Patutahi is a small settlement 15 kilometres from
Gisborne, in the northeast of
New Zealand
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's
North Island. It is located in the valley of the
Waipaoa River
The Waipaoa River is a river of the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. It rises on the eastern slopes of the Raukumara Range, flowing south for to reach Poverty Bay and the Pacific Ocean just south of Gisborne. For about half of this d ...
.
Parks
Patutahi Soccer Ground is a sports ground in Patutahi.
Marae
The area has three
marae
A ' (in New Zealand Māori, Cook Islands Māori, Tahitian), ' (in Tongan), ' (in Marquesan) or ' (in Samoan) is a communal or sacred place that serves religious and social purposes in Polynesian societies. In all these languages, the term a ...
belonging to the
hapū
In Māori and New Zealand English, a ' ("subtribe", or " clan") functions as "the basic political unit within Māori society". A Māori person can belong to or have links to many hapū. Historically, each hapū had its own chief and normally op ...
of
Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki.
Pakowhai Marae and Te Poho o Hiraina meeting house, and Rongopai Marae and meeting house are a meeting place of
Te Whānau a Kai.
Takitimu Marae and Te Poho o Whakarau Oratanga a Tamure meeting house are a meeting place of
Ngā Pōtiki and
Te Whānau a Kai.
In October 2020, the Government committed $499,625 from the
Provincial Growth Fund
Shane Geoffrey Jones (born 3 September 1959) is a New Zealand politician. He served as a New Zealand First list MP from 2017 to 2020 and was previously a Labour list MP from 2005 to 2014.
Jones was a cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Gove ...
towards a fire alarm and stormwater upgrade to Rongopai Marae, creating an estimated 7.7 jobs. It also committed $460,500 to upgrade Pakowhai Marae, Takitimu Marae and
Ngātapa Marae, creating 13 jobs.
Education
Patutahi School is a Year 1–8 co-educational state primary school.
In 2019, it was a
decile 1 school with a roll of 12.
References
Populated places in the Gisborne District
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