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Ōpaki
Ōpaki is small rural settlement in the Masterton District and Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. Opaki railway station is located at Ōpaki. The centre of the village was bypassed in 1938, when a bridge replaced the railway level crossing, on what is now SH2. Demographics Opaki statistical area covers . It had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Ōpaki had a population of 1,140 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 126 people (12.4%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 288 people (33.8%) since the 2006 census 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small .... There were 435 households. There were 555 males and 582 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.95 males per female. The median age was 49.4 years (c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauriceville, New Zealand
Mauriceville is a rural locality in the Masterton district, part of the Wairarapa region of New Zealand's North Island. The area is about half-way between Masterton and Eketahuna, and is today split between Mauriceville East (on the Ōpaki-Kaiparoro Road) and Mauriceville West (nearer to Mount Bruce). History Mauriceville was named after Maurice O'Rorke, a contemporary New Zealand politician who was Minister of Immigration and Crown Lands when the village was first founded, and was actually present when the site for the township was chosen. The area was first settled in 1872, as the Scandinavian workers brought in to clear the Seventy-Mile Bush began to move north from Kōpuaranga, these workers were mostly mixed Danish, Norwegian and Swedish families, and were seen as ''Model Colonists''. By 1897, the area's main industries were dairy farming and lime burning, and there were two schools, a railway station, two post/telegraph office, a Lutheran Church, several clubs and a pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |