Taranaki

Taranaki (formerly New Plymouth), a provincial district of New Zealand, occupying the south-west corner of the North Island; area, 2,137,000 acres, of which three-fourths is dense forest. The coast is lined with iron-sand. The soil and climate are good for rearing stock, and being well watered grass and root-crops are abundant. Pop. (1891) 22,169. Capital, New Plymouth; pop. 4000. See B. Wells's History of Taranaki (New Plym. 1878).