- Purerua Peninsula
Location map
North Island
label=Purerua Peninsula
lat_dir=S | lat_deg=35 | lat_min=8
lon_dir=E | lon_deg=174 | lon_min=3
position=right
width= 150
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caption=Purerua Peninsula is a peninsula on the northwest side of the
Bay of Islands in Northland,New Zealand . Te Puna Inlet lies to the south of the peninsula. Communities on the peninsula are Purerua, Te Tii and Taronui Bay. [cite book|title=Reed New Zealand Atlas|year=2004|id=ISBN 0-7900-0952-8|author=Peter Dowling (editor)|publisher=Reed Books|pages=map 5] [cite book|title=The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand|year=2005|id=ISBN 1-877333-20-4|author=Roger Smith, GeographX|publisher=Robbie Burton|pages=map 21] The area was originally called the "Oshi district". [cite book|url=http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=VacvAAAAMAAJ&q=Purerua&dq=Purerua&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1|title= The Years Before Waitangi: A Story of Early Maori/European Contact in New Zealand|pages=p 112|last=Bawden|first=Patricia|year=1987|id=ISBN 047300481X]Notable people
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Glenn Colquhoun , poet [cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/Places/Northland/Northland/15/en|title=Northland - Creative Life|encyclopedia=Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand ]Education
Te Tii School is a coeducational full primary (years 1-8) school with a decile rating of 3 and a roll of 21. [cite web|url=http://www.tki.org.nz/e/schools/display_school_info.php?school_id=1112|title=Te Kete Ipurangi - Te Tii School|publisher=Ministry of Education]A Purerua Public School was in existence in 1906, with a ferry service from Te Tii. [cite book|url=http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=dd8WAAAAIAAJ&q=Purerua&dq=Purerua&pgis=1|title=Report|author=New Zealand Department of Education|year=1906|pages=p 27]
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External links
* [http://www.panguru.school.nz/ Te Kura Taumata o Panguru website]
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