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Tokoroa
Tokoroa is a forestry town in South Waikato, New Zealand, on State Highway 1, built from the 1940s to house workers at the Kinleith pulp and paper mill; named for a Ngāti Kahupungapunga rangatira, it grew fastest in the 1960s.
Twizel
Twizel, a Mackenzie District town in New Zealand's South Island, was built in 1968 as a Ministry of Works construction town for the Upper Waitaki hydro scheme, peaked above 5,000 residents, was saved from removal, and is now a service and tourist base.
Wānaka
Wānaka, formerly Pembroke, is a lakeside South Island New Zealand town of about 9,000 at the southern end of Lake Wānaka, a base for Mt Aspiring National Park, Treble Cone, and Cardrona, named from wānanga, place of learning.
Warkworth, New Zealand
Warkworth (Puhinui) is a historic town at the head of the Mahurangi River in North Auckland, New Zealand, founded by John Anderson Brown around a water-powered sawmill and serving as the hub of the Matakana Coast.
Wellington
Wellington, in Māori Te Whanganui-a-Tara, is the capital of New Zealand, on the harbor of the same name at the southern end of the North Island; about 211,000 people live there.
Westport, New Zealand
Westport (Kawatiri) is a river port town of about 4,300 people at the mouth of the Buller River on New Zealand's West Coast; founded in the 1861 gold rush, built on coal exports, and now rebuilding after the 2021–2022 floods.