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Castlecliff Plunket rooms

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Castlecliff Plunket rooms

Castlecliff is a beach suburb of Whanganui, by the Tasman Sea and the mouth of the Whanganui River. These colourful Plunket rooms occupy a former state house on Cornfoot Street, the suburb’s main road.

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Diana Beaglehole, Whanganui places – Whanganui, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18930/castlecliff-plunket-rooms (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Diana Beaglehole, published 3 March 2009, updated 15 June 2015.