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English: This is handwritten Māori Dictionary, by William John Warburton Hamilton, containing lists of words in Māori and their English translations. The document is 41 pages long. The document is 41 pages long.
Tourism contributed $57 million to total GDP in Kaikoura District in 2020, and was the top overall category, contributing 24.8% of district GDP. [36] In 2023, tourism provided 27.6% of jobs in Kaikōura District in 2023, with accommodation and food services representing another 18.5%.
In terms of its provincial anniversary holiday, Kaikōura observes the anniversary of Marlborough Province due to its historic association.This meant that the public holiday established through the Canterbury Earthquake Commemoration Day Act 2011 did not apply in Kaikōura District, as it only applied to the area where the Canterbury Anniversary Day is observed.
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, a Category 2 Historic Place in Kaikōura. The Kaikōura District is a territorial authority of New Zealand located along the eastern coast of the South Island in northern Canterbury. The region was historically an important Māori settlement area from the earliest period of inhabitation. European inhabitation began in the 1840s with the establishment of whaling ...
Māori oral history and tradition describes the demi-god ancestor Māui standing on Kaikōura Peninsula where he "fished up" or discovered the North Island.An old name for the South Island is Te Waka a Māui (the canoe of Māui), and the name of the North Island is Te Ika a Māui (the fish of Māui). [1]
View over Greater Tauranga, taken from the top of Mount Maunganui. Thousands of Māori placenames (with or without anglicisation) are now official in New Zealand.These include:
Hōri Mahue Ngata (8 August 1919 – 15 February 1989) was a New Zealand Ngāti Porou farmer, railway worker, workers’ camp supervisor, accountant, lexicographer. His parents were Mākarini Tānara Ngata, a farmer, who was the eldest son of Sir Āpirana Ngata, and Maraea Mereana Baker.
Bruce Grandison Biggs CBE FRSNZ (4 September 1921 – 18 October 2000) was an influential figure in the academic field of Māori studies in New Zealand. The first academic appointed (1950) to teach the Māori language at a New Zealand university, he taught and trained a whole generation of Māori academics.