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The main shock was preceded for two weeks by earthquake swarms in two areas of the Bay of Plenty. A swarm started on 21 February off-shore from Maketu, near Te Puke, 40 kilometres from the main shock's epicentre, and another swarm started on 26 February between Matata and Thornton, very close to the epicentre.
In 1962, the Whakatane Beacon newspaper published one of Tuwhare's poems. It began: Up at the dam site, at Te Mahoe, among the clatter of pneumatic drills, the settling dust and the raw earth, a man is writing poetry. [5] His first book was published two years later, in 1964, to immediate critical acclaim. [6]
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The original company name was Radio Whakatane but changed to Radio Bay Of Plenty in 1978 when the station's AM frequency also changed to 1242 kHz. In the mid-late 1970s 1XX 1240 was also known on air from time to time as Coastline Radio, Coastline One 24, Coastline 1-2-4, One 24 Double X or Coastline Double X. 1XX began broadcasting on 90.5 MHz ...
There is one public state intermediate school for Year 7 to 8 students: Whakatane Intermediate, [49] with a roll of 585. [50] Whakatāne also has two state-integrated Christian primary schools for Year 1 to 8 students: St Joseph's Catholic School, [51] with a roll of 261, [52] and Whakatane Seventh-day Adventist School, [53] with a roll of 47. [54]
KiMi Robinson, USA TODAY December 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM Chuck Norris announced on Friday that his 103-year-old mom, Wilma Norris Knight, had died earlier in the week.
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