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Dannevirke (Danish: "Danish creation" or "Danes' work"), is a rural service town in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of the North Island, New Zealand. It is the major town of the administrative Tararua District, the easternmost of the districts in which the Regional Council has responsibilities. The surrounding area has developed into dairy, beef cattle and sheep farming, which now provides the major income for the town's population of 6,000.
Prior to the arrival of the European settlers in the 1870s, the line of descent for Maori in the area was from the Takitimu / Kurahaupo waka. The tribe of the area is the Ngati Kahungunu / Rangitane, with geographic distinction to Te Rangiwhakaewa in the immediate Dannevirke region. The first known 'Aotea' meeting house was established approximately 15 generations ago (from 2010) followed by the building of a marae at Makirikiri near Dannevirke at about the same time as the first Nordic settlers arrived from Napier and Hawkes Bay.
The town was founded on 15 October 1872 by Danish, Norwegian and Swedish settlers, adherents of Scandinavism, who arrived at the port of Napier and moved inland. The settlers, who arrived under the Public Works Act, built their initial settlement in a clearing of the Seventy Mile Bush.
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If I was yours and you were mine I'd spank your bottom every time
You drink too much and smoke too much or talk too much look who's talking
Sometimes I think how it would be if I loved you and you loved me
What we'd do differently than what we're doing now but I'm just talking
Cause you're not Charlie Brown and I'm not Raggedy Ann
And this ain't a little cigar band I'm wearing on my hand
We're not playing spin the battle in a world of make believe
Like the heros in a storybook that we can't wait to read
But I wonder if there's be any harm for you to hold me in your arms
And steal a kiss or two then I could forget about you
Listen to me talking no I'm not yours and you're not mine
And kissing on you'd be out of line
And the kind of hearts we have are the kind that break in two
Over people like me and you
Cause you're not Charlie Brown...