Tokoroa

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Tokoroa
Geographical location
Tokoroa (New Zealand)
Tokoroa
Coordinates 38 ° 14 ′  S , 175 ° 52 ′  E Coordinates: 38 ° 14 ′  S , 175 ° 52 ′  E
Region ISO NZ-WKO
Country New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
region Waikato
District South Waikato District
Ward Tokoroa Ward
Administrative headquarters The seat of administration for the South Waikato District
Residents 12 714 (2013)
height 343 m
Post Code 4320
Telephone code +64 (0) 7
UN / LOCODE NZ TKZ
Photography of the place
Tokoroa From Scenic Lookout.jpg
Tokoroa
Tokoroa , courthouse
Tokoroa , Mannering Street
Tokoroa , Talking Pole

Tokoroa is a city in the South Waikato District of the Waikato regionon the North Island of New Zealand . The city is the seat of the South Waikato District Council .

geography

The city is located around 35 km west-southwest of Rotorua and around 50 km southeast of Cambridge in the plains of various small streams that flow northwest of Tokoroa into the Waikato River . To the north of Tokoroa are Lichfield and Putaruru , around 13 km and around 20 km away and to the south, only 6 km away, is Kinleith .

history

The war chief of the Ngati Kahupungapunga called Tokoroa to during the siege of Pohuturoa , a rocky outcrop 27 km further south at Taupo - Highway from the Ngati Raukawa have been slain. It is likely that one of the early surveyors gave the name in honor of the memory of this chief. The name Tokoroa appeared on the cards as early as the 1860s.

Tokoroa is one of the youngest cities in New Zealand. The city developed around 1948 as the home of Kinleith Mill , a wood, pulp and paper mill of New Zealand Forest Products Limited near Kinleith , south of Tokoroa .

The city has been namesake for Mount Tokoroa in Antarctica since 1964 .

population

In the 2013 census, the town had 12,714 inhabitants, 6.0% less than in the 2006 census.

In 1948 the place had 1,100 inhabitants. In the 1980s, when the New Zealand Forest Products Limited production in Kinleith began to slow, had Tokoroa a high of around 18,000 inhabitants, only 2,000 below the number required for this advancement to New Zealand City is required. The decline in production in Kinleith and in other plants led to a further decline in population, so in 2006 around 3000 fewer people lived in Tokoroa than in the 1980s .

Tokoroa is a multicultural city, 35% of the population are Māori , another 20% come from the Pacific Islands (especially the Cook Islands ). The remaining 45% come from different countries around the world. Apart from the Auckland and Wellington metropolitan areas, Tokoroa has the highest number of residents from the Pacific Islands.

City structure

Tokoroa consists of the districts Mangakoretu, Paraonui , Parkdale , Matarawa , Stanley Park , Tokoroa Central , Aotea , Strathmore, Amisfield, Kinleith, listed from north to south

Many of the city's street names were given by the first director of New Zealand Forest Products Limited , Sir David Henry (1888–1963). He chose names from his hometown of Edinburgh , Scotland . One primary school is now called Sir David Henry primary school .

economy

The main industry of Tokoroa is forestry, which is concentrated around the wood, cellulose and paper mill in Kinleith . The place is surrounded by 132,000 hectares of forest from non-native tree species. The Kinleith Mill plant employs around 1,000 people. Another important branch of the economy besides sheep breeding is dairy farming. Due to rising milk prices, a large part of the surrounding forests was temporarily converted into farmland. Other companies in the city produce cheese, wooden boxes and joinery, as well as sawmills, construction companies and the extraction of building materials from quarries.

Infrastructure

Road traffic

The New Zealand State Highway 1 runs through Tokoroa and connects the city with Cambridge and Hamilton in the northwest and Taupo in the south. In the city, the New Zealand State Highway 32 branches off to the southwest and later continues west of Lake Taupo further south.

Buses run from Tokora to Hamilton , Putaruru , Tirau , Auckland , Wellington , Taupo , Te Kuiti and Rotorua .

Tokoroa has an extensive network of cycle paths that connect the city center with the outskirts. Some of the cycle paths consist of separate cycle path lanes or combined cycle and footpaths.

Rail transport

The Kinleith Branch railway runs through Tokoroa . The line, which branches off to the east in Hamilton from the North Island Main Trunk Railway , leads via Morrinsville , Matamata to Kinleith , south of Tokoroa and has a branch to the east in Putaruru to Rotorua .

Education

Important educational institutions and research institutes are the Te Wananga o Aotearoa Institute and the Tokoroa Polytech Institute . In addition to various other schools of all levels, the Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Hiringa should be mentioned, a Kura Kaupapa Māori who teaches in the Māori language .

  • Higher educational institutions: Te Wananga o Aotearoa , Tokoroa Polytech Institute
  • High Schools : Forest View High School , Tokoroa High School
  • Intermediate Schools : Tokoroa Intermediate School , Tainui Full Primary School , Amisfield Full Primary School , Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Hiringa
  • Primary School : Tokoroa East School , David Henry School , Tokoroa Strathmore School , Tokoroa North School , Bishop Edward Gains , Tokoroa Central School
  • Kindergartens: Clyde Street Kindergarten, Balmoral Kindergarten, Paronui Kindergarten, Arohanui Kindergarten, David Henry Kindergarten

Sports

The Rugby Union teams of the city are in the Super Rugby playing Chiefs and the Tritons . The rugby teams play at Waikato Stadium . Tokoroa is the annual host of the TRITONS GWYNNE SHIELD TRIALS .

The YMCA sports center offers various sports such as indoor skating , archery , soccer , netball and hockey .

media

There are two local radio stations in Tokoroa, Classic Hits Radio Forestland and Raukawa FM .

Personalities

literature

  • Helga Neubauer: Tokoroa . In: The New Zealand Book . 1st edition. NZ Visitor Publications , Nelson 2003, ISBN 1-877339-00-8 , pp. 409 .
  • AW Reed : The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Place Names . Reed Books , Auckland 2002, ISBN 0-7900-0761-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2013 Census QuickStats about a place : Tokoroa . Statistics New Zealand , accessed on October 11, 2017 (English, StatsMap: Meshblock analysis of the interactive map for the districts: Mangakoretu, Paraonui , Parkdale , Matarawa , Stanley Park , Tokoroa Central , Aotea , Strathmore, Amisfield, Kinleith ).
  2. ↑ a b c Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed October 11, 2017 .
  3. ^ Neubauer: Tokoroa . In: The New Zealand Book . 2003, p. 409 .