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Kōrero: Hawke’s Bay places

Roadside Stories: Te Pōhue, travellers' stop

Remote Te Pōhue, on the Napier–Taupō highway, was once on a Māori track cutting across the tribal boundaries of Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Tūwharetoa – tribes that were in conflict with each other for a period, then made peace. Around 1870 a coach road was cut through the dense forest, and a hotel was built at Te Pōhue for travellers.

Listen to a Roadside Story about Te Pōhue. Roadside Stories is a series of audio guides to places around New Zealand.

Taonga puoro courtesy of Richard Nunns

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Kerryn Pollock, Hawke’s Bay places – Inland of Hastings and Napier, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/interactive/35289/roadside-stories-te-pohue-travellers-stop (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 9 January 2012, updated 30 November 2015.

Comments

Bev
13 April 2024
I loved this little audio about Te Pohue and its history. I’ve always been a huge fan of our celebrated writer, Katherine Mansfield, who travelled with friends in 1907 to the Urewera country and they camped on a hill, by the lake at Te Pohue. She wrote a wonderfully descriptive passage in her ‘Urewera Notebook’ about her stay at beautiful Te Pohue.