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  Poverty Bay Coffee Company Specialty coffees and Espresso sustainable, shade-grown,fair trade coffee beans, ...
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Poverty Bay Coffee Co has a wide variety of fresh-roasted, sustainable shade-grown coffees for you to choose from.
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 poverty - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about poverty
Many people live in poverty, and as there is a high birth rate and large proportion of young people, the problem is likely to intensify in the future as the growing population seek food, housing, and employment.
Absolute poverty, where people lack the necessary food, clothing, or shelter to survive, can be distinguished from relative poverty, which has been defined as the inability of a citizen to participate fully in economic terms in the society in which he or she lives.
By this measure, in 1996 the Child Poverty Action Group reported that a quarter of the UK population – 13 to 14 million people – were living in poverty; the figure is more than double the number in 1979.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /poverty   (726 words)

  
 Bay of Plenty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bay stretches from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaway in the east.
The region is bound by the Kaimai and Mamaku Ranges in the west and extends inland to the sparsely populated forest lands around Rotorua, Kawerau and Murupara.
Cook named it the Bay of Plenty after he noticed the abundant food supplies at several Māori villages he visited on the coast, in stark contrast to the observations he had made earlier in Poverty Bay.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bay_of_Plenty   (311 words)

  
 Poverty Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poverty Bay is the largest of several small bays on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island to the north of Hawke Bay.
The city of Gisborne is located on the northern shore of the bay.
Cook was unable to gain many of the provisions he and his crew needed at the bay, and for this reason gave it its name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poverty_Bay   (165 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hudson Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A smaller offshoot of the bay, James Bay, lies to the south.
All islands in the bay (and in James Bay) are part of the territory Nunavut.
Geologically the greater part of the Hudson Bay district belongs to the Laurentian system, though there are numerous outcrops of later formation; CambroSilurian on the south and west, and to the north of Cape Jones (the north-eastern extremity of James Bay) a narrow belt of Cambrian rocks, of which the islands are composed.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hudson-Bay   (1408 words)

  
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edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0111/17/pin.00.html   (2929 words)

  
 '90s economic boom a bust for Bay's poor / Poverty up in 3 counties -- many forced out
Poverty, as defined by the census, is $17,463 a year for a family of four.
Bay Area families living on the margin rose by 1 percent or less in Napa, Solano and Marin, mainly because of immigration, Reed said.
Even though Bay Area family poverty declined ever so slightly, advocates for the poor said rates should have fallen off the cliff given the economic bounty that was tumbling through Silicon Valley and San Francisco during the high-tech gold rush.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/22/MN162485.DTL&type=printable   (1061 words)

  
 The Gisborne Herald Online - Gisborne's local and sports news.
POVERTY Bay have a Herculean task in front of them tomorrow when they lock horns with Auckland in a Ranfurly Shield challenge at Eden Park.
Although many of the Poverty Bay players have had plenty of distractions due to the premier club rugby playoffs, Poverty Bay coach Kiwi Searancke is pleased with their progress.
The Poverty Bay plan tomorrow is to tackle their hearts out, keep the ball away from the powerful Auckland pack and attack with everything they have got.
www.gisborneherald.co.nz /archives/July2k4/sports/sports_27-07-2k4.htm   (1621 words)

  
 The Gisborne Herald Online
Even Poverty Bay’s much experienced coach Kiwi Searancke said the NPC second division match was "heart-stopping stuff" as Manawatu scored a converted try to make it 23-22 with four minutes to go.
The visitors scored three tries to two but Va’a, who opened the scoring in his Poverty Bay debut with a try after his grubber kick was fumbled on the Manawatu goal-line, also kicked three penalties and converted both tries.
Then, with 11 minutes left and Poverty Bay enjoying a rare moment on attack, halfback Aaron Good embarrassed a pitiful Manawtu defence when he ran down a short blindside from a five-metre scrum to score untouched.
www.gisborneherald.co.nz /article.asp?aid=2188&iid=209&sud=28   (511 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Poverty Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
BART is the regional transit system, which connects San Francisco with the East Bay and the San Mateo County communities on the San Francisco Peninsula.
The pirates fleet was hastily assembled in Poverty Bay.
The actual bay was named by a surveyor who had difficulty collecting his money from the local residents - most of them blew what little money they had on booze and women in Seattle.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Poverty-Bay   (485 words)

  
 Search Results for poverty - Encyclopædia Britannica
Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs.
Cyclical poverty refers to poverty that may be widespread throughout a population, but the occurrence itself is of limited duration.
In contrast to cyclical poverty, which is temporary, widespread or “collective” poverty involves a relatively permanent insufficiency of means to secure basic needs—a condition that may be so general...
www.britannica.com /search?query=poverty&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (443 words)

  
 Unique New Zealand wildlife - Poverty Bay and East Cape - Mt Hikurangi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Hikurangi was held by the local Ngati-Porou to be the resting place of the canoe of the legendary Maui and said to be inhabited by a giant moa which stood on one leg and fed upon the wind.
About halfway between the two bays is the Oweka River and for once the name is not a memorial - weka are said to be in the area further up the river.
Whangaparaoa means the bay of the sperm whale and Maori tradition says it was here that the first canoes, Arawa and Tainui, landed on arriving from Hawaiki.
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~janm/wildlife/povertybay/mthikurangi.htm   (898 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Poverty Bay
bay on the eastern coast of the North...
Gisborne is located on Poverty Bay, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, at...
In its most extreme form, poverty is a lack of basic human needs, such as adequate and...
encarta.msn.com /Poverty%2bBay.html   (146 words)

  
 2002 Tower Rd 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Poverty Bay East Coast, the sleepy hollow of New Zealand golf with just 931 men golfers, was in rare territory today in the fifth round of the Tower Interprovincial Championship at the Sherwood Park course, Whangarei.
At the other end of the table, Bay of Plenty, North Harbour and Waikato are unbeaten in their four matches to separate themselves from the pack.
The battle for the fourth semi-final spot would appear to be between Hawke’s Bay, Otago and Auckland, which had the bye in today’s lone round, and in tomorrow’s final two rounds Hawke’s Bay play Bay of Plenty and Otago play Auckland in the morning.
www.nzga.co.nz /SITE_Default/Tournaments/Amateur/National/Interprovincial/News/Archive/2002/2002_Tower_Rd_5.asp   (270 words)

  
 New Zealand All Blacks rugby team official website, New Zealand Rugby Football Union
Poverty Bay will step up a Division in 2005 after dispatching Wairarapa-Bush 37-14 in the Air New Zealand NPC Division Three final at Rugby Park in Gisborne on Saturday afternoon.
Poverty Bay hit back immediately as referee Jonathon White misses an XXL sized knock-on and powerful fullback Semosoni Pone pounces on the ball, fending off his opposite Richard Carroll on the way to five points.
Not so Poverty Bay's second as no 11 Daniel Moeke pivots off his left foot and barges over blindside on only their second sortie inside the opposition half.
www.allblacks.com /index.cfm?layout=displayNews&newsArticle=835   (521 words)

  
 The Gisborne Herald Online
Wairarapa Bush B punished an understrength Poverty Bay B side in the last quarter to cruise home 61-22 in Masterton on Saturday.
A number of Bay squad members withdrew at a late stage and coach Wayne Ensor was only able to field the bare playing 15.
Poverty Bay were to play Horowhenua Kapiti in Levin this weekend but due to so many of their side being unavailable it is likely the game will be cancelled.
www.gisborneherald.co.nz /article.asp?aid=2445&iid=228&sud=28   (304 words)

  
 New Zealand's source for sport, rugby, cricket & league news on Stuff.co.nz: Poverty Bay stand firm to repel Wanganui   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Poverty Bay's intensity and desire proved too much for Wanganui as the home side fought out a 22-14 NPC second division rugby victory in Gisborne today.
Poverty Bay began at a furious pace and organised some threatening attacks but were initially repelled by a desperate Wanganui side.
Poverty Bay maintained the same urgency in the second half and after some stinging attacks they scored their second try after 48 minutes.
www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3384299a10295,00.html   (334 words)

  
 Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, Vols. II - III, Description of Poverty Bay, page 321
This bay is called by the natives TOLAGA; it is moderately large, and has from seven to thirteen fathom, with a clean sandy bottom and good anchorage; and is sheltered from all winds except the north east.
Close to the north end of the island, at the entrance into the bay, are two high rocks; one is round like a corn-stack, but the other is long, and perforated in several places so that the openings appear like the arches of a bridge.
The variation of the compass here is 14° 31’ E. and the tide flows at the full and change of the moon, about six o’clock, and rises and falls perpendicularly from five to six feet: whether the flood comes from the southward or the northward I have not been able to determine.
southseas.nla.gov.au /journals/hv23/321.html   (557 words)

  
 Circulation Current
A SonTek/YSI bottom-tracking ADP was successfully used by the Centre of Excellence in Coastal Oceanography and Marine Geology at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
The ADP was the focus of measurements of complex circulation in highly-stratified Poverty Bay on the east coast of the North Island where a sewage outfall is being studied.
In particular, the ADP confirmed the model predictions of a residual anticlockwise circulation in the bay (Figures 1 and 2).
www.sontek.com /apps/circurr/adp-povb/adp-povb.htm   (290 words)

  
 Welcome to the home of the Poverty Bay Golf Club and Gisborne Golf
Gisborne Golf — Poverty Bay Golf Club — 18 holes — PAR 72 - Poverty Bay is a links-styled golf course built over an old system of sand dunes near the ocean.
Hawkes Bay's Doug Holloway took out the Emerald Hotels Poverty Bay Golf Pro-Am in emphatic fashion, equalling the course record with an 8 birdie-2 bogey round of 66, paired with his first round of 68 for a total of 10 under par 134.
Lee commented that the putting surface at Poverty Bay was as good as anything he has played on in the last ten years.
www.gisbornegolf.co.nz   (371 words)

  
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The Bay were unable to attain any continuity, and were unable to force the ball into Southland territory either by hand or kicking.
Hawkes Bay scored only one try in the first half in the 10th minute, though they missed another four minutes earlier when George Konia was narrowly beaten to John Bradbrooke's kick behind the line.
The Bay achieved one of their longest spells of fluency in the middle of the second half and from a series of rucks from which Watts and Karika presented possession, Cunningham scored an unconverted try.
www.uidaho.edu /clubs/womens_rugby/RugbyRoot/rugby/Countries/NZ/Results/1994/finals.html   (1593 words)

  
 Burt Lake, Poverty Bay, Cheboygan County, Michigan Interactive™
Burt Lake, Poverty Bay, Cheboygan County, Michigan Interactive™
The water averages 5 to 7 feet though out the flats that cover this bay and off the main channel on either side, is a good place to find some perch early in the season.
Pike also frequent the weedy areas on the north side of the channel.
www.fishweb.com /maps/cheboygan/burtlake/poverty_bay   (117 words)

  
 Poverty Bay Eastland : New Zealand Places : NZ
Cook left the area without replenishing his stocks and dubbed the place Poverty Bay as, 'it did not afford a single item we waned, except a little firewood'.
The name does little justice to the area as the fertile alluvial soil and the climate provide ideal condition in which to grow fruit, vegetables and grapes.The bay itself is a small area which stretches from Tuahine Point to Young Nicks Head.
The Poverty Bay regions comprises the Tolaga Bay Coast and the Mahia Peninsula to the south and extends to the hills of the East Cape in the West.
www.backpack-newzealand.com /articles/topic138.php   (225 words)

  
 THE POVERTY BAY PIRATES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pretty soon they were known as the Poverty Bay Pirates all through the Northwest.
The name “Poverty Bay” was selected quite appropriately.
The design of the Poverty Bay burgee resulted from a contest originated by Ken Lloyd who gave a bottle of Scotch to the winner.
www.usps.org /localusps/pbps/history/howitallbegan.htm   (1129 words)

  
 Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world, by James Cook (chapter5)
It lies 7 Leagues to the Southward of Poverty Bay, in the Latitude of 39 degrees 7 minutes South, longitude 181 degrees 36 minutes West, it is of a moderate height, makes in a sharpe Angle, and appears to be quite flat at Top.
This bay is called by the Natives Tolaga;* (* It still goes by this name.) it is moderately large, and hath in it from 13 to 8 and 7 fathoms, clean sandy bottom and good Anchorage, and is shelterd from all winds except those that blow from the North-East Quarter.
In this Bay we had 24 and 25 fathoms Water, the bottom good for Anchorage, but their seems to be nothing that can induce Shipping to put into it for no Country upon Earth can look more barren than the land about this bay doth.
etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /c/cook/james/c77j/chapter5.html   (18667 words)

  
 1995 NPC Results: semi-finals
Hawkes Bay took the advantage of the breeze in the first half, and got two early penalties.
Bay went out to 6-0 with two Rangihuna penalties one for obstruction by Jason Caskey, and the other for a ruck infringement after 16 minutes had gone.
Poverty Bay were still in the driving seat, but an intercept against the run of play by centre Jason Hamlin resulted in a try.
www.uidaho.edu /clubs/womens_rugby/RugbyRoot/rugby/Countries/NZ/Results/1995/semis.html   (2255 words)

  
 www.scrum.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In a dramatic start to a weekend of NPC finals Nelson Bays won the Second Division title when Warren Johnston kicked an 80th minute penalty to snatch victory away from Bay of Plenty.
Bay of Plenty found themselves under relentless pressure for the final 5 minutes, and appeared to have weathered the storm, but a careless piece of handling on the ground in a ruck by one of their props gave Johnston one last opportunity.
But at the break, with the score at 3-3, Poverty Bay seemed in control, their greater ball handling skills and athleticism giving them the edge.
www.scrum.com /internationals/npc99/default.asp   (864 words)

  
 Te Kooti
The rest of the inhabitants of Poverty Bay fled to the Turanganui Redoubt and stayed there for a full week.
Te Kooti plundered Poverty Bay and made a successful escape despite being outnumbered by the colonial forces arrayed against him.
His raid on Poverty Bay decimated that part of the country and his mere continued freedom checked if only in a slight way the European expansion on the East Coast.
www.historyorb.com /nz/te_kooti.shtml   (699 words)

  
 Sport: Poverty Bay Turning It On For Challenge
An auction will also be held with among the items going up a Poverty Bay jersey signed by the province's six All Blacks and a three-day fishing charter.
The cost for the event is $50, which includes a ticket to the match, lunch, a complementary drink and a ticket to the after-match function.
Poverty Bay Rugby Union CEO Neil Alton said both functions have the potential to be fantastic reunions for Auckland-based, Poverty Bay fans.
www.xtramsn.co.nz /sport/0,,9650-3417358,00.html   (299 words)

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