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… Hastings is situated on the Heretaunga Plains, a part of the Hawke's Bay … from the city, is used for aerial topdressing and some charter services. Sheep and dairy farms are common and there are … activities are fruitgrowing and market gardening on irrigated land. Apples and pears are the main fruits, together …
… stands on the shores of Nelson Haven, a sheltered inlet at the head of Tasman Bay separated from the open sea by a natural breakwater about 8 miles long. The city extends over small flats …
… The silvery sea-run brown trout is king in South Island waters, although there are many fine fishing waters carrying heavy stocks of domestic brown trout. The … and Otago Acclimatisation Societies' districts, is the greatest brown trout water in New Zealand. Southland's Waiau …
… developments that have occurred in the Central Plateau are liable to obscure the fact that the economic centre … 33.07 per cent of the region's total population was located in the Central Plateau, by 1961, during a period of rapid demographic growth …
… each numbered in sequence or qualified by some descriptive term. In some cases the periods of darkness are succeeded by … genealogy. Most versions of the cosmogonic genealogy culminate in the two names Rangi (sky) and Papa (earth). The …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. John Hall was born on 18 December 1824 at Hull, the … son of Captain George Hall, of Elloughton, Yorkshire, a master mariner, shipowner, and Elder Brother of Trinity House, … the Napoleonic Wars and had been captured by a French privateer and interned in France. His experiences there, prior to …
… has been the fact that, unlike the situation in many other territories over which Britain assumed sovereignty in the early years of the nineteenth century, the chiefs of the Maori were never formally integrated into the emerging administrative system. It was …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Buick was born and educated in Oamaru, and trained as a carpenter. As a young man he moved to Blenheim and soon became …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. The son of Sir J. Cameron, Duncan Alexander Cameron was born on 19 December 1808, entered the Army in 1825, and obtained his first commission in … Watch), in which he served until the Crimean War (lieutenant, 1826; colonel, 1854). At the Crimea, Cameron was …
… in a haphazard fashion from small hamlets at main road intersections or on the banks of rivers. In New Zealand the … settlement companies; an urban area was chosen and the site surveyed and sold to prospective settlers, in many cases without inspection. The design pattern followed well established town-planning ideas of the …