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Eltham AFC
Eltham AFC are a New Zealand association football club based in Eltham, in the Taranaki Region of the North Island. Its home ground is Taumata Park. Eltham AFC has competed for the Chatham Cup twice, in 1978 and 1979, and was knocked out in the first round on both occasions. Honours Duff Rose Bowl (Taranaki's premier knock-out trophy): 2009, 2018 Central Football Federation Cup: 2018 History An earlier association football club at Eltham was formed in a meeting at the Eltham Fire Brigade station in April 1906, with 20 members registered and Mr. W. H. Hutchinson appointed secretary. Eltham along with Kaponga and Hāwera were affiliated to the Taranaki Association Football Union in May 1906. The club won its first and only Taranaki Championship in 1906, beating New Plymouth in the final held at Inglewood Inglewood may refer to: Places Australia *Inglewood, Queensland * Shire of Inglewood, Queensland, a former local government area *Inglewood, South Australia *I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eltham, New Zealand
Eltham is a small inland town in South Taranaki District, South Taranaki, New Zealand, located south of the city of New Plymouth and southeast of the volcano, volcanic cone of Mount Taranaki/Egmont. Stratford, New Zealand, Stratford is north, Kaponga 13 km west, and Hāwera is south. New Zealand State Highway 3, State Highway 3 runs through the town. Eltham is South Taranaki's second largest town. Eltham is known as the cradle of the Taranaki dairy industry (the co-operative system in particular), and for being the one place in New Zealand that manufactured rennet which is important in cheesemaking. It was also the first place to export butter to England. History European settlement began in Eltham in the 1870s, with blocks of densely forested land being taken up mainly to the north of Mountain Road. A profusion of sawmilling companies cleared the district which, when grassed, proved ideal for dairy farming. In 1884, the year Eltham was declared a town district, settle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hāwera FC
Hāwera FC are a New Zealand association football club based in Hāwera, in the South Taranaki region of the North Island. Its home ground is Turuturu Park. The Hāwera Association Football Club was founded in April 1906. Hāwera won the original Taranaki Championship and Julian Cup five times, in 1908, 1922, 1923, in 1931 shared the title with Albion AFC and 1937. Hāwera entered the Chatham Cup for the first time in 1950 and were knocked out in the first ever Taranaki preliminary final. In 1951 Hāwera were knocked out in the Taranaki preliminary rounds by Overseas Football Club (New Plymouth). Hawera didn't enter the cup again until 1989. In 1990 the club reached the third round of the competition for the first time, its best result to date. Its last appearance in the Chatham Cup was in 2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport In Taranaki
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve participants' physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a ''match'') is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football Clubs In New Zealand
Association football, also known as football and previously known as soccer, is a popular recreational sport in New Zealand. The sport is administered in New Zealand by the governing body New Zealand Football (NZF). This is a list of association football clubs that play in the top leagues in New Zealand and Australia. Administration New Zealand is divided up into six regional federations that help in the administration and promotion of the sport in New Zealand: *Federation One (Northern Region Football) - Northland, Auckland *Federation Two ( Waikato-Bay of Plenty Football) - Waikato, Bay of Plenty and King Country *Federation Three ( Central Football) - Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui *Federation Four (Capital Football) - Greater Wellington, including the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa *Federation Five (Mainland Football) - Tasman, Marlborough, Nelson, West Coast, Northern and Central Canterbury *Federation Six ( Footballsouth) - South Canterbury, Otago, So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawera And Normanby Star
The ''Hawera and Normanby Star'' is a newspaper published in Taranaki, New Zealand. History The newspaper was first published on 10 April 1880. It ceased publication as a commercial newspaper in 1977, after which it has continued as a community newspaper Community journalism is locally-oriented, professional news coverage that typically focuses on city neighborhoods, individual suburbs or small towns, rather than metropolitan, state, national or world news. If it covers wider topics, community j .... References Newspapers published in New Zealand Taranaki Newspapers established in 1880 1880 establishments in New Zealand {{NewZealand-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inglewood, New Zealand
Inglewood is a town in the Taranaki Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is southeast of New Plymouth on New Zealand State Highway 3, State Highway 3, close to Mount Taranaki, and sits above sea level. The town services a mainly dairy farming region. History The settlement was founded in 1873 and was originally called Moatown. The name was then changed to Milton, before ultimately being renamed to Inglewood in 1875 to avoid confusion with Milton, New Zealand, Milton in the South Island. The railway reached Inglewood in 1877, connecting it with New Plymouth as part of the first extension of what is now the Marton–New Plymouth line. Until 1991, Inglewood was home to the Moa-Nui Co-operative Dairies factory (which was the fourth largest dairy factory in New Zealand) before it was shut down in favour of centralised processing near Hāwera. From 1949 until the late 1980s, Inglewood was home to Fun Ho! Toys, a manufacturer of collectible die cast metal toys and one of New Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Plymouth
New Plymouth ( mi, Ngāmotu) is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, Devon from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. The New Plymouth District, which includes New Plymouth City and several smaller towns, is the 10th largest district (out of 67) in New Zealand, and has a population of – about two-thirds of the total population of the Taranaki Region and % of New Zealand's population. This includes New Plymouth City (), Waitara (), Inglewood (), Ōakura (), Ōkato (561) and Urenui (429). The city itself is a service centre for the region's principal economic activities including intensive pastoral activities (mainly dairy farming) as well as oil, natural gas and petrochemical exploration and production. It is also the region's financial centre as the home of the TSB Bank (formerly the Taranaki Savings Bank), the largest of the remaining non-governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taranaki Daily News
The ''Taranaki Daily News'' is a daily morning newspaper published in New Plymouth, New Zealand. History The paper was founded as the ''Taranaki News'' on 14 May 1857, by friends of former Taranaki Province Superintendent Charles Brown.J.S. Tullett, ''The Industrious Heart: A History of New Plymouth'', New Plymouth City Council, 1981. Brown was the first proprietor of the newspaper and he appointed his political supporter and former ''Taranaki Herald'' editor Richard Pheney as its editor. The paper, initially housed in a small wooden building on the east side of Brougham Street opposite the present library, became a strident critic of the ''Herald'' and the provincial government. The paper began publishing on Saturdays and in 1885 changed its name to the ''Taranaki Daily News'' when it began publishing daily. The word "Taranaki" was dropped from the masthead about 1962 when the paper's ownership was merged with that of the ''Herald'' to become Taranaki Newspapers Ltd, and reins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaponga Soccer Club
Kaponga is a small town in the southern part of the Taranaki region of New Zealand. It is known as "The Gateway to Dawson's Falls" on Mount Taranaki. Kaponga is located inland from Manaia and Eltham, and is on the main road connecting Eltham to Ōpunake. Ōpunake is to the west and Eltham is 13 km to the east. Auroa lies to the south-east. Manaia is south of Kaponga. History The small town of Kaponga was settled in 1882, and has strong Swiss connections. Some of the first settlers in the area were Swiss, and in 1952, the Taranaki Swiss Club was formed. The town was once a much larger town than it is today: with many stores. There are only a few shops now, including a '' Fish n Chip Shop'', the ''4 Square'' (supermarket), a bed-and-breakfast (Constable Cottage), veterinary services (Coastal Veterinary Services Ltd), ''Farm Source'' (another rural supply business), and the Kaponga Hotel (bar). A recent addition to Kaponga is ''The Green Door'', a music shop featuring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Football (New Zealand)
Central Football is one of seven federations of New Zealand Football, representing regions of Taranaki, Whanganui, Manawatū District, Manawatū, Hawke's Bay Region, Hawke's Bay and Gisborne District, Gisborne. History While New Zealand Football is the governing body, unlike other sports in New Zealand, the funding model for football means each seven regional federations look after football in their area themselves, only following New Zealand Football's plan as they see fit. For the local federations, the clubs fund the federation with the rest of the money coming from Sport New Zealand funding and about three per cent from New Zealand Football. The region has also provided a women's representative team for the New Zealand Women's National League from its inaugural season in 2002 onwards. Board Members As of 2022. *Jamie Hall (Chairperson) *Gary Mackenzie (Deputy Chair) *Kerry Donovan *Rod Pelosi *Garret Blair *Rori Moore *John Sigurdsson *Rachel Ingram Competiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Chatham Cup
The 1979 Chatham Cup was the 52nd annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand. Early stages of the competition were run in three regions (northern, central, and southern), with the National League teams receiving a bye until the Fourth Roundof the competition. In all, 131 teams took part in the competition. Note: Different sources give different numberings for the rounds of the competition: some start round one with the beginning of the regional qualifications; others start numbering from the first national knock-out stage. The former numbering scheme is used in this article. The 1979 final The final was the second all-Auckland final clash, the first having been between the same teams (but with a different winner) in 1973. North Shore's Adrian Elrick and Keith Hobbs appeared in both finals (the latter as a substitute in the first match), as did Mount Wellington's Tony Sibley and Bill de Graaf. North Shore won the final for a then-record equalling fifth time. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
