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… Unpredictable and fascinating, the Volcanic Plateau is New Zealand’s main area of volcanic activity. In this zone, the … and from 1900, anglers from around the world came to fish for trout in the region’s lakes and rivers. From the …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… The birth of the New Zealand weekend, 1936–1945 In the 1930s industrial awards … and rural New Zealand. Horse racing was widely followed. Fishing, gardening or DIY (do-it-yourself) home maintenance …
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Part of story: Weekends
… soon began to make his way in scientific circles. He knew Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell and later came to … of femur the existence of a large flightless bird in New Zealand, and Darwin may have spurred Dieffenbach's interest … Island rail, Rallus dieffenbachii , and some species of fishes and plants perpetuate his name. He seems to have been …
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… 1814 Anglican missionary Samuel Marsden arrived from New South Wales and preached the first Christian sermon on … contact with travelling Māori before he came to New Zealand, notably Te Pahi and Ruatara of Ngāpuhi, probably … on Urupukapuka Island and popularised the bay’s deep-sea fishing. The ‘cream trip’ In 1920 a launch service began …
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Part of story: Northland places
… forward a proposal for a survey of the magnetic fields of New Zealand. The project commenced in 1899 with the Royal … badly shaven. He had a great interest in motoring and trout fishing. Farr's most economically important research was a …
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… 1823 (following one at Kerikeri in 1819), and later set up New Zealand’s first printing press. Paihia’s residents witnessed … houses, motor camps and motels. It is a base for deep-sea fishing, boating and for visiting sites of historical …
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Part of story: Northland places
… have a distinguished military flying career in England and New Zealand. In 1912 Hewlett cemented her place in aviation … strong'. New Zealand also offered opportunities to camp and fish, other long-time interests. Now 62, she was always …
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… the right to catch birds in a clump of trees, another to fish in the water nearby, and yet another to grow crops on … that such purchases might no longer be available once New Zealand became a British colony. By early 1840, on the eve …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… with Māori art emerged as a response to the flora of New Zealand. Stylised bird forms were employed to depict the … but if surface decoration is applied the unaunahi (fish-scales) pattern is the most common, especially in the …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… gave evidence that their tradition of gathering shellfish on offshore reefs was essential to providing … and loss of surrounding land from confiscations after the New Zealand wars and for public works. The tribunal’s findings …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… varied than their name implies. There are three species in New Zealand, all of which are endemic. South Island pied … surface, they feed on molluscs, estuarine worms and small fish. Inland, they feed on worms and grubs. South Island …
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Part of story: Wading birds
… had been formed – it asked members to attend a field day on New Year’s Day 1861. Marlborough had its own rugby football … for the recently deceased premier Richard Seddon, it is New Zealand’s second-oldest rugby competition after the Ranfurly … for locals, Wellingtonians and Cantabrians. Boating, fishing and swimming have always been popular, and from the …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… market were all used in 19th-century and early 20th-century New Zealand. Infrastructure The provision of infrastructure was … for paper, sugar and sulphuric acid; others, like that for fish curing, went unclaimed. Employees Industry depended on …
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Part of story: Government and industrial development
… was occupied by Māori, who built a pā on the summit and fished from its shores. Ocean Beach Small settlement and … Duke of Edinburgh hotel. A nearby hill is christened with New Zealand’s longest place name – …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… (Alpha) and Ōmeka (Omega) would play important roles in New Zealand’s future. A sign that he, like Christ, had been called to be a ‘fisher of men’ (evangelist) came when two whales stranded …
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Part of story: Rātana Church – Te Haahi Rātana
… experts in ice-cream manufacture. After developing a new formula for ice cream, in 1931 Malaghan became manager … brother Gordon and his wife. In May, Health Foods New Zealand was registered with a capital of £15,000. It … Malaghan had interests in farming, roller-skating, and fly fishing, particularly in the central North Island. He …
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… stream in Edinburgh, Scotland. The first exotic freshwater fish brought into New Zealand – brown trout – were released in the stream in 1869. …
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Part of story: Otago places
… sculptural reliefs for the Education Court at the 1939–40 New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Wellington, and won the … contemplation: consummate small basalt carvings of a fish, a bird, a sheep and a Buddha. Molly Macalister died in …
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… allowed land to be reclaimed for cargo storage and a fish processing factory. The port of Timaru saves exporters … in Dunedin. But it handles only a small proportion of New Zealand’s seaborne international trade – 1.8% of exports and …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… In the early 1900s most New Zealanders worked in occupations in the primary sector – farming, fishing, forestry and mining. By the early 2000s just 7% of …
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Part of story: Occupational structure