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The Kaimai Windfarm project is to establish a wind farm on the 1,304- hectares subject site close to major users of electricity in the Auckland-Waikato-Bay of Plenty triangle, and close to Transpower's transmission line. The project involves the establishment of 24 large scale wind turbines, with 17 having a tip height of 220m, rotor diameter ...
In the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki and West Coast regions, dairy cattle predominate. Through the rest of New Zealand, sheep farming is the major rural activity, with beef cattle farming in the hills and high country, and dairying increasing in Canterbury , Otago and Southland .
By the late 1990s, there were four co-operatives: the Waikato-based New Zealand Dairy Group, the Taranaki-based Kiwi Co-operative Dairies, the Hokitika-based Westland Milk Products and Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company. [8] In 1988, due to the effects of Cyclone Bola, many farms in Taranaki converted from agriculture to dairy farming. [12]
The Waiterimu Solar Farm is a proposed photovoltaic power station in the Waiterimu Valley, near Ohinewai in the Waikato District of New Zealand. The farm will be owned by Island Green Power Ltd. When complete the farm will cover 380 hectares and generate 300 GWh/year of electricity. [1] The project has been opposed by local residents. [2] [3]
Lichfield is a rural settlement in the South Waikato District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. [1] The community is centred around the Lichfield Fonterra facility, which opened in 1995. [2] The factory features the largest cheese factory in the southern hemisphere, [3] consisting of separate dry salt and brine salt plants. [4]
Ngāi Tahu Holdings Corporation Limited is owned by the Ngāi Tahu iwi of the South Island of the New Zealand. Its main interests are in tourism, fisheries, property and forestry and it is among the wealthiest iwi in New Zealand. Ngāi Tahu annually contributes more than $200 million to the South Island economy. [4]
However, they didn't move there until 1889 [12] and the farm was for sale 3 years later. [13] Their son, Egerton Peacocke, took on the farm in 1905 and cleared much of the bush to form a dairy farm. His brother Noel, an architect, designed a new homestead, built in 1912.
Territorial authorities in Waikato region before 2010. The Waikato (/ ˈ w aɪ k ɑː t ɔː /) is a region of the upper North Island of New Zealand. It covers the Waikato District, Waipa District, Matamata-Piako District, South Waikato District and Hamilton City, as well as Hauraki, Coromandel Peninsula, the northern King Country, much of the Taupō District, and parts of the Rotorua Lakes ...