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… In her 80s she was involved in the campaigns of the Native Forests Action Council and the Friends of Nelson Haven and …
Type: Biography
… rail tunnel opened in 1978, connecting it to the export forests of the central North Island. Domestic migrants drawn …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: City history and people
… a lip of basalt into a natural amphitheatre. Surrounding forest includes orchids and five species of rātā. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato places
… Bird fowlers offered their first catch to Tāne, god of the forest. Tūmatauenga, the god of war, would receive te …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… bolster his story. After digging a deep hole in the Mamaku forest, he reputedly lacerated his back on a barbed-wire …
Type: Biography
… bushmen and back-country folk who felled the native forests of the region. Between 1904 and 1915 the Eltham …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taranaki region
… conservancy, which is centred on the Ruahine and Kaweka forest parks and Te Urewera. Tracks also follow the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… swamp of around 4,000 hectares. The swamp had engulfed a forest, the remains of which rose to the surface as the land …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taranaki places
… ‘te manu huna a Tāne’, the hidden bird of Tāne (god of the forest), because it came out mostly at night and was seldom …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā manu – birds
… in his reports to the council. By his retirement the city's forests covered 13,000 acres and Tannock was an …
Type: Biography
… Te Roroa Te Roroa are based at Waimamaku valley, Waipoua Forest, Maunganui Bluff and Kaihū valley. They are descended …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… Still standing are many small huts built by the New Zealand Forest Service for deer-culling operations in the 1950s and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tramping
… the 2003 Fiordland earthquake created a wave that inundated forest 4 to 5 metres above high tide, and damaged a helipad …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tsunamis
… part of the region north of Tokomaru Bay. The clearance of forest in its headwaters has led the river to flood …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: East Coast places
… 9 and 14 km south of Tūākau across the river. Radiata pine forests were planted in this rugged area in the 1960s and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato places
… and two colonial units, Captain Gustavus von Tempsky’s Forest Rangers and Colonel Marmaduke Nixon’s cavalry, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… routed a colonial force of Armed Constabulary and Forest Rangers. Flamboyant Prussian soldier Gustavus von …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taranaki places
… were sheltering for the night in a slab hut deep in the forest on Makatiti hill, north of Lake Tarawera. The four …
Type: Biography
… Maori MP Tiaki Ōmana asserted that Māori owned enough forests to make cheaper houses, but lacked the finance to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori housing – te noho whare
… kāinga (villages) near food-rich rivers, beaches and forests. Their dwellings were rectangular in shape and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori housing – te noho whare