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He has moved into a flat until the parish finds a suitable house for him to live in.

The 114 year-old presbytery building will be moved to Foxton Beach to become a family home.

A new St Joseph's school and church administration block will be built on the land previously occupied by the presbytery.

Parishioner Phil Waite said currently the school was "considerably under-resourced" in terms of space.

"Between the parish and the school we have agreed that we would sell the presbytery and that site would then become a new administration block for the school and the parish," he said.

School principal Cath Clough said the current administration block would be converted into a classroom and extra teaching spaces for her 250-plus students.

"We have so many extra programmes now that we've got nowhere for people to work," she said.

"We've got a music teacher, an extension teacher, a speech teacher, and then little groups who work with teachers and teacher aides, currently they're in little corridors and all over the place.

"This way we'll have lots of space to have those things."

Joseph's School has seen a surge of parents sending their children to the school and are in need of more classroom spaces.

Last year the school received 1 million dollars from the Catholic Schools Board to fund new buidings.

Work will begin next month.

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Norgate, 50, was Fonterra's first chief executive, from 2001 to 2003.

As hundreds of mourners arrived for the private service, attendees had to spill out into a neighbouring hall.

The service was led by Monsignor David Bell.

Bell said Craig loomed large in the lives of many. "Whether he made money was not as important as being able to devote his heart and soul to what he did."

Norgate's god-daughter, Ashley Douglas, read from The Book of Wisdom and Bishop Owen Dolan shared a passage from the Gospel of John. Niece Emma Jones performed a solo of Hallelujah, unaccompanied.

Former Hawera High School teacher and one-time Taranaki rugby coach Bill Batchelor spotted Norgate's brilliance early on in the classroom.

"When I first enrolled Craig Norgate we did IQ tests, and he was the brightest kid I've ever tested."

Despite his success in big business, Norgate described himself as a "boy from the 'Naki", and those who knew him called him humorous, energetic, passionate, visionary, driven and inspirational.

Norgate's well-known love for rugby was highlighted at the service.

A Chiefs flag was laid over his coffin, and his family had asked for donations to be made to Sport Taranaki in lieu of flowers.

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