Kawerau (New Zealand)
| Kawerau | ||
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| Coordinates | 38 ° 5 ′ S , 176 ° 42 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-BOP | |
| Country |
 New Zealand
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| region | Bay of Plenty | |
| District | Kawerau District | |
| Administrative headquarters | Seat of the administration for the Kawerau District | |
| Residents | 6th 363 (2013) | |
| height | 28 m | |
| Post Code | 3127 | |
| Telephone code | +64 (0) 7 | |
| UN / LOCODE | NZ KAW | |
| Photography of the place | ||
 Plunket Street in Kawerau |
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Kawerau is a city in the Bay of Plenty region on the North Island of New Zealand , which isalmost identical to the Kawerau District administrative unit of the same name.
geography
Kawerau is an enclave because it is completely surrounded by the Whakatāne District . East of the city is the Mount Edgecumbe volcano .
history
The town of Kawerau was founded in 1953 because the location was more suitable for a paper mill than in Murupara . Although Murupara was close to a port, Kawerau had the advantage that machines there could be operated with geothermal energy . In the months that followed, a settlement for around 5000 people and one of the largest and most modern paper mills, the Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill , arose . Later immigrants from Finland , the United States , Great Britain and Australia were brought in as workers due to a lack of professionals in New Zealand. This helped Kawerau , which consisted of hundreds of similarly designed houses, to achieve an international flair.
Wellington considered at the time to assign the city to the then Whakatane County Council administratively. But the resistance in the population of the newly founded city finally led to the fact that on March 31, 1954 the Whakatane County Council 1330 acres of land was taken and added to the Borough of Kawerau , which could be founded.
Due to expansions in the 1970s, the population grew to 9,000 people. On April 1, 1989, the Kawerau District Council was formed from the borough as part of the administrative reform , but retained its district boundaries. As a result of increasing automation, there were layoffs in the later years, which led to relatively high unemployment and thus to a population decline of 6.9% between 2001 and 2004.
Even the Edgecumbe earthquake of 1987 with a magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale did not leave Kawerau without a trace. In 2004 an energy company announced plans to build a NZ $ 150 million geothermal power plant . This gave the place another economic boom.
traffic
The place is now the end point of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway , which establishes a continuous rail link to Auckland and Wellington via Tauranga and Hamilton . The building material for the pulp and paper mill was especially transported over the railway line, while some of the wood for processing and products from the factory are now transported by rail.
Web links
- Homepage . Kawerau District Council,accessed June 15, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Council History . Kawerau District Council , accessed April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Governance . Kawerau District Council , accessed April 23, 2019 .