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… first flows in a northerly direction for 30 miles and separates the St. Arnaud Range to the west from the Raglan Range to the east. Subsequently it flows in a north-easterly direction through a fault-angle depression – the Wairau Valley – filled with glacial outwash material; these terraces carry prosperous sheep farms. The …
… (1833–1913). Cabinet Minister, farmer, and soldier. A new biography of Bryce, John … in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. John Bryce was born in Glasgow on 14 September 1833, the second son of John Bryce, a bootmaker and …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Thomas Buddle was born in 1812 at Durham, the son of … education, Buddle studied divinity, and in 1835 was accepted by the Wesleyan Conference as a probationer. He was … four years of his probation at Huntington, St. Neots, and Peterborough. In 1839 he was ordained by the Conference at …
… Zealand did not take part until 1908. Our first arena for international competition was therefore the Australasian … B. Shaw was third in the A.A.A. 120 yd hurdles. He later returned to England and won the title four successive … sec in 1892. Batger was more successful in England than his team mate, J. H. Hempton, who in 1892 had equalled the world …
… Yacht Club since 1928. An annual race is also held from Lyttelton to Akaroa by the Banks Peninsula Cruising Club. In 1951 an ocean race was sailed from Wellington to Lyttelton in connection with the Canterbury centennial. Leaving Wellington on 21 January in bad …
… part of the Wellington Province before the invasion of Te Rauparaha. Some sketches made by J. T. Stewart in the 1850s illustrate a few examples of the work of the Rangitane tribe of the …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Clifton Webb was born at Te Kopuru, North Auckland, on 8 March 1889, the son of … Thomas Stirrup Webb, a pioneer settler who had been associated with John Bright, the English Liberal reformer. He was …
… The statement is commonly made, especially to tourists, that every … cut in a piece of Maori carving has a meaning. Indeed, a gifted member of the Arawa tribe obligingly communicated to the …
… The western boundary of this land district lies along a … mainly of hard Jurassic and Cretaceous greywacke, argillites, siltstones, and sandstones. To the north in the East … region of Matakaoa, a complex mass thought to have been erupted from local volcanoes in Jurassic-Cretaceous times. The …
… Since the earliest days, Maori politics have been dominated by the necessity of making terms with the European world and way of life. Although …