Otakeho
Otakeho | |
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1928 store of Hubert James Eaves | |
Interactive map of Otakeho | |
| Coordinates: 39°32′56″S 174°02′24″E / 39.549°S 174.040°E | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Region | Taranaki |
| Territorial authority | South Taranaki District |
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| Electorates | |
| Government | |
| • Territorial Authority | South Taranaki District Council |
| • Regional council | Taranaki Regional Council |
| • Mayor of South Taranaki | Phil Nixon |
| • Whanganui MP | Carl Bates |
| • Te Tai Hauāuru MP | Debbie Ngarewa-Packer |
| Area | |
• Total | 31.46 km2 (12.15 sq mi) |
| Population (2023 Census) | |
• Total | 177 |
| • Density | 5.63/km2 (14.6/sq mi) |
Otakeho, meaning place of Takeho, is a locality in southern Taranaki, New Zealand, west of the Otakeho Stream (rising on Mount Taranaki and reaching the Tasman Sea at Otakeho. It is on SH45.
It has a hall (built in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee), a boarded up store (taken over by H J Eaves in 1904, when it sold a wide variety of groceries, ironmongery, drapery, boots, farm, garden, sporting and household goods. It burnt down in July 1927 and was rebuilt about April 1928) a war memorial and a few houses.
3.8 km (2.4 mi) west of Otakeho is Ngāruahine's Tawhitinui Marae. A kohanga reo has been run at the marae since the 1980s.
Otakeho has a small sandy beach, beyond Dingle Road, at the foot of 40 m (130 ft) high cliffs. It is used for fishing and has a poorly protected, nationally threatened, variety of Craspedia, Craspedia Otakeho.
The Ōpunake to New Plymouth bus runs through Otakeho daily in each direction, except at weekends. A bus has run since 1915 and was preceded by Royal Mail coaches, which changed horses there from 1881.