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    Pōrangahau is a small township close to the Pacific Ocean coast in the south-east of the North Island of New Zealand. It lies in the southernmost part...
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  • The Pōrangahau River runs 45 km through southern Hawke's Bay in New Zealand. The river winds through rugged hill country to the north of Cape Turnagain...
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    pukaka­piki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahu is a hill near Pōrangahau, south of Waipukurau, in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The summit...
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    Whakatu Haumoana Te Awanga Waimārama Tikokino Ongaonga Takapau Ōtāne Porangahau The subnational gross domestic product (GDP) of Hawke's Bay was estimated...
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    part way between Hawke Bay and Cook Strait, between the mouths of the Porangahau and Ākitio Rivers. The cape was named by Captain James Cook in 1769. On...
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    Aramoana, Blackhead and Pōrangahau. There is a marae in each of the four corners of the district, at Pukehou, Kairakau, Pōrangahau and Takapau. The district...
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  • Ngāti Kahukuranui hapū of Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti. He led an expedition to Te Pōrangahau in order to avenge Tūpouriao and marry his widow Tū-teihonga. He may have...
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    Lake Manapouri) Birch Island (in the Clutha River) Bird Island (in the Pōrangahau River) Black Jacks Island (in Lake Benmore) Buncrana Island (in Lake Manapouri)...
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    chiefs. Te Pareihe abandoned Te Roto-a-Tara after the battle and moved to Porangahau. Although he had beaten back a superior force at Te Roto-a-Tara, Te Pareihe...
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    advisor to the governor-general and government of New Zealand. Born at Porangahau on 6 November 1946, Sciascia was the son of Frank la Basse and Maymorn...
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    tribe's boundary for the region is similar. Their tribal area begins at Pōrangahau and ends at Turakirae. It is the southernmost of their three rohe (homelands)...
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    41.78°S 172.32°E Felt throughout central New Zealand 12 February 1930 Porangahau Hawke's Bay 6.2 6.2 33 km 40.39°S 176.55°E Felt throughout lower half...
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    million towards flood protection for category 2 areas between Wairoa and Pōrangahau, and NZ$260 million for repairing roads and bridges. The Human Rights...
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    1970s. In 1976 Sciascia organised the first National Dance Congress in Porangahau. In 1991 she established Whitireia Performing Arts and led the programme...
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    Waimārama (240) Tikokino (230) Ongaonga (140) Takapau (700) Ōtāne (830) Pōrangahau (160) Ōkato (720) Lepperton (410) Egmont Village (380) Onaero Beach (70)...
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  • grandson Ngarangi-whakaupoko, whom he installed at Te Poroporo, near Pōrangahau; the eastern "post" was his grandson Ngā-whaka-tātare, at Whāngārā; and...
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    feast in the late seventeenth century, when Kaitahi was travelling from Pōrangahau to Oeroa with people from Ngāti Kahungunu, and his cousin Te Hikawera...
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    Richter scale strikes near Pahiatua and causes widespread damage from Porangahau to Castlepoint. 1939 Ohakea Air Force Station commences operations. 1945...
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    million towards flood protection for category 2 areas between Wairoa and Pōrangahau, and NZ$260 million for repairing roads and bridges. The Human Rights...
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    Route 52. It runs from Waipukurau, to Masterton in the Wairarapa through Porangahau on the east coast and the Weber and Pongaroa hill country in the Tararua...
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    Macdonald Crescent. His father had a further 15,000 acres (6,100 ha) farm in Porangahau in the Hawke's Bay Region, which he took up in circa 1854. Through purchasing...
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  • 29 January 1877. Retrieved 25 August 2021. J G Wilson (1962). "Road to Porangahau" (PDF). "Waipukurau reces, 1859", Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue...
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    Expressway ends Central Hawke's Bay District Waipukurau 721 448 (Porangahau Road) – Pōrangahau Former SH 52 Takapau 743 462 SH 50 – Tikokino, Ongaonga Tararua...
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  • 2013. "Porangahau Station Woolshed". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 23 December 2014. "Porangahau Station...
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  • Wairoa, Whirinaki, Waiohiki, Ohiti Road/Omāhu, Pākōwhai, Havelock North, Pōrangahau and Awatoto. The Hawke’s Bay Regional Recovery Plan, which was linked...
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  • was passed down, was of the Ngati Kahungunu, tribe from the area around Porangahau, and also of Ngāi Tahu descent. This grandfather was also of Scots descent...
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  • names". New Zealand Topographic Map. Retrieved 8 January 2020, from https://www.topomap.co.nz Map of Porangahau / Cape Turnagain. c1859. No author. v t e...
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  • Awards winner Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds. Kaa Jenkins was born in Pōrangahau, a settlement in Hawkes Bay New Zealand in 1941. She affiliates with the...
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    the local branch of Federated Farmers. He purchased a sheep farm near Pōrangahau in southern Hawke's Bay in the early 1950s and was elected to the Hawke's...
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  • Pohangina River Pohuenui River Pokororo River Pomahaka River Pongaroa River Pōrangahau River Poroporo River Pororari River Porter River Postal River Potts River...
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