Tīrau
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Tīrau is a small town in the South Waikato District of the North Island of New Zealand, 50 kilometres southeast of Hamilton. It had a population of The name "Tīrau" is from the Māori language and means "many cabbage trees".
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- History and culture
- European settlement
- Name
- Railway station
- Recent history
- Marae
- Demographics
- Tīrau statistical area
- Tourism
- Dairy factory
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Tīrau is a small town in the South Waikato District of the North Island of New Zealand, 50 kilometres southeast of Hamilton. It had a population of The name "Tīrau" is from the Māori language and means "many cabbage trees".
Tīrau is a node in the state highway network, sitting at the junctions of State Highway 1, State Highway 5, and State Highway 27. Tīrau is primarily a farming town but in recent years has begun to exploit the income that comes from being at a major road junction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tīrau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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