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… New Zealand’s non-Māori place names tell the story of its settlement by Europeans and others. … Place names were a way the newly arrived culture imprinted itself on a changing landscape. New Zealand Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand’s western coasts in 1642. Tasman did not …
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Part of story: Place names
… Early collectors For a short period in the late 1700s, following James Cook’s voyages to the South Seas, … particularly rare, and they are no longer highly sought after. Information and clubs A wealth of information is available for people interested in learning about New Zealand shells. The first …
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Part of story: Shellfish
… in New Zealand quota-owning companies is strictly limited. However quota holders can lease foreign vessels to … Small quota owners (especially in inshore fisheries) often sold their quotas to bigger companies in the 1990s. In … fisheries settlement The biggest change since the quota system was introduced in 1986 has been the emergence of Māori …
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Part of story: Fishing industry
… who arrived in Otago in 1862 and were married in 1874. After some years of farming, James Beattie opened a drapery … where he became a well-known figure and was mayor for four terms. Herries was born in Gore on 6 June 1881. He was one …
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… native trees and shrubs are evergreen. The lush forests, often referred to as ‘native bush’ or simply ‘the bush’ , have … years. The origins of many other species are more recent. After New Zealand became isolated, many plants arrived from Australia and the tropical …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… 8.32 a.m. on 26 March 1947, a seemingly minor earthquake jolted the Gisborne area, generating a tsunami that 30 minutes later swamped the coast between Muriwai and Tolaga Bay. Four …
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Part of story: Tsunamis
… is not altogether surprising, since his father, Lieutenant General Henry Balneavis, a career officer, Peninsular War veteran and colonel commandant of the 65th Regiment, moved his … the Crown, Henry Colin Balneavis was, on 7 July 1838, granted a commission as ensign in the 58th Regiment, without …
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… Missionary influences The first western forms and styles of art to produce a response from … and child made by a Māori convert at Maketū and presented to a new church in 1845. Practitioners of traditional arts such as carving and weaving quickly adopted the materials and technologies that came with European …
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Part of story: Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu
… Hineteiwaiwa, along with Hinauri, Hina and Rona , Hine-kōtea, Hine-kōrito, Hine-mākehu and Hine-korako, are ancestral names in Māori cosmology, associated with the procreation of life and the rhythms of life. …
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Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… The growing appreciation of the potential resources of the seabed in the late 20th century, through new technologies making it increasingly possible to exploit …
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Part of story: Law of the foreshore and seabed
… Visual arts and crafts The Northland region has attracted and produced artists of all kinds. In the early years of European settlement, painters such as Augustus Earle and Charles Heaphy recorded … century Eric Lee-Johnson and Louise Henderson also contributed the outsider’s perspective. Austrian artist and …
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Part of story: Northland region
… and having been ordained priest on 27 April, he immediately began work at Rangiaowhia, where he continued … the work begun by the Marist Father Pezant . The immediate care of the Rangiaowhia mission was handed over to … permanent church, and a school for the Māori which attracted generous help from the central government. Rangiaowhia …
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… Provincial government In 1853 a provincial government system was introduced, and Nelson became one of six (eventually … immigration and public works. Until 1876 it administered an area much larger than the current Nelson region – … Coast. Thieves and supper Early local politics was dominated by the Original Land Purchasers’ Association, formed in …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… In New Zealand, as in all developed countries, the state provides support to the creative arts. Most support is … (a Crown entity), the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Te Matatini Society (both non-government organisations). The … agencies, such as the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, better known as Creative New Zealand, as well as the …
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Part of story: Arts funding and support
… his mother's name is unknown. As a young man he drifted to New Zealand, enlisting in the Armed Constabulary on 16 July 1872. After a period of undistinguished service as a trooper in what … employment. In early 1877 he became the publican at Te Wairoa, Lake Tarawera, for a short time before leaving, …
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… Acts of Parliament Most Crown entities have been created by specific acts of Parliament. Some, such as the Crown research institutes, Radio New Zealand, Television New Zealand and the New Zealand Venture …
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Part of story: Crown entities
… The most popular website used by New Zealanders in 2013 was the Google search … information was the second most popular use of the web after social networking. In the 1990s the web was poorly … regarded as a source of information, but by 2011 the internet was believed to be more important as an information …
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Part of story: Digital media and the internet
… Cook Ingram was born on 11 June 1912 in Murchison, the daughter of Garden Ingram, a Scot, and his wife, Flora Agnes … Her father was employed as a blacksmith, but the family later moved to Motueka to run a guesthouse. Laura, who was … School; in 1929 she was both head prefect and dux. She entered Christchurch Teachers’ Training College in 1935. In …
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… James K. Baxter James K. Baxter exploded onto the poetry scene in the mid-1940s. Like R. A. K. Mason , he was a teenage prodigy. But, unlike Mason, he was consistently … James K. Baxter and poets of the 1950s and 1960s …
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Part of story: Poetry
… regarded the kiwi as a special bird. They knew it as ‘te manu huna a Tāne’, the hidden bird of Tāne, god of the … now woven into flax cloaks, are still valued. Māori also ate kiwi, preserving them in the birds’ fat, and steaming them in a hāngī (earth oven). A taste of kiwi One of …
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Part of story: Kiwi