1. (loan) (noun) post office.
Ka tae mai aua pitihana ki te poutāpeta, 17 māero te tawhiti atu i tōku kāinga i Waimā (TW 14/9/1878:462). / Those petitions arrived at the post office, seventeen miles distant from my home in Waimā.
See also pōtawhe
Synonyms: whare mēra, pōtawhe
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