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… to earlier Te Āti Awa work and to contemporaneous Rotorua carvings, but as far as is known he had no direct … at Riverhead near Auckland; he died in an accident near Rotorua in 1911. Thomas was eventually employed as the Māori …
Type: Biography
… period in Auckland, she moved to a retirement village in Rotorua. She never married, and died on 11 January 1985 at Rotorua Hospital. Flora Scales was dedicated to painting. …
Type: Biography
… Lying 24 kilometres south-east of Rotorua, Tarawera is a curious-looking mountain, with … In the 1880s, tourists were drawn to the thermal regions of Rotorua and Tarawera. A stellar attraction was the Pink and …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… successful in New Zealand, where he was able to work with a Rotorua Māori cultural group formed by the Reverend … short romance stories (two based on Māori legends), shot in Rotorua using a mostly Māori cast. They screened in the … as New Zealand’s first feature, was shot in eight days in Rotorua by George Tarr. None of these early films have …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Feature film
… state demonstration sawmills were set up at Waipā (near Rotorua) and Conical Hill (Otago). They were important in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Forestry research
… tribes descend from the Tainui waka; tribes from the Rotorua lakes district and Lake Taupō are from the Te Arawa …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… Sanctuary, near Nelson the Ngongotahā sanctuary, near Rotorua Ōrokonui Ecosanctuary, near Dunedin. …
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Part of story: City parks and green spaces
… particularly through the Agrodome tourist venture in Rotorua, which he had devised and helped set up. He also … of Fame in 1990. Godfrey Bowen died of a heart attack in Rotorua on 2 January 1994, survived by his wife and …
Type: Biography
… built camps in remote areas such as Whenuaroa (between Rotorua and Taupō), Shannon in Manawatū and Balmoral in … Among the subjects on offer at Strathmore camp, south of Rotorua, were many European languages, Māori, religious …
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Part of story: Conscription, conscientious objection and pacifism
… at Auckland Museum, in 1989 Paora Tapsell, curator at the Rotorua Museum of Art and History, in 1990 Jonathan … taonga and Māori art to centre stage. Some examples were: Rotorua Museum’s 1991 Te Arawa exhibition – Te Korimako …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… in the Presbyterian church. That year, on 20 December at Rotorua, he married Horiana Te Kauru of Nūhaka, an … all denominational and tribal boundaries. He died in Rotorua on 3 July 1965, survived by his wife, Horiana, two …
Type: Biography
… the early 21st century the story was used to advertise Lake Rotorua as a location for Māori-style weddings. Perfumed … across from their home on the island of Mokoia in Lake Rotorua. When Hinemoa’s family tried to prevent her leaving, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Love and romance
… printing, titling and tinting. Hinemoa was filmed at Rotorua with an all-Maori cast drawn from the Reverend F. A. … whose direction Newham filmed a number of sequences at Rotorua using local Maori actors to represent the Tahitians …
Type: Biography
… and led to slips. The pumice country around Taupō and Rotorua was dusty in summer and clay muck in winter. Roads … At Christmas 1926, 12 cars got bogged down in the Hamilton–Rotorua road – some for a number of days. Keep the gelly …
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Part of story: Roads
… including the Lunatic Asylums Department and the Rotorua Sanatorium. In 2020 there were 32 departments. The Lunatic Asylums Department and the Rotorua Sanatorium were not among them. During these years …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public service
… Arts. A School of Māori Arts was formally established at Rotorua in 1927, and Pine Taiapa was one of its first … to students from Ngāti Porou. On inspection of the work at Rotorua Ngata noted the absence of the flowing lines … Eramiha on 30 January 1930, and persuaded him to go to Rotorua to teach the students the art of adzing. Adzing …
Type: Biography
… (Pūtauaki), 100 km south-east of Tauranga and 58 km east of Rotorua. The settlement developed from 1953, when the Tasman …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… – the name for both Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua and Motutapu Island in the Waitematā Harbour Waihīhī …
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Part of story: Hawaiki
… (later renamed the Forest Research Institute) was set up at Rotorua to coordinate Forest Service research. Nine years …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Forestry research
… 1820) appeared. In 1836 a map showing the North Island from Rotorua northwards, was published, with mission stations …
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Part of story: Early mapping