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… During the 1920s the citizens of Auckland benefited from a number of munificent bequests given by Marianne Smith. An enigmatic …
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… Joseph Burns was born in Liverpool, England, in 1805 or 1806 of Irish parents. He joined the Royal Navy as a ship's carpenter at about the age of 20, and arrived at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, on … he was then employed by the government. He later moved to Auckland, where his first employment was with a local …
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… Wind-blown from the east New Zealand lies in the path of eastward-flowing currents, which are driven by winds that … the Tasman Sea. The flow splits around the western side of New Zealand and joins up again near the Chatham Rise, … has a temperate climate. North Island currents The East Auckland Current flows south-east along the north-east coast …
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Part of story: Ocean currents and tides
… The game Indoor bowls is a miniature version of lawn bowls. It is played on a green woollen or synthetic … long and 1.8 metres wide. As with lawn bowls the object of the game is to get your own bowls closer to the jack than … bowls was introduced to New Zealand from England by an Aucklander, John Jenkins, in 1908. Its New Zealand origins …
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Part of story: Bowls, pétanque and tenpin
… successfully grown in New Zealand since the earliest days of European settlement, but a concerted attempt to establish … is grown commercially. Most orchards are in Northland and Auckland. In winter the crop is picked by hand or harvested … South islands. Olives in the park John Logan Campbell, a founding father of Auckland, tried to start an olive …
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Part of story: Citrus, berries, exotic fruit and nuts
… Grey, Hocken and Turnbull The work of preserving personal archives during the 19th and early … Alexander Turnbull. Their collections formed the nucleus of the three most significant repositories of non-official … archives: the Sir George Grey Special Collections at the Auckland Libraries (established in 1883), which is …
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Part of story: Archives
… To the south of the mainland lie scattered groups of small islands (Bounty, Snares, Antipodes, Campbell, Auckland and Macquarie). These are often called the …
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Part of story: Ecoregions
… term for Europeans who chose to live among Māori as part of the tribe), such as Barnet Burns and John Rutherford. … were vastly out-penned by the missionaries. The writings of these pious observers routinely supply rose-tinted reports of evangelical success, ‘shocking’ accounts of heathen …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… 's Irish Protestant settlement in Katikati, in the Bay of Plenty. He was the son of Frances Maria Johnston and her husband, Edward Ker Mulgan … members but in 1879 Alan's paternal grandfather moved to Auckland and in 1890 his father obtained a teaching position …
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… Southside and Tangata In 1990 Murray Cammick, editor of the music magazine Rip it U p , formed the Auckland-based label Southside. It specialised in dance … and the Moa Hunters and Upper Hutt Posse. With the aim of promoting and recording music by Māori and Polynesian …
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Part of story: Recording companies and studios
… sustaining and developing Māori language and culture. Tens of thousands of people compete, while many more regularly enjoy kapa haka … and high schools. Te Ahurea Tino Rangatiratanga, the Auckland regional secondary schools’ kapa haka competition, …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka
… vitality. Among the first were enterprising Māori. In 1840s Auckland and Wellington Māori sold fresh fish, meat and … and colourful banter, hawkers contributed to the liveliness of streets. Not everyone appreciated their efforts – one … 1870s introduced annual licence fees to regulate trade. Coffee stalls Coffee stalls opened for trade in the …
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Part of story: Street life
… New Zealand, on 14 February 1870. He was the son of Allen Bell, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Mathews. Allen senior was apparently forced off his land in the depression of the 1880s and the family … colonel and placed in command of the 2nd Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers. From 1906 until 1910 he …
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… Māori Aotearoa, was formed in 1996. It continued the work of Te Waka Toi in taking Māori art to the world with … Toihoukura at Tairāwhiti Polytechnic (later a campus of the Eastern Institute of Technology), Gisborne. … Tokoroa; Ihenga, Rotorua; and Ngākau Māhaki at Unitec, Auckland. A new millennium As the new millennium dawned on 1 …
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Part of story: Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu
… Ireland, probably between 1849 and 1852. He was the son of Elizabeth McLeod and her husband, James Fisher, the … he married Christina Heldt at Wellington. By 1886 he was in Auckland, where he helped to organise the Auckland branch of … an important and influential unionist. He was credited with founding 'more trade union organisations than any man in New …
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… the Hutt valley, Wellington, New Zealand, the seventh child of William Swainson, a naturalist and artist, and the second child of Anne Grasby, his second wife. Her childhood was spent in … farms. In 1881 Edith Halcombe became a member of the Auckland Society of Arts and exhibited with them until 1884. …
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… McIlveney was born in Greymouth on 8 March 1867, the son of Irish parents Ellen Biggim and her husband, Bernard … a telegraphist in 1885, leaving three years later in search of a commercial opportunity in Ballarat, Victoria. Returning … A younger brother, James, joined the police force at Auckland in February 1895. With a better education than most …
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… Auckland artist Pauline Thompson produced a distinctive and challenging body of work over a career spanning five decades. Her paintings … imagery to explore her own family history, the lives of women and indigenous people, her spirituality, and …
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… Pobóg-Jaworowski, visited Taranaki to research the history of the settlers from his homeland. His visit sparked a revival of interest in Polish family history in the region. Plans … around New Zealand. The teaching of the Polish language at Auckland University is supported by the community and the …
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Part of story: Poles
… Christianity The prominence of churches in New Zealand’s cities, towns and countryside attests to the historical importance of the Christian religion in New Zealand. In censuses, about … Anglican, Catholic and Presbyterian. In all regions except Auckland and Otago–Southland, Anglicans are the largest …
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Part of story: Society