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… Sport Rugby in the region started with a competition with neighbouring Hawke’s Bay. The … All Blacks have been George Nēpia, Richard ‘Tiny’ White, Ian Kirkpatrick and the Gear brothers – Rico and Hosea. Ian Kirkpatrick played 39 tests for the All Blacks in the 1960s, nine of them as …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… From the 17 or so known types of Māori kite, only three types have survived. In all, seven original kites still exist and are held in museums in London, Hawaii, Auckland and Wellington. Kites in bird form The manu kākā was designed to resemble the … Types of Māori kite …
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Part of story: Kites and manu tukutuku
… 24 years between 1960 and 1984, serving as a cabinet minister for 15 years and as deputy prime minister from 1981. A tall, lean man with sandy hair, a moustache …
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… Protector of aborigines Two months after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson appointed a protector of …
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Part of story: Ngā take Māori – government policy and Māori
… was born at French Farm, Akaroa, New Zealand, on 13 September 1879. She was the eldest of four daughters of Thomas Southey Baker, a stock owner, and his wife, Josephine Harriet Anne Dicken. Her Oxford-educated father also ran his own boys' boarding school at French …
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… Auckland, the son of David Watt Ballantyne, a foreman carpenter, and his wife, Iris Joyce Foley, a grand-daughter of Jane Foley ( Hēni Te Kiri Karamu ), who gave water to …
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… Nuku-tai-memeha , Nukutere and Paikea For Ngāti Porou, the Nuku-tai-memeha of Māui … major East Coast ancestors, Whironui (Whiro) and the Nukutere canoe were the first to arrive. Whiro (known as Hilo in … Polynesian oral tradition. His wife was Araiara. Their daughter, Huturangi, married the ancestor Paikea, who is said to …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… Coutts Crawford, RN, and his second wife, Jane Inglis. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, he received the … ships on both coasts of South America and in the Mediterranean as a midshipman. In 1836 he qualified as a …
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… Havelock North was founded by the government in the late 1860 to provide land for small farmers and working-class … bought by speculators and wealthy pastoralists, which prevented small farms from developing. The township was named after British general Sir Henry Havelock to commemorate his …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… François Marie de Surville, who brought the St Jean Baptiste on a trans-Pacific trading and exploratory expedition in … have referred to early French explorers as ‘Ngati Wiwi’, after hearing them saying ‘oui oui’ (‘yes yes’, denoting …
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Part of story: French
… An unstable land Beneath the Volcanic Plateau, the Pacific Plate has been sinking beneath the Australian Plate for the last 1.5 million years. This has led to intense … Geology and climate …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… New Zealand’s fourth-largest city, located 129 km south-east of Auckland, with a 2013 city … outlying settlers in case of renewed war. It was named after Captain J. F. C. Hamilton, a British officer killed at Gate Pā near Tauranga in 1864. Hamilton was strategically …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… ancient Pacific culture of reciprocity and belonging, and entered a foreign system of legal title and museums. From this time on thousands … of taonga were acquired by Europeans. Some were gifted, often as acknowledgements of agreements or …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… and administration of the land – which was granted legal personhood – passed to the Te Urewera Board. Te Urewera remained open to the public and the Department of …
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Part of story: National parks
… elder of two children of Rhoda Winifred Tūruki Walker of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and her husband, Tipi Tainui Rōpiha of … Rangitāne. Rina’s father was a qualified surveyor, who later became the first Māori to be appointed under-secretary …
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… force in the family) had English, Irish and Taranaki antecedents, while his father was of Scots and Te Arawa ancestry. The family did not openly express their …
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… Gareeb Stephen Shalfoon was born on 13 August 1904 at Ōpōtiki, the … His mother was descended from the six major hapū of Te Whakatōhea , in particular Ngāi Tamahaua; his father was … Shalfoon, Gareeb Stephen …
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… of traditions, Māori explorers from voyaging canoes were interested in the agricultural properties of the soil in different …
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Part of story: Oneone – soils
… this. Club members played against themselves by forming two teams, until matches with Gisborne started in 1878. The Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union (formed in 1884) … Christchurch and Dunedin). By then clubs had also started in Wairoa and at Te Aute College. The Hawke’s Bay team …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… Plymouth and 30 km north of Hāwera at the junction of state highways 3 and 43, with a 2013 population of 5,463. … licence Stratford was originally named Stratford-on-Patea at the suggestion of William Crompton of the Taranaki …
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Part of story: Taranaki places