Tahuna, Waikato

Tahuna
Tahuna
Coordinates: 37°30′05″S 175°29′39″E / 37.501475°S 175.494258°E / -37.501475; 175.494258Coordinates: 37°30′05″S 175°29′39″E / 37.501475°S 175.494258°E / -37.501475; 175.494258
Region Waikato
Territorial authority Matamata-Piako District
Electorate Coromandel
Government
  MP Scott Simpson (National)
  Mayor Jan Barnes
Time zone NZST (UTC+12)
  Summer (DST) NZDT (UTC+13)
Postcode 3373
Area code(s) 07

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Tahuna is a small rural settlement located 18 km north of Morrinsville. In the Māori language Tahuna means sandbank, likely to refer to the sandbanks along the nearby Piako River, where a Māori settlement started. Tahuna is seen as the upper limit for navigatable travel on the Piako River.[1] The settlement has a primary school, rugby club, lawn bowls, golf club and a volunteer fire brigade.

Although Tahuna is in the Matamata-Piako District for local government, its representation in national government is within the Coromandel electorate due the abolition of the Piako electorate for the 2008 election.[2]

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