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… Island east coast. At that time the most definitive map of New Zealand was that of James Cook, who had identified Banks … The French associations are evident in street names. Once a fishing and farm service town, it now serves mainly …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… Buller River and its tributaries. Murchison is home to the New Zealand Kayak School, which claims that the town is the … Matiri, Mangles, Mātakitaki and Maruia rivers. Trout fishing is also popular. Earthquake country On 17 June 1929 …
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Part of story: Nelson places
… the 1960s and then jumbo jets in the 1980s revolutionised New Zealand tourism. Distances seemed shorter, costs fell and … and wrapping gifts elegantly and not ‘like a parcel of fish and chips’. 1 The increasing number of tourists led …
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Part of story: Tourist industry
… thousands of British migrants were beginning to settle in New Zealand. The young and fit were encouraged to sail to the … people ate only raw food that was grated, lived on boiled fish or milk, or restricted themselves to bread and butter. …
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Part of story: Body shape and dieting
… by exploring the bush, rivers and coastline, running about, fishing, hunting and gathering. After the arrival of … and dressing up. School days Before 1877 only about half of New Zealand’s school-age children went to school. The number …
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Part of story: Children’s play
… Food and medicine After Māori arrived in New Zealand, from around 1250, they discovered the useful … woven, it was used to create a wide range of items, such as fishing nets and traps, footwear, cords and ropes. Can’t …
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Part of story: Flax and flax working
… Waiwerawera, means very hot water. Robert Graham developed New Zealand’s first tourist spa here from 1848. At his property, … Kawerau and Ngāti Paoa people were drawn there by the shark-fishing grounds. Since Tiritiri was added to the Hauraki …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… Egmont National Park Egmont National Park is near New Plymouth, on the west coast of the North Island. It is … home to eels, lamprey, native trout, kōura (freshwater crayfish) and black flounder. Many native birds can be found in … conifer–broadleaf forest. Recreation The Whanganui is New Zealand’s longest navigable river, and the 145-kilometre …
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Part of story: National parks
… animals, and learn about birth and death. Pet ownership New Zealand has one of the highest levels of pet ownership per … find other animals rewarding companions, including horses, fish, turtles, pigs, birds, and so-called ‘pocket pets’ – …
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Part of story: Pets
… with dotterel. The Māori name tuturiwhatu includes New Zealand dotterels and banded dotterels. New Zealand dotterel … They feed on molluscs, sandhoppers and other invertebrates, fish and crabs. Inland they take insects, grubs, earthworms …
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Part of story: Wading birds
… and Wānaka. Population contest In November 2008, Statistics New Zealand figures showed that Tauranga had overtaken Dunedin … 21st-century employment In 2013 agriculture, forestry and fishing were major employers in the Central Otago and Clutha …
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Part of story: Otago region
… them as manifestations of a pagan culture. Strange new laws The ethnologist Elsdon Best records a kaumātua … their skins. We were not to gather firewood on a Sunday, or fish, or bathe.’ 1 These pastimes declined through the … ama (racing outrigger canoes) was a popular sport in New Zealand and worldwide, built on the rich Māori waka …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori games – ngā tākaro
… years 1840 to 1915, when the mass European settlement of New Zealand occurred, the family in Britain and to some extent … animals. As they grew stronger they would go hunting and fishing to help supply food to the household. Before long …
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Part of story: Farm families
… Pāuatahanui, the name of the northern arm, means ‘big shellfish’. The battle for Pāuatahanui In 1839, the London-based New Zealand Company acquired land around both arms of the …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… has a serious pollution problem – more than any other New Zealand lake. Rotorua city, with over 50,000 people, … – the sacred island of Tinirau (the ancestor of all fish). An important place of settlement for Ngāti Whakaue, …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… of Tatapouri Point. It has a holiday park, and features crayfish and deep-sea fishing. Its hotel was damaged in the 1947 … escarpment. Wainui Wainui, 6 km from Gisborne, has one of New Zealand’s great surfing beaches. Facing out into the South …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… Ocean give the Hauraki Gulf the warmest coastal waters in New Zealand. To the north are sandy beaches and the headlands of … a canoe up Meola Creek and landing on the reef and cooking fish on the rocks. … [It is] landing on an uninhabited …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… Kāmahi Perhaps the commonest tree in New Zealand, kāmahi ( Weinmannia racemosa ) is abundant in … flax mats and cloaks. It also acted as a preservative for fishing lines and other items. European settlers used the …
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Part of story: Tall broadleaf trees
… as rivals to merchants. In 1920 they enlisted growers in a new co-operative company, Turners and Growers, which … the changes that helped the business expand to become New Zealand's largest fruit and vegetable wholesalers by mid … gymnastics, and he remained a keen sportsman into old age, fishing, playing tennis and swimming. He attended the …
Type: Biography
… lake between the volcano and Lake Taupō, had poisoned the fish there. The 1870 eruptions Many eye-witness accounts … for three months, heard as far as Hamilton, Rotorua, New Plymouth and Napier. The lava was also visible from … cubic metres of lava – the largest flow ever seen in New Zealand in historic times. Spectacular lava fountains played …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity