Ruruanga Stream Walkway (Bay of Plenty) Traditional Cache
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Ruruanga Stream Walkway (Bay of Plenty)
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Ruruanga Stream
Walkway.
Ruruanga Stream Walkway
This dedicated junior anglers' stream is stocked regularly with
trout and is also a popular swimming place. Its grassy banks
provide restful picnic spots and the area attracts many species of
birds, including tuis. The walkway provides a link from Prideaux
Park on Tamarangi Drive, to Stoneham Walk.
Where did the name Kawerau come from?
Kawerau was an ancestor of the Ngati Tuwharetoa tribe of this area,
a grandson of the great Toi-Kai Rakau, a famous chief who lived in
the Bay of Plenty before the 1350AD Maori fleet arrived. Toi gave
his grandson the name Kawerau, meaning “carrier of leaves".
He chose this name because, in those days, the people used to live
on berries, fern roots and tawhara. Tawhara is the fruit of the
kiekie plant, which grows on many of our large native trees –
it looks like a small light – green flax bush. Nowadays,
tawhara is often called “bush banana" and, unfortunately for
us, the opossums get this fruit, so that most of us don’t
have the chance to see or taste it. At a certain time of the year,
the people used to gather this fruit, together with the leaves
surrounding it and let it ripen in their storehouses, so Kawerau
got his name from the gathering and carrying of leaves at harvest
time.
Sometimes you will read of “te Tini O Kawerau". This means
“the many tribes of Kawerau".
Today “Kawerau" means the District surrounding the
town.
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Haqre oevqtr raq. TY
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