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… born in Ifield, Sussex, England, on 20 July 1900, the son of Walter Joseph Scott, a grocery manager, and his wife, … the family emigrated to New Zealand, settling in Onehunga, Auckland, where Walter again worked as a grocer. Walter and … Movement and its Anti-Eviction Committee, and he was the founding secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union. In …
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… Ormond Edward Burton was born in Auckland on 16 January 1893, the son of Mary Alice Beatrice Winn and her husband, Robert Burton, … later a market gardener. As a child Ormond learnt the value of hard work and a sense of fun. He also developed a love of …
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… was born at Bristol, England, on 6 September 1861, the son of Caroline Hall and her husband, James Lane, a gardener. … Co-operative Settlement Association, with the intention of founding a utopian communist settlement. According to Lane, … By 1908 the NDL had over 6,600 members, mostly in the Auckland area, and the support of most leading politicians, …
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… born in Lyons, France, on 11 December 1801, the third son of Françoise Pompallier and her husband, Pierre Pompallier, … from 1838 to 1850; the second, the 1850s, saw him based in Auckland, with secular clergy and Sisters of Mercy; the … and Irish Catholics and Māori converts, all essential in founding the mission since none of the missionaries knew …
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… Billie Nicholl believed he was 10 when he arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1862. This would put the date of his birth at 1851 or 1852, but it may have been as late … and Nicholl received just one shilling. It was a pattern often to be repeated. Nicholl spent the 1870s working the …
Type: Biography
… Yorkshire, England, on 27 October 1826. He was the son of Mary Bateman and her husband, the Reverend Benjamin Firth, proprietor and headmaster of the Manor House Academy, Hartshead Moor, near Leeds, and … briefly visiting Victoria and New South Wales he moved to Auckland, New Zealand, and with his capital of about £300 …
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… Tai. European settlement began in 1847 when three companies of the Royal New Zealand Fencibles were assigned to a … serve for seven years in exchange for a cottage and an acre of land. Howick was the largest of the Fencible settlements, … 1848. All Saints (Anglican) Church was built in 1847 and is Auckland’s oldest church. Other old buildings are now in …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… George Thomas Murray, the son of Agnes Currie and her husband, George Murray, a farmer, … engineer in 1915. In 1916 he was transferred again, to Auckland as district engineer. The biggest project then in … Institution of Civil Engineers, London, in 1895, and in its founding year (1914) was a member of the New Zealand Society …
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… Frederick George Young was born in the East End of London, England, on 9 June 1888, the son of Emily Judge and her husband, William Young, a police … New Zealand around 1905 and found work as a bellboy in an Auckland hotel. By 1911 he was a porter at a Rotorua …
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… Gardeners from the Pacific When the Polynesian ancestors of Māori migrated from tropical Oceania to temperate New … and well-drained soils on flat and rolling country were of great importance. Māori developed considerable knowledge … productive land – for example, the volcanic soils of South Auckland – became highly prized. Soil chemistry In the 1840s …
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Part of story: Soil investigation
… Cora Mildred Maris Clark was born at Auckland, New Zealand, on 3 March 1885 to Cora Juliett … hockey players. Together they joined teams in one of a handful of clubs around Dunedin playing regular Wednesday and …
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… 1869 at Springston, Canterbury, New Zealand, the daughter of Mary Ann Nankervis and her husband, Titus Close Collier, … School. Before she completed her training, Jane Collier was offered a teaching position at the Jubilee Institute for the … school for the blind in New Zealand, founded in mid 1890 in Auckland. The first principal was John W. Tighe, who had …
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… Hospitals have changed from basic buildings offering limited and risky health care, which few entered by choice, to large complexes offering a wide range of usually effective services and … of establishing hospitals reflects this transformation – Auckland’s first public hospital (1847) cost less than …
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Part of story: Hospitals
… the central city continued to be the most important site of cultural recreation – but only at certain times. Trams … opened. New town halls were built in Wellington (1904) and Auckland (1911), and Dunedin’s finally opened in 1930. The … Glover sought to provide an outlet for this subculture by founding the Caxton Press. In Wellington in the 1940s …
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Part of story: Culture and recreation in the city
… Parker was born in Hāwera, Taranaki, on 25 June 1917, one of three daughters of Kate Maria Ride and her husband, Walter Vincent Parker, a … the training. She persevered and completed the course. In Auckland from 2 March 1944, Nora found her first duties as …
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… Sayers grew up in straitened circumstances. He was the son of Henry Hind Sayers, a carpenter, and his wife, Amelia Ruth … man who, although he became paraplegic, retained his sense of humour. An entrance scholarship took Edward to Christ’s … to New Zealand, where he entered consultant practice in Auckland. He enlisted soon after the outbreak of war, and on …
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… The son of Ada Mary Hopkinson Pearce and her husband, Astley Hector … him at the piano, showing an ability well beyond others of his age. He was first taught the piano by his mother and … Cheesman worked for the Prudential Assurance Company in Auckland, but after two years this was abandoned in favour …
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… with specialist skills and huge resources in terms of equipment, workforce and access to capital. Building … innovator James Fletcher pioneered the New Zealand use of electric winches to get bricks and other materials to the … office block. At the other end of the country it built the Auckland city markets. James and his son Jim (who took over …
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Part of story: Building and construction industry
… Hocken and Alexander Turnbull. Each donated all or parts of their wide-ranging collections to public institutions in … learnt more, by staying at home and taking the tram to the Auckland Public Library’ 1 rather than visiting the great … South Seas Exhibition, among them 173 items relating to the founding of the colony of New Zealand. He also showed 75 …
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Part of story: Collecting
… 13 April 1853 at Bootle, Lancashire, England, the daughter of William Statham, a solicitor, and his wife, Ellen Allen … for secretarial work, which she continued on moving to Auckland about 1905. In Auckland Edith Statham showed organisational talent in the service of voluntary organisations. Her most significant involvement …
Type: Biography