Akaroa was a New Zealand electorate. It was located in Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, and named after the town of the same name. One of the original 24 electorates...
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Akaroa is a small town on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand, situated within a harbour of the same name. The...
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Ellesmere was a parliamentary electorate in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. It existed for two periods between 1861 and 1928 and was represented...
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character on That '70s Show William Barnett, political candidate in Akaroa (New Zealand electorate) William Barnett, squatter of Bendigo in Australia William A...
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in Akaroa on Banks Peninsula. He represented the Akaroa electorate on the Canterbury Provincial Council from 1861 to 1862, and the Wainui electorate from...
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of Parliament in New Zealand. He represented the Akaroa electorate from 1887 to 1890 when he was defeated. He was a mayor of Akaroa. His only daughter...
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William Sefton Moorhouse (category New Zealand MPs for Christchurch electorates)
In the provincial elections of August 1853, Moorhouse stood in the Akaroa electorate for one of two positions on the Canterbury Provincial Council. There...
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until 1890. In the 1890 election, the Akaroa electorate covered the town of Lyttelton. The Lyttelton electorate was re-established for the 1893 election...
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Christchurch was a parliamentary electorate in Christchurch, New Zealand. It existed three times. Originally it was the Town of Christchurch from 1853...
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John (April 2009) [1966]. "Akaroa, French Settlement At". In McLintock, Alexander Hare (ed.). An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Archived from the original...
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up by an enlarged Akaroa electorate. The electorate was first formed for the 1866 election, mostly replacing the Ellesmere electorate, but also gaining...
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The Akaroa by-election 1858 was a by-election held in the Akaroa electorate during the 2nd New Zealand Parliament, on 31 May 1858. The by-election was...
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Ponsonby was a parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand from 1887 to 1890 and from 1946 to 1963. The Ponsonby electorate was represented by two Members...
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Buckland moved from North Otago to Akaroa, where he bought the Mount Bossu estate sheep farm at Wainui. He served on the Akaroa Council Council for four years...
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Te Waimate mission, the second-oldest building in New Zealand. In Akaroa, the trust enabled the Akaroa County Council via a significant grant to buy the...
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The Mahia electorate was created in 1996 for the first MMP election. Located on the East Cape, it existed for one term only. The 1996 election was notable...
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Peninsula itself including the town of Akaroa. The 1996 election was notable for the significant change of electorate boundaries, based on the provisions...
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John Cuff (politician) (category New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates)
Cuff (1805 – 6 December 1864) was a New Zealand politician. He represented the Akaroa electorate in the 2nd New Zealand Parliament from 1855 to 1858, but...
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returned to New Zealand on the Matoaka, and shortly afterwards won election to the Canterbury Provincial Council; first for the Akaroa electorate in May 1861...
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Mongonui was a parliamentary electorate in the Far North District in the Northland region of New Zealand, from 1861 to 1870. It was represented by three...
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be a pattern of governments failing to reflect the mood of the electorate, New Zealanders in 1992 and 1993 voted to change the electoral system to mixed-member...
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Miramar was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the south-eastern suburbs of Wellington. It was created in 1946, replacing Wellington East, and was...
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Aoraki was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate that existed for four parliamentary terms from 1996 to 2008. It was held by Jim Sutton of the Labour...
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Canterbury Region (redirect from Canterbury (New Zealand))
produces half of the New Zealand's mushrooms, nuts and berries. The region's viticulture industry was established by French settlers in Akaroa. Since then, wine-growing...
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Column 4". Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser. Vol. LV, no. 5636. 1 December 1931. p. 4. Retrieved 8 November 2014. "Buller Electorate". The Evening...
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Column 4". Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser. Vol. LV, no. 5636. 1 December 1931. p. 4. Retrieved 8 November 2014. "Buller Electorate". The Evening...
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Chalmers, originally Port Chalmers, was a parliamentary electorate in the Otago Region of New Zealand, from 1866 to 1938 with a break from 1896 to 1902. It...
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School, the first Catholic school in New Zealand, opened in Kororareka. 18 August: French colony established in Akaroa. Hobson becomes first governor and...
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South Island (redirect from South Island, New Zealand)
Akaroa and the New Zealand Company attempts to establish a separate colony in Wellington, and so Hobson declared British sovereignty over all of New Zealand...
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Hauraki is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1928 to 1987 and 1993 to 1996. In the 1987 general election it was renamed Coromandel, the...
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