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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]
In 2017, Waikato Times journalist Aaron Leaman was the joint winner of the Senior nib Health Journalism Scholarship at the Voyager Media Awards. Leaman also won Regional Journalist of the Year at the same event. [20] In 2018, Waikato Times journalist Ruby Nyika won Student Journalist of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards. The same year, Donna ...
South Waikato District had a population of 25,044 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 1,002 people (4.2%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 2,973 people (13.5%) since the 2013 census. There were 12,444 males, 12,540 females and 66 people of other genders in 9,075 dwellings. [6] 2.2% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The median ...
In Waikato an 'on-time' service is defined as being no more than 59 seconds early and no more than 4 minutes and 59 seconds late. During 2019-2020 overall punctuality improved from 60.35% of buses to 73.3%. One route dropped as low as 21.62%, [233] but improved when timings were eased by 10 minutes from 4 March 2019. [304]
Putāruru is a small town in the South Waikato District [3] and the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It lies on the western side of the Mamaku Ranges and in the upper basin of the Waihou River. It is on the Oraka Stream [4] 65 kilometres south-east of Hamilton. State Highway 1 and the Kinleith Branch railway run through the town. [5]
Matamata-Piako District had a population of 37,098 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 2,694 people (7.8%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 5,562 people (17.6%) since the 2013 census. There were 18,360 males, 18,654 females and 81 people of other genders in 14,049 dwellings. [5] 2.1% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The ...
Arapuni is a rural town centre on the Waikato river in the South Waikato District of New Zealand. The town sits next to the Arapuni Dam, a hydroelectric dam at Lake Arapuni commissioned in 1929. The Arapuni Power Station consists of eight turbines which give a total output of 196 MW, the largest of the power stations on the Waikato river.
Waikato Region This is a list of localities in Waikato as defined by government agency Statistics New Zealand in 2013, listed by the territorial authorities to which each locality belongs. Waikato is a region of New Zealand in the central North Island which reaches from coast to coast and from Coromandel Peninsula in the north to Lake Taupō and King Country in the south. Many boundaries and ...