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… production Cement, used to make concrete, is a mixture of two main materials – lime and marl (a calcareous clay). … in the 1850s was used in the Queen Street sewer and other Auckland construction projects. It was not until … and 1960s, owned concrete mixers. These churn a combination of cement, sand, gravel and water, producing a concrete …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… In the 2000s New Zealanders grew cultivars of Vitis vinifera , the European or wine grape, as did … 1970, a North American grape, Vitis labrusca , and hybrids of American and European grapes dominated New Zealand’s … it was selected and propagated by George Pannill at Albany, Auckland, around 1900. It is a prolific producer of large …
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Part of story: Viticulture
… and state houses Stand-alone houses in suburbs – most of them very similar – were mainly built by small-scale … around the materials rather than the building process. In Auckland in the late 1880s, companies included the New … the large Kauri Timber Company. They produced catalogues of prefabricated products and plans for villas. Rising …
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Part of story: Building and construction industry
… Pēpene Poharama), belonged to Ngāti Kinohaku, a hapū of Ngāti Maniapoto . Both parents had had previous … School and later at Oparure Native School, where she was a founding pupil. She lived among an extended family and … Hotel in Wellington, as a domestic at Wesley College in Auckland, and as a cook in a military camp on Waiheke …
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… Hirst Innes was born on 26 March 1909 at Hamilton, the son of Gertrude Hirst and her husband, Francis Thomas Innes, a … Hamilton High School, then in 1927 started work as an office boy for Dunlop Rubber Company. He soon rose to the … senior director of Innes Industries in 1961 and moved to Auckland. Soon afterwards Innes Industries amalgamated with …
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… County Clare, Ireland, and was baptised in the parish of Kilnasoolagh (Newmarket-on-Fergus) on 16 September 1821. He was the fifth son of nine children of Captain (later Rear Admiral) Robert … Otago and Southland and is known to have journeyed to Auckland in 1885–86. Watercolours by O'Brien were seen in …
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… O'Brien was born in Thames on 11 June 1888, the son of Thomas O'Brien, a local police constable, and his Scottish-born wife, Rose Ann Gray. Details of his early life are sketchy, but it appears he went to … the Empire Theatre in Stuart Street. By 1925 he was in Auckland and had become the owner of Everybody's Picture …
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… stonemasonry began in New Zealand with the construction of the stone store at the Kerikeri mission station from 1832 … who came out from Sydney. From 1840 masons found work in Auckland, with its ample supplies of basalt. Within 10 years they had constructed many …
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Part of story: Building trades
… was born at London, England, on 26 June 1850, the son of Mary Walter and her husband, Benjamin Fuller, a … happened that the man was a singing teacher, and learning of Fuller's interest in singing, out of gratitude he offered … soloist with the Albu Sisters. He discovered an opening in Auckland for promoting and singing in ballad concerts like …
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… in Carthage, Missouri, USA, on 18 March 1875, the daughter of Frances Haxton and her husband, James Armstrong, a timber … in their attitudes towards women, and their conception of religion encompassed the health of the body as well as … born an American citizen. The Kellers subsequently moved to Auckland, where they established a medical practice at their …
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… Powell was born at Wellington on 4 April 1901, the son of Arthur Powell, a driver, and his wife, Minnie Sablofski. After attending primary schools in Parnell and Mount Eden, he went on to Auckland Grammar School in 1916. Following his training at …
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… the land were mostly men. The pioneer bushmen and farmers of the 19th century were the forefathers of iconic 20th-century figures like All Black Colin Meads, … residents as females, but the country’s four main cities – Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin – were home …
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Part of story: Men and women in the city
… hospital care, while those with psychiatric disabilities often ended up in asylums. A few people with disability were … 19th century accidents and injuries were a leading cause of disability. Some industries like forestry and mining were … In 1890 the Jubilee Institute for the Blind was opened in Auckland. It was a residential home built and maintained by …
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Part of story: Disability and disability organisations
… early leaders had to rent houses when Parliament sat at Auckland. In 1865, when the seat of government moved to Wellington, a small cottage in … settled for smaller, cheaper houses. The second heyday of the Tinakori Road house was between 1901 and 1928, when …
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Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… Multisport events combine a number of disciplines, nearly always including running and cycling. … and running). Triple threat In 1896 Donatien Libeau of Banks Peninsula challenged all comers in Australasia to a … an event in its own right. The Les Mills triathlon in Auckland in 1979 may have been New Zealand’s first. Soon …
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Part of story: Triathlon and multisport
… for seals, and it was becoming uneconomic to send out gangs of sealers from Australia, Britain and other countries. … In 2003 a 12-mile marine reserve was established around the Auckland Islands to safeguard the sea lion from squid nets. … led the way in modern whale protection. In 1946 it was a founding member of the International Whaling Commission, …
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Part of story: Marine conservation
… Nixon was born in Whāngārei on 6 July 1883, the daughter of Zillah Johnson and her husband, Adam Nixon, a fireman who … moved to Sydney for a time, before returning to settle in Auckland. There Grace began her lifelong passion for music, … the Hamilton Choral Society, which she also conducted. As a founding member of the musical troupe The Dandy Dozen she …
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… Professional city companies In the 1980s Mercury Opera became established in Auckland, as did other professional opera companies elsewhere in New Zealand. Despite … The survival of opera …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre
… May 1869 at Pukerimu, near Cambridge, New Zealand, the son of Reuben Parr, a farmer, and his wife, Maria Greaves. … Thames, where he won a district scholarship awarded by the Auckland Education Board. This entitled him to three years' … his final year. A chance encounter then changed the course of Parr's life. Very reluctantly Parr had taken the first …
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… The beginning of the extensive business interests of the Myers family today go back to the late 1850s when two … to work in the family business, first in Thames, then in Auckland, where Ehrenfried had transferred the whole of his …
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