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Pāuanui houses

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Pāuanui houses

Pāuanui was the first upscale development by the Hopper brothers on the Coromandel Peninsula. It began in 1967; in the early 2000s it had just over 700 permanent residents, but that number ballooned to around 14,000 each New Year’s Eve.

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Paul Monin, Hauraki–Coromandel places – Eastern peninsula, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30675/pauanui-houses (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Monin, published 13 December 2010.