the top of the thigh down below the knee. These are the traditional adornments by which the tatau and malu are supposed to be worn and the older Samoan people who grew up with the traditions tend to have differing views to those of the younger New Zealand born generation. The latter tend to call all sorts of inscriptions on their bodies tatau regardless of whether they appear on the arms, on the wrists or on the back to name some of the imprinted body…
New Zealand troops have spent more time in Afghanistan then both World War One and World War Two Combined, despite this, mainstream media coverage of the war has been limited, and one-sided, government reports have relied on embedded journalism and the NZDF methods of public relations (PR), have been responsible for the upkeep of the military’s positive, peacekeeping, reconstructed, ‘kiwi’ image. While this was not untrue, it can not be considered truthful. The NZDF maintains strong connections…
information management throughout all New Zealand. It started as a single company, New Zealand Couriers, and nowadays, it has expanded, becoming then a group composed by nineteen companies, being the biggest, New Zealand Couriers, and the smallest, Castle Parcels, after growing by acquisition with representation in every major city and town in throughout New Zealand. The number of employees is over 1.200 people, which means, Freightways is a big size company for New Zealand standards and…
especially since coaches are generally volunteers. This proves that expenses are becoming too expensive in youth sport. Scholarships, sponsorship and community trusts help to assist with the cost but generally do not cover petrol, uniforms or boots (New Zealand Government, 2008), which means there are restrictions on what funds can achieve. Perhaps a similar idea to StudyLink, but for sport could help in improving participation levels in youth. With a number of sport dropouts saying that sport…
The Current State of New Zealand Tourism: Years ago, if someone mentioned New Zealand in a sentence, they wouldn’t know where it is or what you were talking about. Now New Zealand has grown, and is still growing today. One of the biggest reason now that New Zealand has been recognized more is because of our tourism industry. Tourism is one of New Zealand’s biggest export industries earing $11.8 billion of New Zealand’s current exchange earnings. New Zealand has a reputation of this clean green…
oral language is learnt meaning teaching children a second language at this age is supposedly easier than trying to teach someone older. In New Zealand we are a very multicultural society and living in Aotearoa carries specific responsibilities towards Tangata Whenua. A large percentage of our population is in fact māori. Māori is an official language of New Zealand and it is very important we keep it alive along with other traditions such as Tikanga. “Learning language is an important element…
Kua tawhiti ke to haerenga mai, kia kore e haere tonu. He tino nui rawa ou mahi, kia kore e mahi nui tonu"."You have come too far not to go further. You have done too much not to do more Te Kupenga Mōteatea was chosen after many hours of reading and researching Tuwharetoa - History of the Maori People of the Taupo District (Grace, Te.H) 1959. The storyline of Te Kupenga involves friendship, love, conflict, insult, war and revenge. In this essay I will describe what Te Kupenga Mōteatea means…
1 INTRODUCTION Transport has a huge impact on daily basis in New Zealand. It is known that New Zealand currently spends billions of dollars on transport (Ministry of Transport, 2014). Transport has become one of the biggest factors contributing in energy consumption and economic growth in New Zealand and Ministry of Transport have introduced four scenarios in order to make flexible investment options. Ministry of Transport have considered a change in oil price and digital technology advancement…
In 1904, the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration found that over 120,000 children in London and approximately 15-16 percent in Manchester and similar cities, were underfed (Simon, 1965). As a result, the report stated ‘that the time has come when the State should realize the necessity of ensuring adequate nourishment to children in attendance at school’ remarking that subjecting ‘half-starved children to the processes of education’ was at the ‘height of cruelty’…
James and his siblings moved to Stewart Island, New Zealand with their great grandmother named Nanny. A year had passed, being 1945, and James took on the responsibility at fifteen years old to care for his younger brothers and sisters and his great grandmother. In Stewart Island all of what was left of the Salvatore family lived in a medium sized cottage off the coast of the Pacific Ocean. James could not stop thinking about the loss of his parents, his new responsibilities and the fact that…