Portal:New Zealand/Selected picture/Week 26, 2006
![Te Kuiti, New Zealand - looking north from SH3 as it climbs out of the town.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Te_kuiti_nz.jpg/300px-Te_kuiti_nz.jpg)
Te Kuiti is a small town in the south of the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. It lies at the junction of State Highways 3 and 30 and on the North Island Main Trunk Railway, 70 km south of Hamilton. The town promotes itself as the sheep-shearing capital of the world and is host to the annual New Zealand National Shearing Championships.