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John Colin Scott was born in Haumoana, Hawke’s Bay on 9 June 1924, the third of seven children of Kathleen Hiraani Blake and Charles Hudson Scott, a farmer. His mother and father both had British ancestry, while his father was also a descendant of Te Arawa. John Scott had a typical Hawke's Bay childhood, riding to Haumona School on horseback.
Tasman Bay (Māori: Te Tai-o-Aorere; officially Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere), originally known in English as Blind Bay, is a large V-shaped bay at the north end of New Zealand's South Island. Located in the centre of the island's northern coast, it stretches along 120 kilometres (75 mi) of coastline and is 70 kilometres (43 mi) across at its ...
Covering some 4,000 km 2 (1,500 sq mi) of sounds, islands, and peninsulas, the Marlborough Sounds lie at the South Island's north-easternmost point, between Tasman Bay in the west and Cloudy Bay in the south-east. The almost fractal coastline has 1/10 of the length of New Zealand's coasts. [3]
This building was the focus of social and symbolic Maori assemblies, and made visible a long tribal history. The wall slabs depicted warriors, chiefs and explorers. The painted rafter patterns and tukutuku panels demonstrated the Māori love for land, forest and river.
The business was bought in 2012 by Te Arawa Group Holdings, a local Maori tribal business, from the Sewell/Leinhardt family, who had run it for 30 years. [ 5 ] New Zealand State Highway 38 begins at Waiotapu and runs south-east through Kaingaroa Forest to Murupara .
Tītahi Bay (previously known as Titahi Bay) is a suburb of Porirua in metropolitan Wellington, in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It lies at the foot of a short peninsula on the west coast of the Porirua Harbour , to the north of Porirua city centre.
The Regional Park includes a golf course along Coast Road, and the area north of Ōkiritoto Stream is known as the "Five Mile Strip" or "Five Mile Block" as this is its approximate length. A horse park (parking area for horse floats and trucks to unload) is located just to the south of Ōkiritoto Stream. 4WD access on to the beach is also ...
Rākauroa / Torrent Bay at Abel Tasman National Park. Covering an area of 237 km 2 (92 sq mi; 59,000 acres), [13] the park is the smallest of New Zealand's national parks. [2] It consists of forested, hilly country to the north of the valleys of the Tākaka and Riwaka Rivers, and is bounded to the north by the waters of Golden Bay / Mohua and ...