Kutarere

Kutarere is a community in the Ōpōtiki District and Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island, on the coast of the Ohiwa Harbour.

[1] The local Ōhiwa Harbour is known as the "daughter of Te Whakatōhea" because it supplied the iwi with fish and shellfish.

[3] A photograph of Kutarere by Brian Brake, taken in the 1980s, is held in the collections in Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

[10] The town was isolated by flooding and slips, which closed State Highway through the Waimana Gorge, south of the settlement, in April 2017 and July 2018.

[13] In May 2019, Ministry for Primary Industries fisheries agents found two men taking far in excess of their legal allowance of pipi.