Kinloch is a small town on the most northerly bay of Lake Taupō, 20 kilometres by road northwest of Taupō on the North Island Volcanic Plateau of New Zealand. It is in the Waikato region. Sir Keith Holyoake, then the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture of New Zealand, purchased the land in 1953 in partnership with his friend Th…Kinloch is a small town on the most northerly bay of Lake Taupō, 20 kilometres by road northwest of Taupō on the North Island Volcanic Plateau of New Zealand. It is in the Waikato region. Sir Keith Holyoake, then the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture of New Zealand, purchased the land in 1953 in partnership with his friend Theodore Nisbet Gibbs and Gibbs' son Ian. The land, which had been purchased from Ngāti Tūwharetoa iwi in 1884, was a block of 5,385 acres largely covered in scrub and fern. In 1956 Holyoake's son purchased an additional 769-acre block of land to the west of the existing block, with additional lake frontage, from the Ngāti Tūwharetoa iwi. The land was originally named Whangamatā Station, but the town was renamed Kinloch partly to distinguish it from Whangamatā in the Bay of Plenty.
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