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… for establishing the School of Māori Arts and Crafts at Rotorua. From the mid-1920s Te Āti Awa carver Thomas … Papakura, of the Tūhourangi iwi, won international fame as Rotorua’s ‘Guide Maggie’. By the late 1920s she was living … Plymouth, Whanganui, Palmerston North, Napier, Gisborne and Rotorua, museums became important centres of regional …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… part of a worldwide expansion in cultural tourism. While Rotorua remained the centre of ethnic tourism, Māori tourism … Māori cultural tourism has often been pigeonholed in Rotorua. In 1996 the president of the Inbound Tour Operators … touring New Zealand ... Visitors get a Māori experience in Rotorua. When they have done that, let’s let them get on …
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Part of story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
… mined 4,392 tonnes of sulfur for use in a chemical works at Rotorua. The company employed workers to dig sulfur from … extracted. In 1993, 6,600 tonnes was mined at Tikitere near Rotorua, but in the early 2000s there was no production. …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… will kill a person within minutes. A number of deaths in Rotorua have been due to hydrogen sulfide poisoning. The … or poorly ventilated bathing pools. In built-up areas like Rotorua, much of the ground is covered with roads, car … under the surface to emerge wherever they can. One study of Rotorua buildings found that geothermal gases were seeping …
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Part of story: Hot springs, mud pools and geysers
… to Tūtānekai of Ngāti Whakaue maintained peace in the Rotorua district. This union is still celebrated through … Tūhourangi from Lake Rotoiti and the eastern shores of Lake Rotorua. Wāhiao, Hinemoa’s brother, was killed and the … people retreated to Tarawera, Ōhinemutu and areas south of Rotorua. The Whakaue–Pikiao union produced the famous Te …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… Henry Clothier realised that many tourists bound for Rotorua and Taupō passed through Tīrau on State Highway 1. … 6 km south of Tīrau. Driving along State Highway 5 to Rotorua travellers pass through a green oasis – Tukorehe … A settlement emerged about 1886 when the railway line to Rotorua was being constructed. In 1905, after the Crown had …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… to search for further rock drawings. While living in Rotorua in 1950 he began a series of close-up photographic … studies of mudpools and silica formations around Rotorua and Taupo. He returned to Auckland in 1952. After … local modernism. Schoon left Auckland in December 1965 for Rotorua, where he resumed photographing geothermal activity. …
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… Many Waiariki names are attributed to Īhenga, including Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe (to honour his uncle, Kahu), … (an island – later renamed Mokoia – in Lake Rotorua) because of its strategic importance and … western Lake Rotoiti and the south-east side of Lake Rotorua including Ōhinemutu) Te Uri o Uenukukōpako, later …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… the value of an estate of undeveloped pumice land between Rotorua and Taupo. Its trustees had received a low offer … From 1911 Vaile vigorously promoted the construction of a Rotorua–Taupo railway line, which would assist the … incidentally, increase the value of his land. A line from Rotorua to Reporoa was authorised in 1924 but construction …
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… the family first to Matatā, then to Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua. Hineitūrama, with the birth of her second child … provided for the development of the township now known as Rotorua. He was also a primary negotiator in the discussions which brought the railway to Rotorua in the 1880s. During the years of depression in the …
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… 1901 visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Rotorua, the Wairarapa Mounted Rifles acted as an unofficial escort. The journey up to Rotorua was arduous, and a large number of horses died on …
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Part of story: Hōiho – horses and iwi
… around the coast further south. Trees growing inland near Rotorua and Lake Taupō may occur there naturally, or may … of northern rātā and pōhutukawa are common around Lake Rotorua and on Rangitoto Island. Northern and southern rātā …
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Part of story: Tall broadleaf trees
… Hikapuhi (Te Hikapuhi) Poihipi was born at Rotorua probably sometime between 1860 and 1871. She was the … daughters and three sons. Their marriage was formalised at Rotorua on 19 May 1906. Hikapuhi came to prominence as a … Toa and Ngāti Raukawa. She went on to visit places from Rotorua to the South Island, where her healing methods …
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… and by 1902 he was working, probably as a carpenter, in Rotorua. Without his parents' consent, that year he enlisted … in the firm of Smith and Tuck, building contractors, in Rotorua. On 1 November 1911 he married Fanny Matilda Cossey … to New Zealand in April 1919 and went back to building in Rotorua. In 1920 he was asked to become adjutant of the …
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… about 1815, possibly at Puhirua or Te Awahou, in the Rotorua district. His father, also called Te Rangikāheke, … at the pā of Hikairo at Puhirua, on the northern shores of Rotorua, just before the battle of Mātaipuku, fought between … Hinemoa, and the wars of the 1830s and early 1840s in the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty areas. Others tell of Māori-Pākehā …
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… the construction of a rail link between Tauranga and Rotorua. He formed a local company, the Tauranga, East Coast … necessary finance. His pamphlet, Guide to the hot lakes of Rotorua, the 'wonderland' of the world , was published in … Terraces and tourists ceased to travel through Tauranga to Rotorua. Stewart stayed on in London until 1888 as shipping …
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… In 1835 the missionary Thomas Chapman began to work in the Rotorua district, and soon Ānaha and his whole family became … 1838 Ānaha was living at Tāhunapō, an outpost of Chapman's Rotorua mission station, with Houa Te Hauiti and other Ngāti … daughter of Te Iwimōkai, and their children were born at Rotorua, Okataina and Rotoiti. In 1861 or early 1862 Ānaha …
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… with the rank of corporal. In 1920 Royal attended a hui at Rotorua to mark the visit to New Zealand of the prince of … Māori cricket team to play in first-class matches and was a Rotorua and South Auckland representative. He also … On his return, in 1935, to the Native Department in Rotorua, Royal worked as a clerk with the Native Land Court …
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… Nurseries had been established at Whakarewarewa (near Rotorua), Tapanui (Southland) and Eweburn (Otago) in 1898, … became known as the Forest Research Institute was set up at Rotorua in 1946. Its first task was a national survey of …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… (Fox), probably on his baptism by CMS missionaries at Rotorua or Tarawera. In 1838 he was one of the chiefs who … had received only £2 5s. for each man for three months. Rotorua was invaded by Hauhau from Waikato in March 1867 … ambush. Te Kooti went to Taupō and then advanced towards Rotorua in February 1870. Te Pōkiha, now a major, was among …
Type: Biography