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unusual facts about Highbury, Manawatu-Wanganui



2008/09 Wanganui Heartland Rugby team

As a result of a successful season several players from the Wanganui squad were selected for the NZ Heartland XV to tour USA in late November and play matches against U.S .

Alex Dawson

Dawson was the last player to score a hat trick in an FA Cup semi-final, back in 1958 when Manchester United beat Fulham 5–3 in a replay at Highbury.

Alfred Rowland Chetham-Strode

He also received a war medal for services rendered during encounters with natives at Horokiwi, Porirua, Wanganui, and other places.

Ante Miročević

He did score Wednesday's only goal in the 2-1 defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion in the 1983 FA Cup Semi-Final at Highbury.

Arsenal tube station

Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman was a particularly keen advocate, and on 5 November 1932 it was renamed Arsenal (Highbury Hill).

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.

Boobs on Bikes

Boobs on Bikes is a mostly annual parade of topless men and women riding on motorcycles through large New Zealand cities (in the past, Christchurch, Palmerston North, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington, Wanganui and most prominently Auckland).

Chas Poynter

Consultation was carried out in 2009 by Wanganui District Council to rename Wikitoria Road, connecting State Highway 3 and Wanganui Airport, to Chas Poynter Drive.

Craig Clare

Clare spent the 2010–11 European season with Spanish side Bera Bera RT before returning to Manawatu for the 2011 provincial campaign in New Zealand.

Danny Fiszman

Daniel David Fiszman (9 January 1945 – 13 April 2011) was a diamond dealer, best known as a shareholder in and director of Arsenal Football Club, and played a leading role in the club's move from Highbury to Ashburton Grove, now known as Emirates Stadium.

David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury

He was created a life peer as Baron Simon of Highbury, of Canonbury in the London Borough of Islington on 16 May 1997, having been knighted two years before.

Doug Rougvie

He made his debut for the club in the opening game of the new season against Arsenal at Highbury, at one point managing to floor Arsenal's Viv Anderson with a crunching challenge.

Eltham, New Zealand

Eltham's other significant industry is the Riverlands (formerly J. C. Hutton's) freezing works, which has a satellite plant in Bulls, in Manawatu.

Foxton Branch

At the mouth of the Manawatu River, the settlement of Foxton was seen in the 1860s as a possible port for the Manawatu region.

Harold Darke

Darke was born in Highbury, London the youngest son of Samuel Darke & Arundel Bourne and attended Dame Alice Owen's School.

Health stamp

Health camps had been run in New Zealand since 1919, when Dr Elizabeth Gunn ran a three-week camp for children at Turakina near Wanganui.

Highbury Hill, Clutton

Highbury Hill in Clutton, Somerset, England is the site of the earthwork remains of an Iron Age univallate hillfort.

Highbury Wood

Highbury Wood overlies mostly alkaline soils and contains a range of woodland species such as Ash, Oak and Lime.

Highbury, Manawatu-Wanganui

The suburb of Highbury has had the most gang-related, violent crime incidents (including shootings, serious assaults and stabbings) nationwide in the past decade.

Joggie Viljoen

Viljoen, a native of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, currently resides in New Zealand and is the first choice scrum-half for Manawatu in the NPC.

John Henry Chamberlain

Chamberlain became the unofficial domestic architect to Birmingham's civic leaders, designing a string of prestigious houses in upmarket districts of South Birmingham including Highbury Hall – the home of Joseph Chamberlain himself, and now the official residence of Birmingham's Lord Mayor.

John Jensen

A few months later, it was revealed that Jensen's transfer to Highbury was at least partly motivated by George Graham's involvement with agent Rune Hauge, who had been giving Graham backhanders in exchange for signing players he represented.

Lee Canoville

He played only one further game for Northampton before returning to Highbury, and although attracting interest from Torquay manager Colin Lee, remained there beyond transfer deadline day.

Mangamahu

The Mangamahu District is a hill-country farming and forestry community in the middle reaches of the Whangaehu River valley, 50 km north-east of Wanganui, New Zealand.

Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham Information Services

Records of Nottingham General Hospital; Nottingham Eye Hospital; Nottingham Children’s Hospital; Nottingham Women's Hospital; Highbury Hospital; and Ellerslie House Home

N class

NZR N class, a class of steam locomotives used by the New Zealand Railways Department and the Wellington and Manawatu Railway

Nathan Picchi

In 1998, he played for Manawatu and again represented New Zealand Māori.

New Zealand State Highway 3

From Hawera the highway follows the coast of the South Taranaki Bight southeastwards to Patea and Wanganui before meeting State Highway 1 again at Bulls.

Octavius Hadfield

Octavius Hadfield (born 6 October 1814 at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom - died 11 December 1904 at Edale, near Marton, Manawatu, New Zealand) was Archdeacon of Kapiti, Bishop of Wellington from 1870 to 1893 and Primate of New Zealand from 1890 to 1893.

Pai Mārire

Two weeks later, on 14 May, a Pai Mārire war party from the upper Whanganui River advanced on the settlement of Wanganui, intent on raiding it.

Phoebe Veitch

Mrs Blight noted that Mrs Veitch was having difficulty bringing up both of her children and had intended to send her daughter to Fielding, a northern settlement in the Manawatu district in the North Island of New Zealand.

Pukerua Bay

According to legend, the rock is the petrified wife of culture hero Haunui-a-Nanaia, who pursued her from Mahia Peninsula, naming places on the way including Manawatū, Ohau and Turakina.

Rangitikei

Rangitikei District, a district council in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region

Ray Lambert

Lambert was also an integral member of the Reds squad that took Liverpool to their first ever Wembley final in 1950, Arsenal were the opponents on 29 April and spoilt the Merseysiders day by taking the cup back to Highbury after a 2-0 win.

Robert C. Murdoch

He spent some years subsequent to 1888 in farming near Wanganui, but in 1892 he went to Sydney and studied Mollusca with Mr. Charles Hedley.

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1924) "The Tertiary Rocks of the Wanganui – South Taranaki Coast".

Samuel Henry Drew

Andreas Reischek helped him classify his collections on occasions, which were displayed at his family house in Wanganui.

Signals intelligence operational platforms by nation

As of 2013, New Zealand has two ground-based signals intelligence stations at Tangimoana in the North Island's Manawatu-Wanganui region and the Waihopai Valley in the South Island's Marlborough region.

South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies

Graham Houghton, born in 1937 and raised in New Zealand, on a farm in the Manawatu near Palmerston North, was the founding principal.

Tokomaru, New Zealand

Highlights include a 1904 Fowler traction engine, an 1897 Aveling & Porter portable engine and a huge 335 hp Filer & Stowell stationary engine-compressor ex the Imlay Freezing Works, Wanganui.

Trevor Chute

Chute led a 620-strong force across South and Central Taranaki, from Wanganui to New Plymouth, destroying approximately twenty villages between the Waitotara River and Mount Taranaki/Egmont.

Vinegar Hill, New Zealand

Vinegar Hill is on the banks of the Rangitikei River within the Putai Ngahere Reserve, near the junction of State Highway 54 and State Highway 1, about 5 km north of Hunterville in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand.

Wanganui Campaign

Five of the six killers were captured by lower Wanganui Māori; four were court-martialled in Wanganui and hanged at Rutland Stockade.

William Watt

William Hogg Watt (1818–1893), Member of Parliament in the Manawatu region of New Zealand


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