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… The Western Uplands, or King Country region, is a broad extent of hill country which lies to the west of Lake Taupo … The region is referred to under a variety of names, the term King Country stressing its historical associations and … Western Uplands …
… Pioneer Wesleyan missionary. A new biography of Whiteley, John appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. John Whiteley was born at Eddingley, Nottinghamshire, on 20 July … WHITELEY, Rev. John …
… Next in importance is the manaia which seems (to the writer) to be also a human figure in most cases. The spiral is … important element. Very much less frequent are two sea monsters (the marakihau and the whale), and lizard, birds, fish, and dogs, the latter being very rare in old carvings. There are a number of …
… result of the efforts of Edward Gibbon Wakefield to promote planned colonisation through the auspices of the New … colonisation and made an important contribution to the extension of British trade and influence overseas. The site …
… with one another. Nowadays they are a minority – but despite their rapid growth they still comprise only about 7 per … basis of life has radically changed from a simple subsistence type of agriculture, with fishing and collecting as …
… Details of the trusts listed below may be found in A Directory of Philanthropic … founded in 1952 to provide homes and facilities for the maintenance and education of boys. The trust runs the Sedgeley Boys' Home, Masterton. Arawa Maori Trust (Rotorua). Established in 1922, …
… For the first 30 miles the river flows in a deep, glaciated valley between the Darran Mountains on the north and … the river discharges into Lake McKerrow, which separates the Darran Mountains from the Skippers Range to the … McKerrow. Both the Hollyford and Pyke Valleys are excavated along a major fault line, which continues south across a …
… The Kaikouras consist of two ranges, separated by the Clarence Valley, with the Inland Kaikoura Range … (4,080 ft), 10 miles west of Ward, trends in a south-westerly direction, and reaches its greatest height of 9,465 ft at the peak, Tapuaenuku (“Footsteps …
… Kawerau is situated on the flat land in the central valley of the Tarawera River and immediately northwest of the 2,697 ft cone of Putauaki (Mount … to Mount Maunganui, 53 miles north-west, the nearest deep-water port. The principal farming activities of the district …
… This rugged, densely forested island rises steeply from the sea at the northern entrance to Hauraki Gulf … extinct volcanic cone about 4 miles across, is deeply dissected by precipitous ravines radiating from Mount Hauturu …