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Arihia Ngata
Arihia Kane Ngata, Lady Ngata, (née Tāmati; 1879 – 18 April 1929) was a New Zealand community leader. Born at Whareponga, she married Āpirana Ngata at age sixteen, and together they had fifteen children. During the First World War she organised fundraising efforts and hosted young army recruits, and after the war she continued to host young men who came to learn sheepfarming skills from her iwi (tribe) of Ngāti Porou. She supported the temperance movement and the Anglican church, and throughout her life supported her husband's political efforts, including through taking a leadership role with Ngāti Porou. She died young after contracting dysentery. Early life and family Ngata was born at Whareponga in 1879. She was the fourth of nine children of Mere Arihi Kākano and Tuta Tāmati, who owned and operated a hotel, and her family belonged to the local Te Aitanga-a-Mate hapū of Ngāti Porou. Ngata's older sister, Te Rina, was betrothed to Āpirana Ngata, but died before th ...
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Whareponga
Whareponga is a bay and rural community in the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island. It is located north of Waipiro Bay, and is the mouth of Whareponga Stream and Wharekaka Stream. The area has a rugged landscape, featuring green bush-covered hills and exposed cliffs. The local Ngāti Porou hapū of Te Aitanga a Mate takes its name from a common ancestor, Materoa. The Whareponga Marae, also affiliated with the Ngāi Tangihaere hapū, includes a meeting house named after Materoa. Since the 19th century, most of the hapū has migrated to larger centres. New homes were built for returning families in 2017, with funding from Te Puni Kōkiri. In October 2020, the Government committed $5,756,639 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade the Whareponga Marae and 28 other Ngāti Porou marae. The funding was expected to create 205 jobs. Notable people * Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu VC (7 April 1918 – 27 March 1943) was a New Zealand soldier an ...
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Dysentery
Dysentery (UK pronunciation: , US: ), historically known as the bloody flux, is a type of gastroenteritis that results in bloody diarrhea. Other symptoms may include fever, abdominal pain, and a feeling of incomplete defecation. Complications may include dehydration. The cause of dysentery is usually the bacteria from genus ''Shigella'', in which case it is known as shigellosis, or the amoeba ''Entamoeba histolytica''; then it is called amoebiasis. Other causes may include certain chemicals, other bacteria, other protozoa, or parasitic worms. It may spread between people. Risk factors include contamination of food and water with feces due to poor sanitation. The underlying mechanism involves inflammation of the intestine, especially of the colon. Efforts to prevent dysentery include hand washing and food safety measures while traveling in areas of high risk. While the condition generally resolves on its own within a week, drinking sufficient fluids such as oral rehydration s ...
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Gisborne Herald
''The Gisborne Herald'' is the daily evening newspaper for Gisborne and environs. It is one of only four independently owned daily newspapers in New Zealand. History Established in 1874 as the ''Poverty Bay Herald'' it was published biweekly in the morning by Carlile and Co. In 1877 it was taken over by Poverty Bay Printing and Publishing Co., who turned it into an evening paper. In June 1875, publishing began tri-weekly, and changed again in October 1878 to become a daily paper. The Poverty Bay Herald Co. Ltd. (now the Gisborne Herald Co. Ltd.) was formed in 1908. The paper was renamed ''The Gisborne Herald'' in 1939. In 1999 it changed from a broadsheet A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long Vertical and horizontal, vertical pages, typically of . Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner (format), Berliner and Tabloid (newspaper format), ta ... to a tabloid format, making it New Zealand's only daily tabloid newspape ...
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New Zealand National Party
The New Zealand National Party ( mi, Rōpū Nāhinara o Aotearoa), shortened to National () or the Nats, is a centre-right political party in New Zealand. It is one of two major parties that dominate contemporary New Zealand politics, alongside its traditional rival, the New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party. National formed in 1936 through amalgamation of conservative and Liberalism, liberal parties, Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform and United Party (New Zealand), United respectively, and subsequently became New Zealand's second-oldest extant political party. National's predecessors had previously formed United–Reform Coalition, a coalition against the growing labour movement. National has governed for five periods during the 20th and 21st centuries, and has spent more List of government formations of New Zealand, time in government than any other New Zealand party. After the 1949 New Zealand general election, 1949 general election, Sidney Holland became the first Prime M ...
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Māori Television
Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Cook Islands * Cook Islands Māori, the language of the Cook Islanders Ships * SS ''Maori'', a steamship of the Shaw Savill Line, shipwrecked 1909 * , a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, sunk in 1915 * , a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, launched 1936 and sunk 1942 * TEV ''Maori III'', a Union Steam Ship Company inter-island ferry, 1952–74 Sports teams * New Zealand Māori cricket team * New Zealand Māori rugby league team * New Zealand Māori rugby union team Other * ''Maori'', a novel by Alan Dean Foster *Mayotte, in the Bushi language Bushi or Kibosy (''Shibushi'' or ''Kibushi'') is a dialect of Malagasy spoken in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. Malagasy dialects most closely related to Bushi are spoken in northw ...
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Māori Language Commission
The Māori Language Commission ( mi, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori) is an autonomous Crown entity in New Zealand set up under the Māori Language Act 1987 with the following functions: # To initiate, develop, co-ordinate, review, advise upon, and assist in the implementation of policies, procedures, measures, and practices designed to give effect to the declaration in section 3 of this Act of the Māori language as an official language of New Zealand # Generally to promote the Māori language, and, in particular, its use as a living language and as an ordinary means of communication # The functions conferred on the Commission by sections 15 to 20 of this Act in relation to certificates of competency in the Māori language # To consider and report to the Minister upon any matter relating to the Māori language that the Minister may from time to time refer to the Commission for its advice # Such other functions as may be conferred upon the Commission by any other enactment See als ...
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Queen's Service Order
The Queen's Service Order, established by royal warrant of Queen Elizabeth II on 13 March 1975, is used to recognise "valuable voluntary service to the community or meritorious and faithful services to the Crown or similar services within the public sector, whether in elected or appointed office". This order was created after a review of New Zealand's honours system in 1974. The Queen's Service Order replaced the Imperial Service Order in New Zealand. Text was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License The title of the Order recognises the fact that Queen Elizabeth II was the first New Zealand monarch to be officially titled ''Queen of New Zealand''. History The Queen's Service Order (QSO) was instituted by Royal Warrant dated 13 March 1975 and in an amending Royal Warrant dated 15 October 1981, as a single fourth-level Order sub-divided into two divisions: "For Community Service" and "For Public Services". In ...
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2004 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 2004 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders, and to celebrate the passing of 2003 and the beginning of 2004. They were announced on 31 December 2003. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour. New Zealand Order of Merit Distinguished Companion (DCNZM) * Leonard Ramsay Castle – of Warkworth. For services to pottery. * Anne Anituatua Delamere – of Wellington. For services to Māori. * John Packard Goulter – of Paihia, Bay of Islands. For services to business and the community. * Judge Patrick Desmond Mahony – of Wellington. For services to the Family Court. * Deirdre Glenna Milne – of Auckland. For services to women and the community. File:Len Castle 1973 (cropped).jpg, Len Castle Companion (CNZM) * John Barton Ormo ...
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Hukarere Girls College
Hukarere Girls' College is a girls secondary boarding school in the Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand. It has a strong Māori people, Māori character and follows the Anglicanism, Anglican tradition. The School motto "Kia Ū Ki Te Pai" means "Cleave to that which is good" or "Abhor that which is evil" (Book of Romans, Romans 12 verse 9, New Testament of the Bible). The school opened in July 1875 under the name Hukarere Native School for Girls, then became Hukarere Girls’ School and from 1970 to 1992 it was known as Hukarere Hostel, as during this period of time the students attended Napier Girls' High School. The school was re-established in 1993 and is known as Hukarere Girls’ College. Long located in the city of Napier, New Zealand, Napier, it has been at Herepoho, Eskdale, just north of the city, since 2003. In 2016 the principal said that academic success pass rate for the three National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) levels is 100%. Early history of th ...
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Field Hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting circle and then into the goal. The match is won by the team that scores the most goals. Matches are played on grass, watered turf, artificial turf, synthetic field, or indoor boarded surface. The stick is made of wood, carbon fibre, fibreglass, or a combination of carbon fibre and fibreglass in different quantities. The stick has two sides; one rounded and one flat; only the flat face of the stick is allowed to progress the ball. During play, goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with any part of their body. A player's hand is considered part of the stick if holding the stick. If the ball is "played" with the rounded part of the stick (i.e. deliberately stopped or hit), it will result in a penalty (accidental touches ar ...
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Porourangi
Ruatoria ( mi, Ruatōria) is a town in the Waiapu Valley of the Gisborne Region in the northeastern corner of New Zealand's North Island. The town was originally known as Cross Roads then Manutahi and was later named Ruatorea in 1913, after the Māori Master female grower ''Tōrea'' who had some of the finest storage pits in her Iwi at the time (Te-Rua-a-Tōrea ). In 1925 the name was altered to "Ruatoria", although some texts retain the original spelling. Ruatoria's Whakarua Park is the home of the East Coast Rugby Football Union. Demographics The population of Ruatoria was 759 in the 2018 census, an increase of 39 from 2013. There were 396 males and 360 females. 20.2% of people identified as European/Pākehā and 95.3% as Māori. 32.0% were under 15 years old, 21.3% were 15–29, 37.6% were 30–64, and 9.1% were 65 or older. The statistical area of Ruatoria-Raukumara, which at 693 square kilometres is much larger than this town, had a population of 1,233 at the 2018 New Ze ...
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