Kutarere

Looking north along State Highway 2 through Kutarere, from outside Kutarere Marae, in February 2023

Kutarere is a community in the Ōpōtiki District and Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island, on the coast of the Ohiwa Harbour.[1]

The local Ōhiwa Harbour is known as the "daughter of Te Whakatōhea" because it supplied the iwi with fish and shellfish. It is also known as "the food basket of the peoples", because of the food Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Awa were able to gather from the area.[2]

Following the European settlement of the Ōpōtiki township, Kutarere became a port for incoming goods until October 1959.[3]

A photograph of Kutarere by Brian Brake, taken in the 1980s, is held in the collections in Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ero1786 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Walker, Ranginui. "Ōhiwa Harbour". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  3. ^ Davis, Brian Newton. "Opotiki". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Primary Industries.
  4. ^ Brake, Brian. "Kutarere, Opotiki". tepapa.govt.nz. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.