Ruatuna

Ruatuna
Ruatuna
	Ruatuna some time before 1905
General information
Address	441 Tinopai Road; Tinopai 0593; New Zealand;
Coordinates	36°9′54.21″S 174°10′18.02″E / 36.1650583°S 174.1716722°E
Completed	1877
Client	Edward Coates
Design and construction
Main contractor	Samuel Cooksey
Heritage New Zealand – Category 1
Designated	23 June 1983
Reference no.	7

Ruatuna is a house built from kauri timber in 1877 at Hukatere in the Matakohe district, New Zealand, overlooking the Kaipara Harbour. The house is the birthplace of Gordon Coates (1878–1943), who served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928. Ruatuna was registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (now called Heritage New Zealand) on 23 June 1983 and has registration number 7. The building has a category I listing.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Ruatuna". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 25 January 2016.

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[NZHPT_7-1] "Ruatuna". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 25 January 2016.

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