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Hakatere
Fairton is a town in the Ashburton District, New Zealand. According to the 2001 New Zealand census it had a population of 1185, of which 612 were male and 573 were female. The Newlands School house, opened near Rangiora in 1880, was moved to Fairton in 1901. The school moved to a new location donated by a local business in 1968. Marae Hakatere Marae has occupied the original Fairton School building on State Highway 1 since 1970, two years after the school left the site. It held Waitangi Day events from 1973, and incorporated a hangi into the annual holiday from 1974. The land was officially purchased by the Mid Canterbury Māori Committee in 1975. The marae is named after the nearby Ashburton River. The original school house and ''wharenui'' (meeting house) was destroyed by fire in 2003. A new $300,000 ''wharekai'' (dining hall) was completed in 2007, the entranceway was widened in 2008, and a new multi-use conference building was completed in 2009. The Ministry of Health (N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashburton District
Ashburton District is a territorial authority district in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand. It encompasses the town of Ashburton, a number of small towns and settlements and the surrounding rural area, roughly coterminous with Mid Canterbury. The district had a population of as of . Geography Ashburton District extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Southern Alps, and from the Rangitata River to the Rakaia River, including the towns of Methven, Mount Somers, and Rakaia. The Hakatere Conservation Park covers a large area of the lower mountains, including Mount Hutt skifield, popular tramping area Mount Somers / Te Kiekie and the Ashburton Lakes. Demographics Ashburton District covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Ashburton District had a population of 33,423 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 2,382 people (7.7%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 6,051 people (22.1%) since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |