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… Monday 14 November 2016 a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck New Zealand, causing significant damage to buildings and … for over a century. Kaikōura’s port has been mostly used by fishing vessels. Rock lobsters (often called crayfish) are a …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… he ika ūnahi nui’ (They cannot be conquered, they are like fish with great, thick scales). Territory The tribal area is … that brought the ancestors of Māori from East Polynesia to New Zealand. During the voyage it suffered damage, and some …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… had no permanent population but was frequently visited by fishing boats from both Stewart Island and the mainland. … in the 1870s found two human skeletons. A contemporary newspaper report said, ‘Poor fellows, they were not … and South Cape/Whiore – the southernmost parts of New Zealand – are headlands covered in muttonbird scrub, bearing …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… in the evening, the lighter midday meal was called lunch. New customs Immigrants have to get used to New Zealand meal patterns because their days are organised … with peers. Takeaways, predominantly the eternally popular fish and chips, have long been available as replacements for …
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Part of story: Eating
… Shipwrecks have always been an unfortunate part of New Zealand’s maritime heritage. For castaways marooned on … tools, matches, preserved food, cooking utensils, fishing gear, and sometimes rifles and ammunition. To …
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Part of story: Castaways
… urban facilities By the early 20th century councils in New Zealand’s main cities provided electricity and gas line … a variety of business enterprises. Auckland City operated a fish market and fishing fleet, while Dunedin built a dam to …
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Part of story: Local and regional government
… site of Auckland’s main sewer outlet, polluting traditional fishing grounds. During the 1920s land above the Ngāti … in the southern hemisphere took off from Bastion Point on New Year’s Day, 1915. It was designed and built by … In 2013 residents were predominantly affluent white New Zealanders. They include small communities of recent …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… was the most significant economic activity for Europeans in New Zealand – with the hunt first for sperm whales from visiting … more attractive as the East India Company’s monopoly on fishing in South Pacific waters was progressively lifted, …
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Part of story: Whaling
… The difficulties of New Zealand’s first towns did not deter the founding of others. … Brunner was abandoned. Port towns Port towns developed as fishing and shipping centres. The South Island’s first town, …
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Part of story: City history and people
… years of cooler temperatures worldwide. No people lived in New Zealand at the time of the Taupō eruption – Polynesian … was found lying above stone tools used for hunting and fishing, and the footprints of adults and children were …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… World War, in February 1917, Langbein enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and served abroad with the New … serving until 1961. His hobbies included gardening, fishing and shooting. Fritz Langbein died on 28 April 1967 …
Type: Biography
… pest Pātangata in Central Hawke’s Bay is the only site in New Zealand known to have the exotic water pest plant yellow … Lakes, estuaries and rivers contain native waterfowl and fish. These places are still important food-gathering …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… television in 1960 meant that independent film-makers had a new outlet, hungry for product. Documentaries screened on … with commercial breaks factored into the edit. The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, formed in 1962, gave its … by Don Selwyn, which examined the threat commercial fishing and development posed to the Kaipara Harbour and …
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Part of story: Documentary film
… entered the family firm, the Mount Cook Tourist Company of New Zealand, in Timaru, of which his father was the founder and … of them amusing, of his main recreational pursuits: trout fishing, game shooting, skiing and photography. Through his …
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… pioneering scientists in the dairy-processing industry of New Zealand, was born at Waianiwa, near Invercargill, Southland, … fledgeling Massey College tramping club. He enjoyed trout fishing, gardening and the arts, especially poetry, prints …
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… as a curate in the parishes of Johnsonville, Ōpunake and New Plymouth, but his aspirations lay elsewhere. Since 1933, when two of its priests had visited New Zealand and an open letter appealing for recruits had been … in Asia. Late in 1938 Douglas was appointed to Pililla, a fishing town near Manila in the Philippines. Conditions were …
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… rock from a mixture of sources, is an essential material in New Zealand’s built environment. The term aggregate includes … heat. Stones were also used as sinkers for line and net fishing. If a village came under attack, the defenders would …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… on the Pātea River by an 80-metre-high earth-fill dam (New Zealand’s fourth highest). The dam was built between 1979 … man-made lake in New Zealand and caters for boating and fishing. The station is operated by the generating company …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… back country. Poverty Bay is one of the sunnier regions in New Zealand, with average yearly sunshine of around 2,200 hours. … Range are found Hochstetter's frog, 10 species of native fish (including two threatened species) and long-tailed …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… spotless crake, the North Island fernbird and around 25% of New Zealand’s population of Australasian bitterns live in the wetland. Eighteen species of fish include the black mudfish. In 1961 the lower …
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Part of story: Waikato places