He was respected for his management of the Wanganui Herald, particularly his forthright and direct approach to reporting.

Perhaps the least important to Wanganui, but among the most important to Ballance himself, was the chess club – Ballance became a skilled player of the game.

In 1926, Nelson College was invited to join the annual rugby tournament between Christ's College, Wanganui Collegiate School and Wellington College, known as the " Quadrangular ".

The Wanganui conflict was caused by the Māori demand for utu ( a Māori concept involving payback or revenge ) when one of the ringleaders of the Hutt valley campaign was hanged.

The attack on 16 May was by a party led by Te Karamu, of the Ngati Haua te Rangi, Upper Wanganui.

The Wanganui Campaign was centered on the settlement that eventually became the city of Wanganui, New Zealand, which was established in 1841.

Sporadic fighting between Upper and Lower Wanganui iwi continued through to 1865 and in April 1865 a combined force of 200 Taranaki Military Settlers and Patea Rangers, under Major Willoughby Brassey of the New Zealand Militia, was sent to Pipiriki, 90 km upriver from Wanganui, to establish a military post.

The force consisted of the Patea and Wanganui Rangers, Taranaki Military Settlers, Wanganui Yeomanry Cavalry and kupapa Māori and was commanded by Major Thomas McDonnell, an able but ruthless commander.

Vere ’ s grandfather Zachariah Meads was among the first British children to be born in Te Aro, Wellington, in 1843, and his grandmother Elizabeth Meads ( née Lazare ) was the daughter of an Irish minister who had educated freed slaves on the island of Mauritius before emigrating to Wanganui.

The Colonial forces were gathering in strength and could probably have attacked at any time except that one important component was missing: Kepa ( Major Kemp ) and the Wanganui had not arrived, and Colonel McDonnell was not about to start a battle without his friend Kepa.

( Philip ) Cooke and his wife Valmai, Lord Cooke was born in Wellington, and attended Wanganui Collegiate School.

The 9 June killings signalled a resumption of war and McDonnell was recalled from Wanganui.

The Government was forced to abandon its Waihi and Manawapou camps, as well as the Kakaramea redoubt and withdraw to Patea, which prompted colonists to leave their farms and redoubts and retreat to the safety of Wanganui.

When still Wanganui women could not be conclusively identified, a Māori informer was brought in to identify them.

The west coast of the lower North Island is not naturally supplied with harbours and the Foxton harbour had a dangerous bar at the river mouth but as the only real harbour between Wanganui and Wellington it was used anyway.

One brother, Wayne, played rugby for Otago and North Auckland in the then National Provincial Championship and was in the Junior All Blacks while another brother, Allan, represented Wanganui in rugby.

Although called Wanganui from 1854, the New Zealand Geographic Board recommended that the name be changed to " Whanganui ", and the government decided in December 2009 that, while either spelling was acceptable, Crown agencies would use the Whanganui spelling.

The New Zealand Company also established a settlement at Wanganui in 1840 – chiefly as a spillover settlement, the site of the rural land promised to Wellington purchasers – and also became indirectly involved in the settlement of New Plymouth in 1841, through its links with the Plymouth Company, which merged with the New Zealand Company the same year.

* 1840 Edward Jerningham Wakefield ( Edward Gibbon Wakefield's son ) purchases of land under dubious circumstances, for the New Zealand Company, including the Wanganui town site.

The Berrymans were to provide all materials, but instead of the specified macrocarpa or tanalised radiata pine timber for the transoms and bearers, they obtained Douglas fir timber from a demolition site in Wanganui.

* 1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.

Cultivation spread from China in the early 20th century, when seeds were introduced to New Zealand by Mary Isabel Fraser, the principal of Wanganui Girls ' College, who had been visiting mission schools in Yichang, China.

* Other ports: Whangarei, Devonport ( Auckland ), Gisborne, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Nelson, Picton, Westport, Greymouth, Timaru, Bluff

Most of the first settlers were brought over by a programme operated by the New Zealand Company ( inspired by Edward Gibbon Wakefield ) and were located in the central region on either side of Cook Strait, and at Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Nelson.

Twelve cities are in the North Island: Auckland, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier, Hamilton, Hastings, Palmerston North, Rotorua, Wanganui, Whangarei and Wellington, the capital, located at the southern extremity of the island.

* Wanganui East Athletic, a New Zealand association football club

She later lived in several parts of New Zealand's North Island, including Auckland, Taranaki, Wanganui, the Horowhenua, Palmerston North, Waiheke, Stratford, Browns Bay and Levin.

Although Titokowaru's forces were numerically small and initially outnumbered in battle 12 to one by government troops, the ferocity of their attacks provoked fear among settlers and prompted the resignation and desertion of many militia volunteers, ultimately leading to the withdrawal of most government military forces from South Taranaki and giving Titokowaru control of almost all territory between New Plymouth and Wanganui.

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A secure route from Wanganui to Patea would form a key part of the Government's strategy for a thoroughfare between Wanganui and New Plymouth, with redoubts and military settlements to protect it along the way.

In September, 1865, the forces then available to the New Zealand government, some 500 men, were transported by ship from Wanganui through Cook Strait, around the East Cape to Opotiki.

Although Titokowaru's forces were numerically small and initially outnumbered in battle 12 to one by government troops, the ferocity of their attacks provoked fear among settlers and prompted the resignation and desertion of many militia volunteers, ultimately leading to the withdrawal of most government military forces from South Taranaki and giving Titokowaru control of almost all territory between New Plymouth and Wanganui.

" The Government waived its right of pre-emption in the Wellington region, Wanganui and New Plymouth in September 1841.

Whanganui (; ), also spelled Wanganui, is an urban area and district on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

Keepa's father was an early supporter of New Zealand Company settlement established at Wanganui and served as a constable in the Armed Police Force.

It was first known to science in 1937, being named by W. R. B. Oliver after George Shepherd, former curator of the Wanganui Museum, who collected the type specimen near Ōhawe on the south Taranaki coast, North Island, New Zealand, in 1933.

No. 100 was laterly used in Wanganui, New Zealand 1910-1950.

Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, he made his All Black debut in 1972, and his Test debut against the British Lions in 1977 – going on to make 41 appearances and scoring 2 tries.

* A regional profile: Manawatu / Wanganui, Statistics New Zealand.

Toowoomba has sister city relations with three international cities: Wanganui, New Zealand ; Takatsuki, Japan ; and Paju, South Korea.

Ganilau was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School, in New Zealand, from 1965.

Largely as a result of Andrew's influence, the young Ratu Sukuna was sent to the prestigious Wanganui Collegiate School in Wanganui, New Zealand.

* Diane Strevens, In Step with Time: A History of the Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth, Wanganui, New Zealand, David Ling, Auckland, 2001.