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Māori named the district wāhi pounamu, meaning "place of greenstone", and the South Island came to be called Te Wāhi Pounamu. This somehow evolved into Te Wai Pounamu which means "the water(s) of greenstone" but bears no relation to the original meaning.
Te Kauwhata College. Te Kauwhata Primary School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students, [16] [17] with a roll of 334 as of August 2024. [18] [19] Te Kauwhata College is a co-educational state secondary school for Year 7 to 13 students, [20] [21] with a roll of 456. [22] The town also has three early childhood ...
The Māori word pounamu is derived from namu, an archaic word that describes blue-green (or 'grue') cognate with Tahitian ninamu. [2] Pounamu, also used in New Zealand English, in itself refers to two main types of green stone valued for carving: nephrite jade, classified by Māori as kawakawa, kahurangi, īnanga, and other names depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of ...
At the 2006 census, the district had a population of 43,959. Of these, 6834 lived in Huntly, 5106 in Ngāruawāhia, 2637 in Raglan, and 1294 in Te Kauwhata. In 2010, the district acquired part of the adjacent Franklin District, which was dissolved as part of the creation of the Auckland Council, increasing the area to 4,405 km 2 (1,701 sq mi).
Invivo Wines is a New Zealand wine company, currently based in the historic Te Kauwhata winery south of Auckland. [1] It produces wine in partnership with TV celebrities Graham Norton and Sarah Jessica Parker, and aims to appeal to casual wine drinkers by avoiding the sort of marketing its founders perceive is too pompous or flowery.
When the tohunga returned to the beach, the half that he had left behind had been transformed into a lump of pounamu, which he named Te Ika a Ngahue ("The fish of Ngahue"). He divided this in two, keeping one half, Te Uira a Karapa ("The gleam of Karapa"), for himself, and giving the other half Te Ramapākura to the people. [5]
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Ngāti Kauwhata is a Māori iwi (tribe) located in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The iwi has ancestral ties to Tainui Waka and Maungatautari . The iwi has two main marae , Kauwhata Marae (Kai Iwi Pā) [ 1 ] & Aorangi Marae. [ 2 ]