And so the Motunui epa stayed in the swamp, hidden for more than a century. Until someone dug them up. Ron Lambert lives in New Plymouth — the biggest city in the Taranaki region – in a house ...

In Disney’s Moana, a 16-year-old princess must defy tradition by venturing beyond her island home of Motunui to save her people.

Taranaki surf festival grows. John Anthony 14:01, Dec 09 2011. ROBERT CHARLES. wildcard Sarah Mason competing at the 2011 Women's surfing ASP Dream Tour at Fitzroy beach. A new-look TSB Bank ...

On Thursday, the Motunui panels will be displayed for the first time at Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth, finally back with the people of Taranaki where they belong.

Surf lifesaver Jaron Mumby has been passed over by his Taranaki club for next month's New Zealand surf league competition in Mt Maunganui. After captaining his province to win the last three ...

Surf Life Saving Taranaki hits the road Monday, 14 September 2009, 3:16 pm Press Release: New Zealand Sponsorship Agency. Media release 14 September 2009.

The panels were eventually repatriated, at great cost to the government, and restored to Taranaki in 2014. Review: Te Motunui Epa – Rachel Buchanan (Bridget Williams Books) Like many such ...

There’s now a very settled wind pattern over the Taranaki and Waikato regions for the next few days and the swell is about to fire back up. Here’s what lies ahead for the rest of the week.

MELBOURNE, Oct. 9-- Methanex New Zealand has restarted one of the two methanol trains at its large Motunui complex near New Plymouth in the country's North Island following a $55 million ...

A new character in Moana 2 is given a closer look in new images for the film. Continuing the story of Motunui and its inhabitants, Moana 2 is the sequel to the 2016 film Moana.It is set for ...

Successive governments made efforts to secure the return of the Panels, in 1978, 1983, 1985, 1995, 2005 and 2007. The New Zealand government sought to have the panels returned in a 1982 case ...