Te Mahoe is a rural settlement in the Whakatāne District and Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island, next to Lake Matahina.
The community consists of about 150 people,[1] including 30 families in the village at the base of the Lake Matahina Dam.
[3] Poet Hone Tuwhare lived in Te Mahoe during the 1950s and 1960s with his wife, writer Jean McCormack, and their three sons.
[4] He worked as a boiler-maker on the construction of the Matahina hydroelectric dam.
It began: His first book was published two years later, in 1964, to immediate critical acclaim.