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In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

  
  New Zealand
In the North island also is the wonderland of the boiling geysers-said by geologists to be the oldest in the world, with the exception of those in Wyoming and Idaho-and the famous "Hot Lakes" and pools, which possess great curative virtue for all rheumatic and skin diseases.
New Zealand Catholics have never asked or desired a grant for the religious education which is imparted in their schools.
The history of Catholic journalism in New Zealand is in effect the history of the "New Zealand Tablet," founded by the late Bishop Moran in 1873, the Catholics of this country having followed the principle that it is better to be represented by one strong paper than to have a multiplicity of publications.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/n/new_zealand.html   (3220 words)

  
 New Zealand
To the south is Antarctica and to the north are New Caledonia, Fiji and Tonga.
New Zealand is a Constitutional Monarchy with a parliamentary democracy Under the New Zealand Royal Titles Act 1953 Queen Elizabeth II, is Queen of New Zealand, and is represented as head of state by the Governor General, Dame Silvia Cartwright.
New Zealand's most popular sports are rugby (primarily rugby union but also rugby league), soccer, (the most popular sport amongst children), cricket, and netball (the sport with the most players); golf, tennis, rowing and a variety of water sports, particularly sailing.
www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/n/ne/new_zealand.shtml   (2614 words)

  
 Far North District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Far North District of New Zealand, as its name suggests, is the northernmost district within New Zealand, consisting of the northern tip of the North Island.
The district includes the towns of Kaikohe and Kaitaia in the north, and the cluster of towns around and inland from the Bay of Islands (Kerikeri, Paihia, Russell, Opua, Kawakawa and Moerewa).
The Far North District Council was formed through the amalgamation of Mangonui, Hokianga, Whangaroa and Bay of Islands County Councils.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Far_North_(district),_New_Zealand   (267 words)

  
 New Zealand - Uncyclopedia
New Zealand is often referred to as the 8th state of Australia.
With a population of almost 56, New Zealand is often referred to as New Z-land, mainly due to the difficulty citizens of America have wuth pronouncing 'Zed'.
New Zealand has the most beautiful sheep in the world and is the envy of all nations, many of whose male citizens are tempted by the these woolly sirens.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand   (3298 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Zealand
New Zealand—formerly described as a colony—has, since September, 1907, by royal proclamation, been granted the style and designation of "Dominion," the territory remaining, of course, as before under British sovereignty.
In the North island also is the wonderland of the boiling geysers—said by geologists to be the oldest in the world, with the exception of those in Wyoming and Idaho—and the famous "Hot Lakes" and pools, which possess great curative virtue for all rheumatic and skin diseases.
In 1887, at the petition of the Plenary Synod of Australasia, held in Sydney in 1885, the hierarchy was established in New Zealand, and Wellington became the archiepiscopal see.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11040a.htm   (3229 words)

  
 EnciclopedyNew Zealand -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
New Zealand is a country formed of two major islands and a number of smaller islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
New Zealand also maintains responsibility for the foreign affairs of the self-governing countries of the Cook Islands and Niue, and administers the dependency of Tokelau.
Under the New Zealand Royal Titles Act (1953), Queen Elizabeth II is Queen of New Zealand and is represented as head of state by the Governor-General, Dame Silvia Cartwright.
www.adago.com /New_Zealand.html   (2526 words)

  
 New Zealand Cities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Far from the world's great population centres and from the European and American cities where 20th Century design evolved lies a small city that is unique.
It is approximately midway between Wellington and New Plymouth, at the mouth of the Whanganui River--longitude 158, 10' east, latitude 39, 58' south.
Situated on the south eastern coast of New Zealand's South Island, Dunedin has a population of around 120,000 and is the main centre of Otago, a region recognised for its spectacular scenery.
www.chemistry.co.nz /new_zealand_cities.htm   (1141 words)

  
 New Zealand - A Must See Destination
Mix and mingle with New Zealanders (Kiwis) and gain an insight of Māori Culture and the diversity of the people of Aotearoa, as we welcome you with open arms and warm smiles.
Otahuhu College, South Auckland, New Zealand is renowned for their traditional interhouse Māori Kapa Haka competition which is performed with enthusiasm and mana (pride) by the students.
New Zealand’s climate and fertile lands provides a diverse range of agricultural and horticultural industries.
www.eske-style.co.nz   (864 words)

  
 Local Government in Asia and the Pacific - New Zealand
New Zealand is a well-housed nation with 73 per cent of the population owning their own home.
New Zealand's parliamentary system of government was originally based on the Westminster model but has progressively departed from this in recent years.
The purpose of district plans is to enable local authorities to manage the natural and physical resources of their districts primarily by controlling the effects of land uses and development, together with land subdivision, noise and the use of rivers and lakes.
www.unescap.org /huset/lgstudy/country/newzealand/nz.html   (5920 words)

  
 New Zealand - New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For dishes that have a distinctly New Zealand style, there's lamb, pork and cervena (venison), salmon, crayfish (lobster), Bluff oysters, paua (abalone), mussels, scallops, pipis and tuatua (both are types of New Zealand shellfish); kumara (sweet potato); kiwifruit and tamarillo; and pavlova, the national dessert.
New Zealand is a Mecca for thrill seekers and anyone interested in wide open spaces and physical activities.
New Zealand is also one of the most popular destinations in the southern hemisphere for skiing and other winter sports because of its reliable and abundant snowfall.
www.thenewzealandtravelguide.com   (1942 words)

  
 New Zealand - Gurupedia
New Zealand's most common name in the indigenous Māori language is Aotearoa which is popularly taken to mean Land of the Long White Cloud although it more closely translates as Long Cloud Piercer.
New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy.
Europeans are often collectively known in New Zealand as Pakeha although many reject this term as applying only to those with no solid link to a European identity, the remainder preferring to be known as New Zealand European, European, or their relevant ethnicities.
www.gurupedia.com /n/ne/new_zealand.htm   (2739 words)

  
 Engineering in New Zealand - North Island
During recent years the New Zealand Government, which owns all the railways, has been spending a great deal of money in attempting to flatten some of the steep gradients which could not be avoided when the first of her main lines were laid.
Now that railway traffic has grown in New Zealand to its present dimensions, however, the time has come to increase the speed and the capacity of the lines, and money is being spent freely on improving the old routes, as well as in new railway construction on an extensive scale.
Meantime, the New Zealand Government Railways are entitled to boast that they work the heaviest trains in the world over a gradient as steep as 1 in 13.
mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r041.html   (3111 words)

  
 New Zealand
Most of New Zealand is geothermally active, and Hot Water Beach is just another example of a hot springs, this time convienantly located on the beach.
To the north, the Marlborough sound has lots of interesting things to do/see (as well as more of those repatriated Kiwis on some of the islands) and the beaches are gorgeous.
One of the older Kiwi settlements, Hokotika was settled by gold miners and during the rush, was one of the most populous cities in New Zealand.
www.season-of-fire.com /NewZealand.htm   (5015 words)

  
 TerraNature | Environmental Issues - New Zealand tsunami
New Zealand has not experienced a natural disaster of the scale of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami since European settlement, but could easily do so in the future.
A trigger in New Zealand could be a moderate (magnitude 6.5 or greater) earthquake within 200km of the coast.
New Zealanders are accustomed to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
www.terranature.org /tsunami.htm   (2055 words)

  
 New Zealand Visit
Whatever the cause may be, the result is that the fresh-air system is in full swing in nearly all the New Zealand thermal resorts; that doors and windows are always open, paths take the place of passages, and everybody acquires the complexion of a milkmaid and the appetite of a second-mate.
Iceland is far inferior; the famous Yellowstone Park of America has only a stepmother's helping of what might be New Zealand's "left-overs," The lovely, lamented ink and White Terraces are by many supposed to have been the only great thermal wonder of the country.
New New Zealand at its best was represented there, much as Old New Zealand was represented by the silent bearded men, with the lonely-looking eyes, who travelled in the Pipiriki and Waioru stages of the journey.
www.janesoceania.com /newzealand_visit/index.htm   (4628 words)

  
 Auckland, New Zealand
Outside the city center, the central business district of Auckland, the residential areas follow the usual New Zealand pattern of detached family houses with small gardens.
As the principal gateway into New Zealand, it is often called the capital of Polynesia because of the high proportion of its inhabitants of Polynesian origin.
In 1995 a New Zealand team won the America's Cup, so when it came to preparing for the Louis Vuitton and America's Cup in Waitemata Harbour in the year 2000 enthusiasm was high.
www.planetware.com /new-zealand/auckland-nz-au-a.htm   (328 words)

  
 Travel to New Zealand
The region is New Zealand's leading producer of red wines, has the greatest concentration of Art Deco architecture and hosts the country's most elaborate celebrations of Matariki - the Maori New Year.
The region, which is the sunniest in New Zealand, has for many years attracted residents who love to use their imaginations.
Dunedin - The Otago coast stretches from the Waitaki River north of Oamaru to the mighty Clutha River south of Dunedin.
www.traveltowhere.com /oceana/NEW_ZEALAND.html   (1438 words)

  
 Far North District Council - Hundertwasser toilets - information page
The bricks used came from a former Bank of New Zealand building, and both young and old from the local community volunteered services to the construction process.
The results were announced at the Local Government New Zealand conference at Christchurch earlier this year.
In making the award Creative New Zealand chairperson Peter Biggs said:- "This project was initiated by a rural community in a district that has faced many challenges.
www.fndc.govt.nz /Toilets/ihunderwasser.asp   (658 words)

  
 Far North Cable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Held in Far North New Zealand, the 1998 South Pacific “Satellite Retreat” proved to be a major advance in educating SPACE Pacific conference attendees.
Far North New Zealand is not an area normally known for hosting major conferences, cable, satellite or otherwise.
Far North Cable TV Ltd. is a 500 MHz bandwidth/forward direction, 30 MHz bandwidth/reverse direction cable TV plant delivering more than fifty high-quality TV channels through cascades of up to 30 cable TV line amplifiers.
www.mlesat.com /farnorth.html   (1198 words)

  
 Organic poultry production: a fledgling industry in New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Imports of live chickens and chicken meat to New Zealand are severely restricted on biosecurity grounds—the US has Newcastle disease virus, Asia has the avian flu virus, to name just two of the pathogens that could devastate the domestic poultry industry and potentially harm endangered native bird species as well.
New Zealand has no snakes and no native land mammals—no raccoons, no coyotes, no skunks—so predators here are limited to hawks, gulls, and rats; the larger birds don’t even need to be shut in at night unless the weather is really bad.
Bedding in the houses is clean, untreated sawdust from a local sawmill, and the litter from in and around the houses is removed regularly, composted, and sold or given away off the farm to prevent excessive nitrogen accumulation.
www.newfarm.org /features/0403/nz_chicks/index.shtml   (1551 words)

  
 WEC Survey Of Energy Resources 2001 - Geothermal Energy
The main geothermal areas of this type are located in New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, the western coastal Americas, the central and eastern parts of the Mediterranean, Iceland, the Azores and eastern Africa.
The heat is used mainly for space and district heating but also for a range of agricultural purposes (greenhouses, soil heating, fish and animal farming, cattle-breeding), for various industrial processes (manufacturing, wool washing, paper production, wood drying, oil extraction) and for spas and recreational bathing.
Following successful drilling to tap deep aquifers for a district heating network at Riehen (on the border with Germany and operational since 1994), the network was extended and thus became the first example of cross-border geothermal utilisation.
www.worldenergy.org /wec-geis/publications/reports/ser/geo/geo.asp   (9465 words)

  
 Fodor's Scenic Destinations | New Zealand's Northland | Auckland to Whangerei
Kauri trees, once prolific in this part of the North Island, were highly prized by Maori canoe builders, because a canoe capable of carrying 100 warriors could be made from a single trunk.
People often bypass Whangerei, 80 miles north of Warkworth, on their way to the Bay of Islands, but it's well worth taking the turnoff from the main highway.
He specializes in raising lions and tigers at this park, just northwest of Whangerei, with 20 at last count, including 12 Barbary lions and four royal white tigers, both of which are "extinct" in the wild.
www.fodors.com /scenicdestinations/new_zealand_northland/part1.cfm   (669 words)

  
 Population Index - Volume 61 - Number 3
Each district in Great Britain is classified as both the centre of a small cluster of districts which correspond closely to it and as a member of a cluster within a division of all districts.
"A new low in the infant mortality rate was reached again in 1993, at 828.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, a decline of 2% from 848.7 in 1992.
Studies of periodic or special surveys relevant to population studies, excluding KAP (knowledge, attitudes, and practice of family planning) studies, which are coded under F.4.4.
popindex.princeton.edu /browse/v61/n3/o.html   (2852 words)

  
 Far North District Council - Parks, reserves and playgrounds information
The council maintains approximately 500 hectares of recreational grounds and facilities through the district, in over thirty locations.
It is the council's responsibility to maintain these to comply with New Zealand/Australian playground standards.
If there is a problem with Playground or Park facilities, please contact the Council so that this may be attended to.
www.farnorth.govt.nz /parks/index.asp   (307 words)

  
 New Zealand Debates Regional Control over GE-Free Zones
North Island councils are seeking a say in the extent to which land should
Zealand's law governing the release of genetically engineered crops and
New Zealand to lobby for the Act to be revised.
www.organicconsumers.org /biod/newzealand051004.cfm   (798 words)

  
 Far North accommodation- holiday homes, baches & vacation rentals
A new three bedroom house and a two bedroom sleepout interconnected by huge decks.
New quality three bedroom home, tastefully furnished with large decks offering magnificant views of Reef Point, Shipwreck Bay, Ahipara and Ninety Mile Beach.
Two minutes walk to a beautiful sandy surf beach with safe swimming, and rock pools that are warm and inviting for children to swim and play in.
www.bookabach.co.nz /__far_north_district.cfm   (1629 words)

  
 Northland : Regional : Guides & Information : New Zealand
Far North District Council - www.fndc.govt.nz - kiwismart
The Twin Coast Discovery Highway is a newly developed sign posted touring route of the Auckland and Northland regions of New Zealand.
The Northland Region of New Zealand is one of the most enjoyable to explore with a wide range of activities to suit almost every interest.
www.kiwismart.co.nz /regional-northland.html   (296 words)

  
 AHEPA District 3 Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
With 22 districts nationally, and 4 districts internationally (in Canada, Greece, Cyprus, Australia and New Zealand), AHEPA is by far the largest Hellenic (Greek) American Organization.
The District Lodge and I thank everyone for all the hard work that has been accomplished so far.
As your district governor I want to say thank you for all that you have done for our great organization, and for all that you will do during the upcoming new year!
www.district3ahepa.com   (234 words)

  
 New Zealand Far North Avocado Orchard - 2 Lifestyle & Farms : Northland
New Zealand, Avondale-Auckland City, Grab this 3 bdrm apartment while you still can
NEW ZEALAND: BAY OF PLENTY: EAST OF WHAKATANE LIFESTYLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
Five minutes to both coasts and some of New Zealand's most prestine beaches, boasting excellent fishing grounds.
www.prosale.co.nz /viewad.asp?id=50333229223100565   (186 words)

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