Pārāwai
1. (location) Thames - a town on the south-east shore of the Hauraki Gulf.
I a Haunui ka pakeke ka hiahia ia ki te moe i a Meri Tāmihana, he wahine nō Ngā Puhi, arā i te hōhipera o Pārāwai e ako ana hei nēhi (TTR 1996:233). / When Haunui grew up he wanted to marry Meri Thompson, a Ngā Puhi woman who was training to be a nurse at Thames Hospital.