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… Waipukurau is situated close to the south bank of the Tukituki River on The … and near Porangahau (30 miles south-east). Bentonite is quarried at Porangahau. Waipukurau is the commercial … and Hawke's Bay. A Maori settlement occupied the approximate site of the present town. Bishop G. A. Selwyn and Chief …
… Beginnings in New Zealand The power of the written word had been recognised even before the invention of … the early missionaries in New Zealand did not take prompt steps to invoke its aid. Orthography had been set for the …
… was born in 1818 at Stutton, Suffolk, England, where he later qualified for the Wesleyan Ministry. He was ordained at Bristol on 4 September 1839 and was selected for missionary service in the South Seas by the …
… 1827 at Fredericton, New Brunswick, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Baillie, a Waterloo veteran who was then Surveyor-General of the colony, and of …
… Bluff is situated on Foveaux Strait, Southland, at the base of Bluff Hill (855 ft) and on the eastern or harbour side of Bluff Peninsula. The peninsula is … industry of the Foveaux Strait area is based on Bluff. In terms of tonnage it is the eighth most important port in New …
… In 1879 Te Whiti intensified his campaign against the alienation of Maori … the Hawera settlers, in some alarm, formed several volunteer regiments. Major Noakes, the officer commanding Patea militia district, visited Hawera where he yielded to the …
… Ten national parks have been constituted in New Zealand, covering 5,019,388 acres, one-thirteenth of the country's land area. They are administered …
… His first New Zealand governorship (1845–53) was his greatest success. Reinforced by troops and money from England … campaign in the Wellington region ended with the arrest of Te Rauparaha (1846), and there was some indecisive fighting at Wanganui in 1847. Thereafter Grey kept the peace by establishing friendly relations …
… Opotiki is situated between the mouths of the Waioeka and Otara Rivers where they enter the head of Opotiki Harbour, an estuarine lagoon opening to the south-eastern shore of the Bay of Plenty. The town occupies flat …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Robert Reid Parris was born in 1816 at Tatworth, Chard, … a knowledge of the Maori language, together with a smattering of their customs. He returned to Taranaki in the early 1850s and, on 20 August 1853, was elected to represent the Grey and Bell district in the first …