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Rātana Pā, or Ratana Community, [a] is a town in the North Island of New Zealand, near Whanganui and Marton in the Manawatū-Whanganui region. The locality was the farm of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana, the founder of a Māori religious and political movement, and the settlement developed in the 1920s as followers came to see Rātana.
The Ruaka Hall at Ranana, Whanganui River, New Zealand. Ranana is a settlement 60 kilometres (37 mi) up the Whanganui River from Whanganui, New Zealand.. Originally known as Kauika, it grew after 1848 as local Māori moved out of fortified pā settlements in peacetime. [1]
After ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote the Tablets of the Divine Plan which mentions New Zealand [6] the community grew quickly so that the first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly of the country was attempted in 1923 [7] or 1924 [8] and then succeeded in 1926. The Baháʼís of New Zealand elected their first independent National Spiritual Assembly in ...
In 2011, the event moved from the Wanganui Central Baptist Church, where it had been held for 6 years, to the School Hall at Wanganui City College. Then in 2012, YOTN IX was moved to the War Memorial Hall Convention Centre which seats 1500 people, where the conference was held until 2015. [3]
Manawatū-Whanganui [5] ([manawaˈtʉː ˈʔwaŋanʉi]; spelled Manawatu-Wanganui prior to 2019) is a region in the lower half of the North Island of New Zealand, whose main population centres are the cities of Palmerston North and Whanganui.
Marae name Wharenui name Hapū and iwi Location Te Aroha Marae: Te Kotahitanga: Ngāti Iti, Ngā Rauru (Ngāti Pūkeko, Tamareheroto): Kai Iwi: Te Ao Hou Marae: Te Puawaitanga: Ngāti Tupoho, Ngāti Rangi (Ngāti Rangi-ki-tai)
Whanganui District covers 2,373.27 km 2 (916.32 sq mi) [1] and had an estimated population of 48,600 as of June 2024, [2] with a population density of 20 people per km 2.All but some 6,100 people in the Whanganui District live in the city itself, meaning there are few prominent outlying settlements.
Raetihi, a small town in the centre of New Zealand's North Island, [3] is located at the junction of State Highways 4 and 49 in the Manawatū-Whanganui region. It lies in a valley between Tongariro and Whanganui National Parks, [ 4 ] 11 kilometres west of Ohakune 's ski fields.