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… New Zealand, but are more common around the North Island. They seldom venture more than 20 kilometres … and north-east coasts of the North Island. Stragglers reach south to Foveaux Strait. They feed on seabed invertebrates … to Māori as mangā, they were very important to the Ngāi Tahu tribe of southern New Zealand, who used lures to catch …
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Part of story: Coastal fish
… Timaru South Canterbury’s largest centre of population, and only … may also have a connection with Maru, a chief of the South Island Ngāi Tahu tribe. Caroline Bay Caroline Bay was once described as …
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Part of story: South Canterbury places
… on the East Coast, a kite was flown and his brother Tahu, the founding ancestor of Ngāi Tahu, was able to see it from the South Island. Sometimes people would release a kite and follow it, …
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Part of story: Kites and manu tukutuku
… action halted quota allocation throughout the country. Ngāi Tahu (1991): The Ngāi Tahu treaty claims addressed land … 1844 and 1864 that resulted in the iwi losing most of its South Island land. The tribunal released a report in 1991 …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… Nelson’s eight tribes Māori know the northern South Island as Te Tau Ihu (the prow) of the canoe of the demigod … in the late 1790s by surrounding tribes, including Ngāi Tahu from the West Coast, Ngāti Kuia and Rangitāne from …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… and thus was descended from the tribal ancestor Tahupōtiki through Te Ruahikihiki on his father's side and … leaders in Sydney in the sale of large blocks of land in southern New Zealand. In 1839 he sold land between the … and John Jones purporting to convey the whole of the South Island and Stewart Island. For his part Karetai received £20 …
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… Manning Moke Couch, who had an English father and Ngāi Tahu mother, and his wife, Hinerua Rīwai of Rāpaki, who had … wife, Heke Te Maari, in Kohunui, a rural pā near Pirinoa in south Wairarapa. He attended Pirinoa School and Ōtaki Māori … and his wife served as Mormon missionaries to the Cook Islands throughout 1985 and 1986. On his return to …
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… Set against the backdrop of the Southern Alps, South Canterbury lies in the middle of the South Island, on the east coast. Its principal city, Timaru, is … South Canterbury The region is in the territory of the Ngāi Tahu tribe. As well as coastal settlements, Māori …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… locality, known to Māori as Kōpūtai, is where local Ngāi Tahu sold the Otago block to the New Zealand Company in … Chalmers finally won that battle when it became the lower South Island’s deep-water container port (opened in 1977). It …
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Part of story: Otago places
… Wairoa (traditional northern boundary the Wharerata Ranges south of Poverty Bay) Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga … provided eels, freshwater fish, flax and raupō (bullrush). Islands in the Ahuriri Lagoon (raised in the 1931 … visible near Whakakī Lagoon east of Wairoa are seven hills: Tahutoria, Takitaki, Kōrito, Onepoto, Iwitea, Tūhara and …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… Tapua, and those on board the Endeavour in the Bay of Islands in 1769, his father threw fish to the ‘tupua’ … area by Māori – they may have been brought down by Ngāi Tahu from gardens in Queen Charlotte Sound. Potatoes were … Early in the 19th century the expansion of whaling in the South Pacific created a huge market for potatoes grown by …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… affiliated to many of the Ngāti Kahungunu hapū resident in south Wairarapa, including Ngāti Hinewaka, Ngāi Tūkoko and … her mother, Kaihau was affiliated to Ngāti Maniapoto, South Island Ngāi Tahu, and Ngāti Kauhi hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu, resident at …
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… Driver Tregerthen. He had been one of the apostles of the South Island prophet Hipa Te Maihāroa and was to become the … mother, Emma Driver, derived her high rank in Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe and Waitaha from her mother, Mōtoitoi, of … skills attracted the attention of Rātana (known as the Māngai), who asked Eruera to stay and predicted ‘a big thing’ …
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… Extra electorates had recently been created in the South Island for goldminers. By creating only one Māori electorate … Taiaroa, Īhāia Tainui and, from 1885, Tame Parata of Ngāi Tahu. The Young Māori Party From the late 19th century young …
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Part of story: Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties
… Mataura). Gore (65 km north-east of Invercargill) is Southland’s second largest town. It lies on the banks of the … Transport runs more than 100 trucks throughout the South Island. Cardigan Bay Road is named after Mataura-born … from the North Island. Te Hono o te Ika a Māui ki Ngāi Tahu marae is located in Mataura. Edendale 2013 population: …
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Part of story: Southland places
… Māori gave him the nickname Kai Kurī (dog eater). In the South Island, kurī were said to have been castrated to fatten them … a rope, or give it enough slack to catch the bird. The Ngāi Tahu scholar Teone (Hōne) Taare Tīkao described how kurī …
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Part of story: Kurī – Polynesian dogs
… ‘sounds’ – reach into the ranges from the coast. North to south they are Milford, Sutherland, Bligh, George, Caswell, … and from the 1840s the area was deserted. Resolution Island Resolution Island (Tau Moana) was named after the … in the later 1700s the settlement was obliterated by Ngāi Tahu. As at Dusky Sound, European whalers and sealers were …
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Part of story: Southland places
… Edward Oliver Haddon, later known as Ōriwa Tahupōtiki Haddon, was born at Waitōtara, South Taranaki, on 7 November 1898, the eldest son of a … apparently intended to go as a missionary to the Solomon Islands. However, Moringa became ill and he was stationed at …
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… Māori continued to fly the United Tribes’ flag. Ngāi Tahu chief Tūhawaiki flew it on Ruapuke Island, near Bluff, until his death in 1844. At Pūkawa, on … some boats. In 1892 Kina Ohina Muri was charged at Akaaka, south of Auckland, for taking flags that were displayed …
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Part of story: Ngā haki – Māori and flags
… economic times saw airlines in the UK, US, Japan and South Korea withdraw from the New Zealand route, and fewer … countries. Leading companies like Tourism Holdings and Ngai Tahu Tourism have taken over the kind of large-scale …
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Part of story: Tourist industry