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Mount Maunganui College
"Wisdom is More Precious Than Gold" "No Choice But Success" , seal_image = MountCollege.jpg , type = State, Co-educational, Secondary (Year 9-13) , established = 1958 , address = Maunganui RoadMount Maunganui 3116New Zealand , coordinates = , principal = Alastair Sinton , roll = () , decile = 6N , MOE = 118 , homepage mmc.school.nz Mount Maunganui College is a state coeducational secondary school and is located in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. It was established in 1958, the same year that Tauranga College was split into Tauranga Boys' College and Tauranga Girls' College. It has many classrooms, a library, two large halls, a 33-metre outdoor swimming pool, basketball court, a large sports field and several netball/tennis courts. There is also a Maori wharenui located on the ground. Achievements In the years 2000, 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2013, Mount Maunganui College competed in the Auckland Stage Challenge competition and won. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Maunganui
Mount Maunganui (, ) is a major residential, commercial and industrial suburb of the Tauranga metropolitan area, located on a peninsula to the north-east of Tauranga's city centre. It was an independent town from Tauranga until the completion of the Tauranga Harbour Bridge in 1988, which connects Mount Maunganui to Tauranga's central business district. Mount Maunganui is also the name of the large lava dome which was formed by the upwelling of rhyolite lava about two to three million years ago. It is officially known by its Māori name '' Mauao'', but is colloquially known in New Zealand simply as ''The Mount''. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "large mountain" for ''Maunganui''. Geography Mount Maunganui is located atop a sand bar that connects Mauao to the mainland, a geographical formation known as a tombolo. Because of this formation, the residents of Mount Maunganui have both a harbour beach (Pilot Bay) and an ocean beach with g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Nolan
Melanie Claire Nolan (born 1960) is a historian and university academic from New Zealand, specialising in labour and gender history. She is the Director of the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Early life and education Nolan was born in Reefton on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand to Paul Nolan and Alison Coad. She attended many schools as her parents moved around the country for work, including Villa Maria College, Christchurch (1967–1971), Mercy College, Timaru (1971) and Teschemakers Dominican College, Oamaru (1974–1975) and Mount Maunganui College, where she was dux. In 1978 she won a scholarship to study at the University of Canterbury, which she attended from 1979 to 1985. She obtained a Master of Arts in 1985 with her masters thesis titled ''Jack McCullough : workers' representative on the Arbitration Court''. She then won a further scholarship to study at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary Schools In The Bay Of Plenty Region
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Educational Institutions Established In 1958
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Steve Braunias
Steven Carl Braunias (born 20 June 1960) is a New Zealand author, columnist, journalist and editor. He is the author of 11 books. Early life and family Braunias was born in New Zealand to an Austrian immigrant father and a New Zealand-born mother. He is the younger brother of artist Mark Braunias. He grew up in Mount Maunganui reading ''Shoot'' magazine, ''Roy of the Rovers'' and ''Tiger and Scorcher'' comic books. These would come to influence his later columns through the comic characters' names. He attended the Wellington Polytechnic (now Massey University) journalism course in 1980 but did not graduate. Career Braunias has worked as editor of ''Capital Times'', feature writer at ''Metro magazine'', deputy editor of the ''New Zealand Listener'' and senior writer at ''The Sunday Star-Times''. He was also staff writer at ''Metro'' magazine, and syndicated a weekly satirical diary to six Fairfax newspapers. For several years he collaborated with photographer Jane Ussher on a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeroen Speak
Jeroen Speak (born June 1969) is a New Zealand-born British composer. Biography Jeroen Speak received undergraduate training in New Zealand. With the aid of the William Georgetti and Herbert Sutcliffe scholarships he completed a master's degree at Victoria University of Wellington, where he graduated in 1993. In 1994 he was the Composer in Residence at the Nelson School of Music before moving to Britain where he completed a D Phil at the University of Sussex under Michael Finnissy, he has also studied with John Young, and Jonathan Harvey. In 2004 he was awarded a place in the 'Visiting Arts' exchange programme with Taiwan where he developed his interests in Chinese and Taiwanese music and aesthetics. In 2005 he was awarded an 'Artist Links' fellowship by the British Council to further develop these interests in Shanghai, China. In 1992 he was the recipient of the ACL Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize at the 14th Asian Composers' League Festival, in the same year he was awarded f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Institute (2004-2012)
The New Zealand Institute was a privately funded think tank based in Auckland, New Zealand, which existed from July 2004 until April 2012, when it was merged into the New Zealand Initiative. The Institute was founded by former New Zealand Treasury researcher Dr David Skilling, with the expressed aim of "generating ideas, solutions and debate that will improve economic prosperity, social well-being, environmental quality and environmental productivity". In comparison with longer-established think-tanks such as the New Zealand Business Roundtable, it was envisaged as less doctrinaire. The address of the New Zealand Institute was Auckland 1142, PO Box 90840. Background The New Zealand Institute described itself as: "a privately funded think-tank committed to generating ideas, debate and solutions that will improve economic prosperity, social well-being, environmental quality and environmental productivity for New Zealand and New Zealanders." One media source described the New Zeala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonelygirl15
''Lonelygirl15'' is an American science fiction thriller web series created by Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, Greg Goodfried, and Amanda Goodfried. It was independently released on YouTube from June 16, 2006 to August 1, 2008, and was also briefly released on Revver and Myspace. The series revolves around the initially mundane life of homeschooled 16-year-old Bree Avery (Jessica Lee Rose), who uses the username Lonelygirl15 online. She goes on the run with her friend Daniel (Yousef Abu-Taleb) after her parents' mysterious religion is revealed to be The Order, a blood-harvesting operation that wants her "trait positive" blood. The series is presented through video blogs, or vlogs, originally recorded solely from Bree's bedroom. After discovering YouTube in 2005, Beckett, then a doctor, came up with the idea for a series of staged video blogs presented as though they were real, and set out to create ''Lonelygirl15'' with Flinders, a filmmaker. The two wrote a script and came up wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Rose
Jessica Lee Rose (born April 26, 1987) is an American-New Zealand actress who first gained popularity after playing the role of ''lonelygirl15'', a fictional teenage homeschooled character named Bree who appeared in YouTube video blogs, beginning in June 2006. The mystery surrounding the possible fictionality of her character led to an outing by the ''Los Angeles Times'', which thrust her into the mainstream spotlight. In 2007, Rose won a Webby for this role. After leaving ''lonelygirl15'' in August 2007, Rose played "Jen K." on ABC Family's ''Greek''. She went on to appear in various movies, such as ''Perfect Sport'' and SyFy's ''Ghost Town'', and other web series, such as ''Hooking Up'' and '' Sorority Forever''. She signed on to do the independent movie ''Look at Me'' with her ''Lonelygirl15'' co-star Yousef Abu Taleb in March 2010. Early life Rose was born in Salisbury, Maryland, and moved to Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand when she was eight. She attended Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Stokes
Edward James Taite Stokes (born 26 June 1950) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A centre, Stokes represented Bay of Plenty at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on the 1976 tour of South America. He played in five matches on that tour, including the game against Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ... for which international caps were not awarded. References 1950 births Living people Rugby union players from Auckland New Zealand rugby union players New Zealand international rugby union players Bay of Plenty rugby union players Māori All Blacks players Rugby union centres {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Black
The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, 2011 and 2015. They were the first country to win the Rugby World Cup 3 times. New Zealand has a 76 per-cent winning record in test-match rugby, and has secured more wins than losses against every test opponent. Since their international debut in 1903, New Zealand teams have played test matches against 19 nations, of which 12 have never won a game against the All Blacks. The team has also played against three multinational all-star teams, losing only eight of 45 matches. Since the introduction of the World Rugby Rankings in 2003, New Zealand has held the number-one ranking longer than all other teams combined. They jointly hold the record for the most consecutive test match wins for a tier-one ranked nation, along with England. The All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Robertson (rugby Union)
Scott Robertson may refer to: *Scotty Robertson Robert Scott "Scotty" Robertson III (February 1, 1930 – August 18, 2011) was an American basketball coach. He was the first coach for the New Orleans Jazz (now the Utah Jazz), and he later coached the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons. He al ... (1930–2011), American basketball coach * Scott Robertson (rugby union) (born 1974), New Zealand rugby coach * Scott Robertson (footballer, born 1985), Scottish football player (Dundee United, Hibernian, Botoșani) * Scott Robertson (footballer, born 1987), Scottish football player (Queen of the South, Partick Thistle, Stranraer) * Scott Robertson (footballer, born 2001), Scottish football player (Celtic and Crewe Alexandra) * Scott Robertson (diver) (born 1987), Australian diver {{hndis, Robertson, Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
