Tararua Learning Centre - Tararua Learning Centre 3 Hall Street
About Tararua Learning Centre
Brief History
Early Māori called the district of Tararua – Te Tapere nui o Whatonga (or the great foodbasket of Whatonga). The early settlers called it “the seventy-mile bush” and they called the section from Woodville south to the National Wildlife Centre at Pūkaha/Mount Bruce, “the forty-mile bush”. The first written description of Tararua was by Joseph Banks in 1769, when he viewed it from off Cape Turnagain. He wrote “the country appeared pleasant, with low, smooth hills like downs”. However, scientists and naturalists later described inland Tararua as a North Island hotspot of biodiversity of both flora and fauna in a podocarp rainforest ecosystem found nowhere else in the world. The dense bush had been home to several varieties of moa, abundant kiwi, kākāpō, Kererū, weka and many other “Children of Tāne”, including the huia, the most royal of all Tāne’s children. The early European settlers came to the district from a range of countries, to develop grasslands and to create a railway through the region. Scandinavians were the most prominent group and together with Māori have a proud cultural heritage which remains today.
Contact Tararua Learning Centre
| Address : | Tararua Learning Centre 3 Hall Street, Dannevirke 4942, New Zealand |
| Phone : | 📞 +777 |
| Postal code : | 4942 |
| Website : | http://www.tararuareap.co.nz/ |
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