Sending flowers to Taumarunui

Taumarunui Hospital and Avonlea

Taumarunui Hospital at 63 Kururau Road is the local public hospital and health centre, with an emergency department and a primary birthing unit. We have not found a published flower rule, so check with the ward before sending, and put the patient's full name and ward on the order.

Avonlea Home and Hospital at 52 Ward Street, Rangoroa, provides aged residential care. Use the resident's full name and the home's name.

Cemeteries and the funeral home

Ruapehu District Council lists three Taumarunui cemeteries:

• the Old Cemetery on Golf Road – open for visiting but no longer taking burials;
• the New Cemetery at the north end of Golf Road;
• Manunui Cemetery on SH4 at Mahoe, in Manunui east of the town.

Taumarunui Funeral Services is at 34 Huia Street. Sympathy flowers usually go to the funeral home or the family; ask before you send. Several marae of Ngāti Hāua and Ngāti Maniapoto surround the town, including Ngāpuwaiwaha Marae on Taumarunui Street – for a tangihanga, see our tangihanga guide.

Frosty winters, warm summers

Taumarunui gets warmer summers than other central North Island towns but cold, frosty winters. In June 2002 it recorded just 27 hours of sunshine, the lowest in the country; a typical year brings about 1,449 mm of rain and 1,822 hours of sunshine. In winter, avoid flowers being left outside overnight, and give a phone number for the recipient. For farm addresses, use the RD number and allow extra time – rural addresses can take longer.

The name is commonly translated as "the place of big shelter", with references to it as a large sheltered place for growing kūmara.

Towns around Taumarunui

For neighbouring towns, see Te Kūiti, Tūrangi and the Manawatū-Whanganui region.

Places flowers often go in Taumarunui

Hospitals

• Taumarunui Hospital

Rest homes and care

• Avonlea Home and Hospital

Funeral homes

• Taumarunui Funeral Services, 34 Huia Street

Cemeteries

• Taumarunui New Cemetery (Golf Road)
• Taumarunui Old Cemetery (Golf Road, closed)
• Manunui Cemetery (SH4) (Manunui)

Put the recipient’s ward, room or the funeral director’s name on the order so the florist can find them.