Ohura
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Ohura is a small town in the west of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located to the west of Taumarunui in the area known as the King Country, in inland Manawatu-Wanganui. it lies on the banks of the Mangaroa River, a tributary of the Ohura River which is a tributary of the Whanganui River.
Ohura Town was the center for coal mining in the region with coal mines operating through to circa 1965. Today coal mining is returning to the district with many of the old originally uneconomic mines being reopened.
A centre piece of the town is the Ohura Museum ([[1]]) which provides a repository for much of the History of Ohura and the surrounding area. The museum is part of the Forgotten World Highway ([2]) that runs between Taumarunui and Stratford in the North Island of New Zealand
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