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Te Awamutu is a town in the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the council seat of the Waipa District and serves as a service town for the farming communities which surround it. Te Awamutu is located some 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Hamilton on State Highway 3, one of the two main routes south from Auckland and Hamilton.
The Battle of Hingakaka was fought nearby, and the sacred carving Te Uenuku lost at this time. It was re-discovered in 1906, and now resides in the Te Awamutu Museum. [2] In 2016 a pou, representing 7 atua, was erected near the spot where Te Uenuku is thought to have been found. [3] The Ngaroto Drainage Board was formed in 1898. [4]
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The stream passes through Te Awamutu ("the river's end" in Maori) and meets with its main tributary the Mangaohoe Stream, which also starts near the summit of Mt Maungatautari. There are also two other streams in Waikato with the same name; one flows off the Kaimai to enter the Waihou to the east of Matamata , [ 2 ] the other flows under ...
The carving was found buried close to the lake's shore in 1906 when a farmer was draining swampland, and spent some time in the R.W. Bourne collection before being acquired by the Te Awamutu Museum. [citation needed] The work was the centrepiece of the Te Maori exhibition which toured North America and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. [6]