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The bay is the possible location of Cerne, a Carthaginian outpost founded by Hanno the Navigator around 500 B.C. The first European to visit the bay was Nuno Tristão in 1443, after which the remainder of the bay was explored. The area is also known as the place where the French frigate Méduse was famously wrecked in 1816. [1]
On 12 July, The New Zealand Herald reported that the Government's urgent review would cover the Hawke's Bay Regional Council's management of the Wairoa river bar following "significant" concerns raised by the local community. [18] On 11 September, Mike Bush's urgent review was released. The report concluded that the Hawke's Bay Regional Council ...
The following is a list of governmental and public sector scandals in New Zealand.While New Zealand generally scores very well on international indices of corruption, there have been several notable high-profile scandals including cases of cover-ups relating to politics, economics, or public sector debacles, or to the private lives of individual government representatives.
Water pollution in New Zealand is an increasing concern for those who use and care for waterways and for New Zealand regulatory bodies. [1] An increase in population is linked to an increase in water pollution , due to a range of causes such as rural land use, industrial use and urban development. [ 2 ]
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A similar problem arose in the early 1980s, some 10 years before New Zealand and for similar reasons [34] in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is commonly known in Canada as the Leaky condo crisis and has been an ongoing issue that is estimated to have caused $4 billion in damage since the 1980s.
A memorial plaque was unveiled in April 1996. In 1998 the track re-opened to the public, new stairs replaced the old ones, but the viewing platform was not rebuilt. The platform space has a fence around it and warning signs. In 1996 New Zealand composer John Dylan wrote an orchestral piece, "Cave Creek 95 - An Elegy" in recognition of the event.
Water pollution in Canterbury, New Zealand has become a major environmental issue, largely due to pollution from agricultural sources, but also industrial and urban sources. Water resources are under the jurisdiction of the Environment Canterbury under the Resource Management Act (RMA); water abstraction and use for irrigation purposes requires ...