Tuai is a village and rural community located around Lake Whakamarino, in the
Wairoa District
Wairoa District is a Territorial authority district in the North Island of New Zealand. The Wairoa District Council is headquartered in the largest town, Wairoa. The district falls within the Hawke's Bay Region.
The district has an area of 4, ...
of the
Hawke's Bay Region
Hawke's Bay ( mi, Te Matau-a-Māui) is a local government region on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The region's name derives from Hawke Bay, which was named by Captain James Cook in honour of Admiral Edward Hawke. The region is ...
, on New Zealand's
North Island.
The local Tuai Power Station was opened in 1929 on the shores of Lake Whakamarino, as part of the Waikaremoana power scheme.
Genesis Energy has controlled the power station remotely from Tokaanu power station since the early 2000s.
Artist
Doris Lusk
Doris More Lusk (5 May 1916 – 14 April 1990) was a New Zealand painter, potter, art teacher, and university lecturer. In 1990 she was posthumously awarded the Governor General Art Award in recognition of her artistic career and contributions. ...
depicted the power station in a 1948 painting.
She described the power station as a “gothic building in the middle of the wild hills”.
Lake Whakamarino, also known as Tuai Lake, is popular with anglers.
It can be used by fly-fishers, and accessed with small unanchored boats.
Demographics
Statistics New Zealand describes Tuai as a rural settlement, which covers .
It is part of the wider
Maungataniwha-Raupunga statistical area.
Tuai had a population of 216 at the
2018 New Zealand census
Eighteen or 18 may refer to:
* 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19
* one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018
Film, television and entertainment
* ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the sho ...
, an increase of 3 people (1.4%) since the
2013 census, and a decrease of 27 people (−11.1%) 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 78 households, comprising 105 males and 111 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.95 males per female. The median age was 31.2 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 57 people (26.4%) aged under 15 years, 45 (20.8%) aged 15 to 29, 84 (38.9%) aged 30 to 64, and 27 (12.5%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 26.4% European/
Pākehā
Pākehā (or Pakeha; ; ) is a Māori term for New Zealanders primarily of European descent. Pākehā is not a legal concept and has no definition under New Zealand law. The term can apply to fair-skinned persons, or to any non- Māori New Z ...
, 84.7%
Māori
Māori or Maori can refer to:
Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture
* Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...
, and 2.8%
Pacific peoples. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 38.9% had no religion, 25.0% were
Christian, 26.4% had
Māori religious beliefs and 1.4% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 18 (11.3%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 36 (22.6%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $22,100, compared with $31,800 nationally. 12 people (7.5%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 66 (41.5%) people were employed full-time, 21 (13.2%) were part-time, and 15 (9.4%) were unemployed.
Marae
Te Kūhā Tārewa Marae and Te Poho o Hinekura or Ruapani meeting house is a meeting place of the
Tūhoe 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
Ngāti Hinekura, and the
Ngāti Ruapani hapū of
Ngati Hinekura and
Tuwai.
In October 2020, the Government committed $1,949,075 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 ...
to upgrade the marae and 23 other Ngāti Kahungunu marae. The funding was expected to create 164 jobs.
Education
Te Kura o Waikaremoana is a Year 1–8 co-educational state primary school.
It is a
decile 2 school with a roll of as of
References
{{Wairoa District
Wairoa District
Populated places in the Hawke's Bay Region