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New Zealand, South Island
The Pohutukawa is a tree endemic to New Zealand. It's also called New Zealand Christmas tree or New Zealand Christmas bush and it's regarded as a chiefly tree (rākau rangatira) by Māori.
De Montgat, Col·laboració amb Attik Brewing. Hazy NZIPA. Aigua, malt d'ordi, civada, blat, llúpols (Southern Cross, Motueka i Rakau) i llevat. 6%. Ben bona. Molt tèrbola, llúpol herbaci. Amb l'etiqueta cap per avall no sé si la idea era guardar-la del revés perquè quedes barrejat el pòsit. #HazyIPA #DDH #dryhopping #DoubleDryHopping #IPA #IndiaPaleAle #IndianPaleAle #ale #beer #cerveza #pivo #birra #instabeer #pornbeer #cervesa #olut #øl #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #cervesaartesana #cervesaartesanal #beer #pivo #birra #cervesa #cerveza #olut #øl #пиво #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #hophead #craftbeernotcrapbeer #craftbeerporn #craftbeerlover #beerstagram #beerpic
De Cornellà del Terri. DIPA. Aigua, malt d'ordi i civada i blat, llúpol (Nectaron, Rakau i Motueka), llevat. 8%. Excel·lent en la línia de Soma. Afruitada, fruita d'os, sedosa, gens aspra,
#soma #dryhopping #IPA #IndiaPaleAle. #IndianPaleAle #ale #localbeer #craftbeer #cervesaartesana #cervesaartesanal #beer #pivo #birra #cervesa #cerveza #olut #øl #пиво #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #localbeer #craftbeernotcrapbeer #craftbeerporn #starkol #piwo #beerpic #bierre #beeroftheday
De Montgat. West Coast IPA. Aigua, malt d'ordi, llúpols (Citra i Rakau) i llevat. 45 IBUs. 6,5%. Molt bona, ben carregada de llúpol, Resinosa i herbàcia, també cítrica. #HazyIPA #DDH #dryhopping #DoubleDryHopping #IPA #IndiaPaleAle #IndianPaleAle #ale #beer #cerveza #pivo #birra #instabeer #pornbeer #cervesa #olut #øl #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #cervesaartesana #cervesaartesanal #beer #pivo #birra #cervesa #cerveza #olut #øl #пиво #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #hophead #craftbeernotcrapbeer #craftbeerporn #craftbeerlover #beerstagram #beerpic
The least experienced member of the Toa Motu, Rewa comes from a village that was once protected by three Toa of Fire. Having experienced first-hand the kind of brash arrogance his element is known for, he often overcompensates and is unusually timid and held-back. Fortunately, adventuring with his newfound family is helping him embrace his elemental potential.
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Spider Mother's Day, anyway: today I'm featuring mama spiders. I spotted this mama up on the ceiling of the privy connected to the train car lodging in New Zealand. It seems this species is somewhat global, being found all over the US, Central America, New Zealand, and Europe. They're also found to a lesser extent in India, Russia, China, Australia, and South America.
Some spiders make egg sacs and stow them somewhere or hang them in a web, while other mothers carry them with them. These and fishing spiders carry them by mouth, while wolf spiders carry them with their spinnerets, tucked under their abdomens.
Cellar spiders can live around three years. Their egg sacs can contain from around 10 to around 60 eggs. The mother will carry it with her chelicerae except when she's eating, grooming, or mating, in which case she attaches it to her web until she's done. Average development time for an egg sac is 27 days. Some days before the eggs begin to hatch, the mother starts to loosen and cut the web strands holding the batch together, and continues this until they hatch, helping the spiderlings get free.
This paper describes the whole process in detail, which I've condensed considerably for you here, but if you want the explicit details, you can read that.
24 Arachtober 2020, 1/2
Long-bodied Cellar Spider, Pholcus phalangioides
Te Rakau Cabins
Ocean Beach, North Island, New Zealand
19 November 2019
Yr Ywen Waedlyd (Taxus baccata) ym mynwent eglwys Brynach Sant, Nanhyfer. Mae tua 700 oed a llifa nodd lliw gwaed ohoni.
Dywed rhai ei bod yn coffáu croesheolio Crist. Yn ôl un chwedl, crogwyd mynach diniwed yma a dywed eraill na fydd yn peidio â gwaedu hyd nes y bydd tywysog o Gymro wedi ei sefydlu yn Nanhyfer.
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An ivinenn wadek (Taxus baccata) e bered iliz Sant Brynach e Nanhyfer. E-tro 700 vloaz eo oad ar wezenn-mañ hag un dourenn ruz evel gwad a ziver diouti.
Darn a lavar e ra se e koun kroastagañ ar C'hrist. Hervez ur vojenn e voe krouget amañ ur manac'h diagblus ha lod all a lavar ne baouezo ket a ziwadañ ken na vo bet diazezet ur priñs kembreat a Nanhyfer.
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“An t-Iúr a chuireann fuil” (Taxus baccata) i reilig eaglais Naomh Brynach, Nanhyfer, sa Bhreatain Bheag. Tá an crann seo thart ar 700 bliain d'aois agus ritheann sú fola-dhearg uaidh.
Deir roinnt daoine go gcuireann sé fuil i gcuimhne chéasta Chríost. Deir miotas amháin gur crochadh manach neamhchiontach anseo, agus de réir daoine eile ní chuirfear stad ar an sruth fola nó gó mbeidh Prionsa Breatnach insealbhaithe i Nanhyfer.
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The Bleeding Yew (Taxus baccata) in the graveyard of St Brynach's church, Nevern. It is about 700 years old and blood-red sap runs from it.
Some say that it bleeds in memory of Christ being crucified. One myth says an innocent monk was hanged here and others that it won’t stop bleeding until there is a Welsh prince installed at Nevern.
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www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/flora-and-fauna/bleeding-yew-tre...
This IPA contains NO fruit juice, but the term juicy IPA refers more to the low bitterness, soft body, and big hop flavour bursting out of the beer. Brewed with lots of rolled oats for a smooth body and dry hopped aggressively with Citra, Galaxy and Rakau, this IPA is giving notes of tangerine, mandarin, fuzzy peach, pineapple, and lemon
From Bomber Brewing in Eastvan.
The full moon at sunset - Full Beaver Moon in the N Hemisphere, which I guess makes it a Full Flower Moon here down under...
Turu Huanga is the Maori name for the central day of the full moon although they count three days as full moon days; Ohua Huanga, Turu Huanga and Rakau-nui Huanga
Otaki Beach - New Zealand - 2008
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Col·laboració amb Golden Promise elaborada a les instal·lacions de Cervezas La Chula (Madrid). East Coast IPA. Aigua, malts d'ordi, llúpols (Rakau Bio de Nova Zelanda) i llevat. 45 IBUs. 6%. Baixa molt bé. No massa cos, afruitada, seca, cruxent, agradablement llupolada. #IPA #IndiaPaleAle #IndianPaleAle #beer #cerveza #pivo #birra #pornbeer #cervesa #olut #øl #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #cervesaartesana #cervesaartesanal #7days7beers #winebeer #ale #localbeer #craftbeer #hophead #craftbeernotcrapbeer #craftbeerporn #craftbeerlover #beerstagram #beerpics
D'Alboraia, P. Valencià. NZ Juicy Lager. Aigua, malts d'ordi, civada i blat, blat, llúpol (Centennial, Rakau, Galaxy, Cryo Mosaic) i llevat. 6,2%. Genial. Lleugera, fàcil de beure, gens amarga, sedosa, afruitada. 30 gr/L de llúpol en el doble dry hopping. #DryHopping #DDH #IndianPaleAle #ale #weissbier #bavarian #ale #localbeer #craftbeer #cervesaartesana #cervesaartesanal #beer #pivo #birra #cervesa #cerveza #olut #øl #пиво #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #hophead #craftbeernotcrapbeer #craftbeerporn #craftbeerlover #beerstagram #beerpic #chelas #olut #piwo #bierre #chela #instabeer #beers
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Looking South West from the lighthouse.
Te Rerenga Wairua in Māori or Cape Reinga is located at the north western end of the Aupouri Peninsula,at the extreme end of Northland,New Zealand.
From the last small town-Kaitaia, Cape Reinga is about 100 km north with the trip mostly on sealed road except for the last 20km although some people with 4x4 wheel drive vehicles choose to access Cape Reinga via 90 Mile Beach and the sand bed Te Paki Stream.
Te Rerenga Wairua is spiritually one of the Māori's most significant places and an 800 year old Pohutukawa tree, which once clung to the cliff overlooking the ocean, is said to have been the launching point for spirits of the dead on their journey to Hawaiki.
A spring in the area which has now been capped with a reservoir,Te Waiora-a-Tāne (the 'Living waters of Tāne'), also played a significant role in Māori ceremonial burials, representing a spiritual cleansing of the spirits, with water of the same name used in burial rites all over New Zealand. Conversion of the Māori to Christianity has seen the significance of these rituals diminish.
Cape Reinga Lighthouse, New Zealand. Latitude: 34.25S Longitude: 172.40E Altitude: 191m.
NSW equivalent Latitude is somewhere near Gerringong,30 minutes south of Wollongong or Adelaide or Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cape Reinga Lighthouse was completed in May 1941 and was built with many salvaged parts from the nearby Motuopao Island lighthouse which had served the area from 1879 until it was decommissioned due to the difficulty accessing it.
Cape Reinga Lighthouse was the last manned light built in New Zealand and was fully automated in 1987.
Surville Cliffs on North Cape, 30 kilometres farther east is actually the Northern most point.
The Cape Reinga Lighthouse looks out over the Columbia Bank maelstrom where the waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea meet.
D'Igualada, elaborada a Tibidabo Brewing. NEIPA. Aigua, malta (d'ordi, blat i civada), civada, llúpol (Nelson Sauvin i Rakau) i llevat. 25 IBUs, 6%. Excel·lent. Tèrbola, cremosa, gens amarga ni aspra, afruitada.. #SessionIPA #NEIPA #IndiaPaleAle #IndianPaleAle #DDH #DDHIPA #DoubleDryHopping #DryHopping #indiapaleale #indianpaleale #PaleAle #ale #localbeer #craftbeer #cervesaartesana #cervesaartesanal #beer #pivo #birra #cervesa #cerveza #olut #øl #пиво #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #localbeer#hophead #craftbeernotcrapbeer #craftbeerporn #craftbeerlover
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Friday,flora
Metrosideros excelsa, with common names pōhutukawa, New Zealand pohutukawa,New Zealand Christmas tree, New Zealand Christmas bush, and iron tree,is a coastal evergreen tree in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, that produces a brilliant display of red (or occasionally orange, yellow or white) flowers made up of a mass of stamens. The pōhutukawa is one of twelve Metrosideros species endemic to New Zealand. Renowned for its vibrant colour and its ability to survive even perched on rocky, precarious cliffs, it has found an important place in New Zealand culture for its strength and beauty and is regarded as a chiefly tree (rākau rangatira) by Māori.The blossom of the tree is called kahika.
"This tītī tōrea is sung while playing tī rakau, the Maori stick game. In olden times, stick games trained young men in spear fighting, and traditional tītī tōrea were chanted." folksong.org.nz/epapa/
De Girona. Hazy IPA. Aigua, malt d'ordi i civada, flocs de civada, llúpol (Centennial Cryo, Rakau, Sabro, Mosaic, Bru-1), llevat i CO2. 8%. Molt bona. Un suquet. Sedosa, cremosa, fruita tropical, fruita d'os, un punt herbaci i àcid. Regust persistent del llúpol. #IPA #HazyIPA #IndiaPaleAle #IndianPaleAle #bier #ale #localbeer #craftbeer #cervesaartesana #cervesaartesanal #beer #pivo #birra #cervesa #cerveza #olut #øl #пиво #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #hophead #NEIPA #craftbeerporn #craftbeerlover #beerstagram #beerpic
Last November I traveled through New Zealand with my dad for three weeks. We started in Auckland and made our way south, spending a week and a half on each island. This place was near the end of the first leg of the trip.
Our lodging here in the south of the North Island of New Zealand consisted of a pair of converted railway cars; one for sleeping quarters and the other containing a kitchen and shower. Our host, Dougal MacKenzie, made an excellent, friendly, and knowledgable bird guide. I would highly recommend staying here if you're into this sort of travel. As a bonus for me, at night many spiders set up their webs all over the outside, some of which you're seeing here this month.
Ocean Beach, New Zealand
19 November 2019
De Girona. DIPA. Aigua, malt d'ordi, civada, blat, llúpol (Rakau, Mosaic, Citra i Centennial Cryo) i llevat. 8 %. Genial com totes les Soma. Aquesta se m'ha fet curta. Molt sedosa i suau, afruitada, baixa sola. #soma #dryhopping #IPA #IndiaPaleAle #IndianPaleAle #ale #localbeer #craftbeer #cervesaartesana #cervesaartesanal #beer #pivo #birra #cervesa #cerveza #olut #øl #пиво #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #localbeer#hophead #craftbeernotcrapbeer #craftbeerporn #starkol #piwo #beerpic #bierre
D'Alboraia, P. Valencià. NZ Hazy IPA. Aigua, malts d'ordi, civada i blat, llúpol (Wai-iti, Rakau, Galaxy, Cryo Mosaic) i llevat. 6, 5%. Boníssima. Gens amarga, sedosa, afruitada, cítrica. 35 gr/L de llúpol en el doble dry hopping. #DryHopping #DDH #IndianPaleAle #ale #weissbier #bavarian #ale #localbeer #craftbeer #cervesaartesana #cervesaartesanal #beer #pivo #birra #cervesa #cerveza #olut #øl #пиво #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #hophead #craftbeernotcrapbeer #craftbeerporn #craftbeerlover #beerstagram #beerpic #chelas #olut #piwo #bierre #chela #instabeer #beers
Another photo of an abandoned house in Auckland. It has served as an old farmhouse, but the house and surrounding few acres is all that is left of the farm. It is now surrounded by Auckland suburbs and is alongside the Botany Shopping Centre.
The house is a well known AUckland landmark: A remnant of rural life that has now been surrounded by urban Auckland. Perhaps 10 acres of land, that is for sale, probably destined for housing.
Friday,flora
Metrosideros excelsa, with common names pōhutukawa, New Zealand pohutukawa,New Zealand Christmas tree, New Zealand Christmas bush, and iron tree,is a coastal evergreen tree in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, that produces a brilliant display of red (or occasionally orange, yellow or white) flowers made up of a mass of stamens. The pōhutukawa is one of twelve Metrosideros species endemic to New Zealand. Renowned for its vibrant colour and its ability to survive even perched on rocky, precarious cliffs, it has found an important place in New Zealand culture for its strength and beauty and is regarded as a chiefly tree (rākau rangatira) by Māori.The blossom of the tree is called kahika.
The house and tree have heritage status, one of the (dozens of ) neighbours bordering this property told me. The property has been on the market for some time
The inside of an abandoned house. This is the wash room, showing the "copper". A fire was lit underneath a large copper vessel, used for heating the water. The damage by vandals serves to show the construction of the house: thin walls, no insulation was typical of the time. In the warmer northern parts of the country, such construction worked ok, but in the colder south, houses could be very cold and damp.
De Cornellà del Terri. DIPA. Aigua, malt d'ordi, civada, blat, llúpol (Rakau, Citra i Wai-iti) i llevat. 8%. Excel·lent com sempre amb Soma. Afruitada, cítrica,, sedosa, cremosa, gens aspra. Com si sempre fessin la mateixa cervesa amb alguna variació en els llúpols. #soma #dryhopping #IPA #IndiaPaleAlei #IndianPaleAle #ale #localbeer #craftbeer #cervesaartesana #cervesaartesanal #beer #pivo #birra #cervesa #cerveza #olut #øl #пиво #bière #beerporn #beergeek #beernerd #craftbeerlive #localbeer #craftbeernotcrapbeer #craftbeerporn #starkol #piwo #beerpic #bierre
English
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands
The archipelago of the Chatham Islands (Rekohu (misty sun) in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori) is a New Zealand territory in the Pacific Ocean consisting of about ten islands within a 40 kilometres (25 mi) radius, the largest of which are Chatham Island and Pitt Island. These remote islands, over 800 kilometres (500 mi) east of southern New Zealand, have officially been part of New Zealand since 1842.
Português
pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilhas_Chatham
O arquipélago das ilhas Chatham (Rekohu na Língua moriori) compreende duas ilhas e oito ilhéus, com uma área total de 996 km², sitos num raio de 40 km em torno da posição 44º 00' S, 176º 35' W, no Pacífico Sul a cerca de 800 km a leste da Nova Zelândia e nas imediações da linha internacional de mudança de data. O arquipélago tem apenas cerca de 750 habitantes, dos quais cerca de 700 vivem na ilha Chatham (mais de 300 em Waitangi, a capital) e 50 na ilha Pitt.
Other info / Outras informações
Area:
966 km2
Population:
615
Major city:
Waitangi
About the Archipelago:
The archipelago of the Chatham Islands (Rekohu in the Moriori language and Wharekauri in the Māori language), consists of about 10 islands within a 40-km radius. The islands have officially belonged to New Zealand since 1842.
Geography
The islands as a grouping are located at about 43°53′S, 176°31′W, roughly 800 km east of Christchurch, New Zealand. They cover a total of 966 km², almost all of which is in the two main islands, Chatham Island and Pitt Island.
Chatham and Pitt are the only inhabited islands, with the remaining smaller islands being conservation reserves with access restricted or prohibited.
The names of the main islands, in the order of occupation are:
Rekohu / Chatham Island / Wharekauri
Rangiaotea / Pitts Island (eventually Pitt Island) / Rangiauria
Rangatira / South East Island / Rangatira
Unknown /The Fort / Mangere
unknown / Little Mangere / Tapuenuku
Motuhope / Star Keys /Motuhope
Rangitatahi / The Sisters / Rangitatahi - located around 16 km north of Cape Pattison (Cape Pattison is a headland in the northwestern part of Chatham Island)
Some of these islands, once cleared for farming, are now preserved as nature reserves to conserve some of the flora and fauna that are unique to the Chatham Islands.
The international date line lies to the east of the Chathams, even though the islands lie east of 180° longitude. Consequently, the Chatham Islands observe their own time, 45 minutes ahead of New Zealand time, including during periods of daylight saving. (New Zealand Time orients itself to 180° longitude). Chatham Island is an antipode point of the French department of Hérault (Languedoc-Rousillon).
Ecology and biodiversity
Most of the land is fern or pasture covered, although there are some areas of forest. Of interest are the macrocarpa trees, with branches trailing almost horizontally in the lee of the wind. The islands are generally hilly; Pitt more so than Chatham; although the highest point (299 m) is located on a plateau near the southernmost point of the main island. The main island of the groups, Rekohu, is dotted with numerous lakes and lagoons, notably the large Te Whanga Lagoon. Other lakes on Chatham include Huro and Rangitahi. Rekohu has a number of streams including Te Awainanga and Tuku.
The island is home to a number of endemic birds. The most famous species of the islands are the Magenta Petrel and the Black Robin, both of which came periously close to extinction before being saved through conservation efforts. Other endemic species are the Chatham Island Oystercatcher, the Chatham Gerygone, the Parea or Chatham Islands Pigeon, Forbes' Parakeet, the Chatham Islands Snipe and the Shore Plover. Several species have also gone extinct, including the three endemic species of rail, Chatham Islands Raven and the Chatham Islands Fernbird.
History
The first human habitation of the Chathams involved migrating Polynesian tribes who settled the islands about 1500 CE,[1] and in their isolation became the Moriori people. The exact origins of these people remains a matter of some dispute. The Moriori population of the islands numbered about 2000. Their agricultural resources were not suited for the colder Chathams, so they lived as hunter-gatherers, taking food from the sea and from native flora. Whilst their new environment deprived them of the resources with which to build ocean-going craft for long voyages, their intelligence and perseverance saw the invention of the most ingenuous craft afloat. Moriori built what was known as the waka korari, a semi-submerged craft, constructed of flax and lined with air bladders from kelp. This craft was used to travel to the outer islands on 'birding' missions (King. M, 1989, Moriori A people Rediscovered). The Moriori society was a peaceful society and bloodshed was outlawed by the chief Nunuku after generations of warfare. Arguments were solved by consensus or by individual duels singular combat rather than warfare, but at the first sign of bloodshed, the fight was over.
The name "Chatham Islands" comes from the ship HMS Chatham of the Vancouver Expedition, whose captain William R. Broughton landed on November 29, 1791, claimed possession for Great Britain and named the islands after the political head of the Royal Navy (coincidentally also named Chatham). A relative of his, Thomas Pitt was also a member of the Vancouver Expedition. Sealers and whalers soon started hunting in the surrounding ocean with the islands as their base. It is estimated that 10 to 20 percent of the indigenous population soon died from diseases introduced by foreigners. The sealing and whaling industries ceased activities about 1861, while fishing remained as a major economic activity.
On November 19, 1835, a British ship carrying 500 Māori armed with guns, clubs and axes arrived, followed by another ship on December 5, 1835 with a further 400 Māori. They proceeded to massacre the Moriori and enslave the survivors. A Moriori survivor recalled: "[The Māori] commenced to kill us like sheep.... [We] were terrified, fled to the bush, concealed ourselves in holes underground, and in any place to escape our enemies. It was of no avail; we were discovered and killed - men, women and children indiscriminately". A Māori conqueror justified their actions as follows: "We took possession... in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people. Not one escaped....."[2]
After the invasion, Moriori were forbidden to marry Moriori, nor to have children with each other. All became slaves of the Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga invaders. Many died from despair. Many Moriori women had children to their Maori masters. A small amount of Moriori women eventually married either Maori or European men. Some were taken from the Chathams and never returned. Today, in spite of the difficulties and genocide that Moriori faced, with unrelenting stoicism and peaceful resignation, Moriori are enjoying a renaissance, both on Rekohu and in the mainland of New Zealand. Moriori culture is being revived and they have celebrated the opening of the new Kopinga Marae (meeting house) in January 2005.
An all-male group of German Lutheran missionaries arrived in 1843. When a group of women were sent out to join them three years later, several marriages ensued, and many members of the present-day population can trace their ancestry back to the missionary families.
[edit] Origin claims
Moriori have received recognition from the Crown and Government and some of their claims against those institutions for the generations of neglect and oppression have been listened to and acted on. Moriori are recognised as the original people of Rekohu. The Crown also recognised the invading Maori tribe: Ngati Mutunga as having "indigenous" status in the Chatham Islands by right of 160 odd years of occupation. Both groups have been given settlement packages of fishing quota.
It had been thought since the 1800s that the original Moriori arrived directly from more northerly Polynesian islands, which would make the Moriori's fishing rights claim invalid. However, current research indicates that ancestral Moriori were Māori who came to the Chatham Islands from New Zealand about 1500.[3][4][5][6] As Kerry Howe puts it,
Scholarship over the past 40 years has radically revised the model offered a century earlier by Smith: the Moriori as a pre-Polynesian people have gone (the term Moriori is now a technical term referring to those ancestral Maori who settled the Chatham Islands).'[7]
Modern inhabitants, descendants of those who invaded and conquered the archipelago in 1835, claim access to ancestral Māori fishing rights. An extensive report on these claims, "Rekohu", has been published by the Waitangi Tribunal.[1]
Population
An agricultural scene on the islandsChatham and Pitt Islands are inhabited. The population of 609 individuals[8] have European (66%), Māori (57%) and Moriori origins. The town of Waitangi is the main settlement with some 200 residents. Other villages are at Te One and Kaingaroa (where two primary schools are located. A third school can be found on Pitt Island). There are also the fishing villages of Owenga and Port Hutt.
Waitangi facilities include a hospital with resident doctor, trading bank, several stores, and engineering and marine services. The main shipping wharf is located here.
Transportation
Visitors to the Chathams usually arrive by air from Christchurch, Auckland or Wellington (around 1.5 - 2 hours from Christchurch on a Convair 580). While freight generally arrives by ship (4 - 5 days' sailing time), the sea journey takes too long for many passengers, and is not always available.
Although the Chathams are part of New Zealand, and there are no border controls or formalities on arrival, visitors are advised to have prearranged their accommodation on the islands before arriving. Transport operators may refuse to carry passengers without accommodation bookings. Also, there are no scheduled public transport services on the island but accommodation providers are normally able to arrange transport as well.
For many years a Bristol Freighter served the islands, a slow and noisy freight aircraft converted for carrying passengers by installing a passenger container equipped with airline seats and a toilet in part of the cargo hold. The air service primarily served to ship out high-value export crayfish products.
The grass landing-field at Hapupu, at the northern end of the Island, proved a limiting factor, as few aircraft apart from the Bristol Freighter had both the range to fly to the islands and the ruggedness to land on the grass airstrip. Although other aircraft did use the landing field occasionally, they would often require repairs to fix damage resulting from the rough landing. Hapupu is also the site of the JM Barker (Hapupu) National Historic reserve (one of only two in New Zealand) where momori rakau (Moriori tree carvings) can be found.
In 1991, after many years of requests by locals and the imminent demise of the aging Bristol Freighter aircraft, the construction of a sealed runway at Karewa, Tuuta Airport, allowed more modern aircraft to land safely. The Chathams' own airline, Air Chathams, now operates services to Auckland on Thursdays, Wellington on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and Christchurch on Tuesdays. The timetable varies seasonally, but generally planes depart the Chathams around 10.30 am (Chathams Time) and arrive in the mainland around noon. Then they refuel and reload, depart again at around 1 pm, back to the Chathams. Air Chathams operates twin turboprop Convair 580 aircraft in combi (freight and passenger) configurations and Fairchild Metroliners.
Black Robin Freighters operates shipping services from Timaru and Napier.
There is a small section of tar sealed road between Waitangi and Te One but the majority of the island's roads are gravel
Government
Electorates
In Parliament, until the 1980s the Chathams constituted part of the Lyttelton electorate, but since that time they have formed part of the Rongotai general electorate, which mostly lies in Wellington. Annette King serves as the Member for Rongotai. The Te Tai Tonga Māori seat (held in 2004 by Mahara Okeroa) also includes the Chatham Islands. The term of all current Parliamentarians expires at the next General Election.
[edit] Local Government
Local government on the islands, uniquely within New Zealand, involves a council established by its own Act of Parliament, the (Chatham Islands Council Act 1995)[9]. The Chatham Islands Council operates as a district council with regional council functions, making it in effect a unitary authority but with not quite as many responsibilities as the others.
[edit] State Services
Policing is carried out by a sole-charge constable appointed by the Wellington police district, who at various times has often doubled as an official for many government departments, including court registrar (Department for Courts), customs officer (New Zealand Customs Service) and immigration officer (Department of Labour - New Zealand Immigration Service).
A District Court judge sent from either the North Island or the South Island presides over court sittings, but urgent sittings may take place at the Wellington District Court.
Because of the isolation and small population, some of the rules governing daily activities undergo a certain relaxation on some of New Zealand's smaller islands. For example, every transport service operated solely on Great Barrier Island, the Chatham Islands or Stewart Island need not comply with section 70C of the Transport Act 1962 (the requirements for drivers to maintain driving-hours logbooks). Drivers subject to section 70B must nevertheless keep record of their driving hours in some form. See New Zealand Gazette 14 August 2003.
[edit] Health
The partially-elected Hawke's Bay District Health Board provides the islands with health services.
[edit] Education
There are three schools on the Chatham Islands, at Kaingaroa, Te One and Pitt Island. Pitt Island and Kaingaroa are staffed by sole charge principals while Te One has three teachers and a principal. These schools cater for children from Year 1 to 8. There is no secondary school on the Chathams. The majority of secondary school aged students leave the island for boarding schools in New Zealand. A small number remain on the island and carry out their secondary education through correspondence.
Internet Pages:
www.musc.edu/cando/kidsat/chatham/
It's hard to think of this house as 'large', but it comes from an age where farm houses were more utilitarian than built for space and comfort
The inside of an abandoned house. At the front of the house, there were four rooms exiting out into a central corridor. Each room was similar to this one, with a fireplace for heating - with one chimney serving two rooms. The wood used for flooring was rimu, used at a time when such premium wood was readily available. Today such wood is eagerly sought for furniture making, and nobody would think of using it as construction timber.
Te Kura O Kuini Wikitoria - Queen Victoria School for Māori Girls - photograph of pupils from 1911.
This school was officially opened on 22 May 1903. Located in Parnell, Auckland, it was administered by the General Trust Board of the Anglican Auckland diocese.
[From the agency information in Archway] Initially the curriculum focused on ‘the domestic arts’ – ‘a sound practical training in cooking, laundry work, scrubbing and all domestic duties, also in needlework’, though at the same time, the school aimed for ‘a sound general education, similar to that of the State schools.’ By 1908 there were already graduates of the school going on to higher education in nursing. Sport was also a focus: there was a tennis court, they played cricket and rounders and other ball games, and some of the girls also had gardens.
The Education Department guaranteed 20 scholarships of 20 pounds per year, for two years, to Māori girls who had qualified in Standard IV. There was accommodation at the school for 40 girls, and the annual fee per girl was 40 pounds. Additional funding was provided by the St Stephens Trust of the Anglican Church in Auckland, in the form of an annual grant of 100 pounds. By 1911 the roll had increased to 50, and the number of Government Scholars increased to 25. The 1930s saw the introduction of some ‘Māori culture’ in the syllabus, including Māori language, handcrafts and medicine. By 1951 the school's focus had become more academic, and eleven girls passed School Certificate, and four others received an endorsed Certificate after a year in the Sixth form.
In 1978 the school was integrated with the State system, coming under the administrative control of the Auckland Education Board. Sports now included athletics, swimming and waka ama. The prospectus from 1999 stated ‘encouragement and opportunity is given to pupils to achieve an understanding and appreciation of Tikanga Māori, not simply as an extension of Te Reo Māori.’
From the school’s mission statement written by Sir Apirana Ngata -
“Tōu ringa ki ngā rākau ā te pākehā - Hei oranga mō toutinana
Tōu ngākau ki ngā taonga ā ō tipuna Māori”
Your hand mastering the tools of the Pākehā for your wellbeing
Your heart cherishing the gifts of your Māori ancestors
The photograph is held at Archives New Zealand Auckland Regional Office
Archives Reference: ADAE 14952 A1522 3 / b
collections.archives.govt.nz/en/web/arena/search#/?q=R201...
The inside of an abandoned house. The kitchen. Cooking was probably done on a stove heated by fire, and later with electricity. There was likely to be a table in the middle, and the "centre" of the house.
I received the following message tonight from kiwiwests:
"And tonight drove past it while it was burning - Doubt it can be saved.....another piece of history lost :-( RIP Guys Homestead.....
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Inset photo from pic.twitter.com/2fzDuVQb (RaymondHuo)
The back view of an abandoned house. This photo is just as much about the tree. The tree fortunately has heritage status, so any purchasers of the land will be unable to cut it down.
DIEU-BÂTON ATUA RAKAU Ile de Rarotonga, Archipel des Iles Cook Bois dur à patine brune brillante Provenance : - Collection privée, Suisse - Anthony Ralph, Londres - Collection privée, acquis en 1979 - Sotheby’s, Paris, 14 décembre 2011, reproduit sous le lot 85 Exposition : - Prêt de longue durée à l’Indianapolis Museum of Art, 27 octobre 1999 - 8 février 2011, inv. TR.9307/6 D’une formidable puissance, cette oeuvre remarquable appartient au corpus extrêmement restreint des Dieux-Bâtons ou atua rakau de Rarotonga, aux Iles Cook. L’ensemble des pièces sculptées apparentées, connues ou reproduites au sein des collections privées et publiques, se limiterait à une trentaine d'exemplaires, parmi lesquels moins de vingt bâtons complets comme celui-ci sont, à ce jour, connus. Trois sections distinctes composent l’oeuvre. Une tête classique du style et de grande taille le domine, les yeux nervurés en plis successifs délimitant un regard en amande ; la partie basse dévolue au menton et aux lèvres taillées en lignes successives, inscrites de profil en un court motif en forme de palme. Les oreilles, incisées de part et d’autre du volume plein que seule la bouche déborde, s’inscrivent en un élément abstrait perpendiculaire à celui des yeux. L’ensemble du visage repose sur une forme triangulaire courbe, qui peut être comprise comme un bras aux nombreuses encoches longitudinales. Sculptées dans la stricte continuité de la ligne verticale joignant le front au menton, deux effigies en ronde-bosse. La première, orientée vers l’extérieur du bâton (ce qui en fait un personnage double dont le visage peut être lu des deux côtés), est décrite en posture assise, ou accroupie, bras et jambes repliés, et serait selon l’analyse d' Adrienne L. Kaeppler probablement féminine. Oldman notamment, consigne ce thème sur une oeuvre apparentée comme le dessin d’une chauve-souris en raison de ses grandes « oreilles ». Lui tournant le dos, et reprenant donc le sens de lecture induit par le visage sommital, un second personnage, masculin cette fois, dont le sexe repose sur la hampe. Dans un second temps, le bâton est laissé vierge sur une longue aire, et sa surface plus étroite atteste, selon toute vraisemblance, la présence antérieure d’une enveloppante pièce de tapa retenue par des cordelettes végétales. Enfin, formant l’extrémité de l’objet, quatre personnages réunis deux à deux, les dernières effigies liées l’une à l’autre par une courte section verticale ajourée, l’ultime figure sculptée, de taille sensiblement plus importante, tendant un phallus surdimensionné et terminal.