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… mill, a cheese factory and potteries. Temuka has one of New Zealand’s best preserved early 20th-century main streets, … south), join it below this gorge. Its reputation as a trout-fishing river has suffered from water being taken for …
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Part of story: South Canterbury places
… by Lieutenant James Cook in 1769, although it is likely the fish in question were actually snapper. Mangawhai Harbour … after hitting a German mine. Waipū stories As a teenager, New Zealand writer Fiona Kidman lived for two years among the …
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Part of story: Northland places
… propelled by paddles. They are an ideal way to explore New Zealand’s scenic waterways. The sheltered coastal waters, … of flax, wood and other materials, mainly for transport and fishing. Early European explorers, missionaries and settlers …
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Part of story: Canoeing and rafting
… the flow, without the need for building a dam. In 1901 New Zealand’s fourth power station was opened at Ōkere Falls, to … up a waterfall is a challenge for humans, and for most fish, a fall would be an impassable obstacle. But some New …
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Part of story: Waterfalls
… and Estonia, became independent. Almost all immigrants to New Zealand from countries that were formerly within the Soviet … for identification. Some Russian seamen from freighters or fishing boats stayed in New Zealand after marrying New …
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Part of story: Russians, Ukrainians and Baltic peoples
… foreshore but to belong to the owner of the adjoining land. New Zealand statute may use different definitions from the … private property interests subject only to public rights of fishing and navigation. This came to be accepted early on by …
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Part of story: Law of the foreshore and seabed
… Southland is mainland New Zealand’s southernmost region, lying between 44.6° and 46.7° … local resources, including at freezing works, dairy and fish factories, and sawmills. Like other regions away from …
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Part of story: Southland region
… of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, New York. From early youth Stead had thrived on collecting birds' eggs, fishing and shooting. On the death of his father in 1908 he … Chelsea Flower Show. He was the first president of the New Zealand Rhododendron Association, serving from 1944 until …
Type: Biography
… Māori as Pākaitore; a place where Māori distributed their fish catch and later traded with the townspeople. It was … to a 66-metre elevator running up through the hill – New Zealand's only earthbound elevator. A large part of Durie …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… is crossed by tracks, including the Routeburn Track (one of New Zealand’s Great Walks), which also passes through Fiordland … known. Other attractions include mountaineering, hunting, fishing and scenic flights. Visitors need insect repellent …
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Part of story: National parks
… of the voyaging canoes that brought the various tribes to New Zealand were made from the stone that Ngahue brought back. … pounamu artefacts known. Other less common items were fish hook barbs, awls, hammer stones, drill points and bird …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… There are three types of land ownership in New Zealand: Crown land belongs to the state. General land is … features, mountains, rivers, streams, bird-snaring areas, fishing grounds, cultivations, battle sites, pā sites, …
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Part of story: Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua
… Land area Wairarapa: 8,423 sq km New Zealand: 268,690 sq km Climate (Masterton) (National … pattern is most distinctive) Agriculture, forestry and fishing Wairarapa: 20.1% New Zealand: 5.7% Wholesale trade …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… Land area Waikato: 9,325 sq km 1 New Zealand: 268,690 sq km Climate (National Institute of Water … pattern is most distinctive) Agriculture, forestry and fishing Waikato: 8.9% New Zealand: 5.7% Information, media …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… Land area Whanganui region: 10,327 sq km New Zealand: 268,690 sq km Climate (Whanganui town) (National … pattern is most distinctive) Agriculture, forestry and fishing Whanganui: 13.0% New Zealand: 5.7% Financial and …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… The variety of ethnicities represented in New Zealand increased sharply from the 1960s as people emigrated … health, education, justice, intellectual property, and fishing and resource management and ownership were all …
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Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… on fossils to establish periods, and to tell them apart. A new period generally represents some abrupt change to life … epoch includes the Carnian, Norian and Rhaetian stages. New Zealand has a very detailed local timescale with its own set … dinosaurs, marine reptiles, whales, turtles, crocodiles, fish, sharks, crabs, penguins and other aquatic birds. Many …
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Part of story: Fossils
… Īnanga (whitebait) Whitebait, small freshwater fish, are plentiful in spring when they run upstream. There … are fern shoots. Only seven out of around 200 species of New Zealand fern are edible. Mouku ( Asplenium bulbiferum , …
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Part of story: Māori foods – kai Māori
… an elegant, undulating motion of their broad front fins, New Zealand’s 26 species of rays and skates move like large birds in flight. Rays and skates are wide, flattened fish belonging to the same family as sharks, and sharing …
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Part of story: Sharks and rays
… Iwitini location Up to 80% of New Zealand’s Māori population lived in the region … coast. There were numerous harbours and estuaries rich in fish and shellfish, as well as fertile land for …
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Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions