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[37] [38] On 9 February, Countdown Dunedin South was closed after more rats were found inside the store. [39] On 13 February, a mouse was spotted at another Woolworths New Zealand store at Eastgate in Christchurch. This incident prompted New Zealand Food Safety to launch an independent review of Woolworth's national pest management processes. [40]
Dunedin has flourishing niche industries including engineering, software engineering, biotechnology and fashion. Port Chalmers on the Otago Harbour provides Dunedin with deep-water facilities. It is served by the Port Chalmers Branch, a branch line railway which diverges from the Main South Line and runs from Christchurch by way of Dunedin to ...
Christchurch (Ōtautahi) – after Christ Church, one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in England; Clive – named after Robert Clive; Clutha River / Mata-Au – from "Cluaidh", the Scottish Gaelic for the Clyde. Inch Clutha, as above, "inch" deriving from the Gaelic word "innis', meaning island
2degrees has 59 retail stores, [42] including fifteen throughout Auckland, one in Wellington City, one in Paraparaumu, four in Hamilton, two in Tauranga, two in Christchurch and one in Dunedin. The company also runs several smaller kiosk stores, which tend to be located in shopping centres.
In 2023, Stats NZ updated the 2018 standard for geographical areas with the new NZ Statistical standard for geographic areas 2023. While similar, the new standard has added a new geographical area (SA3), has upgraded Wānaka to a medium urban area, seven rural settlements to small urban areas and has created thirteen new rural settlements. [5] [6]
Many of New Zealand's cities and towns are known by various aliases, slogans, sobriquets, and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national or international level, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
Christchurch (/ ˈ k r aɪ s. tʃ ɜːr tʃ / ⓘ; Māori: Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. [a] Christchurch has an urban population of 415,100, and a metropolitan population of over half a million.
Dunedin's first railway, the Port Chalmers Branch, was opened on 1 January 1873 and was the first railway built to the newly adopted (3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)) narrow gauge to open in New Zealand. The Main South Line, linking Dunedin with Christchurch and Invercargill, was opened on 22 January 1879. All these required massive earthworks along half ...