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Ōhiwa
Ōhiwa is a rural settlement in the Ōpōtiki District and Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is on a headland on the eastern side of Ōhiwa Harbour, and on the western side of the Waiotahe River mouth. The New Zealand Geographic Board officially included the macron in the name from 16 July 2020. The Ferry Hotel was opened at Ōhiwa in 1873, together with a ferry service to Ōhope. A post office opened in the growing town in 1877. Unstable sand and erosion from 1915 destroyed the town. A second attempt to create sections for baches in the 1960s was also lost to erosion in 1978. Onekawa Te Mawhai Regional Park was created on the headland in 2010. It incorporates areas of archaeological importance from long Māori use of the area, including Onekawa pā. A local campground provides accommodation. Demographics Ōhiwa is described by Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement, which covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōhiwa Harbour
Ōhiwa Harbour is a natural harbour in New Zealand. It is located between the settlement of Ōhope in the Whakatāne District and Ōhiwa in the Ōpōtiki District of the Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand. Geography The Ōhiwa Harbour is a drowned valley system. The bedrock of the Ōhiwa Harbour consists predominantly of greywacke, and dates from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous periods. The overlying deposits date from the Pleistocene, as well as pumice and volcanic ash from volcanic eruptions from the Rotorua and Taupo volcanic centres. In prehistoric times, the harbour was fed by a river larger than the current tributaries that enter the harbour. The harbour's catchment is a mix of farmland and remnant coastal forest, dominated by pōhutukawa and pūriri, and features a remnant sea-level stand of an alpine southern beech (''Nothofagus solandri'') exists at the head of the harbour. Onekawa Te Mawhai Regional Park is located on the northeastern shores of the harbour. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōhope
Ōhope is a coastal town situated on the northeastern coast of the Eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island. It is six kilometres east of Whakatāne, and is located between Ōhiwa Harbour to the south and Ōhope Beach to the north, providing views of both. Name The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of hemain body of an army" for . On 10 October 1974, the name of the settlement was formally changed from Ohope Beach to Ohope. On 21 June 2019, the official name of the town was changed to Ōhope (with a macron) by the New Zealand Geographic Board. Demographics Ōhope covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Ōhope had a population of 3,177 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 330 people (11.6%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 324 people (11.4%) since the 2006 census. There were 1,350 households, comprising 1,545 males and 1,632 females, giving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōpōtiki District
Ōpōtiki District is a Districts of New Zealand, territorial authority district in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region on the North Island of New Zealand. It stretches from Kutarere and the eastern shore of Ōhiwa Harbour in the west to Cape Runaway in the north-east, and south from Ōpōtiki town up the Waioeka River into the Raukumara Range. Ōpōtiki District Council is headquartered in Ōpōtiki, the largest town. The district has an area of 3101 square kilometres, of which 3090 square kilometres are land. The population was as of Council history The Whakatane County Council established in 1876 included Ōpōtiki. Opotiki became a Town District in 1882. Opotiki County separated from Whakatane County in 1899 or 1900, and Opotiki town became a borough in 1908 or 1911. The borough and county merged in 1973. In the 1989 local government reforms, some parts of the Opotiki district became part of Whakatane District again. Geography Ōpōtiki District is bounded on one long side b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onekawa Te Mawhai Regional Park
Onekawa Te Mawhai Regional Park is a protected area at Ōhiwa in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island, owned and managed by Bay of Plenty Regional Council in partnership with the Upokorehe hapū. Geography The park is located in the Ōpōtiki District, to the northeast of the Ōhiwa Harbour. The park covers , with views to Kohi Point in the west across Ōhiwa Harbour, and east towards East Cape. The park includes several culturally and archaeologically important sites to Upokorehe, including Onekawa Pā. Features Onekawa Pā is the central feature of the park. A 90-minute walking track leads through ancient pūriri and other native bush to the top of the pā, and then through a working farm to Bryans Beach and back to the carpark. A side track leads to a waterfall and glowworms. Horse trekking, camping, motorbikes, mountain bikes, fires, rubbish and unleashed dogs are banned to protect historic sites in the area. Bryans Beach is also a swimming spot durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waiotahe
Waiotahe (formerly written Waiotahi) is a beach, settlement and rural community in the Ōpōtiki District and Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island, near the mouth and lowermost stretch of the Waiotahe River. It includes a beach that attracts swimmers, surfers and anglers during the summer months, and river mouths that people fish from year-round. The beach is more dangerous during low tide due to stronger rips, but has natural hazards in all conditions. Ōpōtiki District Council has banned vehicles from the mudflats of the Waiotahe estuary and a section of Waiotahe Beach. The council allows vehicles at other beaches, unlike most other New Zealand councils. The town's official name reverted from ''Waiotahi'' back to the original Māori name ''Waiotahe'' in August 2015, following a decision by Land Information Minister Louise Upston, upheld by the New Zealand Geographic Board. History In July 2013, a couple in their 60s were attacked and held captive in their Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of New Zealand
New Zealand is divided into sixteen regions for local government in New Zealand, local government purposes. Eleven are administered by regional councils, and five are administered by Unitary authority#New Zealand, unitary authorities, which are territorial authorities of New Zealand, territorial authorities that also perform the functions of regional councils. Although technically a district but classed as a territory, The Chatham Islands Territory is outside the regions and is administered by the Chatham Islands Council, which is similar to a unitary authority, authorised under its own legislation. Current regions History and statutory basis The regional councils are listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Local Government Act 2002, along with reference to the ''New Zealand Gazette, Gazette'' notices that established them in 1989. The act requires regional councils to promote sustainable developmentthe social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of their communitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Religion Of Māori People
The Māori people, Māori people have a Polynesian mythology, Polynesian religion that, prior to the introduction of Christianity in New Zealand, Christianity to New Zealand was the main religious belief for Māori. By 1845, more than half of the Māori population attended church and Christianity remains the largest religion for Māori. Very few Māori still follow traditional Māori religion, although many elements of it are still observed. Several Māori religious movements have been born out of Christianity, such as the Ratana movement. Traditional Māori religion Traditional Māori religion, that is, the pre-European belief-system of the Māori people , Māori, differed little from that of their perceived homeland, Hawaiki, Hawaiki Nui, aka Raʻiātea or Raiatea, conceiving of everything – including natural elements and all living things – as connected by common descent through whakapapa or genealogy. Accordingly, Māori regarded all things as possessing a life force ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity In New Zealand
Christianity in New Zealand dates to the arrival of missionary, 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 over half of Māori people, Māori regularly attending church services within the first 30 years. Christianity remains New Zealand's largest religious group, but no one denomination is dominant and there is no official state church. According to the 2018 New Zealand census, 2018 census 38.17% of the population identified as Christians, Christian. The largest Christian groups are Anglican Church in New Zealand, Anglican, Catholic Church in New Zealand, Catholic and Presbyterian Church in New Zealand, Presbyterian. Christian organisations are the leading non-government providers of social services in New Zealand. History The first Christian church service, service conducted in New Zealand waters was probably to be carried out by F ... [...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). At the 2023 census, 861,573 New Zealanders identified as being of Asian ethnicity, making up 17.3% of New Zealand's population. The first Asians in New Zealand were Chinese workers who migrated to New Zealand to work in the gold mines in the 1860s. The modern period of Asian immigration began in the 1970s when New Zealand relaxed its restrictive policies to attract migrants from Asia. Terminology Under Statistics New Zealand classification, the term refers to a pan-ethnic group that includes diverse populations who have ancestral origins in East Asia (e.g. Chinese, Korean, Japanese), Southeast Asia (e.g. Filipino, Vietnamese, Malaysian), and South Asia (e.g. Nepalese, Indian (incl. Indo-Fijians), Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, Pakistani). New Zealanders of West Asian and Central Asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori People
Māori () are the Indigenous peoples of Oceania, indigenous Polynesians, Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of Māori migration canoes, canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed Māori culture, a distinct 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. Early 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, Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted for a generation. Rising ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pākehā
''Pākehā'' (or ''Pakeha''; ; ) is a Māori language, Māori-language word used in English, particularly in New Zealand. It generally means a non-Polynesians, Polynesian New Zealanders, New Zealander or more specifically a European New Zealanders, European New Zealander. It is not a legal term and has no definition under New Zealand law. ''Papa'a'' has a similar meaning in Cook Islands Māori. Etymology and history The etymology of is uncertain. The most likely sources are the Māori words or , which refer to an oral tale of a "mythical, human like being, with fair skin and hair who possessed canoes made of reeds which changed magically into sailing vessels". When Europeans first arrived they rowed to shore in longboats, facing backwards: In traditional Māori canoes or , paddlers face the direction of travel. This is supposed to have led to the belief by some, that the sailors were ''patupaiarehe'' (supernatural beings). There have been several dubious interpretati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 New Zealand Census
The New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings () is a national population and housing census conducted by Statistics New Zealand, a government department, every five years. There have been 34 censuses since 1851 New Zealand census, 1851. In addition to providing detailed information about national demographics, the results of the census play an important part in the calculation of resource allocation to local service providers. The 2023 New Zealand census, 2023 census held on 7 March 2023 was the most recent, with the results being released from 29 May 2024 to August 2025. Census date Since 1926, the census has always been held on a Tuesday and since 1966, the census always occurs in March. These are statistically the month and weekday on which New Zealanders are least likely to be travelling. The census forms have to be returned by midnight on census day for them to be valid. Conducting the census Until 2018, census forms were hand-delivered by census workers during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
