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… The Māori past Canterbury was first settled by Māori 600–700 years ago. They … beside the productive wetlands near the coast, and around Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) and Wairewa (Lake Forsyth) – … because it combined the resources of forest and sea. Artefacts have also been found inland, at summer camps for …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… bed at Lake Grassmere, Marlborough, was a mud bath in winter and a dustbowl in summer, with the occasional natural … 585 millimetres per year), Lake Grassmere is perfectly suited to solar salt production. The large area of flat land … up the lake bed is near the sea so it can draw in salt water, and away from large rivers. High evaporation from sun …
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Part of story: Salt
… for motherhood . Those who did were having children later. In 2004 women aged 30–34 years had the highest birth rate. Families are also getting smaller. The proportion of … in 2001. Going it alone New Zealand has the third highest rate of one-parent families in the world (after Canada and the …
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Part of story: Society
… Māori were some of the first in the country to encounter Europeans – explorers and their crew, arriving in ships: … César Dumont d’Urville (1824). Māori provided produce, water and labour in exchange for European goods. The trade … visits across the Tasman Sea. In 1805–6 the northern chief Te Pahi visited Port Jackson (Sydney), where the missionary …
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Part of story: Northland region
… Catholics and Labour Party Catholics were strongly represented in the early Labour Party, which shared their dislike for the Protestant Political Association and supported Irish self-determination. In 1922 Bishop Liston publicly …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… An 1862 letter to New Zealand Governor George Grey, signed by 30 … into the 1860s. No land was returned. The islands stagnated, with almost all Māori returning to Taranaki in the 1860s, some after a tsunami in 1868 (which caused the only tsunami-related …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… was a member of a prominent Scottish family. Although 'educated…for the Army' and spending a term at the University of Edinburgh in 1851, he did not take a commission but instead spent his formative years on various farms in Scotland. …
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… live there alongside hapū of Ngāti Raukawa. Communities clustered at that time on the coast and around lakes Horowhenua … had been built. The Muaūpoko tribe and their leader Keepa Te Rangihiwinui were prepared to sell land for a township, provided every tenth section was granted back to Muaūpoko individuals. A …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… Greeks put people to death for killing them, and Māori often described them as taniwha, or water spirits. The Ngātiwai people, who used to live on the … Great Barrier and Little Barrier, believed that dolphins acted as messengers in times of need, bearing news from the …
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Part of story: Dolphins
… Toko Rural settlement 10 km east of Stratford on State Highway 43 (the ‘Forgotten World Highway’). Toko is on the edge of the Taranaki … of the brickworks, has been preserved as part of the State Highway 43 heritage trail. Douglas Locality 16 km …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… John Rodolphus Kent, known to his Maori friends as Amukete, is of obscure origin, neither his parents' names nor his date and place of birth being known. An officer in the Royal … Navy, serving the government of New South Wales, he first entered New Zealand history as captain of the schooner Prince …
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… capital and were initially dependent on rental housing. Later, as they took advantage of the many state-provided incentives for home ownership, communities grew … The Samoan church in New Zealand Samoan churches proliferated in New Zealand cities. They took on the role of …
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Part of story: Samoans
… environmental issues, including: management of fresh water, coastal waters and air quality plant and animal pests river … and civil-defence preparedness within their regions. Territorial authorities There were 67 territorial …
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Part of story: Local and regional government
… 1840s and 1850s Hauraki Māori purchased schooners and cutters for trade, easier travel and mana. Tararū to Kauaeranga … New Zealand’s first treasurer and collector of customs, wrote of travelling from Tararū to Kaweranga (Parawai) mission … in length, nearly the whole of it over a beautifully cultivated flat, inhabited by a great number of natives.’ 1 Yet …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… Modern museums are a product of the late 18th and early 19th centuries when buildings were first set aside for collecting and displaying artefacts to the public on a mass scale. The museum we know … of New Zealand, museums were built on British models, often copying their designs and layout from predecessors in …
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Part of story: Museums
… of the anonymity and dangers of the city. Southland promoted its rural towns as ‘offering a lifestyle alternative to city living … where it is the norm to know your … was exactly what critics of the country town had rejected a generation before. Now it attracted people who looked …
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Part of story: Country towns
… Creative activities – music, literature, visual arts, design, architecture and performing arts – are central to New Zealand’s identity. Telling New Zealand stories is an accepted part of New …
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Part of story: Creative life
… has made important contributions in other fields. Nanotechnology (the engineering of systems at a molecular level). New Zealand is a leader in nanotechnology through work at the MacDiarmid Institute, the …
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Part of story: Physics, chemistry and mathematics
… rich plains and rugged hill country – some still forested, much not – around an hour’s drive from Auckland, … wetlands opened the way to farming on the plains. In the later 20th and early 21st centuries, holidaymakers, tourists … transformed the peninsula. The first Coromandel The territory of the medieval Chola dynasty in south-eastern …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… especially Rita Angus’s ‘Goddess’ paintings and a deliberate attempt to dissolve boundaries between the personal and the public. The painters who gained confidence and some recognition from this …
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Part of story: Painting