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Paeroa: Best little town in the middle of everywhere
14 Dec, 2020 03:01 PM
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The L&P bottle, world famous in NZ. Photo / Getty Images
On our last trip back from Auckland we stayed the night in Paeroa and stopped for a look around.
Sitting on the western base of Maunga Karangahake, you can see why the pre-European settlers called the place Paeroa. Pae for perch, as in paepae, and roa - long; a long perch sitting above the swamps of the Hauraki plains. Swamps that were a food basket in the centuries before they were logged and drained.
Paeroa sits at the junction of the Ohinemuri and Waihou rivers. In 1769, on his first trip to Nieuw Zeeland , Captain James Cook got within a few kilometres of Paeroa - as far inland as he ever got in Aotearoa. ....

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