It also lies on the Palmerston North-Gisborne railway, though passengers services ceased in 1988 following Cyclone Bola.
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Among them Ernie "Kiwi" Kingston and from 1951 Maori professional heavyweight wrestler Keita Meretana of Wairoa.
This was proposed to follow an inland route to the Wairoa River, which would then be followed to the town of Wairoa before proceeding along the coastline to Napier.
The previous area was referred to as a small area of greater Papakura, but has now developed into a single suburban area, stretching south of the Addison complex, west of the Southern Railway Line (parallel to Porchester Road), down to Old Wairoa Road, and right to the western border of the Papakura Military Camp.
Population centres that came to the electorate through this measure included Wellington, Masterton, Palmerston North, Napier, and Wairoa.
State Highway 38, from Wai-O-Tapu via Murupara to Wairoa, leads through the Ureweras.
The first generation of the Smith family bought the site of Te Wairoa from the CMS missionary, Rev. Seymour Mills Spencer, at Te Wairoa.
Wairoa is the name of several rivers and streams in New Zealand.