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2 unusual facts about Hawke's Bay Hawks


Hawke's Bay Hawks

After losing Paul Henare and Paora Winitana to the Christchurch Cougars in 2009, the Hawks were forced to rebuild with the likes of Jeremy Kench and Jarrod Kenny.

2005 saw the Hawks add United States born Willie Burton and American-Australian Dusty Rychart to achieve another second place regular season finish and eventually lost in a dramatic grand final 69-68.


1983 in Australian television

26 September - After Australia's America's Cup win, Prime Minister Bob Hawke goes on the Today show and declared a national public holiday for that day, stating that "any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum."

Angolan War of Independence

The aircraft were flown to Africa by John Richard Hawke – reportedly a former Royal Air Force-pilot – who on the start of one of the flights to Angola flew so low over the White House, that the United States Air Force forced him to land and he was arrested.

Anthony Hawke

Hawke sat with Lord Chief Justice Hewart and Mr Justice Branson in the Court of Criminal Appeal on 18 and 19 May 1931 to hear an appeal against a conviction for murder in R. v. Wallace.

Auckland Anniversary Day

The modern area of observation includes all of the Northland and Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Gisborne Regions, as well as some parts of the Manawatu-Wanganui and Hawke's Bay regions north of the 39th parallel.

Australia Card

In response, Hawke asked the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen for a double dissolution, which was granted on 5 June 1987, followed by an election on 11 July.

Blanche d'Alpuget

Asher Keddie played her in the 2010 multi-award winning telemovie, Hawke.

Café Sperl

Café Sperl was featured in the 1995 movie Before Sunrise, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and in a 2011 DVD of the Vienna Philharmonic playing the music of Johann Strauss, Fritz Kreisler and others.

Chapter VIII of the Constitution of Australia

The Constitutional Commission which was established by the Hawke government in 1985 recommended in its final report in 1988 that Section 128 be altered to allow the parliaments of the states to initiate referendums by passing bills containing a proposed change.

Charles Fountaine

He married in 1918, Louisa Constance Catherine, daughter of Sir Douglas Maclean, of Hawke's Bay in New Zealand.

Cherami Leigh

Later on, she played Kim in Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation, Danielle in Ethan Hawke's The Hottest State and worked with Frank Darabont in The Mist as Teenage Girl.

Clifton Beach, Karachi

Other beaches close to the city include Sandspit, Hawke's Bay, and Paradise Point (a sandstone rock promontory with a natural arch), sonehra point, french beach, cape Mount, Manora Beach, but Clifton Beach is the most popular picnic destination in Karachi.

Clive, New Zealand

Clive is home to the Hawke's Bay Rowing Club who train on the Clive River.

College of Advanced Education

This sector ceased to exist when, between 1989 and 1992, the Hawke-Keating government implemented the sweeping reforms of Education Minister John Dawkins.

Constitutional Commission

In 1985 a Constitutional Commission was established (by the Hawke Labor government) to review the Australian Constitution.

Dan Kirkup

In October 2008, it was announced he would leave Workington the following month to play in New Zealand for Hawke's Bay United.

Eugene Roche

Roche was also known on Airwolf as United States Senator William Dietz in the pilot episode "Shadow of the Hawke" in season 1 and as a drunken friend of Dominic Santini's named Eddie in the episode "Firestorm" in season 2.

French Beach, Karachi

French Beach of Karachi is located half way between Hawkes Bay and Paradise Point, is a small fishing village frequented by Karachi's elite and known to the locals as Haji Ismill Goth.

Genetic determinism

Gattaca, a 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law

Hastings Aerodrome

Air Hawke's Bay, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hawke's Bay & East Coast Aero Club, is a registered aviation college and air charter company that specialises in full-time integrated fixed wing pilot training for both domestic and international students, and air charter services.

Hastings, New Zealand

Exactly who chose the name has been disputed, although Thomas Tanner claimed that it was him (see Hawke's Bay Herald report 1 February 1884) and that the choice was inspired by his reading the trial of Warren Hastings.

Hastings' specialist attractions include: Hawke's Bay's largest amusement park, a water park called 'Splash Planet', which replaced 'Fantasyland' near the turn of the millennium, Cape Kidnappers (the world's largest mainland gannet colony), Te Mata Peak, and access to an abundance of nature reserves and mountain treks.

Hawke Cup

Teams from New Zealand's 4 "main centres", Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin have not usually competed for the Hawke Cup, although they did participate for the latter half of the 1990s.

Hawke's Bay rugby league team

Mike Dorreen was part of the 1994 Unicorns side that was coached by Gary Kemble.

Hawkesbay

Hawke's Bay Town, a new neighborhood being developed in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Hazel Hawke

Hawke acted as a prominent pro-choice advocate in Australia, often drawing on her personal experience of having an illegal abortion in 1952 so that her future husband Bob Hawke could further his education at the University of Oxford.

Holden VN Commodore

Under the Hawke government's Button car plan, which saw a reduction in the number of models manufactured locally, and the introduction of model sharing, the VN Commodore was rebadged as the Toyota Lexcen, named after the late America's Cup yacht designer, Ben Lexcen.

How Green was my Cactus

The program commenced in 1986 during the tenure of the Labor Hawke Government in Australia, and featured Bob Hawke as its main character, although the program usually referred to him as "King Bonza the Charismatic" - a reflection of Hawke's larrikin image and populist appeal.

Kia kaha

Numerous schools use Kia kaha as, or as part of, their mottoes, including Te Aute College, Hawke's Bay (Whakatangata kia kaha); Tikipunga High School, Whangarei (Kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui); Golden Bay High School, Takaka (Ake ake kia kaha); Rotorua Intermediate School, Rotorua (Kia kaha, kia maia); and Rosehill Intermediate School, Papakura (Whaia kia kaha) and Te Awamutu Te Awamutu College and Kingwood Park High school (Kia Kaha).

Kirribilli agreement

On Keating's insistence, the undertaking was witnessed by ACTU secretary Bill Kelty, and Sir Peter Abeles, a businessman and friend of Hawke.

Kirribilli Agreement of 1988

This resulted in Keating throwing his support behind Hawke, causing then-Leader Bill Hayden to resign and make way for Hawke to become Leader.

Prime Minister Hawke invited ACTU Secretary Bill Kelty and Sir Peter Abeles to Kirrbilli House, so that proper arrangement could be made.

Mark Westcott

He was to work with Hawke again in 2011 as Supervising Field Producer on Season Two of Man, Woman, Wild.

New Zealand Poet Laureate

The tokotoko are created by Hawke's Bay artist Jacob Scott, with the matua carved from black maire and containing a poem by the late Hone Tuwhare, the 1999–2001 Laureate.

Robert J. Pope

He began his teaching at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay, and then became a master at the first school in Levin.

Sedimentary budget

Incorporating a sediment budget into a coastal plan has been recognised as highly important in the Hawke's Bay of New Zealand for finding information relating to hazard zones, beach property protection, and coastal erosion as well as assess the successfulness of current management strategies.

Sir John Moore, 1st Baronet

Moore was therefore present for Hawke's autumn cruise in the Bay of Biscay, and was present at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre on 14 October, where Hawke defeated a French fleet under Admiral Desherbiers de l'Etenduère on 14 October.

Sleepers, Wake!

Barry Jones was Australia's Minister for Science in the Hawke government from 1983 to 1990.

Stirling University F.C.

In March 2012, the university's first year scholar Stephen Hoyle left the program to sign for ASB Premiership side Hawke's Bay United in New Zealand.

Taradale

Taradale High School, a high school in Taradale, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Twyford, New Zealand

The school was established in the early 20th century by New Zealand Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell KCB, KCMG, who originated from Hawke's Bay and became a farm manager at Twyford.

Waikato FC

The move to playing games outside Hamilton, perhaps was not financially successful, as the gate numbers were not as large as expected, but Rotorua became a fortress with wins over both Hawke's Bay Utd and eventual champions Auckland City.

Wicked Science

Bridget Neval as Elizabeth Hawke, Elizabeth was also involved in the accident that turned Toby into a genius.


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