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Town 40 km north of Auckland on the ‘Hibiscus Coast’.

Meaning of place name

Ō: place of; rewa: a native tree, a contraction of rewarewa. Ōrewa originally referred to the river rather than the beachfront. In 1856 Captain Isaac Rhodes Cooper of the 58th Regiment took up land and called his home Orewa House.

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