They were the first to migrate to Aotearoa. When more and more European settler arrived the Treaty of Waitangi was signed to organise a mutual life.

To the present day Maori language is accessible for all to learn.

Traditional skills like New Zealand flax weaving, bone carving, and crafting greenstone jewellery is passed on and became popular as gifts among New Zealander and tourists.

Kate Sheppard was an important leader in promoting an equal right to vote for New Zealand women.

Jean Batton set many aviation world records.

Sir Edmond Hillary is known as the first person to climb to the summit of MT. Everest.

AJ Hackett is father of New Zealand bungy jumping.

The hill in the centre of Cornwall Park forms the core of Auckland history. John Logan Campbell interwoven in the history of Auckland named this beautiful volcanic cone with then a solitary totara tree on its summit. After an act of vandalism the last of the pine trees was cut in 2001. Today only an obelisk crowns the hill. Sometimes it is referred to as none tree hill. The 360 degree panoramic view still calls for admiration.

The harbour quality started the almost career of the South Island to become one of French colonies. The Pacific Ocean was yet to be acquainted for French colonization plans. With the North Island in the centre of British and Maori interests the South Island was propelled into the middle of French trading interests.

The French whaler Captain Jean-Francois Langlois distinguished this in 1838 as an ideal location to service whaling ships. About 60 French whaling ships to sail regularly the waters between Australia and New Zealand.

The passion and skill Dalmatian migrants, that arrived 1858 at New Zealand shores, brought for wine is identifiable in the names related to, e.g.Soljan, Ivicevich, Nobilo.

They left their small Province at the Adriatic coast with limited prospects to supporting its inhabitants to secure survival to their families.

Many started out as gum diggers to whom this memorial in Dargaville refers.

For more than one century Indians are part of the New Zealand population. In recent years the immigration stream advanced enormously and made them the fourth strongest ethnic group. With their growing communities too, became the Diwali festival of lights established as a yearly publicly celebrated event.