Search
… 1830s by Waikato against Taranaki tribes and Te Arawa of Rotorua. He and his family became Christians, and he took …
Type: Biography
… the shores of Lake Tarawera and on shelter walls from the Rotorua district through to Kāingaroa. In the South Island …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori rock art – ngā toi ana
… she had to leave Waikato Heads, joining the Chapmans at Rotorua and Maketū, where Thomas Chapman employed her as a …
Type: Biography
… man’s family, Mrs Fernandos returned the soil to them at Rotorua. Soil as a mauri Sacred earth, both sand and soil, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Oneone – soils
… also attracted travellers en route to the ‘hot lakes’ at Rotorua. Race to the top In the 19th century the road up to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… and table birds and supplied major hotels in Taupo and Rotorua with eggs and dressed birds. During the Second World …
Type: Biography
… microscope work. In 1924 she had spent time in Rotorua compiling information on plantations and nurseries …
Type: Biography
… of the 1820s, including the attack on Mokoia Island, Lake Rotorua, in 1823. While Te Koki was away on that expedition …
Type: Biography
… several months later, a copy of the treaty was discussed at Rotorua, Mananui repudiated Iwikau's action, but the Ngāti …
Type: Biography
… The Tamaki brothers’ new slant on a ‘living village’ at Rotorua (offering a Māori cultural experience for tourists), …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tourist industry
… over Rangiuru, wife of Whakaue, on Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua, when she was giving birth to Tūtānekai. When a baby …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… Wairoa, partly to exercise his boatbuilding skills in the Rotorua lakes district, and partly to assist his brother …
Type: Biography
… with cerebral palsy at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Rotorua. She worked there for three years before taking up a … to get to and from her treatment and later her job in Rotorua. She also acquired a car and a kayak, spending many …
Type: Biography
… of Auckland Hospital for a period, then moving to Rotorua. Eventually Rankin returned to Northland, where he … Rankin, with Pei Te Hurinui Jones , then escorted Korokī to Rotorua, and is said to have approached Te Arawa chiefs with …
Type: Biography
… It continued in works built under Sheppard, such as the Rotorua Forest Research Institute (first stage, 1965–67) and … (1961–66); the Forest Research Institute Building, Rotorua; and an ambitious masterplan for government …
Type: Biography
… and the 2006 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Rotorua. Elite racers New Zealand has produced several …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cycle racing
… fishing at either Mōkai, Ātiamuri or at Ngongatahā near Rotorua. He was an advocate for replanting native trees, and …
Type: Biography
… East Coast where, with the exception of a brief spell in Rotorua in the early 1920s, he was to spend the next half …
Type: Biography
… music and dance styles of settlers. A visitor to Ōhinemutu, Rotorua, in 1876 noted that dances were held almost every …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Love and romance
… and at times undermine each other. Kapu-manawa-whiti A Rotorua chief, Tūhourangi, came to visit a Waikato chief, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori feasts and ceremonial eating – hākari