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The town has three state primary schools for Year 1 to 6 students: Allandale School, [42] [43] with a roll of 328, [44] Apanui School, [45] with a roll of 453, [46] and James Street School, [47] with a roll of 293. [48] There is one public state intermediate school for Year 7 to 8 students: Whakatane Intermediate, [49] with a roll of 585. [50]
Plans for a purpose-built hospital for the Whakatāne District on Stewart Street were drawn up in 1919 and 1920, and construction of the Whakatane District Hospital started in 1921. [1] The Anglican Māori Mission Hospital on Bridge Street served as a temporary hospital until the district hospital was opened on 13 September 1923.
Whakatane Road Board was established at the same time. The county was split into Whakatane and Opotiki counties in 1900, and the Road Board was made part of Whakatane County. In 1913, the Whakatane Harbour Board was established, and in 1914, Whakatane Town became a separate entity from Whakatane County. The town became Whakatane Borough in 1917.
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
Google Street View is the most comprehensive street view service in the world. It provides street view for more than 85 countries worldwide. Bee Maps, powered by Hivemapper is the fastest growing mapping company in the world, mapping 29% of the world (until November 2024). It provides high-quality commercial street level imagery and road ...
Google Maps Street View Trekker backpack being implemented on the sidewalk of the Hudson River Greenway in New York City. In late 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View, including 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) of the Australian Great Barrier Reef in 3D. The images are taken by special cameras which turn 360 degrees and take shots ...
The canoe started to drift back out to sea. Wairaka, the daughter of captain-navigator Toroa, seized the paddle, and brought the waka back to shore. She forbade the tapu forbidding women to handle canoes, shouting "Kia Whakatane au i ahau", translating as "I will act the part of a man"; this phrase is the origin of Whakatāne's name. [4] [5]
Whakatāne District Council or Whakatane District Council (Māori: Kia Whakatāne au i ahau) is the territorial authority for the Whakatāne District of New Zealand. [ 1 ] The council is led by the mayor of Whakatāne , who is currently Victor Luca .