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{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2019}}
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'''Kaihere''' is a dispersed [[Waikato]] rural settlement on [[New Zealand State Highway 27|SH27]], overlooking the [[Hauraki Plains]]. It has a school, hall, domain<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.haurakiplains.co.nz/kaihere-explore|title=Kaihere Explore|website=www.haurakiplains.co.nz|access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref> a [[rest area]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kaihere-lookout.business.site/|title=Kaihere Lookout|website=kaihere-lookout.business.site|language=en|access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref> and is the starting point for the [[Hapuakohe Range#Hapuakohe Walkway|Hapuakohe Walkway]].<ref name=":0" />
== Demographics ==
Kaihere's [[meshblock]] (1069500 includes the school and most houses) had these census results -<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stats.govt.nz/StatsMaps/Home/Maps/2013-census-quickstats-about-a-place-map.aspx?viewer=viewer_config_2013_Live.txt&webmap=map_config.txt&layerId=1&featureId=526602|title=2013 Census map – QuickStats about a place|website=www.stats.govt.nz|accessdate=27 October 2015}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Population
!Households
!Average income
!National average
|-
|2001
|114
|39
|$32,500
|$18,500
|-
|2006
|123
|42
|$25,300
|$24,100
|-
|2013
|135
|51
|$31,300
|$27,900
|-
|2018
|126
|48<ref>{{Cite web |title=Census {{!}} 2018 {{!}} SA1 Dataset {{!}} GIS Map |url=https://datafinder.stats.govt.nz/data/category/census/2018/sa1-dataset/sa1/?s=a |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=datafinder.stats.govt.nz}}</ref>
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|}
== Geology ==
The village lies on the edge of [[greywacke]], of the [[Jurassic]] Manaia Hill Group, and the [[peat]] of the Hauraki [[graben]]. Much of the village is built on the [[Pliocene]] Puketoka formation between those.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gns.cri.nz/static/qmapdata/newmaps/QWaikato.zip|title=Geology of the Waikato area 1:250 000 geological map 4|last=Edbrooke|first=S. W.|date=2005|website=Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences}}</ref> That formation has [[boulder]]s of [[andesite]], [[Vein (geology)|quartz vein]]-stone, [[cryptocrystalline]] [[Silicate minerals|silica]], and banded [[rhyolite]], with [[Cobble (geology)|cobbles]] of greywacke, in a poorly [[Cementation (geology)|cemented]] bed of [[pumice]] [[silt]].  The Hauraki [[rift]] probably started about 3 million years ago.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gsnz.org.nz/pdf/MP129B_FT2.pdf|title=THE PUKETOKA FORMATION AND THE AGE OF THE HAURAKI GRABEN|last=Bruce Hayward, Hugh Grenfell|date=21 November 2010}}</ref> Subsidence now is about {{Convert|1.5|mm||abbr=on}} a year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/15935/POSTER%20-%20Riffault_ground%20Motion%20Simulation%20for%20Hauraki%20Rift%20EQs.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|title=Ground motion simulations for Hauraki Rift earthquakes|last=Jeremy Riffault, David Dempsey, Jennifer Eccles}}</ref>
[[File:1915_Patetonga_and_Kaihere_plans_and_notice_of_auction.jpg|thumb|1915 Patetonga and Kaihere plans and notice of auction]]
== History ==
The early inhabitants largely used the wetlands for fishing. [[Ngāti Hako]] and [[Ngāti Pāoa]] lived in the area when early [[settler]]s arrived. The [[Musket Wars]] caused much disruption in the 1820s.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_68330839/Hauraki%20Vol%201.pdf|title=The Hauraki Report Vol.2|date=2006|website=Waitangi Tribunal}}</ref>
Government gradually bought the wetlands, including Kaihere, until it controlled enough to enact the Hauraki Plains Act 1908.<ref name=":6" /> In 1906 work started on a road to [[Ohinewai]]<ref>{{cite news|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/appendix-to-the-journals-of-the-house-of-representatives/1907/I/1335|title=APPROPRIATIONS CHARGEABLE ON THE PUBLIC WORKS FUND AND OTHER ACCOUNTS|date=1 January 1907|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-06}}</ref> and on cutting the bends in the [[Piako River]] below Kaihere Landing.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OG19060209.2.10|title=THE PIAKO SWAMP. OHINEMURI GAZETTE|date=9 February 1906|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-06}}</ref> From 1908 [[Levee|stopbanks]] and drainage canals were built. By March 1915 {{Convert|38994|acre||abbr=on}} had been sold to 294 farmers, mainly for [[dairy]]ing.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_68331905/Hauraki%20Vol%203.pdf|title=The Hauraki Report Vol.3|date=2006|website=Waitangi Tribunal}}</ref>
[[Flax in New Zealand|Flax]] was milled at Kaihere from the 1890s to the 1940s.<ref name=":6" /> Flax growing was set back by fires,<ref>{{cite news|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19320130.2.40|title=PEAT FIRES EXTEND. NEW ZEALAND HERALD|date=30 January 1932|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-06}}</ref> which were a problem as the peat dried out, following drainage.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19320930.2.17|title=HAURAKI PEAT LANDS. Recurring fire menace. AUCKLAND STAR|date=30 September 1932|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-06}}</ref>
A 2018 plan will strengthen stopbanks and diversion ponds below Kaihere.<ref name=":5" />
[[File:1922_steamers_at_Kaihere_Landing.jpg|thumb|1922 steamers at Kaihere Landing]]
== Transport ==
A [[Telemetry#Transportation|telemetry]] box on SH27, {{Convert|1.4|km||abbr=on}} south of Kaihere<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.3787736,175.431117,3a,15y,50h,80.05t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1scHLYRvIEostti-tJZVhr1A!2e0!6s//geo2.ggpht.com/cbk?panoid=cHLYRvIEostti-tJZVhr1A&output=thumbnail&cb_client=maps_sv.tactile.gps&thumb=2&w=203&h=100&yaw=137.22829&pitch=0&thumbfov=100|title=1251 State Highway|website=Google Maps|language=en|access-date=2019-01-05}}</ref> recorded average traffic up by 31% in the decade 2008 to 2017, from 3,965 to 5,182. 982 (19%) of those were heavy vehicles, mainly trucks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/resources/state-highway-traffic-volumes/docs/2013-2017-national-telemetry-site-profiles.pdf|title=NZTA 2017 National Telemetry Site Traffic Profile}}</ref>
Until 1941 [[Northern Steamship Company|Northern Steamships]] linked Kaihere Landing with [[Auckland]] thrice weekly. Some of the landing is still visible.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.3291286,175.5086237,3a,15y,152.41h,86.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szRRKlKBluI21vRzBgy6jfA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656|title=668 Kaihere Rd|website=Google Maps|language=en|access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref>
== Education==
Kaihere School is a 2-class rural primary school,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/kaihere.school.nz/web/about-us|title=Kaihere School - About us|website=sites.google.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref><ref name="moe">{{cite web |title=Ministry of Education School Profile |url=https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/find-school/school/profile?district=28&region=5&school=1757 |website=educationcounts.govt.nz |publisher=[[Ministry of Education (New Zealand)|Ministry of Education]]}}</ref> with a roll of {{NZ school roll data|1757|y}} as of {{NZ school roll data|||y|y||.}}<ref name="ero">{{cite web |title=Education Review Office Report |url=http://www.ero.govt.nz/report-view?id=1757 |website=ero.govt.nz |publisher=[[Education Review Office]]}}</ref>
The school has a fort, native bush walk, playing field, netball court and a pool. It is a Silver [[Environmental education in New Zealand|Enviroschool]].<ref name=":2" />
== War memorial pavilion ==
The 1929<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/keyword/kaihere|title=Kaihere|website=nzhistory.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref> Kaihere war memorial pavilion is listed as Category: A - Heritage Feature in [[Hauraki District]] Plan. It is a small timber gabled box cottage, in front of the 1917 Community Hall, with kauri bench seats under the veranda. It was moved from the Domain in Ohinewai Road<ref name=":3" /> to the school in 2005,<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/kaihere-war-memorials|title=Kaihere war memorials|website=nzhistory.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref> was used by the Woman's Institute<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hauraki-dc.govt.nz/assets/council_documents/HistoricHeritage/HistoricHeritageSiteHAU071-KaihereCommunityHall.pdf|title=Historic Heritage Inventory Kaihere Community Hall and Pavilion|website=Hauraki District Plan}}</ref> and was intended as a library and sports pavilion. A new memorial was dedicated on 25 April 2006, with the moved First World War [[cairn]], a new one for World War 2 and a settlers memorial wall.<ref name=":4" />
== References ==
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[[Category:Populated places in Waikato]]