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The bottom of the pit should still be hot enough to turn a bucket of water
into steam, so keep any stray kids/pets away from it.

< Those are the best bits! >

That's about it.

[ Oh no!  not quite, remember to get the hangi stones/etc. out of the pit
before you cover it up!!!  Its easier to get them out (and less nasty, icky
food residues, etc.) if you do it before the hole is completely cold.  I
usually do this while the food is being chopped/sectioned, etc.

Also don't forget to enjoy!  (Mind you, if you have been 'watching for
steam' with sufficient enthusiasm, the food quality will be _superb_,
regardless of how well cooked it is!).

Don't be put off by the complexity.  Its EASY.  Just a bit of common sense,
and you're away laughing.  The best thing about it is the co-operative way
it gets done, and there's probably no easier way to feed a few hundred
people.

Works just as well for 10-20 people, or even just the immediate family
(mind you in my case that _is_ 100 people!!!)

Great for family get-togethers.  Spend early morning preparing (whole
family gets involved littles to biggest, 1-2 hours setting up the hangi,
then 6 hours to enjoy each other's company.  Then, without anyone having to
disappear into the kitchen for ages, right when the talk is flowing, etc.,
bang - all the food is ready to eat.

One thing I like is everyone is involved.  Even the most chauvinistic males
or the most get-out-of-MY-kitchen females (no flames please, stereotyping
acknowledged) will pitch in together to do something to help.  And the food
always tastes better when you have cooked it yourself!

Hell, I'm looking forward to the weekend already! ]

Good effort, gentlemen!  Must go and dig a hole...

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Subject: C4.3  National Anthem(s)

God Save The Queen and God Defend NZ are on equal status...  Words
available via email request from jmgeorge@leland.stanford.edu.

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Subject: C4.4  The Gumboot Song

See Fred Dagg.  Words available via ftp from jmgeorge@leland.stanford.edu.

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Subject: C4.5  Some Works by NZ Authors

The following is a short-list of New Zealand books, selected by the New
Zealand Book Council for their brochure "Bookenz: A Traveller's Guide to
New Zealand Books".  It is by no means an exhaustive collection, but rather
a selection of the works from indigenous Kiwi writers.

Barry Crump, A Good Keen Man, and numerous others.
Alan Duff, Once Were Warriors (Tandem)
Maurice Gee, Going West (Penguin)
Patricia Grace, Potiki (Penguin)
Keri Hulme, The Bone People (Picador)
Witi Ihimaera, Bulibasha (Penguin)
Fiona Kidman, the Book of Secrets (Vintage)
Owen Marshall, Tomorrow We Save The Orphans (McIndoe)
Maurice Shadbolt, Season of the Jew (Hodder Headline)
Philip Temple, Beak of the Moon (Penguin)
Lauris Edmond, An Autobiography (Bridget Williams Books)
Janet Frame, An Angel At My Table (Random House)
James Belich, The New Zealand Wars (Penguin)
Michael King, Maori: A Photographic and Social History (Reed)
Claudia Orange, The Story of a Treaty (Bridget Williams Books)
Christopher Pugsley, Anzac (Hodder Headline)
Bill Manhire (ed.), 100 New Zealand Poems (Godwit Publishing)
Ian Wedde and Harvey McQueen (eds), The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse
 (Penguin).

For further information please contact:

New Zealand Book Council/
Te Kaunihera Pukapuka o Aotearoa
PO Box 11-377
Wellington
New Zealand

Tel +64 4 499 1569
Fax +64 4 499 1424

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Subject: C4.6  Other Bits...

A comprehensive listing of NZ arts web sites exists at
 http://url.co.nz/arts/nzarts.html
Updates are made at least monthly.

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Things which need to be contributed:

WHERE TO EAT: list of recommended restaurants
RECIPES: try  http://nz.com/NZ/Culture/Food/
US/NZ TRANSLATIONS: they really are that different....
FISHING: favourite fishing holes?  All about whitebait (thanks NMcC :-)
ALTERNATIVE FAQ'S: available via ftp from jmgeorge@leland.stanford.edu.

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Subject: C5  Famous New Zealanders

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Subject: C5.1  Cinema

There's a movie database somewhere with loads of NZ stuff.  If someone
trips over the URL, could they please post it.

C5.1.1  Films

An Angel at My Table
Bad Blood? (British/NZ co-production)
Bad Taste
Battletruck
Brain Dead (US title; Dead Alive (god knows why they change it!))
Came a Hot Friday
Carry Me Back
End of the Golden Weather
Footrot Flats (aka A Dog's Tail/Tale?)
Goodbye Pork Pie
Heavenly Creatures
Hinemoa
Illustrious Energy
Map of the Human Heart (NZ director, Vincent Ward)
Maui
Meet the Feebles
Ngati
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Sleeping Dogs
Smash Palace
The Navigator
The Piano
The Quiet Earth
Utu
Vigil

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C5.1.2  People

If anyone can be bothered posting a brief summary of any of these, I'll
include it (after people have commented).

Jane Campion
Peter Jackson
Bruno Lawrence
Geoff Murphy
Sam Neill
Ian Mune
Anna Pacquin
Graeme Revell - has done several major movie sound tracks (Until The End Of
The World, Body Of Evidence, Hand That Rocks The Cradle).
Vincent Ward

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Subject: C5.2  Music

C5.2.1  Pop/Rock Bands

Abel Tasmans
Ardijah
Blam Blam Blam
Crowded House
Dance Exponents
DD Smash
Dragon
Father Time
Hello Sailor
Herbs
Jean Paul Satre Experience
Mi Sex
Netherworld Dancing Toys
Ragnarok
Screaming Mee Mees
Sheerlux
Shona Laing
Space Waltz
Split Enz
Suburban Reptiles
Tall Dwarfs
The Bats
The Body Electric
The Chills
The Dudes
The Enemy
The Exponents
The Front Lawn
The Johnnies
The Mockers
The Muttonbirds
The Narcs
The Residents
The Swingers
The Verlaines
Thin Red Line
Toy Love
etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

For NZ bands & so on, here are some good starting points.
Jonathan Milne's pages:
 http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~jonathan/usemus_t.html

Simon Dear's pages:
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/~sd/kiwimusic/WEBSITES

Akiko:
http://nz.com/NZ/Culture/Music/MainPage.html

And:
 http://url.co.nz/arts/nzarts.html
which includes as many NZ music web sites as we (incl. Raewyn Whyte) knew
about this morning...

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C5.2.2  Blues

Midge Marsden

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C5.2.3  Country

The Warratahs

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C5.2.4  Classical

Michael Houston
Dame Kiri te Kanawa
Lili Kraus
Douglas Lilburn
Noel Mangin
Dame Malvina Major
Donald McIntyre
Oscar Natzke (sp?)

A WWW page of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is now available:
 http://www.nzso.co.nz/

Dale Gold adds:
"We will soon have a new URL on our own virtual server, as well as a mirror
on Akiko to speed things up for overseas users.  More audio is in the
works, and much of it will have a NZ slant, although it won't all be
human...  :-)"

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Subject: C5.3  Literature

Murray Ball
James K. Baxter
Ian Cross
Barry Crump
Alan Duff
Stevan Eldred-Grigg
A.R.D. (Rex) Fairbairn
Janet Frame
Maurice Gee
Denis Glover
Patricia Grace
Keri Hulme (1)
Sam Hunt
Robin Hyde
Witi Ihimaera
John A. Lee
Margaret Mahy
Katherine Mansfield
Gordon McLaughlan
Dame Ngaio Marsh
Frank Sargeson
Maurice Shadbolt
C. K. Stead
Hone Tuwhare

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1

Keri Hulme was born in Christchurch, NZ in 1947 of Scottish & Maori
heritage.  She lives in the settlement of Okarito on NZ's wild West Coast.
Okarito used to have 4,500 gold miners and 25 pubs but is now only tiny.
It is famous for an old store, which is the oldest building on the West
Coast, the White Heron colony and Keri Hulme.  Keri lists her interests as
beach walking, whitebaiting (a traditional form of fishing in NZ), reading,
eating and drinking whisky.  If you really are interested in her writing
you could drop her a line at Okarito, Private Bag, Hokitika, NZ.  She may
reply.

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Subject: C5.4  Fine Art

Rita Angus
Neil Dawson
Francis Hodgson
Robyn Kahukiwa
Colin McCahon
Lew Summers
Bill Sutton

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Subject: C5.5  Humour

John Clarke (Fred Dagg)
Barry Crump
Sam Hunt
Billy T James
Gordon McLauchlan
Pamela Stevenson
Rima te Wiata

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Subject: C5.6  Other...

Rewi Alley (helped rebuild China after the revolution, we live in his house)
Chris Amon (motor racing)
Robert Davidson (apiarist)
Sir Roger Douglas (accounting?)
Sir Harold Gillies (pioneering plastic surgeon, 1)
Ernest Godward (inventor of the carburettor)
Sir Edmund Hillary (mountaineering, aid work, ambassador)
Fred Hollows (eye surgeon, honorary Australian?)
Dennis Hulme (motor racing)
Vaughan Jones (mathematics, Fields Medal winner (theory of knots))
Sir Archibald McIndoe (pioneering plastic surgeon, 1)
Bruce McLaren (motor racing)
Colin Murdoch (inventor of the disposable syringe)
Richard Pearse (first powered flight (probably))
Lord [Ernest] Rutherford, 1st Baron of Nelson and Cambridge (Nobel Prize,
 Chemistry, 2), (1871-1937)
Mark Todd (equestrian)
Captain Charles Upham (farmer, veteran soldier, VC and bar, 3)

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1

MJ Pickering wrote: (more details may be available from her)

"New Zealand surgeons practically invented the process of reconstructive
surgery.  Well, that's not quite true - there were many instances of
reattaching noses and ears and such in Italy and India and a few other
places.  But the first world war resulted in plenty of cases to work on and
by the time the second world war rolled around, a phenomenon called
Airman's Burn where pilots who disobeyed orders and removed their goggles
and gloves due to the heat in their cockpits suffered extensive burns to
their faces and hands when shot down meant that skin grafting really took
off.

"In the time between the two World Wars there were 4 full time
reconstructive surgeons - three were New Zealanders (working in Britain of
course).  Sir Harold Gillies was the first one and pioneered many of the
techniques.  Rainsford Mowlem was another but the most famous was Sir
Archibald McIndoe who started the Guinea Pig club of his patients which
some of you may have heard aboout.  By the time of the WWII more pilots
were surviving crashes due to better constructed planes and penicillan
ensured a greater survival rate so there were more men for him to work on.
Gillies tended to work of the canon fodder of the front in WWI.  The Guinea
Pig club still meets every year.  MacIndoe was not only at the forefront of
"holistic" medicine in that he treated his patients' minds and their trauma
as well as their bodies - he wouldn't let them go back into service until
he was sure their minds had recovered also, but he was the one to make the
connection between the recovery rate of burns victims who had fallen into
the sea and the concept of saline baths for burns victims.  Prior to that
an oil solution was used on their burns."

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2

After receiving a master's from Canterbury College, Chistchurch, Rutherford
went to Cambridge in 1885 to work under Sir JJ Thomson at Cavendish
Laboratory.

He took up a physics professorship at McGill, Montreal, in 1898, worked
with Soddy and in 1902-3 identified radioactive half-life, moved to
Victoria University of Manchester in 1907 and was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Chemistry in 1908 for his work on radioactivity.  He worked with Geiger
in 1908 and in 1909 used alpha particle bombardment of thin foils to lead
to his 1911 description of atomic structure.

He was knighted in 1914, then succeeded Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory
in 1919.  He was elevated to the peerage in 1931.  His other awards
included an Order of Merit in 1921, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society
in 1922, and he was President of the Royal Society from 1925 until 1930.
In 1931 he was created Baron Rutherford of Nelson.

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3

Howard Edwards wrote:

"Captain Charles Upham (retired), New Zealand's most decorated soldier and
veteran of World War Two, died last Tuesday and was buried with full
military honours after a service in Christchurch cathedral on Friday.
Upham was awarded two Victoria crosses for exceptional bravery during WWII.

"A modest hero.  Upham never saw himself as anything other than a New
Zealander doing his duty.  He refused to accept any land offered to
returning servicemen after the war, and also turned down a knighthood.  He
spent the remainder of his years on his North Canterbury farm and avoided
the spotlight of fame which the media oocasionally tried to shine upon
him."

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Lyndon Watson wrote:

"I took my father, who served with Charlie Upham in the 20th, to the
funeral on Friday, and I found the subject too close to many emotions to
write about for all the world to read.

"Upham's battalion, the 20th, was, in my biased opinion, the most
distinguished of all New Zealand regiments in the Second World War.
Together with the other battalions that comprised the 4th Brigade (the 18th
Auckland, 19th Wellington and 20th South Island battalions), it was made up
of the first and keenest men who volunteered in 1939, and it bore the brunt
of the actions in Crete (where Upham won his first V.C. for attacking and
destroying machine-gun posts in face of their fire), at Belhamed, and at
Ruweisat Ridge which was, like Stalingrad in the same year, one of the
crucial battles of the war (and where Upham won his second V.C. for running
in the open at advancing tanks and attacking them with hand-grenades).  At
each of those battles the 20th was nearly destroyed, and it was rebuilt
each time around the survivors who somehow kept its extraordinary spirit
alive.  Its third Victoria Cross was won by Sergeant Jack Hinton, who is
still going strong at 84.

"When Upham returned from the war, the people of Canterbury raised
10,000 pounds by public donation to buy him a farm.  That was enough to
buy a very good farm, but Upham declined and had the money put into an
educational trust.  He eventually bought a houseless block with a rehab.
loan and turned it into a farm with his own hard work."

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Charles Upham died in November 1994.

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