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Taihape: town hall
Town hall of Taihape, North Island, New Zealand.
Taihape
New Zealand
Taihape, town, south-central North Island, New Zealand. It lies along the Hautapu River, 7 miles (11 km) above the latterās confluence with the Rangitikei River.
It was founded in 1894 as a coaching station on a track leading east to Hastings and was known as Otaihape, a Maori word meaning the āabode of Tai the hunchback.ā It quickly developed as the centre of a lumber industry.
Situated along a major highway and railway to Wellington (148 miles [238 km] southwest), Taihape now serves a dairy- and sheep-farming area. It has engineering works, iron and brass foundries, and furniture and concrete-products factories. Pop. (2006) 1,788.
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