Takaro

Takaro is a suburb and constituent ward of Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand.

Population, features

Takaro is located east of Highbury, west of Palmerston North Hospital Area and north of the CBD. It had a resident population of 5,340 (2001). This was the largest population base concentrated in one suburb in Palmerston North.

Takaro Bowling Club and Takaro Tennis Club provide some leisure relief here.

The Masonic Court is in Takaro.

There are three schools in Takaro: Takaro School, Our Lady of Lourdes School and Monrad Intermediate School.

Street themes

Takaro has many themes:

Parks and Reserves

Main streets

Local and Central Government representation

Avon River (Canterbury)

The Avon River /ˈeɪvən/ flows through the centre of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, and out to an estuary, which it shares with the Heathcote River, the Avon Heathcote Estuary.

Course

The Avon follows a meandering course through Christchurch from its source in the outer western suburb of Avonhead through Ilam, Riccarton and Fendalton, then through Hagley Park and the Central Business District (CBD).

East of the CBD, it passes through Avonside, Dallington, Avondale and Aranui, finally flowing into the Pacific Ocean via the Avon Heathcote Estuary (Māori: Te Wahapū) near Sumner.

Naming

The Avon River was known by the Māori as Ōtākaro or Putare Kamutu. The Canterbury Association had planned to call it the Shakespere [sic]. The river was given its current name by John Deans in 1848 to commemorate the Scottish Avon, which rises in the Ayrshire hills near what was his grandfathers' farm, Over Auchentiber. The Deans built their homestead adjacent to the Avon River where the suburb of Riccarton now lies.