Ranana

Originally known as Kauika, it grew after 1848 as local Māori moved out of fortified pā settlements in peacetime.

[1] It was renamed by the missionary Richard Taylor in 1856 for Rānana,[citation needed] a Māori transliteration of London.

[2] The town's Catholic church, built in the 1880s for the hapū Ngāti Ruakā of the iwi Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, is still in use.

[4] Ngāti Ruakā and Ngāti Hine Korako have two traditional meeting grounds in Ranana: the Rānana or Ruakā Marae and Te Morehu meeting house, and Te Pou o Rongo Marae and Tūmanako meeting house.

[5][6] Te Wainui a Rua is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 students,[7] with a roll of 43 as of November 2024.