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… most other estuarine harbours of the peninsula. The Manaia Forest Sanctuary, which contains 400 kauri trees, was …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… first liberated in 1863, and rapidly spread in mountainous forested areas. As early as 1906, there were so many deer …
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Part of story: Hunting
… was important because it combined the resources of forest and sea. Artefacts have also been found inland, at …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… districts still retain the names of runs – Te Waimate, Peel Forest, Pareora, Holme Station, Cannington, Mt Peel, Orari …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… shaping an often raw environment as they transformed a forested wilderness into farms, towns and cities. …
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Part of story: Photography
… a rifle, as they were vulnerable to attack from the thick forest and hills bordering the route. By 1855 the road had …
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Part of story: Roads
… CE. These migrants from eastern Polynesia found a heavily forested land, rich in natural resources. The earliest …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… surfing. Pukeamaru Scenic Reserve A tract of native forest between the Wharekāhika and Karakatūwhero rivers; its …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… rats, wild pigs, feral goats and deer, and large areas of forest have become farmland. …
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Part of story: Land birds – overview
… survivors gained land only for subsistence farming or in forested areas where sheep could not be mustered easily. The …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… 50 years. Diamonds are forever? In the early 1880s, Alford Forest was the scene of a ‘diamond rush’, when J. S. M. …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… the 1980s and 1990s the government sold many of its farms, forests and power stations in the region. The Rotorua town …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… Maori, and recognised that several large clearings in the forest would be excellent sheep country. With the approval …
Type: Biography
… and making recommendations or determinations on Crown forest land, railways land, state-owned-enterprise land and …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… writer James Courage went camping with friends in Peel Forest, Canterbury. Frankly gay Norris Davey found himself …
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Part of story: Gay men’s lives
… and one of the few North Island tracts of virgin lowland forest. Manakau Settlement and district east of the railway …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… 1832. During the 1830s James Kemp had purchased an area of forest land at Kaeo and some farming land at Kerikeri and …
Type: Biography
… not include the assets of Māori who privately own farms or forests. Individual farmers Almost 300,000 hectares (20%) of …
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Part of story: Ahuwhenua – Māori land and agriculture
… escaping society in the Kaimanawa Mountains. Deep in the forest, amid tangled ferns and bush-lawyer, he found himself …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… ridges, train carriages off their tracks, and vast areas of forest plantations have been flattened. Tornadoes are not …
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Part of story: Natural hazards – overview