ultimate truth. ... For other uses, see Karate (disambiguation). ... Waikouaiti is a small town in East Otago, New Zealand, within the city limits of Dunedin. ... The name Palmerston can refer to several places, and also to several notable people: // Places Palmerston - a city near Darwin in Australia Palmerston - a suburb of Canberra, Australia Palmerston - a town in Ontario, Canada Palmerston Island - an island in the Cook Islands Palmerston - a town in Otago in the South... The seaside settlement of Karitane is located within the limits of the city of Dunedin in New Zealand, 35 kilometres to the north of the city centre. ...

Place names

The name "Hawksbury" was an early Pakeha name for the settlement at Waikouaiti, and is still applied to the lagoon there. The developers of Hawksbury probably changed the name from "Cherry Farm" because of the social stigma attached to the psychiatric hospital. The area's association with mental healthcare is maintained in the name of the Hawksbury Community Living Trust. The cheese factory's prominent signage here sometimes leads to Hawksbury being erroneously referred to as "Evansdale". Pakeha is a New Zealand English word for European New Zealanders, that is, New Zealanders of predominantly European descent. ... Social stigma is severe social disapproval of personal characteristics or beliefs that are against cultural norms. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Nigel Benson, "Seacliff asylum's painful and haunting history" Otago Daily Times, Dunedin 27 January 2007

External links

Hawksbury Community Living Trust