Story: King Country places

Kākahi: Peter McIntyre's painting

Peter McIntyre, who was New Zealand's official war artist during the Second World War, had a holiday home in Kākahi and produced a number of paintings of the settlement and the wider area. They were reproduced in his 1972 book Kakahi New Zealand. This is Kākahi's main street, Waitea Branch Road, at dawn.

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Kerryn Pollock, King Country places – Taumarunui, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/34810/kakahi-peter-mcintyres-painting (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 6 December 2011, updated 1 March 2015.

Comments

Paul Takiwa
29 August 2016

I am privileged to have a copy of Kakahi New Zealand ,having obtained it from my parents( I asked them ),My father grew up in Kakahi ,& I remember the wonderful trips the family made there yearly as I was growing up