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… county, in China's Guangdong province. He was the son of Chan Yook Ngan, the principal of the local school, and … by New Zealand authorities, they were married again in Auckland on 28 July 1920. In 1923 Joe Ah Chan, his wife and … tomatoes for the Auckland markets. Joe Ah Chan had been a founding member of the Chinese nationalist party, the …
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… Local government constructed many public buildings. Some of the most impressive of the provincial era (1853–76) were those built for council … town hall in 1880; Wellington followed in 1904, and Auckland in 1911. All included auditoriums that fostered …
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Part of story: Public buildings
… Isabel Hetherington, the first woman to be an inspector of secondary schools in New Zealand, was born at Thames on 2 … to Rebecca Brown and her husband, Samuel Hetherington, both of whom had been born in northern Ireland. Samuel, a draper, … for two years, transferring to Prince Albert College, Auckland, after her mother's death in 1896. She continued to …
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… migration chains linked migrants from the rural villages of Samoa to the suburbs of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Most arrived …
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Part of story: Samoans
… 12 November 1864. Later known as Katrine, she was the fifth of the nine children of Ellen Augustine McElligott and her husband, George Yarra … family fruit farm. After three years the couple moved to Auckland, and in 1900 they went to Paeroa. The rich …
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… Inez Isabel Maud Peacocke was born in Devonport, Auckland, on 31 January 1881. She was the daughter of Emily Frances Mitchell and her husband, Gerald Loftus … was a frequent contributor to the New Zealand Herald , a founding member of the New Zealand League of Penwomen …
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… Ever since the founding of cities in the 1840s, public spaces have been threatened … people rain or shine remains a challenge for designers. Auckland’s waterfront stadium In 2006 the government …
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Part of story: City public spaces
… provinces were played spasmodically from January 1860 when Auckland beat Wellington by four wickets. Otago against … 19th-century contest. Establishing regular competition The founding of the New Zealand Cricket Council gave provincial cricket a …
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Part of story: Cricket
… In an era when the achievements of women in sport received scant regard from New Zealand … Edith Nash on 16 February 1912 in Greymouth, the daughter of English-born parents Edith May Atkins and her husband, … cricket and hockey player, representing Wellington and Auckland at both sports. In 1938 she managed the first New …
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… Norman Hargrave Taylor was born on 9 June 1900 in Auckland, the son of Herbert Samuel Hargrave Taylor, a gum sorter and former … in Central Otago. In 1928 the Geological Survey Branch of the DSIR appointed him an assistant geologist, and he …
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… was born at Sheffield, England, on 6 May 1907, the son of Charles Henry Horry, a baker, and his wife, Lily Walch. … schools in Sheffield. In 1921 the family emigrated to Auckland, staying for 13 months before returning to England. … as a meter reader for the Auckland Gas Company. By the end of the year he had been convicted on more than 20 charges, …
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… McCahon was born in Timaru on 1 August 1919, the second of three children of Ethel Beatrice Ferrier and her husband, John Kernohan … works by McCahon and Woollaston; a selection was shown in Auckland later that month. Owing to Charles Brasch ’s …
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… Explorers The end of sealing left the subantarctic islands to the birds, who were disturbed only by occasional voyages of exploration and scientific observation from the northern hemisphere. Islands of optimism After visiting the Auckland Islands, Benjamin Morrell concluded: ‘I think that …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… Margaret Escott is best remembered as the author of the novel Show down. Born Cicely Margaret Escott on 9 … England, and usually known as Peg, she was the daughter of Emily Allen and her husband, Harry Frederick Escott, a … bought a farm at Tūākau. When her parents settled in the Auckland suburb of Milford, she spent a year as a …
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… leaders and media personalities – including Members of Parliament – were openly gay men. Society was not always so open – until recently many aspects of gay life in New Zealand were hidden, and in the early … men began relationships with other men at home and abroad. Aucklanders met near the Ferry Building, Cantabrians had the …
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Part of story: Gay men’s lives
… markets, or even built market halls, but the English model of regularly held markets in a central place did not take … It was never exclusively a market. It was known as ‘the coffee-palace’, and the post office operated from it during … the 1870s, but this was no longer in use by the mid-1890s. Auckland’s City Market In Auckland, the Crown gave the city …
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Part of story: Markets
… Roose lived his life on the Waikato River. The elder son of English-born Mary Ashley and her German husband, Ceasar … which was owned and farmed by his family. He spent much of his early life milking cows and delivering vegetables, … in 1946, and on 8 April 1947 he married Fanny Hill in Auckland; there were no children of this marriage. In 1947 …
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… in 1989. The government stopped restricting the numbers of taxis and their fares, but brought in new regulations for … with a 24-hour booking service and have a certain number of vehicles display prices on the door and inside, along … from 2,700 to 7,000 in the decade after deregulation. In Auckland they grew by about 15% a year. But customer numbers …
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Part of story: Taxis and cabs
… The spread of Methodism European settlers began arriving in numbers from 1840, many from areas of Britain with a strong Methodist influence such as … in January 1840, New Plymouth in January 1841, and Auckland and Nelson later the same year. Basic chapels were …
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Part of story: Methodist Church
… Art Prize, for ‘a realistic natural representation’ of a New Zealand landscape, was first contested at the Auckland City Gallery in 1956, and thereafter was an annual … included six overseas residencies and had a total value of over $275,000. Walters Prize The $50,000 Walters Prize is …
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Part of story: Awards and prizes