Dannevirke

Dannevirke (Danish: "Danish creation" or "Danes' work"), is a rural service town in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of the North Island, New Zealand. It is the major town of the administrative Tararua District, the easternmost of the districts in which the Regional Council has responsibilities. The surrounding area has developed into dairy, beef cattle and sheep farming, which now provides the major income for the town's population of 6,000. Prior to the arrival of the European settlers in the 1870s, the line of descent for Maori in the area was from the Kurahaupo waka. The tribe of the area is the Rangitane, with geographic distinction to Te Rangiwhakaewa in the immediate Dannevirke region. The first known 'Aotea' meeting house was...