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576:, Captain Fowler, under the first mate Robert Brown, with two other Europeans and five lascars, or Indian seamen, came up the east coast past Palmerston and camped for the night ashore north of Moeraki. They were seen and attacked by Māori because of a feud started four years earlier by the theft of a shirt. According to the Creed manuscript, discovered in 2003, two men 'escaped through the darkness of the night & fled as far as Goodwood Bobby's Head' a little south of Palmerston on the coast. They were two days and nights on the way and the Māori people there fed them. However '30 Natives went to the place & massacred them – eat them.' One of the Europeans put up a grim struggle and the mere or club which dispatched him was long remembered. There was a dispute about killing these men after they had been entertained but those bent on vengeance prevailed. 109: 780: 31: 756: 546: 561: 477:, a sea bird that ventures a little inland, colloquially known as a 'shag'. The river's Māori name, 'Waihemo', has been translated as 'Dwindle River'. It is thought to arise from the river's tendency to reduce in summer to a small stream. Palmerston used to be the capital of the Waihemo County, the surrounding district, before it was amalgamated with the Waitaki District in 1989. 447:. An annual race takes place up to the memorial and back, which is called the Kelly's canter, dedicated to Albert Kelly who ran up Puketapu as a constable in the Palmerston police force every day during World War II. This cairn is the second around Palmerston dedicated to MacKenzie – an earlier cairn was built on a hill to the north of the town, near 701:. There were 429 households, comprising 468 males and 480 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.97 males per female. The median age was 50.9 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 147 people (15.5%) aged under 15 years, 114 (12.0%) aged 15 to 29, 399 (42.1%) aged 30 to 64, and 291 (30.7%) aged 65 or older. 530:
are 'ghost or giant people' with mythic or magical attributes, although they are also the real ancestors of people living now. (Anderson, 1983, p. 7.) If the explorers didn't get back before dawn they turned into hills and other natural features. One of them was a woman Puketapu who got as far
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Of those at least 15 years old, 72 (9.0%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 246 (30.7%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $ 22,800, compared with $ 31,800 nationally. 87 people (10.9%) earned over $ 70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of
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The story is seen as an allegorical explanation of the fact that kumara won't grow south of Banks Peninsula. Arai Te Uru is an ancestral canoe of the Kati Mamoe people who came to the south before Kai Tahu (Ngāi Tahu in modern standard Māori) but were preceded by earlier peoples. The Arai Te Uru
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from the ancestral homeland Hawaiki who met the Kahui Tipua people who were already here. He showed them kumara, or sweet potatoes, and they built canoes including Arai Te Uru to go to Hawaiki and bring back this new and valuable food. However, on its return the vessel became waterlogged off the
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phase of Māori culture near Palmerston on the sea coast at the mouth of the Shag River. It has been known to Europeans since the 1840s and was investigated from an early time by archaeologists. In 1987 and 1989 it was very thoroughly re-excavated by a team including Professor
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A few kilometres inland, at the Shag Valley Station, Frank Bell made the first New Zealand to England radio contact on 18 October 1924, an event which attracted international media attention as the first round-the-world radio broadcast.
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Palmerston is described by Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement. It covers 8.75 km (3.38 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 1,030 as of June 2023, with a population density of 118 people per km.
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tradition reflects this with its reference to the preceding Kahui Tipua. It is tempting to identify the occupants of the river mouth archaeological site with the people of Arai Te Uru but that can only be speculation.
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is a school for years 7 to 13 with a roll of 174 students. It was preceded by Palmerston District High School in 1877, with a new building constructed in 1886. East Otago High School opened as a replacement in 1969.
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There were European visitors in the 1840s, such as Edward Shortland. Charles Suisted took up land in the area in the 1850s and Palmerston came into existence as a camp site in 1862 as the beginning of a route by the
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tourist train travels from Dunedin to Palmerston and back once or twice a week. From 1880 until 1989, the town acted as the junction between the main line and a branch line that ran inland, the
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church was built in 1876 and is located on Tiverton street. The church was designed by Dunedin architect David Ross and built out of local Waihemo stone.
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Palmerston School is a contributing primary school catering for years 1 to 6 with a roll of 108 students. Palmerston School was operating in 1866.
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people about 1150 AD when population was concentrated on the east coast of the South Island. There is a substantial early settlement site of the
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in South Otago. When she got back to the Waihemo Valley dawn broke and she was turned into the hill Puketapu overlooking Palmerston.
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those at least 15 was that 291 (36.3%) people were employed full-time, 138 (17.2%) were part-time, and 27 (3.4%) were unemployed.
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gold diggings. It was surveyed and named in 1864. There is a handsome Presbyterian Church made of a local sandstone, designed by
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Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 51.9% had no religion, 38.9% were
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church is situated on Stromness street and was built in 1872 and designed by architect
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canoe. There are several versions of the tradition but they tell of the arrival of
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The percentage of people born overseas was 8.9, compared with 27.1% nationally.
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mouth. It spilled food baskets on Moeraki and Katiki beaches and was wrecked at
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Puketapu dominates Palmerston, New Zealand. The statue at left depicts
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Many people confuse the town of Palmerston with the much more populous
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Panorama of the view from Puketapu Cairn overlooking Palmerston
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Both schools are coeducational. Rolls are as of August 2024.
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The area is also the traditional site of the wreck of the
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favours a date for the first settlement of New Zealand by
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St Mary's Anglican Church, Palmerston, New Zealand (2023)
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45°29′02″S 170°42′55″E / 45.484026°S 170.715265°E / -45.484026; 170.715265
Region
Otago
Territorial authority
Waitaki District
Waitaki
Te Tai Tonga
Waitaki District Council
Otago Regional Council
Mayor of Waitaki
Gary Kircher
Waitaki MP
Miles Anderson
Te Tai Tonga MP
Tākuta Ferris
Time zone
UTC+12
DST
UTC+13
iwi
Ngāi Tahu
South Island
New Zealand

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