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    Rakaia is a town sited on the southern banks of the Rakaia River on the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand's South Island, approximately 57 km south of Christchurch...
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  • Rakaia is a town in Canterbury, New Zealand. It may also refer to: MV Rakaia, a British cargo liner in service 1946-71 Rakaia River, one of the largest...
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    The Rakaia River is in the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand's South Island. The Rakaia River is one of the largest braided rivers in New Zealand. The Rakaia...
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    Rakaia Gorge is located on the Rakaia River in inland Canterbury in New Zealand's South Island. Like its neighbour, the Waimakariri River, the Rakaia...
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    The Rakaia Bridge is New Zealand's longest road bridge and crosses the Rakaia River, one of Canterbury's large braided rivers. The present bridge was...
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    Rakaia: Rakaia antipodiana Hirst, 1926 – New Zealand Rakaia australis Forster, 1952 – New Zealand Rakaia collaris Roewer, 1942 – New Zealand Rakaia digitata...
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    (in Waikato River delta) Rabbit Island (Canterbury) (in Rakaia River) Rakaia Island (in the Rakaia River delta) Rangitata Island (in the Rangitata River...
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    The Rakaia railway accident at Rakaia, Canterbury, New Zealand on the evening of Saturday, 11 March 1899 occurred when the second of two excursion trains...
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  • Rakaia was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the Canterbury region from 1972 to 1978 and 1993 to 2008. The seat was held by former Prime Minister...
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    Parliament at the 1987 election, winning the Ashburton electorate (later renamed Rakaia). When the National Party returned to power in 1990, she was appointed to...
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    MV Empire Abercorn (redirect from MV Rakaia)
    Abercorn was a cargo and passenger ship that was built in 1944, renamed MV Rakaia in 1946 and remained in service until 1971. Empire Abercorn was built by...
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    sediments) favors braided rivers, but is not essential. For example, the Rakaia and Waitaki Rivers of New Zealand are not aggrading, due to retreating shorelines...
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    Starega, 2008 Rakaia Hirst, 1926 (New Zealand) Rakaia antipodiana Hirst, 1926 Rakaia australis Forster, 1952 Rakaia collaris Roewer, 1942 Rakaia digitata Forster...
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    in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. It is a minor tributary of the Rakaia River via the Harper and Wilberforce Rivers, south of Arthur's Pass in Canterbury...
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  • Staręga, 2008 Rakaia Hirst, 1926 Rakaia antipodiana Hirst, 1926 Rakaia collaria Roewer, 1942 Rakaia dorothea Phillips and Grimmett, 1932 Rakaia florensis...
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  • 4405, 447, 448, 449 Amberley Amberley 314 Ashburton Ashburton, Methven, Rakaia 261, 302, 303, 307, 308, 423, 424, 550, 745, 908, 928, 975 Balclutha Balclutha...
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    situated on the Canterbury Plains south of the Rakaia River, some 20 kilometres (12 mi) inland from Rakaia. It was named after one of its pioneer settlers...
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    township were offered for sale by public auction on 24 June 1878 at South Rakaia, and sold for between 20 and 95 pounds. In 1879, Robert Patton applied to...
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    1999, the day before her 16th birthday, two men in the Camp Gully area of Rakaia, roughly 40 km away from Ashburton, found a badly decomposed human body...
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    shingle fans of several of the larger rivers, notably the Waimakariri, the Rakaia, the Selwyn, and the Rangitata. Part of the Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands...
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  • when the railway reached the south bank of the Rakaia River, where the township of Rakaia formed. The Rakaia River Bridge was formally opened by the provincial...
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    Culbert 1996 Te Hemara Ralph Hotere 1996 Kaipara Waka Russell Moses 1996/1997 Rakaia Peter Nicholls 1997 Electrum (for Len Lye) Eric Orr/Greg Leyh 1997 Pyramid...
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  • Putāruru* Putorino Queenstown* Raetihi* Raglan* Rahotu Rai Valley Rainbows End Rakaia* Ramarama Ranfurly Rangiora* Rapaura Rārangi Ratapiko Raumati Beach Raumati...
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  • Tania Nolan (category People from Rakaia)
    Tania Nolan (born 19 August 1983) is a New Zealand actress from Rakaia, Canterbury, New Zealand. She is best known for her roles as Isobel Jones in the...
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    This page lists candidates in New Zealand's 2005 general election, grouping them by the electorate that they contested. See also candidates by party and...
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    North Otago: Rangitata River, the Opihi River, the Ashburton River, the Rakaia River, the Waimakariri River, the Hurunui River, and the Waiau Uwha River...
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    0294 Raetihi RET 0658 Raglan RAG 071 Rahotu RHU 0661 Rai Valley RAI 054 Rakaia RAK 053 Ranfurly RNF 0294 Rangiora RR 0502 Rangiotu RNU 063 296 Rangitaiki...
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    electorate was abolished (Ashburton), and one electorate was recreated (Rakaia). In the North Island, five electorates were newly created (Eastern Bay...
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    were purchased by the Rakaia & Ashburton Forks Railway Company for working their newly constructed railway to Methven from Rakaia, which later became the...
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    or hapua which form at river-coast interface such as at the mouth of the Rakaia River. The Kaitorete Spit in Canterbury, New Zealand, is a barrier/spit...
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