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More people emigrating to New Zealand

The most recent immigration figures from Statistics New Zealand show that the country recorded its highest growth figures for almost five years during December, leading to hopes that increased demand for property and higher consumer spending might lead to a quicker-than-expected recovery from recession.

There were almost 22,000 more arrivals than departures among permanent migrants during [...]

The best nightlife in New Zealand

For those looking for the best nightlife in New Zealand then it would be a good idea to head to Queenstown, Wellington or Auckland as this will take you through some of the most varied and exciting nightlife that the country has to offer.

Queenstown has a lot on the wine front but there is also [...]

New Zealand’s wine is diversifying

New Zealand’s wine industry is around three decades old and while this might seem like a long time, in the wine industry this is relatively little. What is very exciting for people who are interested in wine is that the country is still experimenting with different flavours and varieties of grapes. This experimentation is growing [...]

Richard O’Brien Rocky Horror Picture Show creator becomes a New Zealander video

The creator of the Rocky Horror Picture Show is Richard O’Brien, and he has finally gained New Zealand citizenship. It was some time ago that he made the decision to retire to the country but his first application was refused. Mr O’Brien first came to New Zealand around 60 [...]

Cost of a Home in New Zealand

Here’s an interesting statistic for anyone considering the merits of a move to New Zealand: with a land mass appreciably larger than that of the UK, the current population of the island nation south of the equator is about 4.5 million; the UK is home to over 62 million as of the last census. However, [...]

Maori New Zealand’s First Inhabitants

The Maori are an ethnic group native to the Polynesian islands of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. The word Maori means a normal person, in the Maori language, and other Polynesian languages. Maoli in Hawaiian language means native, indigenous, real.

The Maori name refers to the first inhabitants of New Zealand or Aotearoa, the [...]

Education system in New Zealand

For the education system in New Zealand which has only been in charge since 1989 is the existing Ministry of Education. In the future, the central administration of schools and universities should be relaxed, and will increasingly manage themselves. In addition, there is the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC), a [...]

New Zealand Mineral Resources

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New Zealand is relatively poor in natural resources. Of metals which are mined, only iron sand, gold and silver are found. Although the country also has reserves of bauxite, copper, chromite, Cinnabar, cassiterite, ilmenite, scheelite and uranium deposits, they are not broken down, either because the reserves are too low or because the import [...]

Regions of New Zealand

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Compared to the federally organized Australia, New Zealand is very centralized. Since a major administrative reform in 1989, there are generally two stages in the administrative structure. The first stage is formed by the regions (Regional Councils), the second stage represent the districts, either as a City Council (i.e. “City”), then District Council (Council [...]

Buying Groceries in New Zealand

Whenever one plans a visit to someplace different, even if it’s not really ‘foreign’ and most everyone speaks one’s native language, it is always very helpful to have some advance knowledge about how much it’s going to cost. After the transportation bit is settled, and you’ve decided on approximately what you want to do when [...]

New Zealand – Cost of Living

Like every other country in the world, New Zealand has both positive and negative aspects in terms of what it costs to live there, either temporarily or permanently. However, it is safe to say that in New Zealand, the positive outweighs the negative by a country mile. That statement [...]

Capital One Credit Made Clearer campaign

The run up to your holidays is one of the most stressful but exciting parts of the year. Great care and attention is out into the new clothes, the sunglasses and the various styles of flip flops, it’s just such a shame so much planning isn’t put into your spending money. If it were, thousands [...]

Energy in New Zealand

The Manapouri power station is the largest cavern power plant in New Zealand. About 75% of the electricity demand in New Zealand is covered by renewable energies. While 67% (1998) share of hydropower is produced mainly in the South Island, the energy through geothermal energy, which lies at about 6.5% (1998), limited exclusively to the [...]

Economy of New Zealand

The official currency of the country is the New Zealand dollar (also called “Kiwi dollar”, NZD, NZ $). This superseded in 1967, the British pound sterling. Since then, New Zealand units have been used in the decimal system. Since 1999, the Kiwi dollar after the Australian dollar was the second currency of the [...]

Geology of New Zealand

Until about 200 million years ago New Zealand belonged to – like most of today’s land masses in the Southern Hemisphere – to the super-continent Gondwana.

The exact date is uncertain, but at the latest it was 85 million years ago, in the upper Cretaceous period that separated the continent Zealandia fragment with the [...]

New Zealand writer’s cookbook is icing on the cake

The South Pacific Islands could be the next culinary big thing, after a cookbook featuring cuisine from there, beat off stiff competition, including a book from the World’s best restaurant last year, Copenhagen’s Noma Restaurant, to win the coveted title of best cookbook at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for 2010.

Me’a Kai, written by Robert [...]

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