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… Government takeover From the late 19th century the government took control of tourist sites such as Rotorua’s thermal pools and the Milford Track, … In 1895 the government also took over the Hermitage Hotel near Mt Cook, and soon after built or purchased … Government and tourist hotels …
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Part of story: Hotels and motels
… Kūmara gardens were known as māra kūmara. They consisted of puke (mounds) formed from loosened soil, arranged either in rows or in a recurring quincunx pattern (the shape of a ‘5’ on a dice). Kūmara tubers were planted in the mounds. Sloping land with a sunny, northerly …
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Part of story: Kūmara
… Hauraki Gulf, 4 km north-east of the entrance to the Waitematā Harbour. Rangitoto’s graceful silhouette is a symbol of Auckland. It is the largest and most … Island Island 10 km north-east of the entrance to the Waitematā Harbour. It is joined to Rangitoto by a natural …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… to Jane Reed and her husband, Richard Baker, a farmer. After training as a nurse at Guy's Hospital, London, she emigrated to New Zealand. In January 1920 she began district … near Franz Josef Glacier. South Westland was very isolated, and Mabel Baker provided an important service to the …
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… The sea has been the region’s shaping force. On the western side the Tasman Sea pounds the coastline from Kaipara … Pacific Ocean give the Hauraki Gulf the warmest coastal waters in New Zealand. To the north are sandy beaches and the … an isthmus between two harbours: the Manukau and the Waitematā (also known as Auckland Harbour). Urban Auckland has …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… 1930s by the growth of manufacturing. There was a deliberate switch from exporting fibre to processing it for local … to supply the Foxton factory of New Zealand Woolpack and Textiles Ltd, which made flax fibre into woolpacks for … were made, including underfelt, floor coverings, upholstery materials and binder twine. Linen flax During the …
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Part of story: Flax and flax working
… was disbanded. The industry went into decline. Imported wine was often cheaper (due to low tariffs) and usually better, so local standards dropped further. The New Zealand …
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Part of story: Wine
… Born at Caxton, Cambridge, England, on 30 October 1916, Peter Frank King was the son of master builder William Edgar King and his wife, Hilda May Pleasants. He was educated at Truro School. In March 1939 he enlisted in the … King, Peter Frank …
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… Conservation lands The most intensive efforts to save species at risk focus on small areas within the conservation estate, which comprises about 30% of New Zealand. Many such … nearshore and offshore islands. Because these have been protected from habitat destruction, predators or weeds, remnant …
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Part of story: Threatened species
… shells of tiny marine fossils made of lime (calcium carbonate). Rocks with more than 50% calcium carbonate are considered to be limestone. Most New Zealand … years ago. Around 20 to 30 million years ago, when the climate was warmer and much of New Zealand was submerged under …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… kauri logs were milled and prepared for export. Farming started slowly too. By the 1860s Mangōnui was the administrative … centre for the far north, with government offices, hotels, a hospital and coastal shipping links with Auckland. Gum digging and flax milling boosted growth in the 19th century, but after 1900 kauri and gum …
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Part of story: Northland places
… New Zealand in the early 2000s. The establishment of Māori Television in 2004 gave these companies a boost. Rhonda Kite of Te Aupōuri was the director of Kiwa. The company got its … Māori small and medium enterprises …
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Part of story: Ngā umanga – Māori business enterprise
… Waitangi’s signing, Māori lived according to a complex system of customary laws. These were based in concepts such as: mana (status, either inherited or acquired) tapu (sacred prohibition) rahui (a form of … redress). The party who had the muru performed on them accepted the consequences and took no further action. Taranaki …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… to Australia. There, at Sandridge, Victoria, on 25 September 1862, he married Rosa Clara Wilson, the daughter of a London watchmaker. Shortly after their marriage Rosa and Samuel Moreton moved to …
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… valleys. The North Island’s largest wilderness area is in Te Urewera. Forested ridges of the greywacke Huiarau and Ikawhenua ranges form the western part of the area. Lake Waikaremoana, in the east, is …
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Part of story: Landscapes – overview
… Rising towards the realms of Ranginui the Sky Father, remote from human settlement, mountains loomed over the Māori … Island, or Aoraki in the South Island. A Māori proverb states: ‘Mehemea ka tuohu ahau me maunga teitei’ (If I should bow my head let it be to a high …
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Part of story: Mountains
… from the coast to subalpine habitats. Others have restricted distributions, and some are rare or endangered. Flowers … and Great Barrier Island, and in the North Island from Te Paki south to East Cape. It is now widely naturalised … and the underside of its dark green leathery leaves are felted white or buff. In spring to early summer karo bears …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest
… 1830s. They were brought in as ornamental trees and for shelter. Lombardy poplar ( Populus nigra ‘Italica’), eastern cottonwood ( P. deltoides ) and silver poplar ( P. alba … its column-like form, was especially favoured – it was often planted to mark boundaries and river fords as it could …
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Part of story: Trees in the rural landscape
… in 1837 for the fur trade. In Australia, the possum is protected as a native species. But in New Zealand, it has become … are found virtually everywhere on mainland New Zealand and Stewart Island, although they have been eradicated from major …
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Part of story: Possums
… which have occurred in the last 1.8 million years – the Quaternary period – have created the New Zealand landscape of today. The Southern Alps have risen thousands of metres, eruptions have created lofty volcanoes and buried large areas of the central … Quaternary mountains and glaciers …
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Part of story: Geology – overview