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… was born at Paeroa on 17 November 1912, the eldest child of Janet (Jessie) Craig Forrest and her Irish husband, … a farmer and carpenter. In 1926 Bob Lowry was enrolled at Auckland Grammar School, where he was introduced to … Students' Association Press and printed the four issues of a literary periodical, the Phoenix (1932–33), and Allen …
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… George Douglas Robb was born in Auckland on 29 April 1899, the son of Scottish immigrants Agnes Rough, a former schoolteacher, … Robb, a timber inspector, who was later general manager of the Kauri Timber Company. Douglas attended Mount Eden …
Type: Biography
… Joan Donley was a midwife whose advocacy of home births and natural childbirth helped shape modern … of the United States in Canadian politics. They settled in Auckland and opened the Crescent Fish Mart in Grey Lynn in … , a lobby group for domiciliary midwives. She was a founding member of the New Zealand Domiciliary Midwives …
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… In 1916, in a windowless tin shed on the desolate gumfields of New Zealand's far north, the young Josip Petrov Babich … humble beginning has grown Babich Wines, a leading example of the family-owned companies of Dalmatian origin that have … were already toiling in the northern gumfields. Arriving in Auckland as a 14-year-old, unable to speak English and with …
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… A last-minute verbal addition to the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, sometimes called the ‘fourth article’, guaranteed freedom of religious belief in New Zealand. Since then successive … a famous London Baptist preacher, who was minister of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle from 1881 to 1889 and later a …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… – such as Nelson’s Tāhunanui, Dunedin’s St Clair, and Auckland’s Takapuna beaches – are invaded by thousands of people in search of sun and surf. Recreational fishing has been a public use …
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Part of story: City public spaces
… Founding saints days In the 19th century days honouring the patron saints of Ireland, England and Scotland – St Patrick (17 March), St … the formal establishment of the initial six provinces – Auckland, New Plymouth (now Taranaki), Wellington, Nelson, …
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Part of story: Public holidays
… Albert Fuller Ellis's discovery of extensive phosphate deposits on Nauru and Ocean Island … born in Roma, Queensland, on 28 August 1869, the third son of George Coxon Ellis, a chemist, and his wife, Anne Eliza … wife, Florence Christina Stewart, whom he had married at Auckland on 31 January. She soon returned to Sydney because …
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… In 1840 Britain made New Zealand initially a dependency of New South Wales, and at the end of that year it became a separate colony . As a colony, it … the shores of the Waitematā Harbour, where he had founded Auckland. The site of ‘New Zealand’s first capital’ sank …
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Part of story: Nation and government
… was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 9 January 1861, the son of Captain Ernest Randolph Mackesy, formerly of the 97th Regiment of Foot, and his wife, Fanny Johnston … to New Zealand after leaving his regiment, and had died at Auckland in October 1860. Mackesy was educated in France, …
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… South Island’s eastern plains. A main trunk railway between Auckland and Wellington was discussed from the 1860s, but … line reached Te Awamutu, and there were isolated sections of line between Wellington and Wairarapa, and in Taranaki, … by rugged mountains, dense forests and the Māori stronghold of Te Rohe Pōtae (the King Country). Despite these …
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Part of story: Railways
… Network of schools A network of church-run boarding schools provided the main … started as mission schools, including St Stephen’s School, Auckland (Anglican, founded in 1844), Wesley College, …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… for thousands remain important to the sporting identity of New Zealand cities, there are many other venues for … intervention Some natural rowing venues required a fair bit of engineering. Kerr’s Reach, a popular venue for canoeing … (from 1949), Ohakea in Manawatū (1950) and Ardmore near Auckland (1954). Later special motor-racing circuits were …
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Part of story: Sports venues
… Europeans to enter Waikato were welcomed by Māori because of the resources they offered. Pākehā-Māori From the late 1820s traders and … and Māori-owned ships took farm produce to markets in Auckland, Sydney and California. European explorers European …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… Donald Petrie was born in the parish of Edinkillie, Morayshire, Scotland, on 7 September 1846, … retirement in 1910 was chief inspector of schools to the Auckland Education Board. Petrie had long been interested in … Fellow members G. M. Thomson and A. C. Purdie, both founding members of the Dunedin Field Naturalist Club, …
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… required all Wellington citizens to keep two buckets of water ready so they could help in case of fire. A few early fire brigades were sponsored by … brigade, which attended all fire callouts, was formed in Auckland in 1854. Others followed in Christchurch in 1860, …
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Part of story: Fires and fire services
… libraries and swimming pools. Some added a wider range of civic facilities, including housing, sports fields, … zoos. The larger city councils also owned and ran a variety of business enterprises. Auckland City operated a fish market and fishing fleet, …
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Part of story: Local and regional government
… South Canterbury, Ngata Prosser Pitcaithly was the son of Edith Mabel Hildyard and her husband, George Pitcaithly, rector of Waimate District High School and later a senior inspector … he was educated at Waimate and Remuera primary schools, Auckland Grammar School and Nelson College, and then …
Type: Biography
… England, on 25 December 1835. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Dodd and Edward Allen, a businessman and farmer. Little is known of her early life. The Allens arrived in New Zealand on the Black Eagle in 1861 and settled at Mount Albert in Auckland. Soon afterwards, the devoutly religious Annie …
Type: Biography
… Beginnings The University of Otago – New Zealand’s first university – was founded by … the government passed legislation to create the University of New Zealand in 1870. The university was an overarching … for Onehunga and advocate of an independent university in Auckland, called it ‘that houseless and homeless University …
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Part of story: Tertiary education