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unusual facts about 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 .

Wanganui having won the Meads Cup in 2008 it meant in 2009 the Wanganui side had a chance to challenge the Wellington side for the Ranfurly Shield for their 25th time and first since 2000.

Alfred Rowland Chetham-Strode

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

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.

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.

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, 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.

Manawatu Gorge

The road through the Manawatu Gorge, State Highway 3, is on the south side, and was completed in 1872.

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.

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

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.

Stephenson Percy Smith

While still in his teens, he began a series of expeditions in his spare time, joining a party to scale Mount Taranaki in 1857, for example, and undertaking a journey in 1858 up the Mōkau River to Taupo, Lakes Rotomahana and Tarawera, the Tongariro-Ruapehu area, returning via Rangitikei and Wanganui.

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.

Veandercross

He then ran second in the Wanganui Guineas to the front running Lodore Lady before winning the Okawa Guineas at Hastings.

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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