Otago Daily Times
Toitu te whenua - Māori Place Names Series 2 - Layers on the land - E8
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- Toitu te whenua - Māori Place Names Series 2 - Layers on the land - E8
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- 13:46
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Gerard O’Regan crouches at the high water mark and examines the dark stained sand draining from the eroding bank.
His practised eye reads the signs and zeroes in on the evidence of his tīpuna, their lifeways.
Newly exposed shell and bone talk of the meal eaten here so many years ago, lying still among the hangi stones used in the cooking. Here too are slithers of agate, a local stone prized for the sharp edge it brought to the work of cutting or scraping.
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- Toitu te whenua - Māori Place Names Series 2 - Guardians of the pā - Ep7
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- 14:44
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- It’s easy to see why the birds gather here. Kātiki Point is made for them.
A bird’s-eye view must reveal its special characteristics as more welcoming still — a wealth of cliff-top habitat surrounded by ocean.
So, they are present in wonderful diversity.
Kaitiaki Patrick Herewini-Tipa and Nola Tipa know them well — both the birds and the land they nest on.
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- Toitū te whenua - Māori Place Names Series 2 - To stop and stay - Ep6
- Runtime
- 15:32
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- A shortcut to understanding Moeraki’s history is offered by its picture postcard church.
It’s significance is obvious. Not only is the heritage listed building, Te Kotahitanga, the oldest surviving Māori mission church in Te Waipounamu but it houses a rare and remarkable stained glass window.
And that's not all..
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- Toitu te whenua - Māori Place Names Series 2 - A precious cargo - Ep5
- Runtime
- 15:04
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- The crowd on the beach below could be scavenging, searching out the valuable flotsam from a wreck.
They circle, round and round the spherical stones scattered across the golden sand.
As they do, they no doubt wonder aloud or to themselves "How on earth? What could possibly account for these marvels?".
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- Toitū te whenua - Māori Place Names Series 2 - Keeping your enemies close - Ep4.
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- 12:20
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- The waves of migration that swept down through Te Waipounamu over the centuries made for a rich intermingling of whakapapa, as marriages consecrated the connections between newer arrivals and those who had settled earlier.Soon enough, their children could claim connection to a host of eminent tīpuna and any number of waka. But it wasn’t all a love fest.
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- Toitū te whenua - Māori Place Names Series 2 - Warming the land - Ep3
- Runtime
- 14:35
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- The names that adorn the southeast coast of Te Waipounamu warm the land, Puketeraki kaumatua Matapura Ellison tells.
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- Toitū te whenua - Māori Place Names Series 2 - Watching over the land - Ep2
- Runtime
- 14:23
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- The names that line the coast north of Ōtepoti guide those who care and are nourished in return, Khyla Russell tells.
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- Toitū te whenua - Māori Place Names Series 2 - History written on the land Ep1
- Runtime
- 14:58
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- In the first instalment of a new video series on Māori place names, Toitū te whenua, we visit Pūrākaunui, where mana whenua have reawakened the history that lies on the land.
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- Hospital cuts: Here's what you said
- Runtime
- 4:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
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- OUSA Clubs Day
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Otago University Canoe Club was among many groups signing up first years at the annual Clubs and Societies Day yesterday.
Read the full story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/paddling-their-own-canoes
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- South Otago landmark undergoing restoration
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A historic South Otago landmark is undergoing a restoration in both character and substance.
Read the full story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/south-otago/restoration-under-way-conserve-cottage
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- Capsule from 1996 uncovered
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- When a Dunedin man helped bury a time capsule at his school nearly 30 years ago, he never thought his daughters would be helping to uncover it.
Brett Johnston returned to Andersons Bay School yesterday to watch a time capsule from 1996 be unearthed from under the school hall.
Read the full story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/capsule-blast-past
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- NZ’s oldest Land Rover doing 1800kms
- Runtime
- 3:41
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The 1948 Land Rover Series I, just the 20th to be made worldwide, will leave Dunedin this morning, heading for its new home in Auckland.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/health/nz%E2%80%99s-oldest-land-rover-doing-bit-heart-health
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- Banning set nets key to saving hoiho: experts
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Fewer than 100 yellow-eyed penguin (hoiho) chicks are expected to fledge from the mainland this year — and conservationists are warning that within a few years the population could be too small for it to continue reproducing.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/banning-set-nets-key-saving-hoiho-experts
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- New surf club for Warrington
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A dream of building a new clubhouse is now a reality for the Warrington Surf Life Saving Club after finally reaching its $1.5 million fundraising milestone. However, the club is still looking to add to that number.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/funding-target-reached-new-clubhouse
#ODT #OtagoDailyTimes
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- Oamaru hosting filming for a Netflix production
- Runtime
- 0:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- While star-gazing locals have spotted lead actor Florence Pugh in town, the real star is the Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust Victorian Precinct, which attracted Netflix in the first place.
Read the full story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/oamaru-proving-it%E2%80%99s-streets-ahead
#ODT #nznews
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- South Island Streetstocks Champs at Beachlands
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Ben Jenkins came out on top as the new South Island Streetstock champion at an event that pulled in a crowd of around 2000, according to Beachlands Club president Matt Stewart. With 44 drivers from all over the South Island in the mix, it was a day full of exciting racing action.
Read the full story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/siblings-face-speedway
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- Mountain Bike XCO nationals in Dunedin
- Runtime
- 0:21
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Some of the best riders in New Zealand flocked to Dunedin at the weekend for the first round of the national series.
The action was intense on the Signal Hill tracks as part of the opening round of the national series that doubled as the first race in the UCI continental series.
Read the full story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/other-sport/signal-hill-event-declared-%E2%80%98fantastic%E2%80%99
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- Dunedin hosts National Cake Decorators Conference
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A Taieri cake-decorating club has moulded Dunedin’s crowning glories into one epic fondant-covered masterpiece, and it is now on display for all to see.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dunedin-scenes-icing-cake
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- Porsche Display Lake Hayes NZ
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- About 35 gleaming Porsches - together with their proud owners - parked up alongside Lakes Hayes last Saturday morning, as part of the annual Southern Weekend of the Year event.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/lake-hayes-perfect-backdrop-porsche-display
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- Dunedin Railways Taieri Gorge to Pukerangi train trip
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- As the Dunedin Railways Taieri Gorge to Pukerangi train trip returned for the first time since before the Covid pandemic.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/the-star/Pukerangi-train-back
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- Mt Cook Rescue Helicopter Training
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A pair of Otago Southland Rescue Helicopter Trust crew were swinging from a winch during a high alpine rescue training exercise in Aoraki/Mt Cook yesterday.
Read the full story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/air-there
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- Escea Holographic Fireplaces
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Technology once used to bring Tupac Shakur and Michael Jackson back from the dead is now being used to bring warmth and comfort to Dunedin homes.
Escea Fireplace Company, based in Green Island, has unveiled a new line of "holographic" electric fireplaces retailing for around $7000.
Read the full story subscriber here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/business/fake-flames-employ-19th-century-method
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- Frog animation wins national competition
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Tom Davis, 18, was named the Future Designers Champion of the Future Frames Competition, a competition run by Victoria University of Wellington School of Design Innovation.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/frog-animation-wins-national-competition
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- Gearing up for plumber finals
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A Dunedin plumber will be the only woman putting on a tool belt when she competes in the Young Plumber of the Year final.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/business/making-it-finals-pipe-dream-come-true
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- New trail linking Arthurs Point and Arrowtown opens
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- After seven years’ work, the Queenstown Trails Trust officially opened the new 13km Wharehuanui Trail, linking Arthurs Point and Arrowtown.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/new-trail-linking-arthurs-point-and-arrowtown-opens
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- Merino ‘capital’ hosts shearing competition
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The annual Merino Shearing and Woolhandling competition finished in Alexandra on Saturday night.
More than 200 competitors flocked to the "capital of the merino wool industry" at the weekend to take part in one of the world’s only fine-wool shows.
Read the full story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/central-otago/merino-%E2%80%98capital%E2%80%99-hosts-shearing-competition
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- Otago Daily Times is live
- Runtime
- 33:45
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
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- Urgent structural work on Cargill's Castle
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- An accelerating rate of decay at Cargill’s Castle has prompted conservationists to start stabilising the historic Dunedin building before it collapses altogether.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/stabilising-work-start-cargills-castle
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- Kayaker braves flooded Dunedin river
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A kayaker negotiates the floodwaters as he heads down the Water of Leith outside the University of Otago registry building.
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- Otago Daily Times is live
- Runtime
- 27:21
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Otago Daily Times is live
- Runtime
- 33:49
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Dunedin Marathon 2024
- Runtime
- 2:36
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- 3643 people competed in the various categories of the Emerson's Dunedin marathon over the weekend
Read the story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/other-sport/aitken-takes-control-get-go-claim-fifth-title
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- Rigs for Kids 2024
- Runtime
- 21:08
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- More than 240 truckies took part in this year’s Special Rigs for Special Kids day, ferrying excited children from Dunedin’s Edgar Centre through to Mosgiel and back again in a large loop.
Event co-organiser and founder Greg Inch said the event, which has run since 1992, seemed to go from strength to strength every year.
Read the story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/hundreds-turn-out-special-rigs-gig
Our coverage was sponsored by Dynes Transport, Reilly's Towing, Fresh Choice Green Island and McLellan Transport.
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- Uber teams with Soho Basin for ski experience
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Uber is teaming up with Soho Basin, a private backcountry ski field, to offer a free day of skiing or snowboarding as ride share and delivery company celebrates 10 years in New Zealand.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/news/the-south-today/uber-teams-soho-basin-ski-experience
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- Snow in Central Otago Today
- Runtime
- 0:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Heavy rain, blustery winds and snow have hit many parts of the country in the past couple of days, causing flooding and road closures.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/snow-falling-dunedin-road-warnings-issued
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- Dog Derby at Coronet Peak
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Brendon Peat, of Queenstown, and his dog, Koda, rip down Coronet Peak on Saturday afternoon, on their way to winning the men’s category of the 50th Dog Derby.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/racing-finish-line
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- Para athlete Francois Lambrechts - Ice Swimming
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Para athlete Francois Lambrechts is an ice swimmer, which means swimming in temperatures of 5°C or less.
Read the full story here 🔗www.odt.co.nz/the-star/ready-face-chill-defend-records
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- Rock n' Roll Club Championship
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Th Rock n' Roll Club Championship was held in Invercargill recently.
Read the full story here 🔗www.odt.co.nz/southland/rock-%E2%80%99n%E2%80%99-roll-life-starts-young
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- OUSA ART
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Creativity of all forms was celebrated in the Otago University Students’ Association’s Art Week.
Read the full story here 🔗www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/students%E2%80%99-creativity-impresses
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- Cromwell Light Up Winter Festival
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Fire dancers, fairy lights and floating lanterns captivated Cromwell at the Light Up Winter festival.
Read the full story here 🔗 www.odt.co.nz/regions/central-otago/lantern-event-helps-brighten-winter
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- Waikouaiti-Port Chalmers trail construction starts
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A statement by the Dunedin Tracks Network Trust said work to build a trail connecting Waikouaiti to Port Chalmers began yesterday.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/waikouaiti-port-chalmers-trail-construction-starts
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- The Remarkables Adaptive Snow Sports Festival
- Runtime
- 1:53
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Fifty adaptive athletes are on their way to Queenstown this weekend, for the annual Snow Sports NZ Adaptive Festival.
Read the full story here 🔗 https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/snow-all
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- Ice Swimming Championships
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Hardy swimmers in Alexandra begin the New Zealand Ice Swimming Pool Championships, in 3 degree water.
Read the full story here 🔗www.odt.co.nz/regions/central-otago/50-swimmers-gear-frosty-plunge
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- Sports Chat: Dunedin Men's Hockey
- Runtime
- 8:25
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- In ODT Sports Chat, Paul Dwyer heads down to the Macmillan Hockey Turf.
See the full story here 🔗www.odt.co.nz/features/southern-television/odt-sports-chat-mens-premier-hockey
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- Sports Chat: Dunedin Men's Basketball
- Runtime
- 6:11
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Paul Dwyer is back at the Edgar Centre for ODT Sports Chat, catching up with the latest from men's premier basketball.
We get up close and personal with the St Kilda Saints v City Rise Bombers mid-table clash and we talk to the winners after the game.
See more here 🔗 www.odt.co.nz/tag/sports-chat
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- Whakatipu Legend Winter Swim
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Freezing cold water didn't stop more than 50 daring swimmers from diving into Lake Wakatipu on Saturday, for Queenstown's 3rd annual Winter Swim.
Read the full story here 🔗www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/queenstown-winter-swim-chilly-challenge
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- Impressive Queenstown Fireworks Display
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Queenstown Fireworks display impressed onlookers over the weekend.
Read the full story here 🔗www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/fireworks-impress-audience
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- Dunedin Matariki Drone Show (Highlights)
- Runtime
- 3:05
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Matariki Drone Light Show featured a fleet of 201 drones gracing the sky over Logan Park, "painting" a variety of shapes.
Read the full story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/drone-show-something-special
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- 201 drones set a new NZ record
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Watch Dunedin getting ready to hold NZ's largest drone show ever, beating previous efforts by a singular drone.
Read the full story here 🔗https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/lone-drone-set-make-matariki-light-show-new-zealand%E2%80%99s-biggest
