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Canoe on Lake Rotorua: boating accident 16 Apr 1870: near Mokoia Island on Lake Rotorua: 18 [32] Clyde: shipwreck 6 Nov 1884: Horseshoe Bay, near Akaroa, Banks Peninsula 18 [33] Canoe on Motu River: boating accident 4 Aug 1900: Motu River – 25 miles from Opotiki [34] There were 16 children and 2 adults in the six person canoe 18 [35]
The Rotorua Daily Post is the regional newspaper for central North Island of New Zealand including the greater Rotorua area as well as Taupō and the surrounding areas. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] History
Gillies died in Rotorua on 7 November 2024, at the age of 99. [11] His tangihanga was held at Te Papaiouru Marae in Ōhinemutu, with a service held at St Faith's Church on the final day. His body was then taken via Tūnohopū Marae to Kauae Cemetery in Ngongotahā, where he was buried alongside his wife. [12]
The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
Only earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.0 or greater are listed, except for a few that had a moderate impact. Aftershocks are not included, unless they were of great significance or contributed to a death toll, such as the M 6.3 2011 Christchurch earthquake and the M 7.3 aftershock to the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
place of death manner of death place of burial Q123331522: Bob McNeil: 2024-12-30 New Zealand journalist and news presenter journalist television presenter: Q2307763: Hugo Sotil: 1946-05-18 2024-12-30 Peruvian footballer association football player: Peru: Ica: Lima: Q16104830: Nigel Buesst: 1938-04-30 2024-12-29 Australian film director
Nia Marie Glassie was a three-year-old girl who was violently abused and eventually killed by her mother's boyfriend and his brother in Rotorua, New Zealand.Her death in 2007 sparked a high-profile criminal investigation and subsequent murder trial, and caused major outrage throughout the country.
Ranginui Parewahawaha Leonard (23 September 1872 – 29 December 1984) was a New Zealand weaver, farmer and kuia (respected elder). At the time of her death in 1984, age 112, she was the oldest woman in New Zealand, and one of the last people living who remembered the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.