Waipawa (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Waipawa is the second-largest town in Central Hawke's Bay in the east of the North Island of New Zealand. At the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,872, a change of -2.0 percent since the 1996 census.The town is located 7 km northeast of Waipukurau and 46 km southwest of Hastings, on the northern bank of the Waipawa River, a tributary of the Tukituki River.It holds the main office of the district council, and holds the distinction of being Aotearoa's oldest inland European settlement.