Tāpora is a locality on the Okahukura Peninsula, which is on the eastern side of the Kaipara Harbour in New Zealand.

[3] The name Okahukura refers to Kahukura, one of the rangatira who arrived to Aotearoa New Zealand aboard the Tākitimu migratory waka.

[4] For ten generations the land of Okahukura remained in the possession of Ngāti Whātua.

For more than ten years after the Government had purchased the neighbouring land known as Albertland, the peninsula was occupied by the Ngāti Whātua tribe.

Due to the large number of kauri trees, FitzGerald leased the rights of this land to gum-diggers.

Due to old age FitzGerald had to retire and terminate his twenty years of occupancy at Okahukura.

Following FitzGerald's retirement A. H. Walker leased this land for two and a half years and dramatically changed the landscape by re-fencing and sowing grass.

For the next ten years Williams and his workers spent many days cutting and burning down bush to allow for sowing grasslands, while opening gumfields and a store at one of FitzGerald's old homes.

In the year 1910 Williams was in the process of transferring the management of the block to C. Kemp, when he accidentally fatally shot himself.

Nearer the end of 1910 Okahukura was sold to Messrs Bowron and Smith of Christchurch.

During World War Two the United States Marines set up camp on 'the run' (Sea View) and used the greater area for target practice.

[5] The ballots for the Returned Services' Association were created in 1947 and Tāpora turned into a dairy farming settlement.

[7][8][9] Many of the dairy farms in Tāpora were converted to orchards, with tens of thousands of avocado trees planted from the mid 2010s.

[10][11][12] Tāpora is in an SA1 statistical area which also includes Birds Beach and covers 42.71 km2 (16.49 sq mi).