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… and Huiarau ranges are composed of greywacke and argillite, formed from old, strongly hardened deep-sea sediments. … around 1,400 metres, dipping to about 1,000 metres where State Highway 2 crosses the range. Maungapōhatu (1,366 m), the … of the Tūhoe people, is in the Huiarau Range on the western boundary of the region,. The Pukeamaru massif and the …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… It is also known as Hamilton Lake. Its margins were planted in exotic trees in the 1920s and 1930s, and it is now … by a walkway. Waikato Hospital Regional base hospital, located on a hill overlooking Lake Rotoroa. Nearby is Hockin House, built in 1893 for the hospital superintendent and named after later superintendent Munro Hockin. …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… small Hector’s dolphin ( Cephalorhynchus hectori ), named after the New Zealand scientist James Hector, is also known by … names tutumairekurai and tūpoupou (to rise up). Restricted to New Zealand waters, it is found along parts of the South Island coast. The …
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Part of story: Dolphins
… Richard Treacy Henry, the fourth of seven children of John Stephenson Henry, a civil engineer, and his wife, Sarah Anna … County Kildare, Ireland, on 4 June 1845. The family emigrated to South Australia on the Asia in May 1851, arriving on … they eventually settled in the Warrnambool district of western Victoria. Henry spent much of his time hunting, …
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… Eva Esther Day was born on 19 September 1898 at Pārāwai, near Thames, the daughter of Katherine Helen Gifford and her husband, Victor Grace Day, a solicitor. Shortly after her birth the family moved to Hokitika. They then went …
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… Homeopathy Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine based on the principle that like cures … mineral and animal origin). This process is called ‘potentising’ because practitioners believe the potency of the …
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Part of story: Alternative health therapies
… wines and chardonnay. Food and wine production is concentrated on the Heretaunga plains and river valleys, and in the … district, near Waipawa in Central Hawke’s Bay, where water resources and climatic conditions are ideal for this type of intensive farming. Grapes are also grown along the coast …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… from minor parties for support on confidence and supply (matters to do with the government’s Budget). After the 2020 election, Labour was able to govern alone but chose to offer ministerial positions to the Green Party’s two co-leaders. The …
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Part of story: Parliament
… settled in New Zealand in the 19th century. However, the extent and nature of intolerance varied. Partly because of … Parliament from 1867, and were members of national sports teams from the beginning. There was a general acceptance of intermarriage. It was commonly thought by Pākehā that Māori …
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Part of story: Ethnic and religious intolerance
… Moxon was born on 18 August 1808 in the parish of Sculcoates, Hull, Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Margaret Heaton and her husband, John Moxon, a businessman and banker. She was well educated, and became interested in missionary work while at …
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… general manager of the New Zealand Railways, and later achieved prominence in private business and politics, was born in Port Chalmers on 9 … of nine boys and four girls, he was raised as a Presbyterian. His father, who had arrived in New Zealand in the …
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… Shorthorn The Shorthorn (originally called a Durham) originated in north-east England. Its name distinguishes it from … In the early days cattle could be difficult to handle. At Te Waimate Station, in South Canterbury, the cattle yards were built …
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Part of story: Beef farming
… Recovery After 1891 Māori life expectancy began to increase, reaching 35 for men and 30 for women in 1911. In the later 1890s the Māori population also began to grow, following … Rapid population recovery occurred in the early 1900s, assisted by gains in immunity to diseases among Māori. Immunity …
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Part of story: Death rates and life expectancy
… chosen from within the hapū or iwi group. Marriages were often arranged, with children promised in marriage from a very … then seek agreement from senior members of their family. Intertribal marriage often meant loss or dilution of land or food-gathering rights …
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Part of story: Marriage and partnering
… Few memorials Consistent with colonial New Zealand’s lack of interest in memorials, there were few memorials to the New … wars, only three monuments were put up during, or immediately after, the wars themselves. This was partly because the …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… many Māori moved their settlements from low-lying coastal sites to hilltops and inland sites. A number of the abandoned coastal settlements show … a wave that caused widespread death and damage on the western side of D’Urville Island in Tasman Bay may have been a …
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Part of story: Tsunamis
… parakeets. Distinctive behaviour Kākāriki make a chattering call as they fly and while feeding. They often hold food up to their mouth with one claw. In autumn and winter they search for food in flocks, but are more solitary …
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Part of story: Small forest birds
… Blenheim and 35 km from Picton via the winding Queen Charlotte Sound coastal drive. Havelock was the childhood home of two internationally important scientists, Ernest Rutherford and … until the 1910s, then dairying. Havelock has long catered to travellers on the Nelson–Blenheim highway, and is …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… the second of three children of William Rainbow, headmaster of Heretaunga school, and his wife, Julia Baly. On 16 … his depth in the Ngaruroro River. According to Algie’s sister, Dorothy, their mother’s courage never faltered. Through years of loneliness she exhorted, encouraged …
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… New Zealand from 1839 until 1852, having gained his first mate's certificate in 1838 or 1839. By 1843 he had advanced to captain, and … He also set up stores at Mawhai, in Waiapu, and later at Waipiro Bay. Read's opportunity came in 1852: …
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