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… Media New Zealand’s mass media are concentrated in Auckland. It is the headquarters for the main networks for … houses are located in the region. It is also the centre of magazine and book publishing in New Zealand Rocking the … radio monopoly by transmitting from a ‘pirate’ boat off Great Barrier Island. As the vessel left port, police …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… A number of independent research bodies were established in the 1920s … Research Society, set up in 1928 the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, founded in 1929, … Institute. Medical Research Foundations In 1955 a group of Auckland doctors and businessmen, guided by Douglas Robb, …
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Part of story: Medical research
… born in England, probably on 6 October 1835, the daughter of William Webber, a surgeon, and his wife, Eliza Preston. The precise place of her birth is unknown; it may have been Great Yarmouth, … Garden Cowie , who had recently been consecrated bishop of Auckland, New Zealand. Arriving in Auckland on the City of …
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… Charles Blomfield, the son of Elizabeth Emily Hickman and her husband, William … on 5 January 1848 in Holborn, London, England, the seventh of nine children. Charles's father died in 1857 leaving … London in October 1862. They arrived on 9 February 1863 in Auckland where they decided to settle. Elizabeth worked as a …
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… success. Migrants were well educated and possessed a range of skills. They prospered ahead of other immigrant groups, … a company that dominated the textile industry in Otago. In Auckland, John Logan Campbell and William Brown were the founding fathers of the city’s business community and George …
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Part of story: Scots
… Joseph McMullen Dargaville, the son of Anderson Dargaville, a physician, and his wife, Eliza … Sydney, where he was employed as a clerk by the Union Bank of Australia at a salary of £100 per annum. From 1860 to … in August. He was promoted to acting manager of the Auckland branch in 1868, but a projected transfer to Nelson …
Type: Biography
… Europeans brought to New Zealand was the practice of city life. Māori had never developed cities, living … such as that encircling Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill in Auckland) in the 18th century, but none approached city … Such was the speculative bubble created by the town’s founding that the first urban land sales reaped an average …
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Part of story: City history and people
… Auckland Islands The Auckland Islands, with a total land area of 625 sq km (about a third the size of Stewart Island) are the largest of New Zealand’s … Auckland and Campbell islands …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… and spotted dove have only small discrete populations. All of these differ in appearance and habits from the native … sea cliffs, inland gorges and bluffs, and urban sites offering sheltered ledges. They eat grains, legumes such as … Great Barrier Island had a regular pigeon-post service to Auckland, and boasted the world’s first airmail stamps. …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… was born in London, England, on 1 August 1843, the son of Charlotte Bromley and her husband, Josiah Martin. His … at Maungaturoto, Josiah Martin settled with his family in Auckland, where he was involved with the Royal Insurance … first model training school in Auckland. Martin was also a founding member of the committee of the Auckland School …
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… Association (NZFA) was founded in 1891, making it one of the country’s oldest national sporting bodies. Local club … match at Lancaster Park in May 1890, drawing a crowd of 5,000. From 1892 these provinces, joined by Auckland and Wellington, competed annually for the Brown …
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Part of story: Football
… Gold, kauri timber and kauri gum dominated Auckland’s exports until the 1900s. Gold was discovered in … history. Milling companies cut a swathe through the forests of Kaipara and Northland, the Waitākere Range, Coromandel … south to Taupaki. In 1885 sawmilling was the largest source of employment in the region, with Auckland supplying 45% of …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… but was sentenced to 18 months’ probation. He then moved to Auckland, where he met Joan Beryl Marchand. They were … in January 1940. He studied German and became a keen member of the battalion intelligence section. In December 1940 he … propaganda radio broadcasts and in January 1944 becoming a founding member of the British Free Corps (BFC), a tiny …
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… Scotland, on 20 June 1824, David Bruce was the son of a carpenter, also named David Bruce, and his wife, … Boston and Montreal, but chose to accept an appointment to Auckland, New Zealand, and was ordained on 4 January 1853 by … Quadrant, and reducing its substantial debt, as well as founding new charges and establishing Presbyterian …
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… One of New Zealand’s most popular and colourful local … Dove-Myer Robinson was the longest-serving mayor of Auckland city, holding office for 18 years between 1959 and … (ARA) was established in 1963 with Robinson as its founding chairman; he had introduced regional government to …
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… The eldest child of Eliza Ball and her husband, Matthew Philson, a … was educated by his father before entering the University of Edinburgh in 1834. After graduating MD and MRCS in 1839, … his commission, Philson entered private practice in Auckland in 1851. His military connections were continued, …
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… Fisher was born in Wellington on 20 May 1912, the eldest of six children of Jewish parents Michael Fisher and his wife, Fanny … horses. The family moved to Wellington, then later to Auckland, where he attended Mount Albert Grammar School in …
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… Colne, Essex, England, on 16 August 1862, the daughter of Quakers Rebecca Allen and her husband, William Matthews, … and friendship. In August 1897 Eliza Jane Pudney became a founding member and first president of the Colyton branch of … returned to New Zealand in 1909 and settled at Herne Bay, Auckland. Eliza Jane joined the Auckland branch of the WCTU …
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… Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 26 April 1832, the eldest child of David Russell, a carpenter, and his wife, Elizabeth Adam. … emigrated to New Zealand on the Jane Gifford , arriving in Auckland on 9 October 1842. The Russells lived in Mechanics … New Zealand branch of the YWCA. Elizabeth Caradus was a founding member, a vice president until 1900 and one of the …
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… Ada Chadwick was born at Paparoa, North Auckland, New Zealand, on 13 September 1867, the sixth child of John Chadwick, a farmer, and his wife, Hannah Mary … up bush-clad land on the Pahi River, under the auspices of the Albertland settlement, but about 1868 moved to the …
Type: Biography