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Rolleston () is the seat and largest town in the Selwyn District, in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is located on the Canterbury Plains south-west of Christchurch, and is part of the wider Christchurch metropolitan area. Rolleston is one of the fastest growing towns in New Zealand, having grown from a population of around 2,800 in 2001 to around 28,000 in 2023. The town has a population of making it New Zealand's 21st-largest urban area and the second-largest in Canterbury (behind Christchurch). History Rolleston originated as a railway terminus in 1866, and is named after the Canterbury statesman William Rolleston. Rolleston, who was born in Yorkshire in 1831 and died in 1903, served as Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury from 1868 until 1876 (when central government abolished the New Zealand provinces). He also served as a Member of Parliament, holding various Cabinet portfolios. In the 1970s, Prime Minister Norman Kirk had a dream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori Language
Māori (; endonym: 'the Māori language', commonly shortened to ) is an Eastern Polynesian languages, Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. The southernmost member of the Austronesian language family, it is related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan language, Tuamotuan, and Tahitian language, Tahitian. The Māori Language Act 1987 gave the language recognition as one of New Zealand's official languages. There are regional dialects of the Māori language. Prior to contact with Europeans, Māori lacked a written language or script. Written Māori now uses the Latin script, which was adopted and the spelling standardised by Northern Māori in collaboration with English Protestant clergy in the 19th century. In the second half of the 19th century, European children in rural areas spoke Māori with Māori children. It was common for prominent parents of these children, such as government officials, to us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canterbury Plains
The Canterbury Plains () are an area in New Zealand centred in the Mid Canterbury, to the south of the city of Christchurch in the Canterbury region. Their northern extremes are at the foot of the Hundalee Hills in the Hurunui District, and in the south they merge into the plains of North Otago beyond the Waitaki River. The smaller Amuri Plain forms a northern extension of the plains. Geology The Canterbury Plains were formed from Quaternary moraine gravels transported from the Southern Alps and deposited here during glacial periods in the late Pleistocene approximately 3 million to 10,000 years ago. The alluvial gravels were then reworked as shingle fans of several of the larger rivers, notably the Waimakariri, the Rakaia, the Selwyn, and the Rangitata. Part of the Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands, the land is suitable for moderately intensive livestock farming but is prone to droughts, especially when the prevailing wind is from the northwest. At these times, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Rolleston may refer to: Places * Rolleston, Queensland, Australia * Rolleston, Leicestershire, England * Rolleston, Nottinghamshire, England ** Rolleston railway station * Rolleston on Dove, Staffordshire, England ** Rolleston Hall * Rolleston, New Zealand ** Mount Rolleston ** Rolleston River People * Arthur Rolleston (1867–1918), New Zealand cricketer and lawyer * Boyd Rolleston, fictional character * Christopher Rolleston (1817–1888), New South Wales public servant * Frank Rolleston (1873–1946), New Zealand politician * George Rolleston (1829–1881), English physician and zoologist * Humphry Rolleston (1862–1944), English physician * Humphry Rolleston (businessman) (born 1946), New Zealand businessman * James Rolleston (born 1997), New Zealand actor * Jeremy Rolleston (born 1972), Australian sportsman * John Davy Rolleston, (1873–1946), English physician and folklorist * Sir John Rolleston (British politician) (1848–1919), British Conservative politician * Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Selwyn may refer to: People and fictional characters * Selwyn (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the surname or given name * Selwyn (singer), Australian R&B singer Selwyn Pretorius (born 1982) Places Australia * Selwyn, Queensland, a ghost town * Selwyn County, New South Wales, a cadastral division * Selwyn Range (Australia), a range of highlands in Queensland * Selwyn's Rock, glaciated pavement in Inman Valley, South Australia * Selwyn Snow Resort, a ski resort in New South Wales Canada * Selwyn, Ontario, a township * Selwyn Range (British Columbia), a subrange of the Canadian Rockies near Mount Robson * Selwyn Mountains, a large mountain range in Yukon and the Northwest Territories New Zealand * Selwyn District, a rural district in central Canterbury * Selwyn (New Zealand electorate), an electorate of the New Zealand House of Representatives * Selwyn River, a river in the Selwyn District * Selwyn, New Zealand, a settlement on the south bank o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Warehouse Group
The Warehouse Group (TWG) was established by Stephen Tindall in 1982 and is the largest retail group in operation in New Zealand. It is a corporate conglomerate that consists of The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery and Noel Leeming. History The first Warehouse Group store opened in Wairau Road North Shore, Auckland in 1982. In 1994, Warehouse was added to the New Zealand Exchange under the symbol TWH. In 1996, a distribution center opened on the North Island. In 2000, it was added to the NZSE 10 index. The group acquired Clint's Crazy Bargains and Silly Solly's in Australia that same year. In 2003, the Warehouse Australia brand was launched. In 2005, a lab store was launched in the Hamilton suburb of Te Rapa. That same year, the Warehouse brand was relaunched with new lower-case logo, announced its plan to enter the liquor market and that it would end operations in Australia by Christmas. In 2005, Warehouse Australia was sold to Catalyst Investment Managers and Castle Harl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izone, Rolleston
Izone is an industrial suburb of Rolleston in Selwyn District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand. History Izone was proposed by Selwyn District Council in August 2000 to attract business to their district. The council bought of rural land in April 2001 to start the venture. One year later, the council signed up The Warehouse Group to have their South Island distribution centre established on the site. The distribution centre, which opened in June 2003, was built for the council by Naylor Love and later sold it to an investment fund. It was the largest single-storey building in the South Island at and was extended by another in 2016. By 2010, Izone was New Zealand's biggest industrial subdivision. In 2015, Port of Lyttelton and Port of Tauranga both built container handling facilities at Izone. Port of Lyttelton did so because the Christchurch Southern Motorway had caused congestion on Brougham Street, slowing down access to Canterbury's port. Port of Tauranga did so because i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Selwyn may refer to: People and fictional characters * Selwyn (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the surname or given name * Selwyn (singer), Australian R&B singer Selwyn Pretorius (born 1982) Places Australia * Selwyn, Queensland, a ghost town * Selwyn County, New South Wales, a cadastral division * Selwyn Range (Australia), a range of highlands in Queensland * Selwyn's Rock, glaciated pavement in Inman Valley, South Australia * Selwyn Snow Resort, a ski resort in New South Wales Canada * Selwyn, Ontario, a township * Selwyn Range (British Columbia), a subrange of the Canadian Rockies near Mount Robson * Selwyn Mountains, a large mountain range in Yukon and the Northwest Territories New Zealand * Selwyn District, a rural district in central Canterbury * Selwyn (New Zealand electorate), an electorate of the New Zealand House of Representatives * Selwyn River, a river in the Selwyn District * Selwyn, New Zealand, a settlement on the south bank o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuff (website)
Stuff is a New Zealand news media website owned by newspaper conglomerate Stuff Ltd (formerly called Fairfax). As of early 2024, it is the most popular news website in New Zealand, with a monthly unique audience of more than 2 million. Stuff was founded in 2000, and publishes breaking news, weather, sport, politics, video, entertainment, business and life and style content from Stuff Ltd's newspapers, which include New Zealand's second- and third-highest circulation daily newspapers, ''The Post'' and '' The Press'', and the highest circulation weekly, '' Sunday Star-Times'', as well as international news wire services. Stuff has won numerous awards at the Newspaper Publishers' Association awards including 'Best News Website or App' in 2014 and 2019, and 'Website of the Year' in 2013 and 2018, 'Best News Website in 2019', and 'Digital News Provider of the Year' in 2024 and 2025. History Independent Newspapers Ltd, 2000–2003 The former New Zealand media company Independ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Kirk
Norman Eric Kirk (6 January 1923 – 31 August 1974) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 29th prime minister of New Zealand and as well as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand), minister of Foreign Affairs from 1972 until his Death of Norman Kirk, sudden death in 1974. He also served as the seventh Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, leader of the Labour Party from 1965 to 1974. Born into poverty in Canterbury Region, Southern Canterbury, Kirk left school at the age of 13 and joined the New Zealand Labour Party in 1943. He was mayor of Kaiapoi from 1953 until 1957, when he was elected to the New Zealand Parliament. He became the Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, leader of his party in 1964. Following a Labour victory in the , Kirk became Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand), Minister of Foreign Affairs, and New Zealand changed into a far more assertive and consequential nation. He stressed the need for regional economic deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Canterbury
The Province of Canterbury, or less formally the Southern Province, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces which constitute the Church of England. The other is the Province of York (which consists of 12 dioceses). Overview The Province consists of 30 dioceses, covering roughly two-thirds of England, parts of Wales, all of the Channel Islands and continental Europe, Morocco, Turkey, Mongolia and the territory of the former Soviet Union (under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe). The Province previously also covered all of Wales but lost most of its jurisdiction in 1920, when the then four dioceses of the Church in Wales were disestablished and separated from Canterbury to form a distinct ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion. The Province of Canterbury retained jurisdiction over eighteen areas of Wales that were defined as part of "border parishes", parishes whose ecclesiastical boundaries straddled the temporal boundary between England and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rolleston
William Rolleston (19 September 1831 – 8 February 1903) was a New Zealand politician, public administrator, educationalist and Canterbury provincial superintendent. Biography Early life Rolleston was born on 19 September 1831 at Maltby, Yorkshire, the 9th child of the Rev. George Rolleston and Anne Nettleship. His older brother was the physician and zoologist George Rolleston. He attended Rossall School and Emmanuel College, where he graduated in 1855 with second class honours in the classical tripos. He had intended to move to Canterbury but his father advised against it so he took up tutoring. However, this was merely a means of raising enough money to leave England in order to reject 'Conservatives and Ecclesiastics'. Political career Rolleston first joined the Canterbury Provincial Council when he was appointed to the Canterbury Executive Council on 4 December 1863. His tenure on the Executive Council finished on 16 June 1865. On 23 January 1864, he was el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranked List Of New Zealand Urban Areas
This article lists urban areas of New Zealand—as defined by Statistics New Zealand—ranked by population. Only the 150 largest urban areas are listed. Urban areas are defined by the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA18). See also * List of cities in New Zealand * List of towns in New Zealand References {{DEFAULTSORT:New Zealand urban areas Lists of urban areas Urban areas An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbani ... Urban areas by population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
