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Waikato Region This is a list of localities in Waikato as defined by government agency Statistics New Zealand in 2013, listed by the territorial authorities to which each locality belongs. Waikato is a region of New Zealand in the central North Island which reaches from coast to coast and from Coromandel Peninsula in the north to Lake Taupō and King Country in the south. Many boundaries and ...
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 ]
Te Hei Tiki: an enduring treasure in a cultural continuum (1st ed.). Wellington: Te Papa Press. ISBN 978-0-995-10314-6. OCLC 1195967341. OL 38314661M. Wikidata Q109591704. Russell Beck; Maika Mason (2002). Mana Pounamu: New Zealand Jade (2nd ed.). Auckland: Reed Books. ISBN 0-7900-0863-7. OL 3746501M. Wikidata Q109607354.
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 ...
Te Kauwhata: Waikeri-Tangirau: Reko me Ōna Rito: Waikato Tainui (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Te Weehi) Ngāruawāhia: Waimakariri Marae: Waenganui: Ngāti Hauā (Ngāti Waenganui, Ngāti Waenganui), Waikato Tainui (Ngāti Hauā) Tauwhare: Waingaro Marae: Ngā Tokotoru: Waikato Tainui (Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāti Tamainupo) Waingaro: Weraroa Marae: Kupapa
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 ...
Kauwhata is a rural locality and a statistical area in Manawatū District, in the Manawatū-Whanganui region in New Zealand's central North Island. The locality is named after a Māori chief who originally owned the land. [1] Kauwhata School existed at least between 1913 [2] and 1928. [3]
It is an important place to Māori for the resource of pounamu (greenstone), only found in a few places in the South Island of New Zealand. When the region was sold to the British Crown in 1860 by the chiefs of Poutini Ngāi Tahu the rights to pounamu on the Arahura River were meant to be retained, these rights were ignored in the deed (Arahura ...