Kīhai te pōporohua, te niu me te panana i tipu ki Aotearoa nei – he tipu ēnei i mauria haere e ngā tīpuna Māori i ō rātou torotoronga i Te Moananui-a-Kiwa (Te Ara 2011). / Breadfruit, coconut palms and bananas did not grow in New Zealand – these were plants Māori ancestors carried throughout the Pacific in their explorations.

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Kawea ai ngā kawa o te whakapono hōu ki te pou niu, arā he pou i hangaia i ngā tira kaipuke (Te Ara 2016). / The rituals of the new faith focused on niu (news) poles, constructed from ships’ masts.

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Tērā tētahi tima nō te Wīwī ko 'Pakoine' i rere atu i Niu Ioka ki Haware, ko taua rangi, he kohu, ko te rere a tima nei te 18 māero i te hāora; tūtuki ana ki tētahi tima ko 'Koromatihia' te ingoa... (TJ 12/7/1898:7). / There was a French steam ship, the 'La Bourgogne', going from New York to Havre steaming at 18 miles per hour on a foggy day, which hit another steamer called 'Cromartyshire'.

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Ngāmotu: He hiwi tūpoupou kei te taha hauāuru-mā-tonga o te wāpu i Niu Paremata (M 2005:242). / Ngāmotu: A steep hill to the south-west of the wharves at New Plymouth.

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Nō Hiteni, nō Wikitōria, nō Atareire, nō Hopatāone, nō Niu Tīrene, nō Tongatapu, nō Whītī aua minita (TH 4/1859:2). / Those ministers were from Sydney, Victoria, Adelaide, Hopetown, New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji.

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I tae mai ngā rongo kua kōhurutia ētahi minita Pākehā, he mihinare, me ā rāua māori, ki Niu Kini, he moutere nui kei te raki o Ahitereiria (TP 6/1901:7). / News has come in that some Pākehā ministers, missionaries, and their natives, were murdered in New Guinea, a large island to the north of Australia.

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I tērā tau ka tae mai taua mate ki Niu Karetōnia… (TP 4/1900:2). / Last year, that disease arrived in New Caledonia…

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Kia tūpato, e ngā Māori o Niu Tīrani, kei mau koutou i tēnei hara nui e akona mai nei e te Mōmona, arā, te pūremu (HKW 5/1998:3). / Take care, you Māori of New Zealand, lest you take on this major sin which the Mormons are teaching here, that is, adultery.

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Ko Niu Tīreni anō hoki te tiamupiana o te ao katoa mō te pupuhi pū, mō te putupaoro (TP 9/1904:9). / New Zealand is also the champion of the whole world in shooting and football.

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I Niu Heperi, anga mai ki ngā motu o Wīhī, haere atu i ēnei ki ngā motu o Tongatapu (TKM 28/8/1851:4). / From the New Hebrides towards the Fiji Islands going from these to Tongatapu.

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I te ata o te Niu Ia nei ka kōhurutia e tētahi tangata o Ōtepoti, ko Galloway te ingoa, tana wahine (TP 1/1900:4). / On the morning of the New Year, a Dunedin man, named Galloway, murdered his wife.

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Kua oti te whakamana he Ture e te Rūnanga Nui o Niu Tīreni (TKM.MM 1/5/1863:23). / The General Assembly of New Zealand has passed an Act.

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I te marama o Oketopa 1835 i haina a Moetara i te Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Niu Tīreni (TTR 1990:58). / In October 1835 Moetara signed the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand.

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Kei te pepeha nei ngā whakamārama mō ngā whenua o ngā iwi o Tainui: Mōkau ki runga, Tāmaki ki raro, Mangatoatoa ki waenganui, ko Pare Waikato, ko Pare Hauraki, ko te Kaokaoroa-o-Pātetere (Te Ara 2011). / The lands of the Tainui tribes are described in the saying: Mōkau above, Tāmaki below, Mangatoatoa in the centre, and there is Pare Waikato, Pare Hauraki, and the extended arm of Pātetere.

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