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… From the summit of Te Mata Peak in Havelock North there is a 360-degree outlook … Lake Waikaremoana in the north; and a hint of the eastern coast and hill country that stretches south to Cape … hook of the jaw bone Māui used to haul up the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui – Māui’s fish) from under the sea. This is …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… to open country covered by mānuka, flax and fern, and noted ‘the crumbling remains of the stockade of the old … Crown in 1864 and in 1866 a township, designed by J. T. Stewart, was laid out in the clearing. It included a large …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… forests prior to European settlement in the late 19th century. Māori knew the area as Te Nehe-nehe-nui (the great forest). The south-east was dominated by the tussock grasslands and alpine herbs of the …
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Part of story: King Country region
… first New Zealand Parliament. The only people eligible to vote were males who held property worth more than a certain … urban rental or £5 yearly rural rental. This greatly limited Māori electoral participation because Māori property was … mostly communally owned. Where Māori males did qualify to vote, many had their registrations discouraged, dismissed on …
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Part of story: Ngā māngai – Māori representation
… in the 1840s and 1850s, and Māori organised races on remote Ruapuke Beach in the 1870s. After military townships were founded, racing, hunt and later trotting clubs were formed. The Alexandra Racing Club at …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… of New Zealanders improved from the 1950s. Mortality rates for young and middle-aged people fell markedly. More recently, mortality rates fell among those who were of late working age or retired. Life expectancy Life expectancy …
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Part of story: Society
… Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand Hochstetter is said to have been born on 30 April 1829 in Esslingen, … Hochstetter, Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand von …
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… his films, Maata was already a seasoned performer on the international stage. She never sought individual fame or … Ngaamo was born at Reporoa on 26 February 1893, the daughter of Te Wau Ngaamo Pera (Ngāti Whakaue) of Reporoa, Bay of …
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… Henry Pope was born at St Helier, Jersey, probably on 11 September 1837, the son of Jane Dacombe and her husband, James Pope, a confectioner. He was educated privately before he emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, …
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… In the North Island the Waenganui region comprised the interior of the North Island below Auckland, and the coast … Waenganui had around 15% of the Māori population. Limited horticulture of Polynesian cultigens was possible in … walls were made. Forest was cleared so land could be cultivated. In the South Island evidence of horticulture is found …
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Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
… From the late 1980s the Waitangi Tribunal grew to become one of the … public institutions. With a higher profile came greater public scrutiny and an increased workload. Treaty of Waitangi (State Enterprises) Act 1988 The Waitangi Tribunal’s powers and …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… Mereana Tōpia, better known as Maria, and her daughter Hēni Hoana or Jane Tōpia, were outstanding leaders in …
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… Clough, also known as Amura, was born and baptised on 13 September 1840 at Akaroa, New Zealand. His father, James … Robinson, had arrived at Akaroa several years before. He acted as interpreter for Captain Owen Stanley at the …
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… both travelled widely. Taylor went as far as inland Pātea, in the northern Rangitīkei valley. No head for business … along with three other Europeans and a black man, encountered a small party of Ngāti Tūwharetoa at the mouth of the … of the Whanganui settlement, with many Māori disputing the terms of the sale. Māori also disagreed with one another …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… As a young man, working probably as a ship's carpenter, he sailed to Australia and then to New Zealand, … sometimes known as Irihāpeti (Elizabeth) or Puihi , daughter of Tāwaho and Parewhakarau of Ngāi Tūkairangi, a hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi, and she began to accompany him on his trips. They …
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… Mae Ngāmahirau, of Ngāti Whakaue , and his wife, Riripeti Te Opehōia Eparaima, of Tūhourangi. Her close relatives … into Puarenga Stream. A sports enthusiast, she represented Rotorua at hockey and in 1925 her team won the Auckland …
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… Sophia Hinerangi, sometimes known as Te Paea (Tepaea), was the principal tourist guide of the Pink and White Terraces at Lake Rotomahana before the eruption of Mt …
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… Hīpango was a leader of Ngāti Tumango, of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi . He is thought to have been born about 1820. At his baptism his parent was named as Te Heke. Another source suggests that his father was called Whakakati. His mother's name was Oneone. He had a sister, Tarete, who married Te Māwae of Ngāti Ruakā. Hīpango …
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… CE. Between 60 and 100 cubic km of ash and rocks were ejected near the Horomatangi reefs, which lie underwater near Waitahanui (south of Taupō town). Nearby cliffs … the ancestor Tia’s rain cloak (taupō) – the full name is Te Taupō-nui-a-Tia. It is also sometimes called Taupō moana …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… (south or east) bank of the Rangitīkei River, it is well sited for air exercises. In 1995, overspending on renovations … by a US president to New Zealand. Australian Foreign Minister Bill Hayden landed for a meeting with Prime Minister David Lange at dawn on 1 May 1987, over fears of Libyan …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places