Taihape residents every year, hold a sports day with events based around throwing gumboots. In Gumboot Park - the corrugated steel gumboot stands on display and is illuminated at night.
With alot of Golden Shears Open and New Zealand Shearing Championship winners over the years, Te Kuiti claims to be 'The Shearing Capital of New Zealand'. This 6m tall shearer celebrates that status.
‘The Pine Man' that stands in the centre of Tokoroa, is a wooden sculpture of a forestry worker holding a chainsaw, a reminder of its history as a timber town.
'Pania of the Reef' is believed to be the first to perpetuate a Maori legend. The bronze statue depicting the beautiful Maori woman can be found in Napier's Marine Parade Gardens. Mehr erfahren.
