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… was founded in 1959 by John Hopkins, principal conductor of the National Orchestra (later the New Zealand Symphony … are held each year and successful musicians are members of the orchestra for 12 months. They rehearse together … Schools Symphony Orchestra based in Christchurch. The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s Sistema Aotearoa project …
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Part of story: Young people and the arts
… success. MacDiarmid studied the bright orange crystals of sulfur nitride for his MSc thesis at Victoria University of Wellington in the 1950s. Years later, at the chemistry … a distinguished professor of chemistry at the University of Auckland who won the 2012 Rutherford Medal, New Zealand’s …
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Part of story: Physics, chemistry and mathematics
… Endemic species Many of New Zealand’s animals and plants are not found elsewhere … – these are known as endemic species. For example, over 80% of the 2,500 species of native conifers, flowering plants … – from the subtropical Kermadecs to the nearly subantarctic Auckland and Campbell island groups. In environments which …
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Part of story: Native plants and animals – overview
… Louth, Lincolnshire, England, on 19 October 1886, the son of Elizabeth Easter Allen and her husband, John James … Zealand’s first Schools of Radiant Living was founded in Auckland in 1938, with Gertrude Hillary as secretary. Her … MPs and other dignitaries, were held to celebrate the founding of each school. Nutrition took a prominent place in …
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… Willis Thomas Goodwin (Bill) Airey was born in Auckland on 7 January 1897. His father, Walter Henry Airey, an inspector of schools, had died three months earlier, leaving a widow, … bore their names: Willis, Thomas and Goodwin. For the rest of her life Margaret Airey wore black and her children felt …
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… was an enigmatic and controversial figure. Almost the whole of his recorded life was dominated by competition between Māori living on the Auckland isthmus and European authorities for ownership of land at Ōrākei. He was born at Ōkahu Bay, Ōrākei, …
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… Cabbage trees are a type of tree lily, like agave, yucca, and dracaena. Their tufted … in swamps and along lake margins and river terraces. They often colonise openings in forests that have been created by … subalpine scrub. This cabbage tree is found from southern Auckland to Fiordland, though in the South Island it grows …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest
… rotting logs and animal carcasses. They include members of the genus Saphobius or dung beetles, which eat … Fungus feeders Numerous species are fungus feeders, many of which are found in the forest – like the tiny, … New Zealand’s most intensive beetle surveys was made in the Auckland suburb of Lynfield. Fifteen years of collecting …
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Part of story: Beetles
… nectarines, peaches and plums. They are all members of the prunus genus of trees and shrubs. None are native to New Zealand. Peaches … nectarine, a natural hybrid, was discovered growing in an Auckland garden in the 1890s and became the leading …
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Part of story: Stone fruit and the summerfruit industry
… Triad emphasised music, literature and art. The acerbic wit of its colourful editor, Charles Baeyertz, saw the magazine gain a strong following. The issuing of free art and music supplements as well as readers’ … The monthly New Zealand Illustrated Magazine was founded in Auckland in 1899 with a desire to foster New Zealand …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… were set up to promote farming pursuits. Origins The idea of these societies and shows came from Britain. In 1784 the Highland Society of Edinburgh was established to promote the Scottish … A year later the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Auckland was set up. It printed a pamphlet on farming …
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Part of story: Shows and field days
… relating to political finance and its regulation have been of increasing concern in New Zealand. Arguments are made about the unfairness of electoral participants having unequal amounts of money to … spender William Brown, whose fight to be superintendent of Auckland Province in 1853 failed, is said to have spent …
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Part of story: Elections and campaigns
… James Healy was born at Devonport, Auckland, on 10 September 1910, the son of Sarah Roulston Wallace and her husband, William Healy, a … His first job was as a draughtsman in the Department of Lands and Survey, and in his spare time he studied …
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… people had reached New Zealand by the 1850s, when several of them made land claims. Many of these early immigrants spoke French and Italian, but … in New Zealand lived in that province. Later, the Auckland region became the most important centre of …
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Part of story: Swiss
… new followers through a personal, ‘born again’, experience of religion. The first attempt to form an evangelical … Zealand was the Evangelical Alliance established by a group of Protestant ministers in Wellington in 1848. … Smith. Bible Training Institute Joseph Kemp, pastor of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle from 1919, founded the Bible …
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Part of story: Interdenominational Christianity
… Buckland Firth and Guy Mortimer (Tony) Firth, the founders of Firth Industries, were born in Auckland on 27 September 1905 and 15 April 1907 respectively. They were the younger sons of Edward (Ned) Thompson Clifton Firth, a manufacturer and …
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… Stephen, Westmorland, England, on 25 April 1896, the son of Elizabeth Carne and her husband, John Murray, a postman. The youngest of six children, Bill attended the local board school and … sawmill at Ruru, near Lake Brunner. After a brief spell in Auckland he became a farmhand at Elstow, near Te Aroha, for …
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… born in New Plymouth on 28 October 1884, the second child of William Cook, a bank officer, and his wife, Jessie Turnbull Miller. Both parents … of horticultural volumes. On 20 March 1930 Cook married, in Auckland, Claire Leyland Bourne, who left her job as …
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… was born on 11 February 1896 at Kaiti, Gisborne, the son of Ida Mary Lysnar and her husband, James Copland Field, a … schooling at Wellington College in 1911. By 1917 he was in Auckland, where he took flying lessons at the Walsh … saw him as a leader, and in September 1949 he became the founding president of the New Zealand Aerial Work Operators’ …
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… George Buckingham, one of the pioneers of theatre in Auckland, came to New Zealand from Australia …
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