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The Time Act 1974 defines New Zealand Standard Time as 12 hours in advance of UTC. [12] In 2011, the New Zealand dependency of Tokelau moved its time zone forward by 24 hours, by skipping 30 December to be in the UTC+13:00 time zone, the same zone as New Zealand daylight saving. [13]
Most Māori live in the North Island (86.0 percent), although less than a quarter (23.8 percent) live in Auckland. [36] New Zealand is a predominantly urban country, with 84.2 percent of the population living in an urban area. About 64.6 percent of the population live in the 20 main urban areas (population of 30,000 or more) and 43.3 percent ...
The Governors: New Zealand's Governors and Governors-General. Dunedin: Otago University Press. ISBN 1-877372-25-0. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013; Moon, Paul (2010). New Zealand Birth Certificates – 50 of New Zealand's Founding Documents. AUT Media. ISBN 9780958299718.
The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2024b of the tz database. [2]
In 2006, from late September to early October, the airline moved employees out of the four buildings it occupied in Auckland CBD and relocated them to the new headquarters in the Wynyard Quarter. [31] In September 2003 Air New Zealand was the only one of the very largest corporations in New Zealand to have its headquarters within the Auckland CBD.
2 July: Bank of New Zealand incorporated at Auckland. 1862. The country's first electric telegraph line opens, between Christchurch and Lyttelton. First gold shipment from Dunedin to London. 1863. War resumes in Taranaki and begins in Waikato when General Cameron crosses the Mangatawhiri stream. New Zealand Settlements Act passed to effect land ...
Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ⓘ) [i] are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand ().Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. [13]
The model of local government introduced after New Zealand became a British colony in 1840 had nothing in common with the tribal system practised by Māori. [2] The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, a British Act of Parliament, established six provinces in New Zealand—Auckland, New Plymouth (later to be renamed Taranaki), Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago—based on the six original ...