Kimihia, New Zealand

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Coordinates: 37°32′49″S175°10′05″E / 37.547°S 175.168°E / -37.547; 175.168 Coordinates: 37°32′49″S175°10′05″E / 37.547°S 175.168°E / -37.547; 175.168
Country New Zealand
Local authority Waikato District
Electoral wardHuntly Ward
Ohinewai Lake Kimihia
State Highway 1
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Huntly Lake Hakanoa

Kimihia is a north-eastern suburb of Huntly, New Zealand.

Education

Kimihia School is a co-educational state full primary school covering years 1 to 8, [1] with a roll of 316 as of March 2021. [2] There has been a school at Kimihia since at least 1897. [3]

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Kimihia railway station

Kimihia Railway Station was on the North Island Main Trunk line, north of Huntly in the Waikato District of New Zealand. The station was in 1886 measured as 19 mi 33 ch (31.2 km) south of Mercer, which is where an unnamed block is shown on the 1929 map, near the junction of Fisher Road with SH1, about 1.4 km (0.87 mi) north of the junction with the Kimihia branch. That junction was 101.06 km (62.80 mi) south of Auckland and 576.54 km (358.25 mi) from Wellington.

References

  1. Education Counts: Kimihia School
  2. "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  3. "Board of Education - Selection of Teachers". Auckland Star . XXVIII (179). 3 August 1897. p. 5.