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Ngāhinapōuri
Ngāhinapōuri is a rural community in the Waipa District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located on State Highway 39, between Whatawhata and Pirongia. The rural area of Koromatua is located to the north, near the Hamilton suburb of Temple View. The Ngāhinapōuri area and surrounding Ōhaupō, Te Rore and Harapēpē area were military outposts during the Waikato War. Military fortifications were built at the settlement and nearby Tuhikaramea and Te Rore in December 1863; Another fortification was built to the north-east, north of Ōhaupō, in April 1864. The earliest European settlers in this area were Bohemian militiamen from the Pūhoi settlement north of Auckland. As of 2015, many descendants of these militiamen still lived in the area. The area was previously serviced by the nearby Ohaupo railway station on the North Island Main Trunk A nine-hole golf course has been operating in the settlement since the 1940s. Ngāhinapōuri Hall replaced a sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand State Highway 39
State Highway 39 (SH 39) is a New Zealand state highway that forms a western bypass of the city of Hamilton. Gazetted in 1999, it is a generally quicker route to get between Auckland and New Plymouth as well as connecting to the Waitomo Caves, just south of the SH 39 southern terminus. The southernmost 14 km section has a concurrency with , as this highway has existed for much longer (SH 31 continues west to Kawhia). Route SH 39 begins at on the Te Rapa section of the Waikato Expressway at Koura Drive, just north of the city of Hamilton. It veers south briefly before reaching a roundabout junction where it follows Te Kowhai Road westbound, eventually changing to Limmer Road. At the intersection of Horotiu Road SH 39 veers south (the northbound road formed the previous SH 39 route) until the intersection with at Whatawhata. It shares a brief concurrency, turning left into SH 23, then immediately right back onto SH 39 southbound. Following Kakaramea Road, the highway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Rore
Te Rore was in the 1850s an important transhipment point on New Zealand's Waipā River, between the Rangiaowhia#Crops, agriculture of the Waikato basin and its Auckland market. That was ended in 1864 by the Invasion of the Waikato, when Te Rore was, for a few months, part of the supply route to four Redoubt, redoubts set up nearby. It is now a rural community in the Waipa District, north of Pirongia and roughly the same distance south of Ngāhinapōuri on New Zealand State Highway 39, State Highway 39. Early history Between 1450 and 1750 Ngāti Puhiawe#Other hapū, Ngāti Puhiawe built Pā#Swamp p%C4%81, swamp pās of 2100, and a smaller pā, around Lake Mangakaware. Many artefacts have been found in and around the lake, including beaters, pounders, paddles, fishing and eeling equipment, spears, weaving sticks, digging-sticks, spades, paddles, canoes, adze handles, weapons, rafters and palisades. The Waipā River and its streams were lined with pā sites, those at Te Rore bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waipā River
The Waipā River is in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. The headwaters are in the Rangitoto Range east of Te Kuiti. It flows north for , passing through Ōtorohanga and Pirongia, before flowing into the Waikato River at Ngāruawāhia. It is the Waikato's largest tributary. The Waipā's main tributary is the Puniu River. In the headwaters upstream of Ōtorohanga the river can be very clear during low flow conditions. This section of the river flows through rough farmland and patches of native bush. In this clearer part of the river there can be very good fly fishing for trout but access to the river may be limited without landowner permission. The Waipā is prone to flooding in its lower reaches as flood flows can be over 100 times——those of dry flows and the river can rise up to . In 2013 Maniapoto Māori Trust Board and the riparian local councils set up a joint management agreement for the river, following the passing of Nga Wai o Maniapoto ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōhaupō
Ōhaupō is a rural community in the Waipa District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located on State Highway 3, about halfway between Hamilton and Te Awamutu. The Ōhaupō area and surrounding Ngāhinapōuri, Te Rore and Harapēpē area were military outposts during the Waikato War and a military fortification was built about one kilometre north of the township in April 1864. Other military fortifications had been built at nearby Ngāhinapōuri, Tuhikaramea and Te Rore four months earlier, in December 1863. The earliest European settlers in Ōhaupō were Bohemian militiamen from the Pūhoi settlement north of Auckland. As of 2015, many descendants of these militiamen still lived in the area. In July 2020, the name of the locality was officially gazetted as Ōhaupō by the New Zealand Geographic Board. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of a breeze at night" for . The Ohaupo railway station was a train st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple View
Temple View is a suburb of the city of Hamilton, New Zealand. Temple View was established in the 1950s out of the construction of the Hamilton New Zealand Temple and the Church College of New Zealand by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Access to the suburb is through Dinsdale, and then along Tuhikaramea Road. In 2018 the College was demolished and it was planned to put about 200 houses on the site. Demographics Temple View covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Temple View had a population of 1,185 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 6 people (0.5%) since the 2013 census, and a decrease of 159 people (−11.8%) since the 2006 census. There were 312 households, comprising 570 males and 615 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.93 males per female. The median age was 30.2 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 333 people (28.1%) aged under 15 years, 255 (21.5%) aged 15 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whatawhata
Whatawhata, previously also spelt Whata Whata, is a small town in the Waikato region on the east bank of the Waipā River, at the junction of State Highways 23 and 39, from Hamilton. Te Araroa tramping route passes through Whatawhata. History and culture Pre-European history Whatawhata was a Ngāti Māhanga village and there are still Te Papa-o-Rotu and Ōmaero maraes on the west bank of the river. In early colonial times Whatawhata was one of many sites in Waikato with a flour mill. It was built in 1855 and producing flour by the end of that year. The area must have been suited to wheat, for there was another mill about downstream, at Karakariki, by 1860. European settlement British troops arrived at Whatawhata over land and by river, as part of the Invasion of the Waikato, on 28 December 1863. Whatawhata was described as having no end of peach trees, which the soldiers stripped of their fruit. Within a year a telegraph line had been built. A 1915 guide described What ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity In New Zealand
Christianity in New Zealand dates to the arrival of missionaries from the Church Missionary Society who were welcomed onto the beach at Rangihoua Bay in December 1814. It soon became the predominant belief amongst the indigenous people with an estimated 60% of Māori pledging allegiance to the Christian message within the first 35 years. It remains New Zealand's largest religious group despite there being no official state church. Today, slightly less than half the population identify as Christian. The largest Christian groups are Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian. Christian organisations are the leading non-government providers of social services in New Zealand. History The first Christian services conducted in New Zealand were carried out by Father Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix, the Dominican chaplain on the ship ''Saint Jean Baptiste'' commanded by the French navigator and explorer Jean-François-Marie de Surville. Villefeix was the first Christian minister to set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pākehā
Pākehā (or Pakeha; ; ) is a Māori term for New Zealanders primarily of European descent. Pākehā is not a legal concept and has no definition under New Zealand law. The term can apply to fair-skinned persons, or to any non-Māori New Zealander. Papa'a has a similar meaning in Cook Islands Māori. Historically before the arrival of other ethnic groups the word Māori meant 'ordinary' or 'normal'. The arrival of Europeans led to the formation of a new term to distinguish the self-regarded 'ordinary' or 'normal' Māori from the new arrivals. The etymology of the word ''Pākehā'' remains unclear, but the term was in use by the late-18th century. In December 1814 the Māori children at Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands were "no less eager to see the ''packaha'' than the grown folks". In Māori, plural noun-phrases of the term include (the definite article) and (the indefinite article). When the word was first adopted into English, the usual plural was 'Pakehas'. However, spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori People
The Māori (, ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed their own distinctive culture, whose language, mythology, crafts, and performing arts evolved independently from those of other eastern Polynesian cultures. Some early Māori moved to the Chatham Islands, where their descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori. Initial contact between Māori and Europeans, starting in the 18th century, ranged from beneficial trade to lethal violence; Māori actively adopted many technologies from the newcomers. With the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted for a generation. Rising tensions over disputed land sales led to conflict in the 1860s, and massive land confiscations, to which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian New Zealanders
Asian New Zealanders are New Zealanders of Asian ancestry (including naturalised New Zealanders who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). Terminology In the New Zealand census, the term refers to a pan-ethnic group that includes diverse populations who have ancestral origins in East Asia (e.g. Chinese New Zealanders, Korean New Zealanders, Japanese New Zealanders), Southeast Asia (e.g. Filipino New Zealanders, Vietnamese New Zealanders, Malaysian New Zealanders), and South Asia (e.g. Nepalese New Zealanders, Indian New Zealanders, Sri Lankan New Zealanders, Bangladeshi New Zealanders, Pakistani New Zealanders). Notably, New Zealanders of West Asian and Central Asian ancestry are excluded from this term. Colloquial usage of ''Asian'' in New Zealand excludes Indians and other peoples of South Asian descent. ''Asian'' as used by Statistics New Zealand includes South Asian ethnic group. The first Asians in New Zealand were Chinese wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinduism In New Zealand
Hinduism is the second largest religion in New Zealand. It is also one of the fastest-growing religions in New Zealand. According to the 2018 census, Hindus form 2.65% of the population of New Zealand. There are about 123,534 Hindus in New Zealand. Hindus from all over India continue to immigrate today, with the largest Indian ethnic subgroup being Gujaratis. A later wave of immigrants also includes Hindu immigrants who were of Indian descent from nations that were historically under European colonial rule, such as Fiji. Today there are Hindu temples in all major New Zealand cities. History Early settlement In 1836 the missionary William Colenso saw Māori women near Whangarei using a broken bronze bell to boil potatoes. The inscription is in very old Tamil script. This discovery has led to speculation that Tamil-speaking Hindus may have visited New Zealand hundreds of years ago. However, the first noted settlement of Hindus in New Zealand dates back to the arrival of sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasifika New Zealanders
Pasifika New Zealanders are a pan-ethnic group of New Zealanders associated with, and descended from, the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands outside of New Zealand itself (also known as Pacific Islanders). They form the fourth-largest ethnic grouping in the country, after European-descended Pākehā, indigenous Māori, and Asian New Zealanders. There are over 380,000 Pasifika people in New Zealand, with the majority living in Auckland. 8% of the population of New Zealand identifies as being of Pacific origin. History Prior to the Second World War Pasifika in New Zealand numbered only a few hundred. Wide-scale Pasifika migration to New Zealand began in the 1950s and 1960s, typically from countries associated with the Commonwealth and the Realm of New Zealand, including Western Samoa (modern-day Samoa), the Cook Islands and Niue. In the 1970s, governments (both Labour and National), migration officials, and special police squads targeted Pasifika illegal overstayers. Paci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
