Aranga, New Zealand

Aranga, New Zealand

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Aranga is a locality in Northland, New Zealand. State Highway 12 passes through it. Omapere is 47 km north west, and Dargaville is 42 km south east. The Waipoua Forest is to the north. [cite book|title=Reed New Zealand Atlas|year=2004|id=ISBN 0-7900-0952-8|author=Peter Dowling (editor)|publisher=Reed Books|pages=map 6] [cite book|title=The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand|year=2005|id=ISBN 1-877333-20-4|author=Roger Smith, GeographX|publisher=Robbie Burton|pages=map 22] Maunganui Bluff and the Tasman Sea are to the west, with the small settlement of Aranga Beach lying at the northern end of Ripiro Beach. [cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/Places/Northland/NorthlandPlaces/13/en|title=Dargaville and the Northern Wairoa|encyclopedia=Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand]

Trounson Kauri Park is a 450 ha forest reserve a few km south of Aranga. [cite web|url=http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/PlaceProfile.aspx?id=34413|title=Trounson Kauri Park|publisher=New Zealand Department of Conservation]

Aranga was a centre of the kauri gum industry from 1887 [cite book|title=Tall Spars, Steamers & Gum|last=Ryburn|first=Wayne|year=1999|isbn=0-473-06176-7|pages=p 132, 224] until the late 1940s, one of the last gum extraction areas in New Zealand. [Ryburn, p 203] A flax mill operated at Aranga from 1890 to 1900. [Ryburn, p 139]

Education

Aranga School is a coeducational full primary (years 1-8) school with a decile rating of 4 and a roll of 52. [cite web|url=http://www.tki.org.nz/e/schools/display_school_info.php?school_id=1001|title=Te Kete Ipurangi - Aranga School|publisher=Ministry of Education] The school celebrated its centennial in 2005. [cite journal|url=http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/notices.php/notices.php?action=view&id=602926|title=Aranga School Centennial 2005|journal=Education Gazette New Zealand|volume=84|issue=9|date=23 May 2005]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.aranga.school.nz/ Aranga School website]


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