内容摘要：The 40% increase in rain from the previous year also led to a rise in the number of reportable pollution events to 350 from 331.

The 40% increase in rain from the previous year also led to a rise in the number of reportable pollution events to 350 from 331.

While New Zealand is the legal name of the country and can be changed only by law, Aotearoa, which translates to "land of the long white cloud", has long been used when referring to New Zealand in Māori."It [Aotearoa] appears on our passports and it appears on our currency," Brownlee said on Tuesday. The name is also used in the Māori version of New Zealand's national anthem, which is commonly heard before the English version.

"If other members do not like certain words, they don't have to use them. But it's not a matter of order, and I don't expect to have further points of order raised about it," he added.MPs are allowed to use any of the country's three official languages - English, Māori and New Zealand sign language - when speaking in Parliament.The objection by Peters, who is Māori, arose last month, when Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March used it during a parliamentary session.

"Why is someone who applied to come to this country in 2006 allowed to ask a question of this Parliament that changes this country's name without the referendum and sanction of the New Zealand people?" Peters asked.Menéndez March is originally from Mexico but is a New Zealand citizen, as all MPs must be.

Shane Jones, another government minister who is a member of Peters' New Zealand First party and is also Māori, questioned "the appropriateness of recent immigrants telling Māori what the name of our country should be?"

At the time, Brownlee encouraged lawmakers to use the name Aotearoa New Zealand instead in order to avoid any confusion but said it was not a requirement.That message - and sense of responsibility - hit home for him earlier this year, at the World Championships in Doha.

Speaking with the Indian diving team, he says they were surprised someone with South Asian heritage, like Kyle, was so good at diving."The coach told me about how some of the kids didn't believe it was possible. Because there's not been Indians that have been in the top six in the world before.

"It was the first time I actually thought: Hang on, it’s important to see someone that looks like you doing something."That makes you think that it's possible."