Māori academic Dr Ranginui Walker, in a detailed letter to the Waikato Times, said that in the modern age a taniwha was the manifestation of a coping mechanism for some Māori.

* Waikato Times, Hamilton

In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ( 2011-12 ), Waikato was ranked 318th in the top 400 universities

In 1970 Wellington Publishing Company made a successful takeover bid for Truth ( NZ ) Ltd and the following year acquired Independent Publishers Ltd, owner of the Waikato Times.

A sign above a superette in Hamilton, New Zealand | Hamilton advertising the Waikato Times.

The Waikato Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Hamilton, New Zealand, with a circulation to the greater Waikato region.

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* Waikato Times viewer

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A Waikato Times ' editorial said that the announcement of the illegal spying has " heightened suspicions that this country's relationship with the United States has become one of servility rather than friendship ...

* Waikato Times

Paul Thompson, of the Waikato Times, praised the episode and said it " had all the show's ingredients: obnoxious kids, hypocritical adults and barbed humour.

This campaign started as a side show to the Invasion of the Waikato, where British Imperial Troops, on behalf of the New Zealand Colonial Government, were fighting a confederation of Māori tribes known as the King Movement.

Similar works were soon started in Christchurch ( Ferrymead Railway ), Auckland ( Glenbrook Vintage Railway ), Wellington ( Silver Stream Railway ) and the Waikato by the NZRLS Canterbury Branch, Railway Enthusiasts Society ( former NZRLS Auckland Branch ), NZRLS Wellington Branch and NZRLS Waikato Branch.

A fifth MORE FM station was started in the Waikato in 1999 as a totally local station.

The station first started in Auckland, Waikato and Wellington in 1993 when then owner Independent Broadcasting Company rebranded local stations 91FM ( Auckland ), Kiwi 898FM ( Waikato ) and Windy FM ( Wellington ) to The Breeze.

Following the purchase of the assets of Prospect Media, which included Radio Hauraki and Easy Listening i The Radio Network started a new ZM station in Auckland and the Waikato.

Modelled on the government funded Australian rural health clubs, and Otago's Matagouri club, Grassroots was started in response to the lack of rural G. P. s and the lack of support for rural preferential entrance scheme students, with a grant from Waikato DHB's Institute of Rural Health.

Waikato was ranked top in 10 out of 30 subject areas in the 2006 New Zealand government ’ s Performance-Based Research Fund evaluation exercise.

In the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission ’ s most recent ( 2006 ) Performance Based Research Fund ( PBRF ) quality evaluation, the University of Waikato was ranked top in 10 out of 30 subject areas.

All of the peaceful farmers and missionaries who had lived in peace for many years were threatened and forced out of the Waikato.

An out of court settlement was arranged and the deed of settlement signed by the Crown and Waikato-Tainui in August 2008 settled the raupatu claim to the Waikato River, although other claims for land blocks and harbours are still outstanding.

The Waikato River flows out of Lake Taupo at the town of Taupo in Tapuaeharuru Bay at the northeast end of the lake.

The British forces had forced the Waikato and the warlike Maniapoto in particular out of their heartland at Kihikihi into the wet unproductive hills of the King country.

In 2011 the Waikato crew beat out University of Melbourne and Cambridge University, after Cambridge was forced to row without a rudder following a collision with Waikato ; the race was restarted following the collision, caused by Cambridge failing to yield to the Waikato boat.

Over the next few years the intertribal fighting intensified, and by 1822 Ngāti Toa and related tribes were being forced out of their land around Kāwhia after years of fighting with various Waikato tribes often led by Te Wherowhero.

As Waikato had been offended by Tatua some years previous, he and his warriors set out on three large canoes to attack the islands.

The competition was taken out by Waikato 37 – 31, after they beat Wellington in the Grand Final in front of a capacity crowd of 25, 000 fans at Waikato Stadium.

The rebel King Movement had some influence over about a quarter of New Zealand ’ s North Island — in particular, the lands of the Ngati Tuwharetoa, Taranaki, Whanganui and Tainui iwi that were involved in the movement ’ s establishment but even in its Waikato heart land many Christian Maori sided with the government when conflict broke out.

A fleet including HMS Eclipse, Esk, Fawn, Himalaya, Miranda, Orpheus, Wasp, gunboats ; Koheroa, Paparata, Rangiriri and various support vessels ; Kate, Light of the Age, Prince Albert, Reliance, Sandfly, Sir Harry Smith, Spitfire, Star of India, Stuart, Wakool and Tarawera supported the war effort either on the Waikato River, landing troops and supplies at Miranda in the Firth Of Thames, or bringing troops and a regular stream of supplies from Australia.

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Each of New Zealand's five sides represented a number of unions, with the Blues representing the Auckland, Thames Valley, and the Counties Manukau unions, while the neighbouring Waikato Chiefs representing the Waikato, North Harbour, Northland, Bay of Plenty and King Country unions.

The team represents the provincial unions of Bay of Plenty, Counties Manukau, King Country, Thames Valley and Waikato.

Paeroa is a small town in New Zealand, in the northern Waikato region of the Thames Valley.

Thames High School is a public high school in Thames, Waikato, New Zealand.

It is part of the Waikato Region and Thames-Coromandel District and extends 85 kilometres north from the western end of the Bay of Plenty, forming a natural barrier to protect the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames in the west from the Pacific Ocean to the east.

In geographical history of New Zealand, the Thames Valley was the path of the ancestral Waikato River when it discharged into the Firth of Thames over 20, 000 years ago.

For local government administration, the Thames Valley is fully contained within the Waikato Region, and is split between the Thames-Coromandel, Hauraki and Matamata-Piako Districts.

The alluvial plains have been built up by sediment deposited by the Piako and Waihou Rivers, which flow north to reach the sea at the Firth of Thames, and earlier by the ancestral Waikato River.

Puriri is endemic to New Zealand and can be found in the upper half of the North Island from North Cape to the Waikato and Upper Thames, and from thence in small numbers southwards to Mahia Peninsula ( 39 ° 10 ′ S ) on the east coast and Cape Egmont ( 39 ° 27 ′ S ) on the west ( rare inland south of latitude 37 ).

The unit consisted of a headquarters company and four rifle companies, designated ' A ' through ' D ': ' A ' Company was recruited from North Auckland ; ' B ' Company from Rotorua, the Bay of Plenty and Thames – Coromandel ; ' C ' Company from the East Coast from Gisborne to East Cape and ' D ' Company from Waikato, Maniapoto, Hawkes Bay, Wellington and the South Island, as well as some Pacific Islands and the Chatham and Stewart Islands.