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Word: whangarei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...short run, what raised New Zealand's hopes the most was Holyoake's report that the Kapuni gas carried with it a substantial quantity of light oil which, if it can be fed into the $56 million refinery now under construction at the North Island port of Whangarei, would help reduce the nation's annual bill of more than $50 million for imported oil and gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: Energy for New Zealand | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

Snug Harbor. In Whangarei, N.Z., cold-sober Detective Val Edwards saw two greenish eyes staring up at him from inside a tide-carried gin bottle, was about to head for the nearest bar himself when the bottle broke and an octopus emerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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