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Te Rapa
Te Rapa is a mixed light industrial, large-scale retail and semi-rural suburb to the northwest of Hamilton Central, central Hamilton, New Zealand. It is built on a flat area that was previously the bed of an ancient river, the forerunner to the present Waikato River. Stretching in a long, thin north–south axis, Te Rapa is home to many factories including Te Rapa Dairy Factory, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Te Rapa has freight and locomotive depots on the North Island Main Trunk railway. History Te Rapa and neighbouring Pukete were important sites for the kauri gum trade of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, being some of the southern-most locations where gum could be found. Demographics Te Rapa covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Te Rapa had a population of 348 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 60 people (20.8%) since the 2018 New Zealand census, 2018 census, and an increase of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotokauri Railway Station
Rotokauri railway station (formerly Te Rapa railway station), also known as The Hub, is a railway station, park and ride, and bus station in north Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand serving Rotokauri and Te Rapa. Located on the North Island Main Trunk, it was previously a Request stop, flag station, and was closed in January 1971. It reopened as an integrated transport hub in 2021 as part of Te Huia services between Hamilton railway station, New Zealand, Hamilton and Papakura railway station, Papakura (extended to The Strand Station, The Strand in 2022). Services started on 6 April 2021. History Te Rapa Railway Station Opening with the Ngāruawāhia railway station, Newcastle to Hamilton extension of the railway from Britomart Transport Centre, Auckland on Wednesday 19 December 1877, Te Rapa railway station was originally south of Horotiu railway station, Horotiu (then named Pukete) and north of Hamilton railway station, New Zealand, Hamilton on the North Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakarimata Range
Hakarimata Range is a range of hills on the western edge of Ngāruawāhia township, Retrieved 2016 in the Waikato region of New Zealand, overlooking the confluence of the Waikato and Waipā Rivers. The Hakarimata Range is separated from the Taupiri Range by the Taupiri Gorge, through which the Waikato River flows. After the invasion of the Waikato, parts of the Hakarimatas were confiscated in 1864. of native forest on the range are protected as a scenic reserve. A council supported community group, the Hakarimata Restoration Trust, created in 2001, is helping care for the range. Location Although now usually applied to the hills immediately west of Ngāruawāhia, maps such as Hochstetter's of 1859, the 1925 geology map and 1944 one inch map show 'Hakarimata Range' as extending south to what is now SH23. Similarly, old accounts describe the Whatawhata- Raglan road as passing over the Hakarimatas. Name Hakarimata's name derives from a 17th-century feast, when Ngāti Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Base Carpark
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Ezy
Video Ezy was an Australian home video rental business that offered titles on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray, as well as console game, console video games, for rent. At its peak in the mid-2000s, Video Ezy had over 500 company-owned and franchised video rental shops in the country, and owned 40% of the Australian video rental market after taking over Blockbuster LLC, Blockbuster's Australian operations. The company also expanded internationally into New Zealand and Asia. In the late 2000s and 2010s the company saw significant store closures, and by 2020 the brand consisted solely of Automated retail, automated rental kiosks operating within Australia. In March 2021 Evolve Entertainment, the company managing Video Ezy's rental kiosks, entered liquidation. As with most video rental chains, the once dominant business's fall is largely attributed to the rise of Streaming service provider, online streaming services. History Video Ezy commenced trading in 1983, when Kevin Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horotiu
Horotiu is a small township on the west bank of the Waikato River in the Waikato District of New Zealand. It is on the Waikato Plains north of Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton and south of Ngāruawāhia. From early in the 20th century it developed around a freezing works and other industries. The North Island Main Trunk railway runs through the town, as did State Highway 1 (New Zealand), State Highway 1 until opening of part of the Waikato Expressway in 2013. An hourly bus runs between Huntly, New Zealand, Huntly and Hamilton. Name The name, Horotiu, seems to have been used interchangeably with Waikato River, or Pukete. Its first use for the current township seems to occur in 1864, shortly after the invasion of the Waikato. Until then, Horotiu was the name of the upper Waikato river, where its current became faster and of Horotiu pā, on its banks, near Cambridge, New Zealand, Cambridge. An 1858 map only shows the name as Horotiu Plains in the area near the pā. The name, Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Andrews, Hamilton
St Andrews is a suburb in north-western Hamilton in New Zealand. One of its main features is an 18-hole golf course built on an old flood plain on the west bank of the Waikato River. This area was regularly flooded before the construction of the Karapiro HEP dam further up river. Demographics Saint Andrews covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Saint Andrews had a population of 5,577 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 216 people (4.0%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 579 people (11.6%) since the 2013 census. There were 2,697 males, 2,850 females and 30 people of other genders in 2,055 dwellings. 3.5% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The median age was 35.6 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 1,071 people (19.2%) aged under 15 years, 1,140 (20.4%) aged 15 to 29, 2,484 (44.5%) aged 30 to 64, and 882 (15.8%) aged 65 or older. People could identify as more than one ethnicity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beerescourt
Beerescourt is a suburb in western Hamilton, New Zealand. It is named after Capt. G. B. Beere, who was granted land in the military settlement at the conclusion of the New Zealand Wars. He set up a fort, and the area became known as Beere's Fort. The name was eventually changed to Beerescourt. The suburb became a part of Hamilton in 1949 with the 5th boundary extension. The suburb is centred on a low hill, the location of the original fort and lies between State Highway 1 and the Waikato river giving ready access to the central business district and the riverside walkway. The hill and the riverside area give good elevated views. There is a small local shopping centre as well as quick access to shops along Te Rapa Straight. Demographics Beerescourt covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Beerescourt had a population of 2,325 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 105 people (4.7%) since the 2018 census, and an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawshaw, New Zealand
Crawshaw is a compact suburb, close to Te Rapa railway depot, in western Hamilton in New Zealand, and extended in the 2018 census to cover . Although sometimes referred to as a suburb in its own right, it is often described as being part of Nawton. The southern part of the suburb was developed about 1913, but the northern in the 1960s and 1970s. Housing New Zealand properties, tenanted by low income families have been reported to make up a majority of homes. Crawshaw Park was created between 1979 and 1985. It covers , includes some remnant kahikateas and forms a link in a green chain through Mooney Park, Bishops Lane Reserve, Crawshaw Park and Dominion Park. Demographics Crawshaw covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Crawshaw had a population of 3,261 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 12 people (0.4%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 372 people (12.9%) since the 2013 census. There were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Lake, New Zealand
Forest Lake is a suburb of Hamilton in New Zealand and was added to from around the 1930s. It is centred around Forest Lake Road, which is used by around 10,000 vehicles a day. For quite a long time there was swamp in a large part and this has now been drained but Lake Rotokaeo remains and the ground remains quite damp in parts. Forest Lake is named after the forest that once surrounded Rotokaeo. History Until the 1863 invasion of the Waikato, the area lay between the pās of Mangaharakeke and Kirikiriroa on the lands of Ngāti Wairere. After confiscation, farms were established on from Lake Rotoroa to Forest Lake Rd, owned by Thomas Jolly, and , to the north, owned by John Carey, a doctor with the 4th Waikato Regiment. The first housing was the Laurenson Settlement, on Forest Lake Road, near Walsh Street, built for workers between 1914 and 1921, under the Workers Dwellings Act 1910. The 1927 Hamilton map showed that most of Forest Lake had by then been built on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankton, Waikato
Frankton is a central suburb of the city of Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand. It is the site of the city's passenger Hamilton Railway Station, Waikato, railway station, a major industrial-commercial stretch of State Highway 1 (New Zealand)#Spur sections, State Highway 1C, and a commercial shopping area. Hamilton City Council (New Zealand)#History, Frankton Borough Council was formed in 1913, but merged with Hamilton in 1917, after a poll in 1916. Demographics Frankton covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Frankton had a population of 7,314 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 273 people (3.9%) since the 2018 New Zealand census, 2018 census, and an increase of 1,644 people (29.0%) since the 2013 New Zealand census, 2013 census. There were 3,609 males, 3,669 females and 36 people of non-binary gender, other genders in 2,739 dwellings. 3.9% of people identified as LGBTQ, LGBTIQ+. The median age wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotokauri
Rotokauri is a semi-rural locality in Waikato District in New Zealand. The outskirts of Rotokauri have an impressive orchid farm, all under glass, exporting blooms across the world, and providing ample local employment. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "kauri tree lake" for . Demographics Rotokauri covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Rotokauri had a population of 1,011 in the 2023 New Zealand census, a decrease of 6 people (−0.6%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 99 people (10.9%) since the 2013 census. There were 519 males and 492 females in 333 dwellings. 2.1% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The median age was 44.3 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 183 people (18.1%) aged under 15 years, 171 (16.9%) aged 15 to 29, 477 (47.2%) aged 30 to 64, and 183 (18.1%) aged 65 or older. People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irreligion In New Zealand
Irreligion in New Zealand refers to atheism, agnosticism, deism, religious scepticism and secular humanism in New Zealand society. Post-war New Zealand has become a highly secular country, meaning that religion does not play a major role in the lives of most people. Although New Zealand has no established religion, Christianity had been the most common religion since widespread European settlement in the 19th century. Demographics Statistics New Zealand gathers information on religious affiliation in the five-yearly census. Completing a census form is compulsory by law for every person in New Zealand on census night but respondents are able to object to answering the question of religious affiliation, and around 6% do object. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
