[1] As of 2017, Puketotara Station, a local intensive beef and lamb finishing farm, is owned by an equity firm.
[3] An intensive and high-profile homicide investigation using ground-breaking forensic science led to neighbour William Alfred Bayly being convicted and hanged for the crime.
Relations were initially friendly, but soured when Christobel Lakey was said to have accused Bayly of having murdered his niece.
[3][5] The Topp Twins were raised on a local dairy farm and attended Ruawaro Combined School during the 1960s and early 1970s.
[8] The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, a 2009 documentary feature film about the sisters directed by Leanne Pooley, covers their often difficult childhood in the deeply conservative rural community.