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Hastings, city (“district”), eastern North Island, New Zealand. It lies on the Heretaunga Plains, near Hawke Bay. The area’s first European settlers arrived in 1864 to take up land leased from the local Maori. The settlement was linked to the island’s rail system by 1873 and was named for Warren Hastings (first governor-general of British India). It was declared a town in 1884 and a borough two years later. A disastrous earthquake struck the borough in 1931, but Hastings was rebuilt, grew, and was constituted a city in 1956. Serving an agricultural and pastoral region, it is a food-processing centre ...(100 of 143 words)

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