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Taumarunui is a small town in the King Country of the central North Island of New Zealand. It is on an alluvial plain set within rugged terrain on the upper reaches of the Whanganui River , 65 km south of Te Kūiti and 55 km west of Tūrangi .
South of Taumarunui, the terrain is steep, but not unmanageable, with the exception of the stretch between Raurimu and National Park, where the land rises too steeply for a direct rail route. A direct line between these two points would rise 200 metres (660 ft) in a distance of some 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), a gradient of 1 in 24.
The Ruapehu District Council was established by the 1989 local government reforms.It was formed from the Taumarunui Borough Council, Taumarunui County Council, Waimarino District Council and parts of the Rangitikei County, Taupo District, Waitomo District and Stratford District councils.
Taumarunui: Pāpākai: Rākeipoho: Ngāti Tūwharetoa (Ngāti Hikairo) Tongariro: Te Peka Marae: No wharenui: Ngāti Hāua (Ngāti Hekeāwai) Taumarunui: Petania: Hinemihi: Ngāti Maniapoto (Hinemihi, Parewaeono, Rōrā), Ngāti Tūwharetoa (Ngāti Hinemihi) Taumarunui: Raetihi Marae: Ko te Whakaarotahi ki te Whakapono: Ngāti Rangi ...
New Zealand State Highway 43 (SH 43), also called the Forgotten World Highway, is a road that runs 148 km from Stratford in Taranaki to Taumarunui in the King Country. It contains the only unsealed portion of the New Zealand state highway network.
From Taumarunui, SH 41 runs west through farmland, crossing the Whanganui River before entering bushland and climbing north-west onto the Central Plateau. Eventually the highway turns south-west and crosses the Manawatū-Whanganui/Waikato regional boundary. At Kuratau Junction, there is an intersection with SH 32, which continues north to Tokoroa.
Maniaiti Marae or Wallace Pā is a marae in Manunui, 8km south-east from the outskirts of Taumarunui, in the central North Island of New Zealand. [1]Members of the marae are mostly the descendants of Nehuora and Te Wakatahurangi Te Warahi (née Chadwick), the latter being better known as "Nanny Maraea".
The region stretches from north of Taumarunui to south of Levin on the west coast, and across to the east coast from Cape Turnagain to Owhanga. It borders the Waikato, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay and Wellington regions and includes river catchment areas that run from the volcanic plateau to the sea.