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… In 1931 she became the district nurse based in Rotorua, serving an area that stretched from Whakatane to … Cameron retired. She never married, and in 1955 moved to Rotorua. Due to the disruption of war, the increasing … her interests in gardening and antiques until her death in Rotorua on 28 June 1971. In 1986 the Nurse Cameron Memorial …
Type: Biography
… she guided around the thermal attractions at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua. She was born at Ngāpuna, near Rotorua, on 14 July 1897, the fourth child of Te Mango … She was advised to resign, and in 1918 returned home to Rotorua to recuperate. Rangitīaria hoped that nursing might …
Type: Biography
… difficult, with many villages accessible only on horseback. Rotorua was an hour and a half away, and a single party-line … months' imprisonment for assault. Bidois was transferred to Rotorua on permanent sick leave, and retired on 23 May 1953. … never recovered from the effects of the attack and died in Rotorua on 24 May 1955, survived by his wife and three …
Type: Biography
… asteliae occurs only in the northern North Island. The Rotorua mosquito ( Culex rotoruae ) is found in thermal pools around Rotorua and Lake …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sandflies and mosquitoes
… the story of Tūtānekai, who lived on Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua, and the beautiful Hinemoa, who lived on the lake’s … persisted for decades: Māori were excluded from some Rotorua pools in the early 1960s. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett was born at Rotorua on 27 July 1913, one of 19 children of Frederick … minister, then superintendent of the Māori Mission at Rotorua, was later the first Anglican Māori bishop of … the public service early in 1969. He moved from Waikanae to Rotorua that year to contest the Rotorua seat as a New …
Type: Biography
… Bennett was born on 15 November 1871 at Ōhinemutu, Lake Rotorua. His mother, Raiha Ratete (Eliza Rogers), a … Maketū Native School, and, on the family's return to Rotorua, Ōhinemutu Native School. In 1883 he gained a … Pākehā, Bennett's resignation followed. Bennett moved to Rotorua in 1905 as superintendent of the Māori mission. His …
Type: Biography
… considerable beauty and talent, but also to her iwi, and to Rotorua’s global reputation as a place where Māori … Maata’s birth, and Maata and her mother remained in the Rotorua area. Maata’s mother died when she was an infant, … the superintendent of the Anglican Māori mission at Rotorua. Bennett’s choirs were the first to bring …
Type: Biography
… they described two severe earthquakes, at Taupō and Rotorua. It was said that at Rotorua a pā with about 1,000 people was swallowed up, and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Historic earthquakes
… eruptions have occurred at Kuirau Park, near the centre of Rotorua, for over 100 years. As a result the area has been … a few years. Life in a thermal town Old newspapers in Rotorua and Taupō have many accounts of thermal activity …
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Part of story: Hot springs, mud pools and geysers
… of infrastructure and natural resources. Lighting up Rotorua The state first entered the field of electricity … – lighting up the new and booming tourist and spa town of Rotorua in 1901. On 20 May the railway station, baths and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hydroelectricity
… school of Māori arts and crafts. The school opened in Rotorua in 1927, and within two years had a small group of … The New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute opened at Rotorua in 1966, and other community-inspired initiatives …
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Part of story: Māori architecture – whare Māori
… outside sport and art is little known. He had moved to the Rotorua–Taupo district by 1893. In 1900 he gained his master … the first public launch services on Lakes Taupo and Rotorua; he was captain of the Tongariro for about 20 years, …
Type: Biography
… Island’s most recent urban centre, Taupō is 84 km south of Rotorua, 360 km north of Wellington and 205 km south of … – the largest cluster in the North Island outside Rotorua. Downtown street names – Paora Hapi, Tamamutu, Te …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… on traditional Māori history. After the first auctions of Rotorua land in 1880, the Bay of Plenty Times reported that … … in an ecstasy of delight performing a haka with two old Rotorua savages, one a hunchback. The ecstasy of the trio arose from the success of the Rotorua scheme, and the prospect of manipulating [£]2,700 …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua
… at singalongs with family and friends at Whakarewarewa in Rotorua. Her niece recalled that ‘nobody in Whaka closed … In 1927 an Australian mobile recording unit visited Rotorua during a tour by the Duke and Duchess of York. They … Three years later, another Australian team recorded the Rotorua Māori Choir performing Māori traditional songs, love …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Popular music
… had landed by submarine, and were living at Ngongotaha, Rotorua. Ross was taken to see Prime Minister Peter Fraser, … the local base for the conspiracy. He was then installed in Rotorua’s Grand Hotel under the name ‘Captain Calder’, …
Type: Biography
… and Mt Ngongotahā are rhyolite lava domes erupted within Rotorua caldera, and Mt Tarawera is a collection of lava … calderas, including Mangakino, Kapenga, Whakamaru, Reporoa, Rotorua and Maroa. Large explosive eruptions over the last …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanoes
… the government took control of tourist sites such as Rotorua’s thermal pools and the Milford Track, in the hope … and soon after built or purchased accommodation houses near Rotorua, Lake Waikaremoana, Waitomo, Lake Pūkaki and Te …
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Part of story: Hotels and motels
… Guide Sophia she was the most famous woman of her time in Rotorua. She was born in Kororāreka (Russell), probably … still live at Whakarewarewa, and Sophia Street in Rotorua bears her name. …
Type: Biography