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Captain Henry Cain statue in Timaru Captain Henry Cain (1816 – 29 January 1886) was the second Mayor of Timaru . He was at sea from age 13 and was one of Timaru's first settlers, where he lived for his last 30 years.
The Timaru Herald is a daily provincial newspaper serving the Timaru, South Canterbury and North Otago districts of New Zealand. The current audited daily circulation is about 14,500 copies, with a readership of about 31,000 people.
Twice, in 1943 and 1969, by-elections were avoided after the deaths in election years of Paraire Karaka Paikea and Ralph Hanan by passing special acts, the By-election Postponement Act 1943 and the By-election Postponement Act 1969. When a death occurs close enough to a general election, the seat is left vacant, to be filled again at the ...
Timaru is one of the major cargo ports of the South Island, with a number of light manufacturing plants associated with the export and import trade. Many of these producers are concerned with processing, packing, and distributing meat, dairy and other agricultural produce. Timaru is the second largest fishing port in New Zealand.
Allan James Hubbard QSO (23 March 1928 – 2 September 2011) was a New Zealand businessman who lived in Timaru in the South Island of New Zealand, and was the founder of South Canterbury Finance, New Zealand's largest locally owned finance company. [3]
On 9 November, Mayor of Westland Helen Lash declares a state of emergency in southern Westland after the region experienced 375 mm of rain in the past 24 hours. [88] Heavy rainfall had led to road closures including New Zealand State Highway 6 between Haast and Franz Josef, and homes being flooded in Haast. [89] [90] 2024: Wildfire: Bridge Hill ...
Wood was born in Timaru on 28 March 1874, the son of Charles Walkden Wood. Educated in Lyttelton, he first worked as a mechanical engineer at Lyttelton, and then became involved in the cycle trade in Christchurch. He married Edith Susan Harris, a daughter of Thomas Harris of Timaru, in September 1899, and they had one son. [4]
He spent most of his life in the South Island, largely at Timaru where he eventually became the editor of The Timaru Herald newspaper. He was a committed and talented amateur scientist who published several papers, most significantly in the publications of the New Zealand Institute (the forerunner of the Royal Society of New Zealand ).