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… civil defence and other emergency rescue work, and to better align the urban and rural fire systems. There was public consultation on proposed law changes. … New Zealand Act 2017. The new Crown entity amalgamated the New Zealand Fire Service, the National Rural Fire …
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Part of story: Fires and fire services
… Eliza Davis. When he was about a year old his parents emigrated to New Zealand, settling in Wellington. Ted, as he was known, attended Te Aro School and went on to Wellington College, …
Type: Biography
… of Ōamaru and 56 km north of Dunedin, at the junction of State Highway 1 with the ‘Pigroot’ (State Highway 85), originally a route to the Central Otago goldfields. Puketapu (343 m) is …
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Part of story: Otago places
… valley. Tours from Ōamaru visit historic Burnside homestead, the nearby Elderslie estate’s gardens, and Tōtara Estate, which processed the carcasses for New Zealand's first …
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Part of story: Otago places
… language, and breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. The group Te Rōpū Matakite o Aotearoa campaigned against the loss of Māori land and …
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Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… Zeolites There are about 40 minerals known as zeolites. Often white or colourless, they are commonly found in volcanic …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… northern boundary is Mt Ruapehu. To the north-west is the Matemateaonga Range, and to the north-east the Kaimanawa Mountains … Tangiwai, was the scene of New Zealand’s worst train disaster on Christmas Eve 1953, when a lahar (volcanic mud flow) …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… and mountain tops. Although they had some human attributes, patupaiarehe were regarded not as people but as … (he iwi atua). They were seldom seen, and an air of mystery and secrecy still surrounds them. In most traditions, those who encountered patupaiarehe were able to understand their language. …
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Part of story: Patupaiarehe
… zones: A strip on the Kāpiti Coast, with stands of kahikatea, kohekohe and tītoki, and mānuka at the sea edge. A western district of conifer–broadleaf forest (rimu, northern … from the south coast to the Tararua Range. Tōtara and kahikatea forest in the valleys and basins. Bands of black, …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… Vegetation Stewart Island still looks much as the mainland would have … growing down to the sea. As botanist Leonard Cockayne noted in 1909, ‘it is an actual piece of the primeval world’. … as the land rises from coast to mountain top has not been interfered with. More than half the land is covered by …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… Rapid growth In the period after the Second World War Māori entered the second phase of the demographic transition, characterised by rapid population growth. Fertility rates remained …
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Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… David (also known as Darby) Pretty was born at Okete, near Raglan, New Zealand, on 20 October 1878, the son of … the Waikato Militia and had settled on a soldier's grant at Te Uku. Much of the land had to be cleared of bush; the family lived barely above subsistence level, and relied on hunting for food. Nothing else is …
Type: Biography
… Western ranges The western Kaimai and Mamaku ranges are almost entirely volcanic. … They are older, lower, and more weathered than the eastern ranges. Eastern ranges To the east lie the Raukūmara, Huiarau and other …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… Hannah Retter was born two months before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and died as the treaty's centennial was being celebrated. Hers was one of a number of families created along … Retter, Hannah …
Type: Biography
… near Sherborne, Dorset, England, on 30 March 1845. After her mother, Elizabeth Mary Chandler, died in 1849, her … father, Dr Joseph Brittan, married his deceased wife's sister, Sophia Chandler, at Gretna Green, Scotland, in 1851. … the family to sail to New Zealand. They arrived at Lyttelton on the William Hyde on 7 February 1852. Joseph …
Type: Biography
… of the South African 'colour bar'. The New Zealand Inter-services rugby team, which had won the King's Cup in 1919, was invited to tour South Africa. The South Africans requested that …
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Part of story: Māori rugby – whutupaoro
… Manufacturing In 2001 the manufacturing sector contributed about 16% of gross domestic product (GDP), down from the … 25% typical of much of the 20th century. In part this reflected the trend occurring in rich countries, but it was also a … of most tariffs from the mid-1980s. Even so, about a quarter of a million New Zealanders worked in the sector. The …
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Part of story: Economy
… Southland floods, 1984 In late January 1984, devastating floods struck Invercargill and … parts of Southland. The cause was a combination of north-westerly rain in the mountain headwaters of Southland rivers, and a slow-moving southerly front …
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Part of story: Floods
… race meeting in Auckland in 1840 under the direction of Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson. Regular sport was an … important feature of the increasing European settlement after 1840, especially on occasions such as settlement … a ‘Maori boat race’, along with numerous athletic contests such as sprints, hurdles, a wheel-barrow race, putting …
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Part of story: Sport and society
… Oswold Counsell Stephens was the proprietor of the Handcraft Pottery workshop in Dunedin, which made a major contribution to the studio pottery movement in New Zealand. The son of Mary Duke and her … Stephens, Oswold Counsell …
Type: Biography