History The town was founded in 1872 by Danish settlers, who arrived at the port of Napier and moved inland. The settlers, who arrived under the Public Works Act[?], build their intial settlement in a clearing of the Seventy Mile Bush[?]. The settlement quickly earned the nickname of 'sleeper town', as the town's purpose was to provide totara sleepers for the Napier-Wellington railway[?]. At one stage the area had 50 operating sawmills. After the native bush[?] was cleared, the land was turned into pasture for grazing animals.
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