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… Taumarunui Town 85 kilometres south of Te Kūiti on State Highway 4, with a 2013 population of 4,503 (including … is the seat of the Ruapehu District Council, whose territory reaches down to Raetihi, Ohakune and Waiōuru. The …
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Part of story: King Country places
… of Aoraki/Mt Cook, Franz Josef and Tasman glaciers, Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound. The Southern Alps were of interest to European mountaineers, while snow and ice were a … that stunning landscape was not enough − transport, beds, entertainment and an extended tourist season were also vital. …
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Part of story: Tourist industry
… revolution The first decade of the 21st century was dominated by the massive effects of new digital technology. In 2009 the publishers’ organisation removed … the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) in belated recognition that publishers were producing CDs and …
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Part of story: Publishing
… Pacific art has infiltrated and excelled within the mainstream New Zealand arts sector. Literature, exhibitions and public performances have allowed … other New Zealanders and the world to access, participate in and appreciate Pacific arts. Art exhibitions 1960s …
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Part of story: Pacific arts in New Zealand
… Thomas Clifton Webb was born on 8 March 1889 at Te Kopuru, Northland, the son of English parents Thomas … a farmer, and his wife, Penelope Martha Massey. Clifton attended Te Kopuru School and in 1902 won a Junior National …
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… Phyllis Constance Morris (later known as Kirimamae) was the first of five children of … was by horse or boat and self-sufficiency was taken for granted. Phyllis went to Gisborne for only the second time in 1918 to attend Annie Rees’s Cook County College. The following year …
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… From 1950 to 2010 the Bureau International des Expositions (the organisation in charge of overseeing international expositions) sanctioned 20 world’s fairs, but New Zealand participated in only five – all but one in the Asia-Pacific region. …
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Part of story: Exhibitions and world’s fairs
… since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which they were affiliated. The figures below show the number who indicated the Hauraki tribes (including those who indicated more …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… were taking non-vocational classes out of personal interest in subjects like cooking and woodworking. Schools … and were free to deliver adult education as they wanted. The programmes were referred to as university extension or continuing education rather than adult education, …
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Part of story: Adult education
… The department had purchased or built houses for stationmasters and other staff since the late 1870s. By the 1900s it faced a serious accommodation … especially in the North Island. The Frankton factory After the First World War the department decided to establish …
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Part of story: Railways
… Exotic forest occupying a large part of the Kāingaroa plateau. The state-owned forest was planted in the 1920s. Its logging, from the 1950s, prompted the …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… compound leaves. They are well-known and widely cultivated. Most of the eight kōwhai species are trees. In spring, … two kākā beak species, with their brilliant red, pink or white flowers (named for their resemblance to the curved beak … have always been rare and only found locally distributed in northern shrublands. They are now one of the rarest …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest
… The concepts of mana, tapu and mauri relate both to people and to the natural world. Mana Mana refers … comes into the world. The most important mana comes from Te Kore – the realm beyond the world we can see, and sometimes thought to be the ‘ultimate reality’. Tapu Certain restrictions, disciplines and …
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Part of story: Te Ao Mārama – the natural world
… William Marshall, the first schoolmaster in Hawke's Bay, was born probably in 1816 or 1817 and had migrated from England to Wellington, New Zealand, by 1850. The … Street. His wife, whose identity is not known, assisted with beginners. In 1852 Marshall moved to Ahuriri …
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… At first there were shops such as bakers, butchers, fruiterers and greengrocers, who sold items which the farming community would have provided for … Post remarked: ‘The machine-made houses, garishly painted, the flaring signs, the verandahs, the shops are common …
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Part of story: Country towns
… North Island. By 1840 Methodist mission stations were dotted across the country. Māori Methodist communities were … Colonial continuity Methodist ministry amongst Māori was often carried out and made effective by Māori themselves. Māori ministers in the church were paid less than their Pākehā …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… settlement, Papakura retained its independence as a separate district from the surrounding Franklin County. Papakura marks the southern suburban fringe of greater Auckland and the gateway to the rural south. Military camp The Papakura …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… 1980s the permanent population has increased slowly but steadily, mainly on the east coast. But Northland is the most … Māori population. Māori Much of the region’s special character comes from its Māori people. In 2013 they made up 32.4% … national average, and second only to East Coast). Concentrated mainly in the Far North and Whangārei districts, Māori …
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Part of story: Northland region
… Tuākana are the older brothers of a male or older sisters of a female; taina are the younger brothers of a male or the younger sisters of a female. A younger or older female sibling of a … sibling of a female is a tungāne. There are roles associated with these relationships. Tuakana–taina are …
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Part of story: Whānau – Māori and family
… Pastoral runs to freehold estates South Canterbury’s European farming history began with the runholders … many pastoralists sought to own them. Michael Studholme at Te Waimate, John Acland at Mt Peel, Edward Elworthy at Holme …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region