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… Astronomy for everyone In the 1960s and 1970s Television New Zealand ran the popular astronomy programme, The night sky . Hosted by amateur astronomer Peter Read, this series was an important …
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Part of story: Astronomy – overview
… Assuming there are 25 years per generation, this gives a date of 1325–1400 CE. Genealogies also include earlier … another ancestor, Toi, was also said to be living in Te Ika-a-Māui (the North Island) before the arrival of … around the time of the settlement canoes – 1300–1400 or later. Whatever the case, traditions may suggest that …
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Part of story: When was New Zealand first settled?
… The government ran a viticultural research station at Te Kauwhata, in the Waikato, from 1901 until the 1980s. As … 1980s, some people chose to ignore this advice. They planted the right grape varieties for their sites, and went on to produce award-winning wines. The …
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Part of story: Viticulture
… the emigration of the Italian people was one of the greatest movements from a single country in modern history. Throughout the latter part of the 19th century, many people in Italy were living in desperate poverty and faced a bleak future. In the 1870s, a quarter …
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Part of story: Italians
… and their charts showed parts of the coastline in greater detail, marking where these resources could be found. … around 1805. Sealing captains also discovered and charted the subantarctic islands. Whalers made few charts, but … others to draw them. When the whaler Jacky Guard piloted HMS Pelorus up the ‘Oyerri River’ (Pelorus Sound/Te …
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Part of story: Early mapping
… the population has declined. Tāneatua’s unemployment rate stood at 20.2% in 2013 (8.6% for the region). But with … occupies the Urewera region, Tāneatua is known as ‘the gateway to Tūhoe’. Anamata, a Tūhoe education provider, is located in the town – and just beyond there is an asparagus …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… Locality on the Waipoua River within the Waipoua State Forest, 55 km north of Dargaville on State Highway 12. Proclaimed a 9,105-ha forest sanctuary in … one of the few remnants of kauri forest to have survived extensive clearing and milling during the 19th century, when …
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Part of story: Northland places
… Whakatāne Principal centre and largest town of the eastern Bay. It lies at the junction of State Highways 2 and 30, 92 km north-east of Rotorua and 100 km … town developed gradually. In 1875 it had two stores, two hotels, a flax mill and a schoolhouse. Expansion dates back to …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… information, on 3 June 1870, possibly at Tuahiwi in Canterbury. Her father was Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe chief Hēnare Kokoro Tiratahi of Waipōpō, near Temuka, and her mother was Mere Pukuwaitai Kāhaki. Hīria had … Ngāi Tūāhuriri and, through her mother, Ngāti Pūneke. In later life she was often known as Taua Hīria. Hīria was a …
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… Andreas Reischek was born on 15 September 1845 at Linz, Austria, the son of Barbara Danzer and … a collector of shipping fees. His mother died soon after he was born and Andreas was raised by the widow of the …
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… Hineikoaia (also known as Hārata). His father belonged to Te Māhurehure, a hapū of the Ngāpuhi confederation, and the family was also connected with Te Whānau Puku. Te Māhurehure held the territory of Waimā in …
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… and Māori artists such as Ngaire, Moana and the Moa Hunters and Upper Hutt Posse. With the aim of promoting and … George Hubbard set up the Tangata label in 1991. It outlasted Southside, and some Southside artists later transferred …
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Part of story: Recording companies and studios
… Robert Pānapa Tūtaki (also known as Tūtaki Pānapa Stewart and Robert Tūtaki Pānapa) was born probably in 1887 … Ruahāpia on the outskirts of Hastings, the son of Arapera Te Ngaaero and her husband, Pānapa Tuari (Stewart), of Ngāi …
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… Marie Henriette Suzanne Aubert (known first as Suzanne Aubert and later in religion as Mary Joseph Aubert) was born at …
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… Wallace’s life was entwined with the law. She was the daughter, wife and mother of lawyers, had her own law practice, … Zealand’s first female district court judge in 1975. Despite her considerable achievements, she was a reluctant role … Dunlop was born in Auckland on 11 October 1929, the daughter of barrister Fergus Gale Dunlop and his wife, …
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… As a young child brought up in the country, Ormond was educated at home, first by parents and then by governess or … were all profoundly deaf and his own health was affected by violent attacks of hayfever. To lessen their severity he was sent every early summer to a hostel on Mt Egmont where he learned to delight in mountain …
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… oral traditions, but these accounts did not agree on a date of arrival, who arrived, the number of vessels, or the … there were some points of agreement. Many of the collected traditions traced Māori arrivals to specific canoe … Zealand is the southern Cook and Society islands. A new interpreter: S. Percy Smith Towards the end of the 19th …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… gooseberries were in 1952–53, from a few orchards in Te Puke, Bay of Plenty. Growers sent trial shipments to the … Australia, where the fruit was well received. Early exporters learned by trial and error the complexities of growing, harvesting, sorting, packing and storing a tender fruit for faraway markets. The overseas demand for …
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Part of story: Kiwifruit
… Mountains The eastern boundary of Manawatū and Horowhenua is the summit … Southern Alps. Manawatū River The mountain ranges are separated by the Manawatū River. Rising east of the main North … through the spectacular Manawatū Gorge. Known to Māori as Te Āpiti (the narrowing), this is the region’s most striking …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… and tī pore (a tropical variety of cabbage tree). The aute (paper mulberry) tree also arrived; its bark was used for making tapa cloth and was not eaten. All of these were seen growing in the Bay of Islands by … small tropical islands in east Polynesia. Northland’s climate most closely resembled that of Polynesia; Southland was …
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Part of story: Kūmara