HOW TAIPA GOT ITS NAME
There are three stories of Taipa.
The first story was a long time ago there were two chiefs and one was called kauri. They were friends and then they started to fight over Taipa. They had a river that was filled with shellfish and fish. Every time they put their hands in the water there was shellfish or a fish in their hands.
The second story the fights were not good and they were not friends anymore .They came to a conclusion. They decided to split the beach .They said the maori word for sea water is tai and the maori word for touch is pa. So they named the beach Taipa. They like the name Taipa so they kept the name.
The last story was about a tidal wave that submerged over the village.All of the people in the village were so scared all their homes were gone and after all that the shellfish and fish were all gone from the river .The survivors called the place taipa tai-meaning tide and pa-meaning village and that is how taipa got its name.dy Kayla
