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Waipiro Bay, 1910

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Waipiro Bay, 1910

Waipiro Bay thrived between the 1890s and the 1920s, when it had a busy coastal shipping trade, and before it was bypassed by an improved coast road. There was no harbour – goods had to be brought to shore on surfboats or rafts.

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Monty Soutar, East Coast places – Te Puia Springs and Tokomaru Bay, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33494/waipiro-bay-1910 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Monty Soutar, published 23 August 2011, updated 1 March 2015.