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… Hochstetter’s frog Hochstetter’s frog ( Leiopelma hochstetteri ) lives in forested …
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Part of story: Frogs
… What are protected areas? Protected areas are places where natural or cultural resources and … New Zealand’s protected areas …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… foot of 757-metre Mt Ngongotahā. Parawai, Waikuta and Waitetī marae are found here. The name refers to the mouth of a gourd, from which the Te Arawa ancestor Īhenga drank after he had climbed the mountain. In 1939, P. H. Castleton …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… that performed successfully commercially. Ngāi Tahu separated its governance and investment arms, to provide clarity … Ngāi Tahu Holdings Corporation is the commercial arm of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and trades under the name of the Ngāi … to manage Ngāi Tahu investment assets. In 2008, 10 years after settlement with the Crown, Ngāi Tahu had total assets of …
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Part of story: Ngā haumi a iwi – Māori investment
… about the origins of pounamu. The following is adapted from a version given by Tipene O’Regan of the Ngāi Tahu … a beautiful woman named Waitaiki coming down to the water to bathe. Enthralled by her beauty, he captured her and … dart-like spear to find her. He threw the spear, which pointed towards the location of Poutini. Tamaāhua chased Poutini …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… Te ōhākī When a rangatira knew that death was near the … an ōhākī, the final instructions to the people. These often called the tribe to remember to enact utu (revenge) when … were given on the distribution of goods. Death provisions Often a chief would request a particular food, or water from a …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs
… until 1820, when the most recent, Ngāti Ira, were decimated by a war party of musket-bearing northern tribes that … through the region. A prominent pā, Whakataka, on the western side of the Hutt River, was one of many sacked in the … by horizontal wheels under the locomotive to climb the steep Wairarapa side. Upper Hutt remained a farming community …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… of the land Land was of great importance to Māori, who often described it in a symbolic or metaphorical way. The North Island was Te Ika-a-Māui, a fish caught by the demigod Māui; the country was Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud; the land itself …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… Te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi, signed in … or practice (amongst other things) which was or is ‘inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty’. Since the 1975 act … many other official references to treaty principles, all attempting to define the meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi in …
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… people are still involved in satisfying, challenging and often complex relationships with partners, children, parents, … relatives. Saying ‘I love you’ Some people find it hard to tell their children that they love them. One grandfather …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… owner. James arrived in New Zealand with his father and stepmother (Archibald Clark's third wife) in 1849. The next year his father started a clothing manufacture and wholesale business, in which …
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… wines to premium table wines, for which he established an international reputation. Early years and emigration Nikola … of Dalmatia (then within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Yugoslavia and now Croatia). He was the fourth child of … been involved with winemaking for around 300 years. Educated at Lumbarda, he worked on the family property as a young …
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… son of Jane Gladwin, lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte, and her husband, William Wynyard, colonel of the 5th … Foot, deputy adjutant general, and equerry to George III. After attending a school in Dunmow, Essex, Robert Wynyard …
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… was born at Maltby Hall, Yorkshire, England, on 19 September 1831, the ninth child and youngest son of the … on 24 May 1865; they had five sons and four daughters. He died at Kapunatiki, South Canterbury, on 8 February …
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… Southland, the fourth of eleven children of Louisa Hunter and her husband, Henry Barrett, a labourer. His paternal grandparents were Richard Barrett , a renowned whaler and owner of Barrett’s Hotel in Wellington, and Kararaina Hinehou, a Ngāi Tahu woman …
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… island in the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) were once named after him. He came to New Zealand in his first command, the … Manu leader Pōmare I in the 1820s in return for his protection. A daughter of Pōmare accompanied Brind to sea on the Emily in the …
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… of over 200. Woonton easily won the spectacle in seven minutes, at an average speed of 14 kilometres per hour. A month later, Dunedin’s annual Foresters’ Fête featured a velocipede race at the Caledonian …
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Part of story: Cycle racing
… histories and landscapes. Whakairo (carving) reflected distinct whakapapa (genealogy). Some regional … style can also be observed. A ‘serpentine’ style is associated with northern iwi such as Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi and Te Roroa, while eastern iwi such as …
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Part of story: Regional cultural life
… opera companies from overseas, it has been common to date the beginnings of opera in New Zealand with the emergence … as church building. Operatic riches The 29 operas in the Lyster company’s repertoire during their 1864-65 tour were: … Figaro and Don Giovanni ; Auber’s Fra Diavolo and La muette de Portici ; Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots and Le prophète ; …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre
… February 1770, naming the large bay on the southern coast after his friend and patron Sir Hugh Palliser. The first European to enter Wairarapa was William Deans, who walked along the coast … there until he was drawn to greener pastures in Canterbury. Sheep in the surf The first flock of sheep in …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region