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… Corporate, Watershed and Q Theatre The rise in the 1970s of regional professional theatre companies was soon followed … audiences in a range of venues. Theatre Corporate formed in Auckland in 1974, and survived until 1986. In 1991 Michael … company, established in 1993. Two of Pacific Underground’s founding members, David Fane and Oscar Kightley, took their …
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Part of story: Theatre companies and producers
… County Limerick, Ireland, on 1 October 1843, the eldest son of Catherine Carroll and her husband, John Sandes Cussen, a … secondary school in Tullamore, King's County (now County Offaly), and is said to have spent some time in India working for the East India Company. He arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, on the Louisa on 28 March 1865, …
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… First film festivals Growing from the film programme in the Auckland Festival of the Arts, the Auckland Film Festival began in 1969. Ten … Film Festival to cut costs and bring a greater selection of films to New Zealand. Five films a day The International …
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Part of story: Arts festivals
… Ronald Alexander McIntosh was born in Auckland on 21 January 1904, the only child of William John Alexander McIntosh, a presser, and his wife, … brothers school in Ponsonby at 14 and found work as an office boy. After studying accountancy at night school, he …
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… to vent). Green and golden bell frog Introduced to the Auckland area in the late 1860s, this frog ( Litorea aurea ) … far. It is currently found only in the North Island north of Gisborne. Its call is a drawn-out croak, and it is mainly green with gold or bronze patches. The back of the thighs and groin are bright blue, and the belly is …
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… Nelson The first group of Germans arrived on the St Pauli in 1843, and founded the village of St Paulidorf in the Moutere valley, near Nelson. Bad … German-speaking settlements is at Pūhoi, north of Auckland. It was founded in 1863 by people from Staab in …
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Part of story: Germans
… 1800s and early 1900s, British settlers introduced fish of the Salmonidae family – trout and salmon – to New Zealand. Some of these species now form important recreational fisheries. … varies. For example, rudd is only a ‘sports fish’ in the Auckland–Waikato fish and game region, but a ‘noxious fish’ …
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Part of story: Coarse fish
… Iwitini location Up to 80% of New Zealand’s Māori population lived in the region … areas with ideal microclimates, taro would not grow outside of the region. The importance of horticulture to Māori is … Coast. Much of coastal Bay of Plenty, the Coromandel and Auckland had significant bush clearance, together with large …
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Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
… the Chatham Islands. Birds in Canterbury populations are often called white-flippered penguins. Little penguins are also found in Australia, where they are often called fairy penguins. Research suggesting that there … or hoiho ( Megadyptes antipodes ) are the subantarctic Auckland Islands and Campbell Island, where over 1,000 …
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Part of story: Penguins
… institutions where learning occurs through a Māori method of teaching. Whare wānanga (houses of learning) were traditionally places of education for … Interestingly, all universities apart from Massey and Auckland University of Technology include ‘wānanga’ in their …
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Part of story: Tertiary education
… Marineland Marine mammals were the speciality of Napier’s Marineland. Opened in 1965, its main exhibit of performing common dolphins soon became a must-see … Antarctic Encounter and Underwater World opened in 1985, in Auckland. The aquarium holds around 2,000 fish from some 40 …
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Part of story: Zoos and aquariums
… Hamilton he married Laura Dagmar Otton. Two sons were born of the marriage. In 1915 Luxford joined the New Zealand … He was mentioned in dispatches during the first battle of the Somme and was promoted to major in 1916, but in 1917 … resumed legal practice in Hamilton and later moved to Auckland. In 1928 he was appointed stipendiary magistrate in …
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… May 1830 at Moylough, County Galway, Ireland, the third son of John O'Rorke, an Anglican clergyman and large landowner, … with Taylor, O'Rorke farmed at Papakura, south of Auckland, and then at Onehunga. In 1857 he was appointed … and 1853. The school was opened in 1869 with O'Rorke as a founding governor. He was later chairman from 1880 until his …
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… Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, on 28 February 1809, the son of Thomas and Ann Ball. His father was a bookseller. Thomas … than in England. Accordingly, he arranged for a group of around 80 people to join him in emigrating to New … in Wellington on 13 September. The party travelled on to Auckland, where some members remained to seek employment. …
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… in Edinburgh, Scotland, probably in 1834 or 1835, the son of Margaret Garden and her husband, William Berry, a dyer. Around the age of 12 he was apprenticed in the composing room of the … Berry was engaged by the Daily Southern Cross newspaper in Auckland, New Zealand, as a war correspondent. With his wife …
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… Among Filipinos, traditional values of pakikisama (smooth social interaction), amor propio … the early 1980s, when Mrs Bautista’s Blades restaurant offered Wellingtonians paksiw na lechon (pork in liver … in the Philippines. Manila in Mt Albert In the mid-1990s Auckland’s Bayanihan Club ran a basketball league every …
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… including: land division by inheritance the transfer of land used for crops into sheep and cattle farming (which … potato famine, in which over a million people died. Scale of Irish migration Throughout the 1800s, and particularly … Island. These provinces were abolished in 1852. Irish in Auckland By 1851, in contrast to Wellington and the South …
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Part of story: Irish
… George Turnbull Niccol was born in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, on 17 August 1858, the son of Sarah McLarty and her husband, the leading Auckland … in Devonport, George found that his first job, in an office, had little appeal and he soon joined his father in …
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… was a popular and influential teacher for two generations of Auckland schoolboys, and one of the pioneers of modern bird-watching in New Zealand. He …
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… was born in Oamaru, New Zealand, on 17 April 1883, the son of Irish parents William Smyth, a baker, and his wife, Jane … to Dunedin on 8 January 1913. In March 1913 Commissioner of Police John Cullen rejected police concerns over pay, … and conditions. City-based constables, particularly in Auckland, risked offending against police regulations …
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