Makuri is a farming community in Tararua District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island.

The area features dusty gravel roads, a bush-clad gorge valley, and sheep farms on the rolling green surrounding hills.

[3] A walking track has been established through the Makuri Gorge which takes about one hour to complete.

The site was only accessible by a rough ten-mile horse track from Pahiatua, covered in two feet of mud during winter.

Tylee had been raised and educated in Napier and Nelson, and had travelled to Argentina to learn sheep farming.

By 1896, 2000 acres had been felled, burnt and sown with grass to accommodate 3500 sheep and 100 cattle.

By 1897, he presided over the newly formed Makuri Cricket Club and was involved in local sports.

[7] On 20 January 2014, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area,[8] leaving a crack down the middle of Pahiatua-Pongaroa Road.

[9] In May 2018, a Landcorp's Rangedale Station, a 1380 hectare sheep and beef operation, was infected with Mycoplasma bovis.