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Don Charles Selwyn ONZM (22 November 1935 – 13 April 2007) was a Māori actor and filmmaker from New Zealand.He was a founding member of the New Zealand Māori Theatre Trust and directed the 2002 film Te tangata whai rawa o Weneti (The Maori Merchant of Venice), the first Māori language feature film with English subtitles.
Taumarunui is a small town in the King Country of the central North Island of New Zealand. It is on an alluvial plain set within rugged terrain on the upper reaches of the Whanganui River , 65 km south of Te Kūiti and 55 km west of Tūrangi .
"Taumarunui (on the Main Trunk Line)" (often styled without parentheses or simply as "Taumarunui") is a New Zealand folk song, written sometime during the 1950s.It is set in the refreshment room at Taumarunui's railway station, which was a major traditional stop for trains running along the North Island Main Trunk railway, lying approximately halfway between Auckland and Wellington.
The Dead Lands is a 2014 New Zealand action film directed by Toa Fraser.It was number 1 at the New Zealand box office when it was released. [2] It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival [3] where it had its world premier on 4 September 2014. [4]
Mana Ariki, formerly known as Manu Ariki, is based in Taumarunui in New Zealand. Mana Ariki is a marae (a communal or sacred place) closely linked to Ngaati Hekeawai of the Whanganui River tribes and Ngaati Maniapoto. The marae was originally the home and farm of the Phillips family (Alex and wife Betty and children).
Peter Irwin Cape (19 January 1926 – 30 May 1979) was a New Zealand singer, songwriter, writer and radio producer. He is best remembered for his simple folk songs, including "Taumarunui On The Main Trunk Line", "She'll Be Right" and "Coffee Bar Blues".
Ongarue railway disaster Derailed locomotive Details Date 6 July 1923 05:52 NZST Location Ongarue, North Island Country New Zealand Line North Island Main Trunk Railway Operator New Zealand Railways Department Incident type Derailment Cause Struck landslip in which was embedded a large boulder Statistics Trains 1 Passengers 200 Deaths 17 The Ongarue railway disaster occurred on 6 July 1923 ...
Taumarunui railway station is the main railway station in Taumarunui, New Zealand, serving the Northern Explorer service between Auckland and Wellington. [1] Historically, it was an important intermediate stop with a refreshment room on the North Island Main Trunk line; the subject of the ballad "Taumarunui on the Main Trunk Line" by Peter Cape.