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Waikato won the first encounter against Auckland with a crew that contained three former Olympic representatives, Nigel Atherfold, Greg Johnson and Chris White, with the rest of the crew consisting of Waikato Rowing Club oarsmen, Andy Mahon, Nik Posa and Richard Kirke, and Stephen Hatfield and Chris Spanninga from the Hamilton Rowing Club, and coxswain Russell Robson.
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Waikato and won
In 2011, Waikato Management School ’ s MBA programme for Māori leaders won AMBA ’ s inaugural MBA Innovation Award.
Taniwharau has been one of the most successful clubs having won 11 straight Waikato premierships during the 1970s and 1980s.
Taniwharau also won the inaugural Waicoa Bay championship in 2002 and again in 2007 a year in which they went through the season unbeaten ; a feat that has never been achieved before at the Waikato Rugby League Premier Level.
The first race was held on September 1, 2002 where the University of Waikato crew led from the start and won by many boat lengths over the Cambridge University crew.
In 2012, the Chiefs finished at the top of the New Zealand conference, qualifying for a home semi-final, which they won, defeating the Canterbury Crusaders 20-17 at Waikato Stadium, Hamilton.
* The NBL won by the Wellington Saints who beat the Waikato Titans 97-88 in the final.
* The Women's NBL was won by the Wellington Swish who beat the Waikato Lady Titans 86-82 in the final
Striker Colin Gardyne won Sky Sports ' Goal of the Season award, and was also Waikato FC's joint-top goalscorer along with Brett Derry.
Waikato and first
The first students from the University of Waikato at Tauranga graduated at a ceremony held in Tauranga in 2001.
Designed to incorporate the existing University library, the $ 30 million building has been awarded five green stars for sustainable design, the first five-star project in the Waikato region.
° Waikato is ranked first in education when University and College of Education scores are combined.
Access to the Waikato region was the first problem.
According to Pei Te Hurinui Jones, the Tainui historian, Tainui first entered the Waikato about 1400 bringing with them kumara plants.
The first Māori king was the great Waikato warrior Te Wherowhero who came from a great line of rangatira.
In support of these wars, New Zealand developed its first " navy ", the Waikato Flotilla, run by an Australian Francis Cadell who was recognised for his spendid service by the presentation by the New Zealand government of a gold watch and diamonds.
Clarke was first selected to play rugby for the Waikato rugby team at the age of 17 in 1951.
Previously, the University of Waikato had raced the University of Auckland over the Waikato River course in an annual fixture, which was first held in 1989.
The club currently holds the record for the first team to win consecutive titles in the annual Waicoa Bay Premiers Competition, consisting of all teams in the Waikato, Coast and Bay Of Plenty regions.
The first wave of referendums were held in 1999, in which several Polytechnics and two Universities ( the University of Waikato and the University of Auckland ) elected to become voluntary.
A major development for the town was the Government sponsored establishment, from the mid 1960s, of New Zealand's first steel plant at Glenbrook to convert ironsand brought from the black sand deposits at Waikato Heads into steel.
He scored a hat trick in Auckland's victory over Counties Manukau in the first round, and on 11 August against Waikato he scored two, bringing his try total for Auckland to 50.
The Waikato Times started out as the tri-weekly Waikato Times and Thames Valley Gazette, first published on 2 May 1872.
The first Rugby match at Kardinia Park occurred in 2012, Melbourne Rebels played Waikato Chiefs and attracted a crowd of 8, 000.
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.
The dam, at the small settlement of Arapuni at the lake's northern end, was the first constructed on the Waikato, and was completed in 1929.
He was first elected to Parliament in the 1984 elections as MP for Waikato, and retained that seat until his departure from Parliament at the 1996 elections.
The first bridge in Hamilton across the Waikato River was built mainly of Kahikatea about 1880 but the bridge quickly became unsafe due to rot.
Waikato and against
As the settlers were granted representative and responsible government with the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, the Treaty became less effective, although it was used to justify the idea that Waikato and Taranaki were rebels against the Crown in the wars of the 1860s.
The Governor had for years received messages of support from NgaPuhi in the campaigns against rebel Waikato Maori.
Cameron conducted a careful and clever campaign against the rebel Waikato Māori, seeking always to minimize the casualties among both his own men and the enemy.
In this position Gould was instrumental in initiating The Great Race, a rowing race for Waikato University against international universities on the Waikato River.
The government passed the Suppression of Rebellion Act 1863 to punish Maori rebels who had fought against the government mainly in Taranaki and the Waikato.
Te Rauparaha became the foremost chief of Ngāti Toa, credited with leading Ngāti Toa forces against the Waikato and Ngāti Maniapoto iwi and then, after his defeat, with piloting the migration to, and the conquest and settlement of, the Cook Strait region in the 1820s.
In late 1863, the New Zealand government requested troops to assist in the invasion of the Waikato province against the Māori.
One of their most memorable moments was when they successfully retained the Ranfurly Shield against Waikato in 1954 with a last minute try.
After 10 previous unsuccessful challenges for the Ranfurly Shield, most notably 1996 when they challenged for it three times in 6 weeks against Taranaki, Waikato and Auckland, North Harbour succeeded in their eleventh challenge for the shield on 24 September 2006 by beating the previous holders Canterbury 21-17 at Jade Stadium in Christchurch < ref name = HarbourCanterbury >
After early losses to Hawke's Bay and Waikato the Stags bounced back with a victory against Taranaki.
During the 1850s he became a supporter of the King Movement, which opposed further expansion of European sovereignty and the sale of land to European settlers, and in the 1860s fought against colonial forces in the First Taranaki War and Waikato War, in which he also acted as a chaplain to the Māori soldiers.
Te Wherowhero returned to the Waikato that year in time to take command in an unsuccessful defence of his tribe at Matakitaki ( Pirongia ) against Ngāpuhi, armed with muskets and led by Hongi Hika on their great rampage through the North Island of 1818 to 1823.
The first game, against the Waikato Wildcats, was a walk-over, with Sting winning easily 78-41.
He played in the first XV at Christ's College in Christchurch, and was a regular first choice for Canterbury from the 1981 season onwards, playing in the failed Ranfurly Shield challenge against Waikato.
Winning their Major Semi Final against the Waikato / Bay of Plenty Magic, the Firebirds became the first team to win 14 games straight.
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