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The Maori name Tukituki roughly translates "to demolish", presumably referring to the power of the river in flood. Maori legend has it that there are two taniwha living in lake at the southern end of the river that fought over a young boy after he fell into the lake. The struggle of the two taniwha was thought to split the river into the ...
The Waipukurau road bridge across the Tukituki River circa 1910. It was rebuilt in 1923 [27] and replaced in 1935 by a concrete bridge 900 ft (270 m) long [28] In 1867 Russell acquired the Pa Flat native reserve and founded Waipukurau on it as a model village. [29] Russel chose the residents and approved the house plans. [30]
Haumoana is a coastal town just south of the Tukituki River outlet in Hawke Bay on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is located 12 km south of Napier and ten kilometres east of Hastings. The village incorporates a school, a Presbyterian Church, a general store, a takeaway shop, a hall and a fire station. The village was developed ...
The Ōtamatea River is named after him. Tamatea is also the name of a place in Napier. [citation needed] Early South Island legends say that Tamatea sailed down the east coast. His canoe was wrecked in the far south, and transformed into the Tākitimu mountain range. Tamatea then returned to the North Island, and travelled via the Whanganui ...
[3] [4] Beneath Te Mata Peak rests the Craggy Range vineyard and the Tukituki River. [5] The name originates from the name of the hillscape in Māori, Te Mata-o-Rongokako, or "the face of Rongokako". Rongokako was an ancestor of the Ngāti Kahungunu and the area is believed to be his final resting place. [6]
It is an almost triangular block bounded to the west by the Ruahine Forest Park, the Tukituki River to the north, and the Makaretu River to the south. It is centred on the intersection of State Highway 50 and Ashcott Road. The area consists of sheep, dairy and mixed use farms. [2] [3] [4]
From north to south, they are the Wairoa River, Mohaka River, Tutaekuri River, Ngaruroro River and Tukituki River. Lake Waikaremoana , situated in northern Hawke's Bay, roughly 35 km from the coast, is the largest lake in Hawke's Bay, the fourth largest in the North Island and the 16th largest in New Zealand.
Taraia gave the land between the Ngaruroro and Tukituki Rivers to Te Hika a Pāpāuma, the children of Rākei-hikuroa by his first wife, Pāpāuma. Te Ao Matarahi took the area from the Tukituki River to Te Matau-a-Māui. [21] Te Hika a Ruarauhanga's main centre was Tahunamoa at Waihiki. Te Hika a Pāpāuma's was Te Kauhanga near Haumoana. In ...