Pahiatua

Pahiatua

      town, southern North Island, New Zealand, at the confluence of the Mangatainoka River and Mangaramarama Creek, 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Wellington. It was founded in 1881 by Scandinavian immigrants. The town was almost totally destroyed in 1897 when a fire occurred in the surrounding Forty Mile Bush Forest. Pahiatua now serves an area of dairy, mixed, and fat-lamb farming and has various light industries. It lies along the Napier–Palmerston North State Highway and is linked to the North Island Main Trunk Railway by a 1.5-mile (2.5-kilometre) spur. The name Pahiatua comes from a Maori term meaning “the place of a god.” Pop. (2001) 2,610.

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