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… could still be feminine. High levels of investment in Rotorua meant minimal maintenance of hotels and facilities … and central heating. Wigley hoped that being close to Rotorua and midway between Wellington and Auckland on the …
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Part of story: Tourist industry
… After three years as an apprentice in the motor trade at Rotorua, he guided at Waiotapu, Wairākei, Waitomo Caves and … After the war he rejoined the tourist department in Rotorua and worked towards his marine engineer’s ticket. In …
Type: Biography
… diving Pacific Plate. The trough continues ashore into the Rotorua–Taupō area of New Zealand, where the land is also …
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Part of story: Sea floor geology
… around the coast, although some nest inland near Lake Rotorua and on river beds in Canterbury. Colonies are …
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Part of story: Gulls, terns and skuas
… a long campaign with the Waikato tribes. They went through Rotorua to Hawke’s Bay and Wellington, returning through …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… Zealand field trial of genetically modified trees began in Rotorua, after being approved by the Environmental Risk …
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Part of story: Forestry research
… Plains in 1923. The Bay of Plenty union, including Rotorua, dates from 1911. It holds union-wide competitions …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… mills were built through Waikato, Taranaki, Whanganui, Rotorua and Wairarapa. In Waikato around 50 were built …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… routes were along ridges or carved through the bush. Near Rotorua, for example, there was a track from Rotomā to the …
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Part of story: Walking tracks
… at Cambridge, the Natives had to come from Taupo and Rotorua, and other distant places. The expenses were so …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… used a different method for a taniwha named Pekehaua in Rotorua. They wove a large basket from supplejack and bush …
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Part of story: Taniwha
… of its course across the Kāingaroa Plateau, 55 km east of Rotorua. A short distance east of Murupara the plateau ends …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… plastic blanket to reduce moisture loss in stranded whales. Rotorua-born designer Jamaine Fraser said his invention …
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Part of story: Inventions, patents and trademarks
… and the East Coast, and the backbone runs between Taupō and Rotorua. The heart is at Maungapōhatu, in the Urewera …
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Part of story: Whenua – how the land was shaped
… established marae outside the tribal boundary. Mataatua in Rotorua and Te Tira Hōu in Auckland are both affiliated to …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… Eramihi Neke, was born probably at Ruatō, Okataina, east of Rotorua, sometime between 1867 and 1875. Eramiha Kapua … In 1905 Eramiha assisted his father in carving a house in Rotorua for T. E. Donne, the general manager of the … Following the establishment of the School of Māori Arts at Rotorua in 1927, Ngata found that the tutors were all chisel …
Type: Biography
… attended the Whakarewarewa land development conference at Rotorua. Consolidation officers not only consolidated shares … he was described as a Māori welfare officer. At the Rotorua land development conference in 1932 William Cooper …
Type: Biography
… who joined Hongi Hika 's expedition against Te Arawa of Rotorua. He is next recorded in 1828, when CMS missionary … having been advised by Nuka that Te Arawa had returned to Rotorua, attacked and sacked the trading port of Maketū. Te …
Type: Biography
… chief Wharepoaka. At the invitation of Te Arawa chiefs of Rotorua, Tapsell settled at Maketū in the Bay of Plenty in … going first to Matatā and then to Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua. His eldest son was born there, and named Retireti …
Type: Biography
… Born in Ōhinemutu, Rotorua, probably in 1886 or 1887, Pāora Temuera, sometimes … 1915 at the Māori mission church at Ōhinemutu. She was from Rotorua, and was a teacher at Pūtiki mission school. The …
Type: Biography