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Ngāwī

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Ngāwī

Ngāwī is a small fishing settlement in Palliser Bay. With no harbour, boats are pulled out of the water on trailers by bulldozers and stored above the high tide waterline.

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Ben Schrader, Wairarapa places – Palliser district, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13563/ngawi (accessed 20 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 2 March 2009, updated 11 June 2015.