Māori stick games consist of the rhythmic throwing and catching of sticks (Te Rākau) from person to person. Traditionally boys and young men used this game to increase dexterity and alertness, while girls and young women were thought to benefit from increased skills for poi and dances.

NZ Folk Song * E Papa (stick game) This tītī tōrea is sung while playing tī rakau, the Maori stick game.In olden times, stick games trained young men in spear fighting, and traditional tītī tōrea were chanted.

English Translation. wood. More meanings for rākau. tree noun.

Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa

Masterton (Māori: Whakaoriori), a large town in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand, operates as the seat of the Masterton District (a territorial authority or local-government district).

Invercargill (/ˌɪnvərˈkɑːrɡɪl/ IN-vər-KAR-ghil, Māori: Waihōpai) is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world.

Invercargill is New Zealand’s southernmost city. Mostly flat, Invercargill stretches over an open plain beside the Waihopai River estuary. After Southland briefly separated from Otago province in 1861, Invercargill became the centre of the new province.

Te Whanganui a Tara is another name Māori gave the area – a name said to come from Whatonga’s son Tara who was sent down from the Mahia Peninsula by his father to explore southern lands for their people to settle. It literally means the great harbour of Tara.

Wellington Origin and Meaning The name Wellington is a boy’s name meaning “people living in the hamlet in the cleared area near the temple”. It’s also the middle name of one of the Sweet Home sextuplets, Blu Wellington.

Windy Wellington

Wellington Family Origin The Wellington family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Wellington families were found in the USA in 1880. This was about 40% of all the recorded Wellington’s in the USA.

1 chiefly British : raincoat. 2 : a lightweight waterproof fabric originally of rubberized cotton.

Mackintosh, waterproof outercoat or raincoat, named after a Scottish chemist, Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), who invented the waterproof material that bears his name. The fabric used for a mackintosh was made waterproof by cementing two thicknesses of it together with rubber dissolved in a coal-tar naphtha solution.

noun. a raincoat made of rubberized cloth. such cloth. Chiefly British.

1a : a small recessed section of a room : nook. b : an arched opening (as in a wall) : niche.

Alcove, recess opening off a room or other space enclosed by walls or hedges. In medieval architecture it was commonly used as a sleeping space off the main body of a drafty hall.

Alcove is the geographical and geological term for a steep-sided hollow in the side of an exposed rock face or cliff of a homogeneous rock type, that was water eroded. Alcoves are weathering features common in dissected horizontal strata.