Tuai

Tuai
Tuai power station
Tuai Power Station
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Coordinates: 38°48′42″S 177°08′52″E / 38.811657°S 177.147726°E / -38.811657; 177.147726
CountryNew Zealand
RegionHawke's Bay Region
Territorial authorityWairoa District
Ward
  • Wairoa General Ward
  • Wairoa Māori Ward
Electorates
Area
[1]
 • Total21.99 km2 (8.49 sq mi)
Population
 (June 2024)[2]
 • Total240
 • Density11/km2 (28/sq mi)

Tuai is a village and rural community located around Lake Whakamarino, in the Wairoa District of the Hawke's Bay Region, on New Zealand's North Island.[3]

The local Tuai Power Station was opened in 1929 on the shores of Lake Whakamarino, as part of the Waikaremoana power scheme. Genesis Energy has controlled the power station remotely from Tokaanu power station since the early 2000s.[4]

Artist Doris Lusk depicted the power station in a 1948 painting.[5] She described the power station as a “gothic building in the middle of the wild hills”.[6]

Lake Whakamarino, also known as Tuai Lake, is popular with anglers.[7] It can be used by fly-fishers, and accessed with small unanchored boats.[8]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Area was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Aotearoa Data Explorer". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
  3. ^ Hariss, Gavin. "Tuai, Hawke's Bay". topomap.co.nz. NZ Topo Map.
  4. ^ Pollock, Kerryn (30 November 2015). "Tuai power station 2007". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  5. ^ Derby, Mark. "'Powerhouse, Tuai', 1948". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  6. ^ "Power House, Tuai". christchurchartgallery.org.nz. Christchurch Art Gallery.
  7. ^ "Tuai and Lake Whakamarino New Zealand". tourism.net.nz. New Zealand Tourism Guide.
  8. ^ "Trout numbers boosted at hydro lakes". Gisborne Herald. 7 December 2017.