Ernest Kemp- First Poverty Bay boy to go to Huntley

In 1900 Ernest Kemp (aged eleven) took four days to get to Huntley.

 He rode on horseback from Ruatoria to Tolaga Bay and travelled the next day to Gisborne. That night he caught the boat to Napier where next morning he was met by an aunt who took him to a clothes factory to buy his Huntley uniform.  They then caught a train to Te Aute.

 The following day, alone he boarded the train to Woodville, and then another to Palmerston North. After changing trains again he finally boarded the Main Trunk Line train.

At nine o’clock that night he got off the train at the Marton Junction, walked in to Marton and then up Wanganui Road to Marton Preparatory School (Huntley).

 Oswald Williams 1900-1902 Ruatoria, James Busby 1900-1905 and Billy Busby 1900-1905  Tokomaru Bay also started at Huntley in 1900.