File:Crest of the City of New Plymouth, Taranaki.png
Crest_of_the_City_of_New_Plymouth,_Taranaki.png (297 × 325 pixels, file size: 165 KB, MIME type: image/png)
Summary
| Description | This image represents to crest (coat of arms) of the City of New Plymouth (New Zealand).
The design used from 1941 until 1989 thus showed the following: The Maori weapons shown behind the shield are: Top right: A Ko-a digging implement sometimes used as a Weapon of war. Lower right: A Tewhatemha - a weapon of war with quillets of split feathers attached. Top left: A Taiaha - a weapon oi- staff of rank. Orators carry this 'taiaha' while addressing their people. Lower left: A Hoe - a paddle. Top right quarter: A berthed merchant vessel depicting the development of the port and importance of commerce. Bottom right quarter: New Plymouth airport and the monoplane Southern Cross. This marks the importance of commercial aviation and associates the area with the pioneer trans - Tasman flights by Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm. Top left quarter: A Jersey cow, representative of the dairying interests in the Taranaki province. Bottom left quarter: A Heitiki - the Maori ornament. Hei translates as being a neck ornament and tiki is the form of man. |
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| Source ( WP:NFCC#4 )
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https://collection.pukeariki.com/images/large/arc2002/arc2002_111.jpg |
| Use in article ( WP:NFCC#7 )
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New Plymouth |
| Purpose of use in article ( WP:NFCC#8 )
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to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question. |
| Not replaceable with free media because ( WP:NFCC#1 )
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n.a. |
| Minimal use ( WP:NFCC#3 )
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This image is used to provide a visual reference of the city's historic coat of arms that was used widely by the council in identifying itself with members of the public, perhaps most prominently, on the side of trams, trolley buses and diesel/petrol buses around the city. |
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| Other information | This image represents the third version of the council's crest, replacing the second one (which showed the words 'Borough of New Plymouth') in 1949. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of New Plymouth//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crest_of_the_City_of_New_Plymouth,_Taranaki.pngtrue | |
Licensing
 | This logo is an official seal of a governmental entity or one of its government agencies, and may be subject to copyright, trademark, and/or other restrictions on its reproduction, especially in commercial contexts. The copyright is likely held by the government or agency in question. It is believed that the use of images of seals
qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Use of this seal here does not imply endorsement by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor does it imply endorsement of Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation by the organization. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos for more information. |
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| current | 17:11, 4 August 2021 | | 297 × 325 (165 KB) | Pbrks (talk | contribs) | {{Non-free use rationale 2 |Description = This image represents to crest (coat of arms) of the City of New Plymouth (New Zealand). The design used from 1941 until 1989 thus showed the following: The Maori weapons shown behind the shield are: Top right: A Ko-a digging implement sometimes used as a Weapon of war. Lower right: A Tewhatemha - a weapon of war with quillets of split feathers attached. Top left: A Taiaha - a weapon oi- staff of rank. Orators carry this 'taiaha' while addressing thei... |
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