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… demolished in 1986 when the council built a new (and ultimately failed) shopping mall on the west side. History Waipawa … in 1860. The town, originally named Abbottsford, was located next to a ford in the river. Settlers preferred its Māori name, Waipawa. Te Tapairu pā was established near the town in 1872. Death …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… people. His father saw the actions of his son and humiliated him in public with the words, ‘Kāore e tike māhau ma te tama memehea moenga hau moenga rau-kawakawa nei.’ (‘It is not appropriate for him, a base-born son, to carry out that ceremonial …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which they were affiliated. The figures below show the number who indicated the Ngāti Whātua tribes (including those who indicated …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… Lake Tarawera to visit Rotomahana’s famous Pink and White Terraces in 1886, guide Sophia Hinerangi saw a mysterious phantom canoe. The high priest Tūhoto Ariki of the …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… Arapawa Island 75-sq-km island flanked by Queen Charlotte Sound, Tory Channel and Cook Strait. On 23 January 1770 … climbed to the ridgeline. A monument at the appropriately named Cooks Lookout was erected in 1970. Herds of feral …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… He grew up in a family of 12 children, two of whom were adopted, and belonged to Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Te Whakatōhea through his mother. …
Type: Biography
… were the major influence in changing the traditional pattern of Māori childhood. As part of their project of "civilising" Māori, missionaries paid close attention to child-rearing practices and aimed to adapt the …
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Part of story: Ngā tamariki
… Tāpihana (Dobson) Paraire Paikea, known as Dobbie, but registered at birth as Poata Paikea, was a great-great-grandson of the paramount Te Uri-o-Hau chief Paikea Te Hekeua. As such, he had his roots deep in Tai Tokerau and …
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… Principles and standards Alongside the conceptual and content planning for the website, principles and technical standards were formulated to guide the next phase. … Production and technical aspects …
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Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… John Whiteley was born at Kneesall, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of James Whiteley, a grocer, and his wife, Elizabeth Rainor. He was born … Whiteley, John …
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… New voices In the years after the Second World War, in remote Māori primary schools in the East Cape, an experiment was …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… Hinepoupou The earliest known open water swim in New Zealand was that of Hinepoupou, a woman of … off the south-west of the North Island, to Rangitoto ki te Tonga (D’Urville) Island in the Marlborough Sounds, …
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Part of story: Open water swimming
… trading vessels. These ships stopped at Ngā Motu (now the site of New Plymouth) on voyages between Cook Strait and … Ruanui. The chief Oaiti rescued them and they lived contentedly with the Taranaki tribe for a time. Europeans, …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… between the Rangitīkei River and the Ruahine Range. The terrain varies between hill country to the east and plains … the former Ōroua county (1901–1989), originally the Manchester block. The block was bought in 1871 by the British-based …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… William Jenkins, known as 'Bill the Steward', was born on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England, on 13 September 1813, the first child of William and Catherine … at Kāpiti Island, New Zealand, in 1836. Jenkins operated as a whaler, firstly from Tokomapuna (an island near …
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… (1892) and Tauranga (1893). The Whakatāne association started in Tāneatua in 1907, moving to Whakatāne in 1933. Te Puke’s first annual show was held in 1905 and Katikati’s … in the 1880s. The New Zealand Natives, a mainly Māori team which toured Great Britain and Australia in 1888–89, …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… The purpose of the Māori land councils was to administer Māori land. There was a mix of Māori and Pākehā … membership on these councils, with a Māori majority, but later the government changed this to a Pākehā majority. The … the health and welfare of a kāinga. Commentators have suggested that these acts were put in place to undermine the …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… Te Kooti’s own sayings, about quests to be fulfilled, ensured that later leaders in his traditions would emerge. After his death in 1893, a number of prophets claimed to be …
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Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… in Māori society. Whakapapa places people ‘in the whole context of relationships and therefore how we relate to each other and how we should work with each other, … live with each other’. 1 It is through whakapapa that interactions and relationships are established, developed and …
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Part of story: Whānau – Māori and family
… hapū of Ngāpuhi resident in the Bay of Islands, was often known as Hāmi, as Tahi to his intimates, and as Sam Maioha junior to his Pākehā business associates. He was the son of Wiremu Tarapīpipi Maioha and Kariti …
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