Story: King Country places

More links and websites

• Kawhia Maori history

  Wide-ranging information about Māori in the Kāwhia region.

• Otorohanga district

  Information about Ōtorohanga and Kāwhia.

• Piopio

  A site with information on the small King Country town of Piopio.

• Taumarunui

  A site about Taumarunui.

• Waitomo Caves

  Information about the Waitomo Caves.

More suggestions and sources

• Coleman, John. A glimpse in time: the Ohura Valley, 1900–2000. Kaikohe: Pukepuriri Publications, 2004.

• Couper, Wilf, and Ron Cooke, eds. Kaitieke: the district, the people, the schools. 2nd ed. Taumarunui: C & S Publications, 1994.

• Higgs, Graeme. Taharoa: survey of a changing community. Hamilton: University of Waikato, Centre for Māori Studies and Research, 1981.

• Hill, Kate. Raurimu frontier town 1900–1925: a social archaeological perspective. Auckland: Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, 2000.

• McMillan, Lyndsay, and Audrey Walker. Ongarue: a place of the heart. Ōngarue: Ongarue School Centenary Committee, 2005.

• New Zealand Today 33 (March/April 2010).