Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Statistics New Zealand announced in 2017 that the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA18) would replace the New Zealand Standard Areas Classification 1992 (NZSAC92). The change impacted Wellington most, by splitting it into four urban areas, being the Wellington city and Lower Hutt city "major urban areas" and Porirua and Upper ...
New Zealand's capital city from 1865 until the present day. [272] Auckland: Auckland Region New Zealand: 1840 AD New Zealand's capital city from 1841 to 1865. Prior to this, it was inhabited by Māori from about the 14th century. Dunedin: Otago Region New Zealand: 1848 AD First New Zealand centre to be officially named a city (1865).
Nelson (Māori: Whakatū) is a city and unitary authority on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. It is the oldest city in the South Island and the second-oldest settled city in the country; it was established in 1841 and became a city by British royal charter in 1858. [3]
The University of Otago, the oldest university in New Zealand, in 1869. [43] Otago Girls' High School was established in 1871. New Zealand Insurance Co Ltd, Dunedin (built 1899) By 1874, Dunedin and its suburbs had become New Zealand's largest city with a population of 29,832 displacing Auckland's 27,840 residents to second place. [44]
The 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition was the second of two mass petitions to the New Zealand Government in support of women's suffrage. About one-third of Dunedin women signed the petition, a higher percentage than any other city. [39] New Zealand's first women's trade union (the Tailoresses) was created in Dunedin in 1889.
The surrounding area also contains many expensive holiday homes, as well as New Zealand's most expensive rental accommodation, the Eagles Nest. [15] The photographer Laurence Aberhart lives here. A car ferry across the Bay of Islands runs between Okiato and Opua , and is the main tourist access to Russell.
Kerikeri (Māori: [kɛɾikɛɾi]) [6] is a town in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.The town is located on the eponymous Kerikeri inlet. It is sometimes called the Cradle of the Nation, [7] [8] as it was the site of the first permanent mission station in the country, and it has some of the oldest buildings in the country.
Okiato or Old Russell is a small town in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of present-day Russell.It was founded in 1840 and served as New Zealand's first national capital until 1841, when the seat of government was moved to Auckland.