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… Kincardineshire, Scotland, on 14 June 1824, the son of Charles Chapman, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Wood. He … to have educated himself in his leisure hours. At the end of his apprenticeship he entered business on his own … back in New Zealand in April 1855. Chapman settled in Auckland and started in general trade, but almost …
Type: Biography
… wood wasp, Sirex juvencus , laid its eggs inside the stems of pine trees. In 1929 researchers at the Cawthron Institute … burglar’) to prey on the wood wasp. This was one of the first attempts at biological control in New Zealand, … in the 1990s and 2000s, including the painted apple moth in Auckland, and the Asian gypsy moth in Hamilton. Well spotted …
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Part of story: Forestry research
… walking), biking or skiing while navigating with the aid of a map, and sometimes a compass, through a set course. … to be visited in a set order. The person who reaches all of the control points in the fastest time is the winner. But … That same year, students at Mt Roskill Grammar School in Auckland began orienteering on a regular basis. The sport …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… Tongan blood on his mother’s side and, not least, a dash of Australian convict blood on his father’s. The family came … when Eric was four and for a period lived with relations in Auckland and the King Country. His father was briefly a … He was familiar with both floods and bushfires, the residue of which often figured in his paintings. Johnson’s talent as …
Type: Biography
… on the Canterbury Plains, on 8 January 1887, the eldest son of Frances Horrell and her husband, Daniel Mulholland, a … and Farmers' Federation. On the other hand, the large Auckland branch of the NZFU guarded its sizeable assets and … credit for Canterbury farmers, and his involvement in founding the Darfield branch of the Women's Division of the …
Type: Biography
… phrases do vary on a regional basis. Linguistic innovations often happen in cities and later spread to smaller places. … Urban subcultures all have their own jargon. A 2003 study of urban and rural school children found that while … to speak faster than their rural counterparts. South Auckland is associated with Māori and Pacific Island ‘homey’ …
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Part of story: City styles
… The sturdy figure of Assid Abraham Corban, with his magnificent walrus … gazes sternly down from a wall in the entrance to the head office of Corbans Wines Limited. For much of the first half … later in Thames. In 1895 he opened a shop in Queen Street, Auckland, advertising himself as an 'Eastern Importer of …
Type: Biography
… 4 January 1845 at Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, the son of Martha Eyles and her husband, Henry Edgecumbe, a grocer … with his father and younger brothers. They arrived at Auckland on 23 January 1864 on the John Duncan . The following year George moved to Ngāruawāhia (officially Newcastle until 1878). He was employed by the …
Type: Biography
… born at Waihou, Hokianga, on 5 November 1889, the second of three children of Charles Minchin, a settler at Rangiahua, and his wife, … Cambridge, Waikato. Alice attended Prince Albert College, Auckland, from 1901 to 1904 and Cambridge District High …
Type: Biography
… Roy McGregor was born in Thames on 8 July 1894, the son of Peter McGregor, a draper, and his wife, Susan Melville Rea. He attended Auckland Grammar School in 1909, then – it is understood – … doubled as a lecturer in the college's short-lived School of Forestry. Around this time he was also contracted as …
Type: Biography
… where little attention was paid to the local effusions of Māori-themed art, poems and stories. It began instead in … New Zealand verse , which considered the question of what conditions might prompt a genuinely New Zealand … distinguished them from their literary counterparts. In Auckland artists Alfred Sharpe and Albin Martin produced …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Criticism and the arts
… in Maldon, Victoria, Australia, on 10 March 1877, the son of Emma March and her husband, James Elliott, a bootmaker. … Zealand as pastor of the large Mount Eden Baptist Church in Auckland. Opposed to the Bible in State Schools League's … for religious education in primary schools, he became a founding member of the National Schools Defence League. …
Type: Biography
… Kapua, Tene Waitere and Eramiha Kapua. The Maori School of Arts and Crafts opened in 1927 at Whakarewarewa. In 1969 … Rotorua alongside the carving school. Literary revolutions Auckland and Christchurch were both centres for major … In Auckland in 1932, while the university was getting rid of a young history lecturer, J. C. Beaglehole, for his …
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Part of story: Regional cultural life
… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … asking Māori to indicate tribal affiliation – but not of multiple tribes – was that of 1901. Ngāti Hāua 1991 … 867 Major regional locations Manawatū–Whanganui: 255 Auckland: 165 Ngāti Hauiti 2001 census: 1,002 2006 census: …
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Part of story: Whanganui tribes
… a mysterious phantom canoe. The high priest Tūhoto Ariki of the Tūhourangi tribe interpreted this as a warning. He … without due regard to ancestral values. In the early hours of 10 June, the domed mountains of Wāhanga, Ruawāhia and … away. Earthquakes were felt throughout the North Island. Auckland residents mistook the noise for distant cannon …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… Whekī and whekī-ponga There are several varieties of whekī and ponga ferns, growing 5–20 metres high. Whekī … peg-like extensions marking where old fronds have fallen off, and is found throughout New Zealand. Whekī-ponga (brown … by its large skirt of old brown fronds, and grows south of Auckland. Both provided building materials – the trunks were …
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Part of story: Te ngahere – forest lore
… Bill Haythornthwaite was a pioneer of commercial art and design, advertising and visual … family emigrated to New Zealand. They settled in Henderson, Auckland, where William established a butcher shop. Bill … design at a secondary and tertiary level. He became a founding member and first president of the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… Until about 300 million years ago, much of the rock that makes up New Zealand did not exist. Around … time, sediment from the Australian and Antarctic sections of Gondwana and its offshore islands began to accumulate in … to East Cape, and below the ocean across to the Chatham and Auckland Islands. Source of the greywackes The Torlesse …
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Part of story: Geology – overview
… the Tainui canoe arrived at Whangaparāoa in the eastern Bay of Plenty, Tōrere, daughter of the captain Hoturoa, came … are based in the Maraetai and Clevedon districts of South Auckland. The iwi of Hauraki have been collectively … Rāhiri. The Ngāpuhi people of Northland also have a founding ancestor called Rāhiri, and there is debate about …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… England, probably some time between 1820 and 1825, the son of Francis Tarrant Fenton and his wife, Frances Ashby. The … attended Sheffield Collegiate School, entered the law office of an uncle in Huddersfield, and was admitted to … in the Barbara Gordon in 1850. When the ship put in to Auckland, however, he and his cousin, James Armitage, …
Type: Biography