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An overfilled skip Flyover of 3D modeled satellite photos of a skip hire, Porthmadog, Wales A cantilever skip truck loads a skip. A skip (British English, Australian English, Hiberno-English and New Zealand English) (or skip bin) is a large open-topped waste container designed for loading onto a special type of lorry called a skip truck Typically skip bins have a distinctive shape: the ...
Sacred Heart College in the 1970s (now Cullinane College) St Johns Hill School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students, [6] with a roll of 441 as of November 2024.
Three major rivers divide the region: the Whanganui (290 km [180 mi]), Manawatū (182 km [113 mi])), and Rangitīkei (241 km [150 mi]). The Whanganui is the second-longest river and has the second-largest catchment in the North Island, draining most of the inland region west of Lake Taupō. There are few roads in this area, which contains some ...
Whanganui District covers 2,373.27 km 2 (916.32 sq mi) [1] and had an estimated population of 48,600 as of June 2024, [2] with a population density of 20 people per km 2. All but some 6,100 people in the Whanganui District live in the city itself, meaning there are few prominent outlying settlements. A small but notable village is Jerusalem.
Whanganui (/ ˈ hw ɒ ŋ ən uː i / ⓘ; [4] Māori:), also spelt Wanganui, [5] is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River , New Zealand's longest navigable waterway.
The Chronicle's rival from 1867 onward was The Evening Herald (later The Wanganui Herald), founded by John Ballance. The ownership of the two daily papers merged in the 1970s, and in 1986 the Herald became a free weekly, later renamed the Wanganui Midweek. [1] The Chronicle is currently Whanganui's only daily newspaper.
The Whanganui National Park is a national park located in the North Island of New Zealand. Established in 1986, [ 1 ] it covers an area of 742 km 2 bordering the Whanganui River . [ 2 ] It incorporates areas of Crown land, former state forest and a number of former reserves.
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