Hawera

HAWERA ACTIVITIES AND TRAVEL | Hawera Information

Hawera is the second-biggest town in the Taranaki region of the North Island, New Zealand; it is located 75 kilometres south of New Plymouth.

The dairy factory experience is Hawera's leading attraction, Hawera's is known for dairying, visitors can see the giant cow icon that welcomes them into the town when travelling from the south. About 13 million litres of milk are processed in Hawera every day, at the southern hemisphere's largest dairy processing unit.

Many visitors also come to see the town's much-admired museum. It features life size figures created from mould casts of real people which catches the past in an appealing way and the Hawera water tower is another one of Taranaki's best-known heritage landmarks, there you can climb up for huge views of the green countryside.

Hawera History

Hawera is Maori for burnt place; the name came from fights that broke out between two local sub-tribes, which started in the start of a fire of the sleeping whare (house) of the tribe under attack. The name became suitable when the town suffered extensive blazes in 1884, 1888, and 1912.

Main Towns in the Taranaki Region

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