Morrinsville

Morrinsville is a town in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. The land for the town and surrounding farmland was purchased from Wiremu Tamihana, the king maker prior to the NZ land wars of the 1860s. The land then was very swampy. The Scottish Morrin brothers hired Irish navvies from the gold fields to dig an extensive network of drains to dry the land.One of the brothers was an engineer. It is situated around 33 kilometres east of Hamilton and 22 kilometres west of Te Aroha, close to the banks of the Piako River and Waitakaruru Stream. It has a population of approximately 6000–7000.