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… Lyttelton Town picturesquely sited on the steep sides of an extinct volcano, above the port at Lyttelton Harbour. It is 12 km south-east of Cathedral Square … Lyttelton Harbour …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… Thomas Macdonald, later known as Thomas Kennedy Macdonald and familiarly as … a flax-dresser, and his wife, Jean Aitken. He was educated in Dundee, Scotland, and at Hare's Private Academy in Adelaide, South Australia. In Melbourne, on 15 …
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… near Whanganui, New Zealand, on 4 November 1881. Registered at birth as Katie Mary Vida McLean, she was the daughter of Julia Williamson and her husband, Finlay McLean, a … farmer. Vida grew up in the Whanganui district and was educated mostly in private schools. She undertook her nursing …
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… Rehutai Maihi was the elder of two daughters of Te Paea Nehua and her husband, Nētana (Nathan) Maihi, a … from Ngāpuhi leader Patuone . She was born on 16 September 1895 at Whakapara, near Whāngārei. Her father died …
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… local Māori until fighting broke out in 1865. Land loss After the first wave of fighting the colonial government found … whether they had fought against the Crown or not, were expected to make their land available. Around 453,600 hectares … of the region) was involved. An independent commission, later called the Poverty Bay Crown Grants Commission, …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… the religion spread widely in the 1830s. Sales of the New Testament and the number of people attending services, being baptised and received into communion … set up new bases at Kaitāia, Thames, Tauranga, Matamata and Te Awamutu. William Williams opened a mission at Tūranga …
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Part of story: Missions and missionaries
… The Pink and White Terraces Until 1886 the climax of a visit to New Zealand was a tour of the stunning Pink and White Terraces beside Lake Rotomahana. The Tūhourangi people …
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Part of story: Tourist industry
… and a shower and toilet block. In older marae this is often a building separate from the others. In more modern marae it is attached to … to the marae. The wharenui is the place where those affiliated to the marae come to hold meetings, celebrations and … Marae and their trustees …
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Part of story: Marae management – te whakahaere marae
… Crafts and craft skills – the ability to make and decorate objects for domestic use – arrived in New Zealand with … European visitors: sailors. Sailor communities, and, later, those of sealers and whalers, were largely made up of … craftspeople. Scrimshaw (carved and engraved animal bones, teeth and tusks) and rudimentary pieces of furniture, …
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Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… between the Australian colonies. In April 1823 he was convicted of theft in Sydney, and was sentenced to be kept at hard labour on board colonial … in the Hokianga district, initially under the protection of Muriwai. Marmon later claimed that the social …
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… Joseph Masters was born in Derby, Derbyshire, England, in 1802. His … As a factory boy Joseph was considered too humble to associate with them, and went into lodgings. In 1809 and 1810, after being dismissed from his job, Joseph attended school, … Masters, Joseph …
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… Mercury Bay Mercury Bay was named by Lieutenant James Cook to mark the place where his expedition … observed the transit of the planet Mercury in 1769. Bicentennial celebrations took place in 1969. A line of islands … is 88 km northeast of Thames via the Kōpū–Hikuai road (State Highway 25A). Whitianga is short for Whitianga-o-Kupe …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… Moore won the world motorcycle speedway title, and he repeated the feat in 1959. Don’t scare the horses A young New … and no brakes, rear suspension or gears. Perhaps the greatest motorcycle speedway rider of all time was Ivan Mauger … six world championships between 1968 and 1979. His gold-plated bike is in the Canterbury Museum. Motocross Motocross is …
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Part of story: Motor sport
… Bay’s two cities, had a 2013 population of 57,240. It is noted for its art deco architecture and sunshine, and is home to the Hawke’s Bay … reserve and gardens. Rebuilt in an art deco style after the 1931 earthquake, the CBD is a bustling place, with …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… Record labels and artists TANZA and the Auckland-based Stebbing and Zodiac labels – both owned by Eldred and Phil Stebbing – led the first wave of New Zealand pop recordings … 1950s. Among the early releases were: female singers Esme Stephens, Mavis Rivers and Pat McMinn male soloists Buster …
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Part of story: Popular music
… Eels are New Zealand’s top native freshwater predators – no other species prey on them when they are … settlers first arrived in New Zealand there was debate about the number of species. There are three species, all … shortfin eel ( A. australis ), found on the coast spotted eel ( A. reinhardtii ), which may have recently arrived …
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Part of story: Eels
… New Zealand is a land of lakes, often painted and photographed. Used widely for fishing and boating, they are also a source of water for drinking, irrigation and electricity generation. …
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Part of story: Lakes
… Floods are the most frequent natural disasters in New Zealand – between 1968 and 2017, the country … floods. The Insurance Council of New Zealand calculated that payouts on claims for flood damage between 1976 and … the same period. Early floods Floods have cost an uncounted number of lives in New Zealand. Māori history tells of a …
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Part of story: Floods
… a custodian, and his wife, Margaret Ann Marnell. After the family moved to Petone in 1908 he attended Petone West School and Petone District High School. He completed his education at Wellington College, where he played in …
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… Carthew Marryat Norris, known as Car, was born in Hunterville, Rangitikei, on 12 March 1893, the son of land … Norris and his wife, Ida Helen Carthew. He was educated at Hunterville School and New Plymouth High School, where he was …
Type: Biography