Kio Kio

Kio Kio or Kiokio is a rural community in the Otorohanga District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located just north-east of Otorohanga, on State Highway 3 between Otorohanga and Te Awamutu.[1]

It is the location of the former Kiokio railway station on the North Island Main Trunk.[2][3] Traffic at the station was "rapidly increasing" from 1913.[4]

Kiokio is the Māori word for a number of a plant species, including the native fern Parablechnum novae-zelandiae.[5]

Kio Kio has a rugby union club, which plays in the King Country league in red and black.[6] In 2001, a club player was accused of wrenching and squeezing an opponent's testicle.[7] In 2009, two club players, a club official and two club fans received lifetime bans from rugby union for attacking a referee and tough judge after the club lost the King Country Rugby Tournament.[8]

Education

Kio Kio School is a Year 1-8 co-educational state primary school.[9][10] It is a decile 7 school with a roll of 109 as of March 2020.[11][12]

gollark: > I want the scientists in society to have a place to exist too.I mean, I don't disagree, but just "give whoever rents it first a freeish house" doesn't seem like a good mechanism for that. Unless you mean they do "give whoever they find cool a freeish house", which is... also bad in other ways.
gollark: If it was actually possible to add more housing, it would be much easier to fix.
gollark: We somehow deal with this problem in basically every *other* market.
gollark: If they simply did not awful zoning, land would probably be substantially cheaper (via higher density in places).
gollark: In California apparently the problem is just accursedly awful zoning.

References
  1. Hariss, Gavin. "Kiokio, Waikato". topomap.co.nz. NZ Topo Map.
  2. New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas (First ed.). Quail Map Co. 1965. pp. 3 & 4.
  3. Pierre, Bill (1981). North Island Main Trunk. Wellington: A.H&A.W Reed. pp. 289–290. ISBN 0589013165.
  4. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 590, 2 August 1913, Page 5 Kio Kio Railway Station. Good sheds provided.
  5. "Kiokio Fern (Blechnum novae-zelandiae)". Taranaki Educational Resource: Research, Analysis and Information Network.
  6. Greerfson, Kerry. "King Country - a brief rugby history". New Zealand Rugby History.
  7. Gower, Patrick (29 July 2001). "Inquiry after player loses testicle". Wilson & Horton. The New Zealand Herald.
  8. "Life bans for King Country rugby fans". Fairfax New Zealand. Waikato Times. 31 January 2001.
  9. "Official School Website". kiokio.school.nz.
  10. "Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
  11. "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  12. "Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.

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