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… Years before the establishment of major hand-loom weaving guilds in New Zealand, two … Mulvany, were operating a successful weaving business in Auckland. They helped revitalise the craft of fine fabric weaving in New Zealand. Sybil and Josephine …
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… 1829 at Condé-sur-Noireau, Calvados, France, the eldest son of John Alexander Wilson, a naval officer, and his first wife, Anne Catherine Hawker. In 1832 … School, Parramatta, New South Wales and St John's College, Auckland. He began farming in 1845 at Ōpōtiki with his …
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… was first settled, Māori burnt about 6.7 million hectares of forest. Another 8 million were logged or burnt by … 1820 and 1920. Today about 6.2 million hectares (23% of the country) is covered in native forest. Less than half … to coastal strips between Taranaki and Horowhenua, the Auckland area, and the Aupōuri peninsula at the island’s …
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Part of story: Conifer–broadleaf forests
… the Forest Service in the 1920s. Concerns about the cost of planting led to the development of new techniques at Waiotapu, which lowered costs from £9 … in 1921, and in 1924 forestry schools opened there and at Auckland University College. Forestry was then seen as a …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… Richardson was an educator who helped change the practice of teaching and learning in New Zealand schools in the second half of the twentieth century. 1 He is best known for his work at … for a scholarship to Dilworth, a private boarding school in Auckland for boys from families with limited means. He was …
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… Fijian, Fiji Hindi and English are the main languages of Fiji, and many residents of Fiji understand the language of another ethnic group. But … Indians. Radio Tarana is a Hindi radio station based in Auckland. Community newspapers have flourished, and in 2001, …
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Part of story: Fijians
… The contribution of Pacific people and art to New Zealand creative arts since … home to substantial communities from other island nations of the wider Pacific. These peoples brought with them art … film and social media. The new generation In 2012 Auckland museum curator Fulimalo Pereira described emerging …
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Part of story: Pacific arts in New Zealand
… Victoria, Australia, on 5 January 1875, the fifth child of Ann Scale and her husband, John Jeffrey, a farmer. … Street. Such pioneering social work paved the way for the founding of the New Zealand Methodist Deaconess Order. Known … for her husband's health, they retired to Sumner, then Auckland, where William Williams died in 1936. Alice …
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… The eldest child and only son of Archibald Patrick Delargey and his wife, Kathleen May … His father’s job as a bank manager involved several changes of residence and Reggie, as he became known, received his … up a family of six. Delargey attended Sacred Heart College, Auckland, as a boarder, before commencing study for the …
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… Station In 1928 the DSIR joined with the Department of Agriculture in establishing a Plant Research Station. It … vigorous and persistent strains were selected, and seed of certified purity produced. Along with superphosphate … created: Grasslands in Palmerston North Plant Diseases in Auckland Entomology, attached to the Cawthron Institute in …
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Part of story: Agricultural and horticultural research
… In 1924, nine major regional co-operatives covering much of the country formed the Federation of Co-operatives. By 1980 amalgamations had reduced this group to seven: Allied Farmers’ Co-operative (Auckland and Waikato); Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation …
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Part of story: Stock and station agencies
… Marae complexes The whare whakairo is a central feature of politically inspired 20th-century initiatives to revive … 1960) in central Christchurch Te Puea marae (1965) in South Auckland Hoani Waititi marae (1980) in West Auckland Ngā Hau … industry. John Scott and Wiremu (Bill) Royal were founding practitioners. Royal (Ngāti Raukawa) is thought to …
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Part of story: Māori architecture – whare Māori
… in the 1960s, have provided a stable home base for a number of distinguished pianists who have held teaching positions. … and other orchestras. She taught at the University of Auckland from 1963 until retirement. Maurice Till Maurice … He rose from playing in cinema orchestras to become the founding leader (concertmaster) of the New Zealand National …
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Part of story: Classical musicians
… her time. She was born Kathleen Agnes Niccol at Devonport, Auckland, on 3 April 1895, the eldest child of Henry Malcolm Niccol, a shipping clerk, and his wife, … She first attended St Leo's Convent, Devonport, a Sisters of Mercy school close to the Niccol home. In 1906 the family …
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… Pyatt was born in Gisborne on 4 November 1916, the eldest of seven children of Albert Ernest Pyatt, a warehouseman, and his wife, Violet … in the school’s First XI and rugby for its First XV. At Auckland University College he graduated BA (and was senior …
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… January 1857 at Abingdon, Berkshire, England, the daughter of Louisa Harwood and her husband, the Reverend Samuel Edger , a Baptist minister and graduate of the University of London. Kate was the fourth living … accompany emigrants to the Albertland settlement north of Auckland, the family sailed for New Zealand on the Matilda …
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… as Michael James) was born in Dunedin on 9 June 1881, one of a family of five children of Mary Sullivan and her husband, James … named as coadjutor to the ailing Henry Cleary, bishop of Auckland. He was consecrated on 12 December 1920 in St …
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… Walter James Knox was born in Auckland on 6 March 1919, the son of Doris May Dodds and Walter William Knox, who married in 1921. He grew up in the tough, working-class suburb of Freemans Bay. His father found work as a watersider, …
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… The Taupō eruption The serene waters of Lake Taupō in the central North Island mask a violent … During the main eruption, the volcano sent up a plume of dust and gases 50 kilometres into the stratosphere. Vast … Island). Rangitoto Rangitoto Island, immediately east of Auckland City, is the youngest and largest of the region’s …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… leaves with serrated or wavy edges. They all grow clusters of small cream or greenish-white flowers, which are followed … the fire goddess Mahuika set the forest on fire. In danger of being burnt alive, Māui called to his ancestor Tāwhaki … ( M. macrophyllus ) is restricted to kauri forests from Auckland northwards. It looks similar to māhoe but has brown …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest