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Carless days led to notable mode shift for work and shopping trips. While cars continued to be used for the majority of work trips on carless days (from 88% to 66%), there was a notable increase in car pooling (5% to 19%), bus (2% to 7%), motorbike (2% to 7%) and bicycle usage (7% to 12%). Shopping trips while still predominantly done by car on ...
[1] [2] [3] New Zealand has been excluded from maps at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. in the United States, in IKEA stores, on the map of the board games Pandemic [4] and Risk, on the map of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in which Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key participated, at a world map seal at the ...
British explorer James Cook, who reached New Zealand in October 1769 on the first of his three voyages, was the first European to circumnavigate and map New Zealand. [2] From the late 18th century, the country was regularly visited by explorers and other sailors, missionaries, traders and adventurers. The period from Polynesian settlement to ...
Starting in May 2024, the typical late fee dropped from $32 to $8. Car loans and mortgages usually come with a late grace period of 10 or 15 days, after which you get charged a fee that could be 4 ...
Mayoral and ministerial vehicles used the prefix "CR" (Crown). The Prime Minister receives plate CR1 [4] while the plate DC1 is reserved for the British High Commissioner to New Zealand. As the official representative of the monarch in New Zealand, the Governor General's primary vehicle carries no number plate but instead displays the royal crown.
This guy gave new meaning to the slogan “Gottahava Wawa.” Police in East Windsor, N.J., arrested a 24-year-old man on Dec. 23, and charged him with misusing the town’s 911 system for ...
The two may seem completely unrelated, but there is an association. Here’s what you need to know. Meet the experts : Clifford Segil, DO , a neurologist at Providence Saint John’s Health Center ...
2 July: Bank of New Zealand incorporated at Auckland. 1862. The country's first electric telegraph line opens, between Christchurch and Lyttelton. First gold shipment from Dunedin to London. 1863. War resumes in Taranaki and begins in Waikato when General Cameron crosses the Mangatawhiri stream. New Zealand Settlements Act passed to effect land ...