Taranaki, a provincial district of New Zealand, occupying the SW. corner of North Island; remarkable for its dense forests, which cover nearly three-fourths of its area, and for its beds (2 to 5 ft. deep) of titaniferous iron-sand which extend along its coasts, out of which the finest steel is manufactured; New Plymouth (4) is the capital.
Population (circa 1900) given as 22,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tara, Hill Of * Taranto