Under the south side of Mount Taranaki, at the northwest end of Taranaki Bay, is the agricultural market town of Hawera (pop. 11,000); the Maori name means 'burnt earth'. Threatened by the Hauhau movement after the land wars in the Taranaki region, the settlers withdrew southward to Patea. In 1870 a military post was established at Hawera, and
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