* Telecom New Zealand — Operated an AMPS / TDMA network in New Zealand from 1987 until 2007 throughout the whole country and the network was renowned for its superb coverage, In 2000 Telecom announced that they would discontinue the AMPS network within 5 years ( 2005 ) to give customers an opportunity to transition to the CDMA2000 and later 1XRTT technologies that replaced it.

Digital television transition in New Zealand began on 30 September 2012, when Hawke's Bay and the West Coast switched off analogue television transmission.

As part of the 2006 expansion of facilities, in August 14 prison Officers from New Zealand and Victoria arrived in Hobart to aid the transition of inmates from the old Risdon Prison complex to the new complex.

At a time when youth unemployment in Aotearoa New Zealand is becoming severe, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is introducing a range of new youth initiatives that will help rangatahi ( young people ) make the transition from an increasingly irrelevant secondary education system into the world of tertiary education.

* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand

The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.

In New Zealand, where abalone is called pāua ( from the Māori language ), this can be a particularly awkward problem where the right to harvest pāua can be granted legally under Māori customary rights.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.

He was the son of Asser Rig, a magnate of the Hvide clan from Fjenneslev on Zealand.

As the Archbishop of Lund, Absalon utilized ombudsmen from Zealand, demanded unfree labour from the peasantry, and instituted tithes.

A rebellion in the Scanian peasantry forced him to flee to Zealand in 1180, from where he returned and subdued the Scanians with the help of Valdemar.

You can also dial from overseas to test if your ( CPN ) Caller ID number is being passed on to New Zealand.

* Anti-Bases Campaign, an organisation campaigning to remove foreign military bases and intelligence installations from New Zealand, and to dismantle the Government Communications Security Bureau

Later, the station at Perano Head on the east coast of the island was used to hunt humpback whales from 1911 to 1964 ( see Whaling in New Zealand ).

In December 2009, the growth of tourism, with consequences for both the ecology and the safety of the travellers in its great and remote wilderness, was noted at a conference in New Zealand by experts from signatories to the Antarctic Treaty.

After a seemingly long absence from New Zealand, the Lions returned in 1930 to some success.

In August 1977 the British Lions made a stopover in Fiji on the way home from their tour of New Zealand.

The images included Thor's fishing for Jörmungandr, Gefjun's ploughing of Zealand from the soil of Sweden, the attack of Hamdir and Sorli against King Jörmunrekk, and the never-ending battle between Hedin and Högni.

With most of the strategic reserve sent to the Western Front, an Egyptian Expeditionary Force of two British infantry and one Australian and New Zealand mounted division in Eastern Force, successfully defend the Suez Canal and Romani in 1916 from German and Ottoman incursions.

A joint UN force of personnel from South Korea, the United States, Britain, Turkey, Canada, Australia, France, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand and other countries joined to stop the invasion.

Cannibalism has been well documented around the world, from Fiji to the Amazon Basin to the Congo to Māori New Zealand.

* Reverend Norman McLeod, Presbyterian minister, St Ann's, who migrated in the 1850s with 800 settlers from surrounding communities to Waipu, New Zealand.

World War I saw the game in New Zealand go into recess for three quarters of a century.

The AFL has signalled further expansion by scheduling a competition match in New Zealand 2013 and up to three competition matches in 2014 played in wellington.

The Lions performed well in the remaining All Black tests though they lost all three, the team did not lose another non-test in the New Zealand leg of the tour.

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

The Lions tour three southern-hemisphere nations ; Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

In New Zealand scientists discovered that three genera of native bees have evolved to open flower buds of the native mistletoe Peraxilla tetrapetala.

:* New Zealand: three entities

* University of Otago Christchurch School of Medicine, one of three medical schools of University of Otago, New Zealand

It also reached number three in New Zealand and number twelve on the US Billboard 200 album chart.

The number of nations playing Test cricket increased gradually over the years, with the addition of West Indies in 1928, New Zealand in 1930, India in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952, but international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, four or five days.

Butler developed the three chapters of Erewhon that make up " The Book of the Machines " from a number of articles that he had contributed to The Press, which had just begun publication in Christchurch, New Zealand, beginning with " Darwin among the Machines " ( 1863 ).

In three day's fighting, the Allies captured more than 2, 000 Axis prisoners of war, mostly from the Italian Brescia ' and Pavia ' Divisions ; the New Zealand division suffered 1, 405 casualties.

Hawaii is the apex of the Polynesian Triangle, a region of the Pacific Ocean anchored by three island groups: Hawaii, Rapa Nui ( Easter Island ), and Aotearoa ( New Zealand ).

Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

The remaining three titles were won by Branko Cikatić of Croatia in 1993, Andy Hug of Switzerland in 1996, and Mark Hunt of New Zealand in 2001.

* Nauru, formerly part of German New Guinea ( Australia in effective control, formally together with United Kingdom and New Zealand ) from 17 December 1920, 1 November 1947 made into a United Nations trust territory ( same three powers ) until its 31 January 1968 independence as a Republic-all that time under an Administrator

Self-government was granted by the New Zealand parliament with the 1974 constitution, following a referendum in Niue in 1974 whereby Niueans were given three options: independence, self-government or continuation as a New Zealand territory.

Electors must be New Zealand citizens, resident for at least three months, and candidates must be electors and resident for 12 months.

The Constitution Act describes the three branches of Government in New Zealand: The Executive ( the Sovereign and Cabinet ), the legislature ( Parliament ) and the judiciary ( Courts ).

In addition, in the last three years the government has increasing allocated additional funds to land transport, to the extent that today the total expenditure by the New Zealand Transport Agency on land transport projects exceeds road tax revenue collected.

The New Zealand Defence Force ( Maori: Te Ope Kaatua o Aotearoa, " Line of Defence of New Zealand ") consists of three services: the Royal New Zealand Navy ; the New Zealand Army ; and the Royal New Zealand Air Force.