The area is commonly divided into North Canterbury ( north of the Rakaia River ), Mid Canterbury ( from the Rakaia River to the Rangitata River ), South Canterbury ( south of the Rangitata River ) and Christchurch ( Christchurch City ).

Rangitata and Selwyn are held by National MPs Jo Goodhew and Amy Adams while Waitaki is represented by Jacqui Dean who also represents much of the Otago region with the exception of the Dunedin North and Dunedin South electorates.

Timaru is part of the parliamentary electorate of Rangitata, represented by Jo Goodhew of the New Zealand National Party.

The Rangitata River is one of the braided rivers that helped form the Canterbury Plains in southern New Zealand.

Before the river enters the Canterbury Plains, part of it is diverted to the Rangitata Diversion Race ( RDR ) for irrigation and hydroelectric generation.

Follow the road beside the Rangitata River ( a world-class white-water rafting and salmon fishing river, which also provides vital irrigation to surrounding districts ) into the upper Rangitata River valley for some of the most spectacular alpine and high country scenery in New Zealand.

The river formed the Rangitata Valley, in the center of the Southern Alps, and the on-location photography of the Edoras set from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Return of the King was filmed in this valley, on and around Mount Sunday.

Towards its mouth, the river originally split into two streams, forming a large delta island ( Rangitata Island ).

This island was crossed by State Highway 1 and the Main South Line railway between Ealing and Rangitata and thus was an island connected directly by New Zealand's main state highway and one of its primary railway lines.

* Rangitata River-The location of the Erewhon sheep station, named by Butler who was the first white settler in the area and lived at the Mesopotamia Sheep Station.

Rakaia and Aoraki were renamed Selwyn and Rangitata respectively while the Banks Peninsula was reconstituted as the Port Hills.

A fully realised set for Edoras was built on Mount Sunday, at Mt Potts Station in the upper reaches of the Rangitata Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand.

A fully realised set for Edoras was built on Mount Sunday in the upper reaches of the Rangitata Valley, near Erewhon in New Zealand.

The Ashburton District extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Southern Alps, and from the Rangitata River to the Rakaia River, including the towns of Methven, Mount Somers, and Rakaia.

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.

On 23 December 1999, Fish and Game New Zealand lodged an application for a water conservation order on the Rangitata River.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.

Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.

As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.

And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds, and has always found, the most racial friction.

It is something which most of us try to get out from under.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

The still-floating replica is thoroughly washed free from residual chemicals, carefully fished up on fine grids, dried then viewed in the TEM.

As well a hogshead is used for the measurement of herring fished for sardines in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick.

Maxentius ' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.

Maxentius ' body is fished out of the Tiber and decapitated.

The North Sea cod stock is primarily fished by European Union member states and Norway.

Found in warm seas, it is extensively fished commercially and is popular as a game fish.

Lobster is fished in water between, although some lobsters live at.

It is found along the eastern coast of North America from Nova Scotia, Canada to northern Florida, where it is fished both commercially and recreationally.

The walleye is considered to be a quite palatable freshwater fish, and, consequently, is fished recreationally and commercially for food.

Several species are important commercial fish, for example the blue grenadier ( Macruronus novaezelandiae ) that is fished in the southwest Pacific and the North Pacific hake ( Merluccius productus ) that is fished off western North America.

It is commercially fished downstream of the Rt.

Finally, there is an exterior scene of the auto caravan on its way to the Senior Picnic ; as it passes the fishing tank where he had fished with Sam and Billy, Sonny sheds a tear for his departed friend and his lost youth.

This area is now very heavily fished as a result and it seems that many fishermen are travelling further down river to the less frequented places to catch almost equally large fish.

This is arguably the most intensely fished section of water in Pennsylvania when the White Mayfly hatches.

In the meantime, another policeman arrives at the Perkinses ': It is Slater ( who does not know Davenport, neither personally nor by name ), who has come to inform Jean Perkins that her husband's body has been fished out of the river ( really Mr. Nasty, who happened to have Henry's briefcase with him when Mr. Big shot him ).

In another strip, Roger finally finds mainstream success by presenting Bargain Hunt only to have it ruined when a dead body is fished out of his swimming pool.

The Great Belt is home to some popular fish: flatfish, sea trout, cod, mackerel and garfish, which are fished avidly for sport and for sale.

" The conclusion of the letter reads: "... the third day of August we entered into a good harbour called St. John and there we found Eleuen Saile of Normans and one Brittaine and two Portugal barks all a fishing and so we are ready to depart towards Cap de Bras that is 25 leagues as shortly as we have fished and so along the Coast until we may meete with our fellowe and so with all diligence that lyes in me toward parts to that Ilands that we are command at our departing and thus Jesu save and keepe you Honourable Grace and all your Honourable Reuer.

In smaller fisheries that are heavily fished, catch and release is the only way to ensure that catchable fish will be available from year to year.