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… Climate At latitude 36º 51' S, Auckland lies in a transition zone between subtropical and temperate. Its climate is warm and moderately wet, with few frosts … Climate, plants and animals …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… Post-war racial conflict During and after the Second World War more Māori young people and … and Māori worked together and lived in close proximity. Intermarriage also became more common. During this period, … were pressured to conform to Pākehā ways. These changes often led to racial tension. Māori renaissance From the 1970s …
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Part of story: Manners and social behaviour
… Writing about the region George Petersen, Charlotte Warburton and Roy Clevely all published books on the early history of the region. Monte Holcroft set a high literary standard for rural history …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… in New Zealand. In 1772, Marc Joseph Marion du Fresne planted wheat, maize, potatoes and various kinds of nuts on … explorer James Cook and navigator Tobias Furneaux planted a number of gardens in Queen Charlotte Sound, with plants such as potatoes, carrots, parsnips, …
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Part of story: Kai Pākehā – introduced foods
… Māori started the epidemiological transition (in which diseases of old … replace infections as the main cause of death) much later than Pākehā, because of the effects of colonisation on their disease and death rates. Pre- and post-contact life expectancy Evidence suggests …
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Part of story: Death rates and life expectancy
… life. From 1981 Harry Haythorne’s long and fruitful term as artistic director of the New Zealand Ballet included … Ihi frENZ y (2001), which had Māori kapa haka group Te Matarae i Orehu double-billed with the Royal New Zealand … ballet Giselle in the company’s first months. Sixty years later, in 2013, a feature film of the company’s recent …
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Part of story: Ballet
… Land area Volcanic Plateau: 9,572 sq km New Zealand: 268,690 sq km Climate (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research data, 1981–2010) …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… Taranaki: 7,213 sq km 1 New Zealand: 268,690 sq km Climate (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research data, 1981–2010) New Plymouth …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… snow and ice of high alpine areas, usually including the term huka (frost, snow, cold): whenuahuka: the permanent … glaciers waiparahoaka: glacial sediment waihuka: the snow water that rushed from glacial sediment. Abel Tasman and James … Tai Poutini, Mount Aspiring and Fiordland are recognised internationally. Together they constitute the 2.6 …
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Part of story: Glaciers and glaciation
… Topsham, Devon, England, on 21 April 1826. She was the daughter of John Moore, a farm bailiff, and his wife, whose name … she had formal training or simply moved from being pupil to teacher. On 23 July 1849 at Woolfardisworthy she married John Horrell, eldest son of a neighbouring tenant farmer, who had trained as a carpenter in Exeter. …
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… 20th century in developing a national scheme that amalgamated Māori land and provided funding to farm it. His success … farming From around 1900, Apirana Ngata became deeply interested in sheep farming on the East Coast, as he took over …
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Part of story: Ahuwhenua – Māori land and agriculture
… Interfaith organisations An interfaith council was established in Auckland in 1986, and, … verses , another was set up in Wellington two years later. In response to the attack on the Twin Towers in New … Interfaith relations …
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Part of story: Diverse religions
… Kaikohe Town approximately halfway between Hokianga and the Bay of Islands. … Kaikohe in 1850. A memorial on Kaikohe’s 300-m hill celebrates his grandnephew, Hōne Heke Ngāpua, a member of parliament and active supporter of the Māori parliamentary movement known as …
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Part of story: Northland places
… Lacebarks and ribbonwoods mostly grow in groves on open sites such as old landslips, forest margins, and stream banks. … (shedding their leaves annually). Most have fairly restricted natural distributions, but grow more widely because of … the showiest native trees are the lacebarks, which grow clusters of large sweetly-scented white flowers. Closely …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest
… together with American minimalism and its accompanying, often complex philosophy, was also powerful in the art schools. Canterbury fine arts graduate Neil Dawson became disenchanted, however, with this …
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Part of story: Sculpture and installation art
… the eponymous ancestor Kahungunu and his kin, who arrived later. First migrants Māori settled in Hawke’s Bay around … down to Pōrangahau in the south, and along rivers and waterways inland. Heretaunga and Te Whanganui-a-Orotū (Napier’s inner harbour) were two …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… born in Dunedin on 20 October 1900, the eldest of six daughters of English emigrant Ernest Henry Howard, a Baptist minister, and his New Zealand-born wife, Georgina Matheson … her father had decided to study medicine, and in 1905 graduated MB, ChB from the University of Otago. In 1906 the family …
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… looked more to the export market. The volumes exported grew steadily – half a million litres in 1982, over 7 million in … wine that was higher in alcohol and had a more oaky taste than that from traditional wine-producing areas. New …
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Part of story: Wine
… 1822 at Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England, the daughter of Eleanor Dawson and her husband, Joseph Newman, a … she arrived in New Zealand, and went to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Jane and George Buttle, who were Wesleyan Methodist missionaries stationed at Te Kōpua, Waipā, south of Auckland. A brother, Joseph, and …
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… Eskdale Rural settlement on State Highway 5 near the intersection with State Highway 2, with a 2013 population of 624. The valley has …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places