The Soc.culture.new-zealand FAQ FAQ General and specific information about new zealand and life here. This faq should be read by anyone contemplating visiting new zealand or thinking of moving here. Please POST any questions, don't http://www.non.com/news.answers/new-zealand-faq.html
Extractions: Next: news-newusers-intro This is the soc.culture.new-zealand list of Frequently Asked Questions, and some hopefully useful answers. It should be possible to find the latest edition of this FAQ at: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/new-zealand-faq soc.culture.new-zealand ============================== PART A: INFO SOURCES A1 HOW TO FIND NZers AND INFORMATION ABOUT NZ A1.1 On The Net A1.2 Elsewhere A1.2.1 Overseas Offices of the NZ Tourism Board A1.2.2 Traditional sources (libraries, newspapers, etc.) A2 INFORMATION FOR NZers OVERSEAS A2.1 NZ Consulates/Embassies Overseas A2.2 How Do I Get News From Home? A2.3 Expatriate Organisations? A3 INTERNET ACCESS WITHIN NZ ============================== PART B: FACTS AND FIGURES B1 THE COUNTRY B1.1 Where Is NZ? B1.1.1 General B1.1.2 Statistics B1.1.3 Dependencies B1.1.4 Time Zones B1.2 The Landscape B1.2.1 General B1.2.2 Miscellaneous Figures B1.2.3 Flora and Fauna B1.2.4 Climate B2 THE PEOPLE B2.1 A Short History B2.2 Maoritanga B2.2.1 The Moriori Question B2.2.2 Guide to Maori pronunciation B2.3 Demography B2.3.1 General B2.3.2 Major Cities B2.3.3 Age Distribution B2.3.4 Ethnicity B2.3.5 Official Languages B2.3.6 Religions
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Extractions: Help others by sharing your knowledge From: phil@hyphen.southern.co.nz (phil stuart-jones) Reply-To: soc.culture.new-zealand@news.demon.co.uk news.announce.newgroups soc.culture.australian soc.culture.british ... soc.culture.misc ,nz.general From: gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu news.groups so all discussion regarding this proposal should take place there. So, if you're interested and don't subscribe to news.groups, SUBSCRIBE to it NOW! I want to hear publicly from all you Kiwis (and others interested) scattered few and far between all over the globe. Shake off the traditional Kiwi apathy cos "she'll be right" won't work here on the net. Get those fingers typing and tell us what you think. Cheers, Graeme Williams - a Kiwi in Canada gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu That's it. Any comments or contributions to this introduction would be appreciated. Please post as usual... =========================================================================== PART A Subject: A1 HOW TO FIND NZers AND INFORMATION ABOUT NZ Subject: A1.1 On The Net Anyone searching for people in NZ might like to try searching the online telephone directory first. Try pointing your Web browser at: http://tdl.tols.co.nz/cgi-bin/wmain.pl - Follow this newsgroup! You might also want to investigate the nz.* groups (if they are available to you) particularly nz.general. Corrections for any of these addresses would be appreciated. The faq is available from numerous sites, including: ftp site: ftp.demon.co.uk dir: /pub/ibmpc/misc including the internet access faq and immigration eligibility software. For those who want to know who is able to be contacted in New Zealand, Mark Davies of Victoria University has put the list of New Zealand Internet connected sites on the web at:
My Trip To Australia And New Zealand we took three of them (Darling Harbour, Manly, and the Zoo.) One warning the differencein the levels of service we received in Australia and new zealand. http://www.dgolds.com/oldsite/AustraliaNZ/AustraliaNZ.htm
Extractions: If you would just like to look at my pictures without reading the narrative, please click here To look at pictures while reading the narrative, please click on the thumbnail photos on the left side of the page. (approximate download time: 50 seconds at 28.8 K) This trip has been in the cards for a long time. My friends Wes, Tom and I started talking about it two years ago. We postponed it several times for various reasons. I ordered the travel award from Continental Airlines last summer. When I got up the morning of April 9, it was hard to believe I was actually going to fly to Australia. (Wes and Tom flew from Houston, Texas, on United. We met up in Sydney the morning of April 11.) As usual, my friendly cab driver, Diane K., who is able to find my well hidden address even at 6 AM, picked me up on time to get to SFO well before my flight. Renita, the very friendly Alaska Airlines ticketing agent, helped me checked my bags through to Sydney. I asked her about an upgrade to LAX, as my reward was for first class travel except for the short SFO-LAX leg. Alaska has a great feature that allows you to upgrade a short flight by paying them $40 at check in time. (You can also upgrade longer flights by paying more.) She said Alaska's rules didn't allow her to help me at ticketing because it was reward travel, but she would call ahead to the gate to see if they could do anything for me as there was plenty of room up front.
Places To See Elephants: Australia / New Zealand Two Asian elephants. Melbourne Zoo web site. Western Australia, Perth PerthZoo. Asian elephants. new zealand. Auckland Auckland Zoo. Web Site. http://www.himandus.net/elephanteria/sights_sites/sights_australia.html
New Zealand News - NZ - Zoo Rejects Claim Elephants Abused elephants are part of a contingent of nine being shipped from Thailand to Australiaand new zealand. The others are going to Sydney s Taronga Zoo and Melbourne http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3556325&thesection=news&thesu
Islands Of Isolation As its title suggests, this area will focus on one of the Zoo s major educationalthemes, and house species from new zealand, Australia and Madagascar. http://www.wellingtonzoo.com/animals/habitats/islands.html
Extractions: @import url(/includes/style-modern.css); Zoo Animals Animal Habitats Islands in Isolation Forests will Flourish ... Islands of Isolation Islands in Isolation is one of three conservation themes that Wellington Zoo plans to develop to help promote the need for the sustainable use of New Zealand's natural resources and a balance between humans and nature. This theme will explain the consequences of wildlife evolving in isolation, using New Zealand, Australia and Madagascar as examples. New Zealand and Madagascar have remarkable similarities in evolutionary terms. The wildlife in both countries evolved almost entirely from a single type of animal: birds in New Zealand and lemurs (a primate) in Madagascar. These species evolved to occupy all the available niches in their ecosystem. In other parts of the world these niches were filled by mammals: rodents, foxes, cats and badgers. In New Zealand these places were filled by our large number of flightless birds. The kiwi is a perfect example, having many mammal characteristics.
Yowie Links Wellington Zoo Wellington Zoo is the oldest in new zealand and is very involvedwith breeding and A modern approach by Australia s second oldest zoo. http://www.cadbury.co.nz/yowie/links.htm
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Brisbane Map of new zealand showing where we went. Australia. Sydney; Blue Mountains;Manly; The First Annual HDC Australia BBQ; Brisbane, Australia Zoo; Cairns. http://www.deaddogparty.com/brisbane.html
Extractions: Brisbane and the Australia Zoo We drove from Sydney to Brisbane which everyone said would take 10 hours. It took 13 and we arrived in Brisbane just in time to book a room at the Holiday Inn and rush to dinner 15 minutes before the restaurant closed. We came to Brisbane just to go to the Australia Zoo, home of the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin and his wife Terri. It's just a short drive north of Brisbane. Although we didn't get to see him (we didn't really expect to), we had a great time seeing their collection of crocs, alligators, poisonous snakes, and various other animals you never get to see in the Americas such as a wombat and a tasmanian devil. There was a wall of three huge panels of clippings and photos to show you how famous Steve is around the world.
Wellington Map of new zealand showing where we went. Australia. Sydney; Blue Mountains; Manly;The First Annual HDC Australia BBQ; Brisbane, Australia Zoo; Cairns. Wellington http://www.deaddogparty.com/wellington.html
Extractions: Wellington Wellington, the capitol city of New Zealand, is a really compact city and you can drive from top to bottom and up another side in scant minutes. There's not much level ground except near the wharfs, so this town is mostly on hills like San Francisco. But a lot of the winding roads going up to the residential areas are skinny 1.5-car-width roads and lots of switchbacks. Lots of opportunities to run into someone coming the opposite way. They call Wellington the Windy City and it's true: it's blowing almost all the time. The breeze appears to come from the south and blow into the harbor, but it rips through the hills as well. Who needs a dryer for your clothes when you can just hang it outside! One of the first things we did was visit the Old St. Paul's Church downtown, built from local timbers in the late 1800s. Very pretty, done in English Gothic style.Also, some shots from around town:
Taronga And Western Plains Zoos Hemitragus jemlahicus. Himalayas (new zealand, California, S Africa). VU. CR. WESTERNPLAINS ZOOS THREATENED SPECIES. Perameles gunni. SE Australia, Tasmania. VU. http://www.zoo.nsw.gov.au/content/view.asp?id=121
Extractions: The Hunter Wine Country is Australia's oldest wine producing area. Here are some of Australia's most famous wineries, sprinkled throughout the back roads of the beautiful hills near Cessnock (92 miles north). You can take a horse-drawn carriage, soar in a hot air balloon or leisurely cycle through beautiful and peaceful countryside. Known as 'The Events Capital", this magical metropolis revels in its easy ways. Enjoy glorious architecture, superb hotels, fabulous theaters, art galleries, famous zoo, curious trams, wonderful shopping, rambling parks and leafy gardens, incredible sports and an array of fine restaurants that make eating out a great experience.
SANTANA - PHOTO GALLERY in a music store in new Plymouth, new zealand (3/21 shakes his Tambourine duringOpen Invitation in new Plymouth (3 on the Ferry boat in Sydney, Australia (3/26 http://www.santana.com/sights/photos.asp?ImageCategoryID=122
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Extractions: Free Maps for Personal Webpages aapn@nanny.net.au www.nanny.net.au . Offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane place au pairs and nannies. Registration fee of $120 plus placement fee of $330. Australian Tropical Research Foundation , PMB 5, Cape Tribulation, Queensland 4873, Australia; 011-61-7-4098-0063; austrop@austrop.org.au www.austrop.org.au . Volunteers over the age of 23 required for variety of tasks. Contribution of about A$15 per day. BUNAC USA, P.O. Box 430, Southbury , CT 06488; 203-264-0901; enquiries@bunac usa.org www.bunac.org . Administer Work in Australia program (maximum 4 months) and Work in New Zealand program (maximum 12 months) open to students and non-students aged 18-30. Placement fees are $495 and $475. CALM (Conservation and Land Management) , Department of Western Australia, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, WA 6983, Australia; 011-61-8-9334-0333, www.calm.wa.gov.au
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Australia /New Zealand Bursting With Flavour 2004 Melbourne Food Wine Festival; A Day at theZoo By Donna Yuen; Western Australia. new zealand. Outrigger Queenstown. http://www.travellady.com/Destinations/australia.htm
