Kakahi, New Zealand

Kakahi (Māori: Kākahi)) is a small King Country settlement about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) up the Whanganui River from Taumarunui, New Zealand.

Founded as a sawmill town, it takes its name from the Māori word for the New Zealand freshwater mussel.

[2] In about the 15th century, Ngāti Hotu people were defeated here by Whanganui Māori in the battle of the five forts.

The Tongariro Timber Company railway land was finally disposed by the New Zealand Parliament in the Māori Purposes Act.

[6] In 1923 Lake Falconer Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, visits the Kakahi hatcheries, to liberate half a million Atlantic salmon fry into the Whanganui River, Whakapapa River, Kakahi Stream, Punga Punga Stream and other tributaries.

As such it still retains its piano, fireproof Celluloid film projection room and even has copper tubing in the ceiling for the "white spirit" internal lighting system.

The Kakahi bakers were known for trucking their hot bread widely in the region, and even supplied many of the Bush Mills in the hills as far away as National Park.

[citation needed] Around the Domain are the remains of a racing bicycle track, part of which was washed away during the 1950s flood.