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… Thames is situated on the south-east coast of the Firth of Thames on the banks of the Kauaeranga River and about 1 mile … THAMES …
… soon led to the partial abandonment of their workings. Thames was proclaimed a goldfield in February 1864, but, … labourers in the employ of the large companies. The Hauraki Thames, and Ohinemuri gold-fields were the scene of the last … Hauraki, Thames, and Ohinemuri Goldfields …
… Hauraki depression, finally joining the sea near Thames on the eastern side of the Firth of Thames – the river also being named the Thames by the navigator Captain James Cook. The absorbent …
… peninsula that separates the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames from the Pacific Ocean. Its southernmost extension is … are being converted slowly to pastures. The road between Thames and Coromandel, and the east coast beaches such as … , which several times visited Hauraki Gulf, the Firth of Thames, and nearby places during the early 1800s for kauri …
… very slow (7.69 per cent, 1951–61). Of the three main towns Thames' growth, 16.78 per cent, has not been very great, … New Zealand Geographer, Vol. 10, April 1954, “The Thames District”, Farrell, B. H. Ib., Vol . 5, April 1949, “The Coromandel Peninsula and the Thames Valley”, McCaskill, M. Ib, Vol. 17, April 1961, …
… with 6,436 people. Hamilton was, as yet, no bigger than Thames (3,500). The completion of the main trunk railway in … was long delayed. Rotorua had been reached in 1894.and Thames in 1898, but the scattered sections of the Northland …
… Included within these limits are the counties Coromandel, Thames, and Ohinemuri, which together with their boroughs … Moehau near Cape Colville, 2,740 ft at Kaitarakahi, east of Thames, and reaches its highest point of 3,126 ft in Mt. Te … generally termed the Waihi Plain. The major settlements, Thames and Waihi, are on the periphery of the region. Over …
… a road and rail junction where rail routes from Hamilton, Thames, and Tauranga, and four State highways converge. By road Paeroa is 20 miles south of Thames, 13 miles north of Te Aroha, and 83 miles south-east … of the Coromandel Range. At first Paeroa was part of the Thames County. In 1885 it became the Paeroa riding of the …
… Urban Population Town 1911 1936 1951 1961 1961 Maoris Thames 3,591 4,268 4,551 5,315 243 paeroa 1,416 2,149 2,590 … 1961 1961 Maoris Coromandel 2,732 2,635 2,622 2,826 351 Thames 4,388 2,795 2,933 3,205 438 Ohinemuri 4,628 3,335 … 1951–52 1959–60 1960 Coromandel 2,276 8,502 9,068 11.80 Thames 4,972 11,642 12,071 31.33 Ohinemuri 7,271 23,302 …
… no-man's land between that tribe and the Ngati Maru of the Thames district. A missionary exploring party – Henry … later established mission stations near the present town of Thames and near Matamata Pa. Intertribal wars made progress … for wheeled traffic by the late 1870s, but the route from Thames was not practicable until about 1881–82. The railway …