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Lake Puketirini

Lake

Small lake west of Huntly and east of Lake Waahi. NZTopo50 BC33-Te Kauwhata, GR 889 400.

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Via public road(s): Rotowaro Road; Paki Street; Weavers Crossing Road; Semple Street; Porritt Avenue; Baker Street; Smith Avenue; Cobham Crescent; Bond Street; Chisholm Street; Tither Street; Armstrong Street; Oleary Place; Shaw Street; Webb Street; Leather Street; 1 unnamed road(s)

Via park(s): Unnamed Recreation Reserve; Lake Waahi Recreation Reserve

0.052km

Name proposed in December 2009 by Waikato District Council. Local iwi and hapu identified ‘Puketirini’ as the original Māori name of the area within which the lake is situated. The original lake, Lake Rotoiti, became Crown land in 1865, was subsequently drained for mining by State Coal Mines (latterly known as Solid Energy). In 1993 work began to reinstate the disused mine back into a lake. The lake has been unofficially known as Lake Weaver or Weavers Lake. Puketirini’ translates to English as ‘hills and streams’ – ‘puke’ meaning ‘hills’ and ‘tirini’ being a transliteration of ‘streams’.

Waikato

Waikato District

Ngāti Mahuta country

NZTM2000: 1788902, 5839990

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