Dargaville

Dargaville is a city within the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated on the bank of the Northern Wairoa River within the Northland region. The city is located 55 kilometres southwest of Whangarei. The populace become four,251 at the 2013 Census, a lower of 204 when you consider that 2006 and 282 from 2001. It is mentioned for the excessive share of residents of Croatian descent. The place round it's far one of the chief areas in the us of a for cultivating kumara and so Dargaville is known by using many locals because the Kumara Capital of New Zealand.

The city changed into named after wood merchant and politician Joseph Dargaville. Founded in the course of the nineteenth-century kauri gum and wooden exchange, it in brief had New Zealand's biggest populace. The place have become known for a thriving enterprise that covered gum digging and kauri logging, which turned into based in particular at Te Kopuru, numerous kilometres south of Dargaville at the banks of the Northern Wairoa river. The river become used to transport the big logs downstream to shipbuilders and as a number one way of shipping to Auckland.