The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 10 (January 1, 1936)
Paraparaumu:
Paraparaumu:
Parapara=scraps or small waste fragments, chips; umu=earth oven. There is a tradition of a hungry war-party which, on taking a fortified village from which its defenders fled, found only the scrapings of food on the stones in the umu.