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… Arthur Saunders Thomson is said to have been born on 29 December 1816, and was baptised on 2 January 1817 at Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. He was the son of Margaret Saunders and her husband, James Thomson. Arthur … Thomson, Arthur Saunders …
Type: Biography
… John Beck was born on 22 January 1883 at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, the son of Thomas Fazakerly Beck, a railway guard, and his wife, … On 24 September 1913 in Oamaru he married Ethel Agnes Sinclair. Ethel died in 1932, and in Dunedin on 30 January … Beck, John …
Type: Biography
… Tāmairangi was a high-ranking woman of strong character and great … of Ngāti Ira, living at Porirua, and she departed to join him. His name was Whanake; he was also known as Te … Tāmairangi …
Type: Biography
… The spread of private broadcasters, 1970s to 1980s During the … Hauraki Barry Corbett on 3ZB in Christchurch for 16 years John ‘Boggy’ McDowell on Invercargill’s Classic Hits FM from … radio celebrities were: Mike Hosking (NewstalkZB) Peter Sinclair (Radio Avon, ZMFM) Simon Barnett (More FM, …
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Part of story: Radio
… Robert Arthur Lawson (baptised Robert) was born on 1 January 1833 at Grange, in the parish of Abdie, Fife, Scotland. He was the fourth child of James … Lawson, Robert Arthur …
Type: Biography
… Jane Campion An angel at my table (1990), an adaptation of Janet Frame‘s autobiographies directed by Jane Campion, was made as … The 1990s: deregulation, accolades and a maturing industry …
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Part of story: Feature film
… Classes are major social groupings where the members of a group share … of living. In 1959 New Zealand’s leading historian, Keith Sinclair, concluded that while New Zealand was not … Understanding class …
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Part of story: Class
… Arcade video games Arcade video games are coin-operated … on a screen set in an upright cabinet. Users stand in front of the cabinet and control the game with buttons and joysticks. These games’ arrival in New Zealand in the 1970s … Video arcades and gaming: 1970s to 2000s …
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Part of story: Arcade, computer and video games
… Nathanael Chalmers was born at Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, on 22 … spent a year in a Liverpool shipbroker's office and in 1847 joined the Royal Bank of Australia in London as a clerk, … Chalmers, Nathanael …
Type: Biography
… City as playground Children made colonial cities their own. City streets … steel hoops made by local blacksmiths. Youngsters would fish from city wharves, or head into town to watch and … the thrill seeker’s choice. Suburban parks were places not just to play, but also to boast and gossip, or puff an …
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Part of story: City children and youth
… Roger Hall The 1970s and 1980s brought a wry irony to New Zealand popular culture. Much of it was produced by Roger Hall, who made New Zealand’s … television comedy show, In view of the c ircumstances, with Joe Musaphia in the late 1960s. Hall then drew on his …
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Part of story: Humour
… Margaret Louisa Kendall was born on 19 June 1895 in Headingley, Leeds, England, to Alfred Sunderland Kendall, a linen draper, and his wife, … of the First World War, she met her future husband, Alfred Sinclair Macpherson, an engineer's draughtsman. His family …
Type: Biography
… William and John Deans, first and third of four sons of John Deans, a … ton schooner Richmond , under charter from Captain Francis Sinclair and Ebenezer Hay. Also on board were John and Maria … Deans, John …
Type: Biography
… Alexander Hatrick was born at Smythesdale, Victoria, Australia, on 29 August 1857, the second of ten children of Scottish parents Alexander Hatrick, a … of New Zealand's largest commercial concerns and exert a major influence on the district and its hinterland. For …
Type: Biography
… Ahi kā – the fires of occupation Customarily, rights to land and its resources … encampments. Flickering flames According to Douglas Sinclair: ‘If a woman left her fireside to marry outside the … Laws affecting Māori land …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… Brutalism From the 1960s architects like Miles Warren took … towers were architecturally mediocre – exemplified by Sinclair Group’s mirror glass Mid-City buildings – but … a three-storey colonnade and overhanging cornice. the Majestic Centre, Wellington (1991). The landmark tower, …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… Ronald Joseph Smith was born in Wellington on 2 May 1921, the son of carpenter Joseph Copley Smith and his London-born wife, … literature, including works by Palme Dutt and Upton Sinclair, and articles in the New Zealand journal Tomorrow . … Smith, Ronald Joseph …
Type: Biography
… Playmarket Playmarket, an organisation representing and marketing playwrights and their work, was founded in 1973 by Nonnita Rees, Judy Russell and Robert Lord. In 1980 Playmarket ran its …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… Ruth Dallas, one of New Zealand’s most distinguished and … an editorial assistant on the influential arts and literary journal Landfall , and as a successful children’s author … Landfall 8, alongside Louis Johnson , W.H. Oliver , Keith Sinclair , Kendrick Smithyman and P.S. Wilson. Her first …
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… Hilda Phillips was one of the best-known and most persistent critics of the Māori land, resource rights and … International Press Agency. Both Hilda and Morris came from Jewish families, and grew up in an era of Afrikaner …
Type: Biography