Tokoroa

Tokoroa is the 5th largest town inside the Waikato vicinity of the North Island of New Zealand and largest agreement within the South Waikato District. Located 30 km southwest of Rotorua, near the foot of the Mamaku Ranges, it's far halfway between Taupo and Hamilton on State Highway One. Tokoroa become the name of a major of the Ngati Kahupungapunga, who became slain via Raukawa at some stage in the siege of Pohaturoa, a volcanic plug adjoining to Atiamuri, 27 km south of Tokoroa.

This conflict took place round 1600 as the Ngati Raukawa moved into the southern Waikato. The call Tokoroa first seemed at the early maps of the 1860s, although this turned into for a place 50 km north east of today's Tokoroa. Tokoroa is one of the maximum latest towns in New Zealand history. The township become installed 1917 with the aid of the Matarawa Land Company as a potential farming location; even though a few families had already settled inside the vicinity after 1910, and a faculty with nine students became based in 1915 later to become Tokoroa East School.