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Paeroa

is a small service town for the surrounding dairying and sheep farming district with the population of about 5000, at the southern end of the Coromandel Range, on the edge of the Hauraki Plains and the Thames Valley.
Paeroa used to be a river port with regular services between the town and Auckland, through Ohinemuri, Waihou Rivers and the Hauraki Gulf, during the 1880s and 1890s gold rush in the Coromandel and the surrounding district.
In the 1890s gold was found near Paeroa and it became a borough in 1915.
The town also well known for a mineral spring, providing the 'Paeroa' for the popular soft drink 'Lemon and Paeroa'.





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Paeroa




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