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Giggles and grammar part of the mix
Mary and Martin MacKenzie always wanted to have a large family. “Twenty would have been nice,” says Mary.
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Waikato hits the high notes
When international opera star Dame Malvina Major returned to live in Hamilton, she couldn’t find her way around at first because the city had grown and developed so much.
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Surgeon leaves London lights
Adam El-Gamel is renowned internationally as a cardiac surgeon.
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It’s our cup of tea
When Gigi Crawford was growing up in Singapore, she never dreamed one day she’d be managing a tea plantation in NZ.
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Match made in Hamilton
Back the mid-1990s, three young blokes started in the hospitality business in Hamilton’s south-end, and made an immediate impact in a market hungry for decent coffee, food, wine, and service.
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Student video ‘star’ spreads word
Harshmeen Kaur has been in NZ for two years, but already she has aspirations to become the country’s prime minister.
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Vast vision based on values
To say Chris Joblin has big ambitions for the Waikato region, is like saying the All Blacks are okay at rugby.
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Each garden tells a story
Visitors from 20 different countries may pass through Hamilton Gardens in a single day, along with many locals, and this is part of the charm of the city’s unique, 54ha public garden.
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A place where Hobbits hang out
They enjoy their food, their beer, their friends, and they typically make their home amid fruitful, rolling green farmland where they can grow crops, and throw the occasional humdinger party.
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The world is their classroom
There are more than 70 different nationalities at the University of Waikato.
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Clean, green image matches precious product
William Zhao’s office looks out over the lower reaches of the Bombay Hills. In one direction verdant fields stretch to the bush-covered foothills.
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‘We’ve built our lives here’
Lance remembers driving past Rockspring Farm when he was a kid, admiring its noble stands of kahikatea, and the long tree-lined driveway, and thinking, “I’d love to have that place one day.”
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The Waikato is full of people and businesses doing great things. Their stories help build our understanding of the strength of the Waikato and the benefits of living, studying, visiting or doing business here.