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… at Islington, London, England, on 19 February 1892, the son of Ellen Sellman and her husband, James John Edwards, a … volunteered for military service in the early months of the First World War but was turned down on medical … in the local waterside workers' union. In 1925 he moved to Auckland, where he sold books door-to-door for the Caxton …
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… was born in London, England, in 1814, the only child of Fanny Southwell and her husband, a workman at Broadwood's pianoforte factory, whose name is unknown. Charles had 32 … He joined W. H. Foley's theatrical troupe, and sailed for Auckland, New Zealand, arriving on 29 January 1856. …
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… Wakefield described music as ‘a recreation in the intervals of a Colonist’s labour, and as relief to the solitude of a distant location’. 1 Music was played in homes, … the new towns and military bands played regularly. In Auckland and Wellington, balls and classical music events …
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Part of story: City styles
… London, England, on 27 May 1832, the second daughter of Annette Clarke and her husband, Dugald McKellar, a … 10 years old the family moved to Madeira for the benefit of her father's health. After his death, Annette McKellar … She also painted watercolours of scenes in Waikato and Auckland. By March 1863 she had left Taranaki with her son, …
Type: Biography
… by John Seabrook helped shape the motor car market in the Auckland province during the years when the automobile … on 6 January 1896 at Oakland, California, USA, the eldest of 10 children of Marion May Tye and her husband, Albert … and lecture hall. Committed to conservation, he was a founding member of the Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park Board and, …
Type: Biography
… born in Waterford, Ireland, on 26 September 1792, the third of five sons of Samuel Hobson, a barrister, and his wife, … His request for a command went unheeded until Lord Auckland became first lord commissioner of the Admiralty. In … station. It acted as a transport ship, helped with the founding of Williamstown (Melbourne) and surveyed Port …
Type: Biography
… Christchurch on 31 December 1911, the elder son and second of three children born to Marguerita Blomfield Pickmere and … Edward Mulgan . His father was a journalist on the staff of the Christchurch Press ; his mother had been one of the first women to gain a master's degree at Auckland University College. When John was four, Alan Mulgan …
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… Union, was born at Coromandel on 5 August 1886, the son of Laura Jane Avery and her husband, James Boswell, a … Emma Adelaide Beatrice (Jean) Smith; they were married in Auckland on 16 January 1912 and had one child. Boswell … of the New Zealand Labour Party, and in 1928 he was a founding member of the lively Auckland Fabian Club, later …
Type: Biography
… Wellington Industrial Exhibition demonstrated the range of fashions for customers. The Auckland firm Winks & Hall exhibited a mottled kauri medieval-style bedroom suite; A. J. White of Christchurch showed a mantel and over-mantel ‘made of bog …
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Part of story: Furniture
… New Zealand’s first dedicated strip club, opened in Auckland in 1963. Before this, strippers had performed at a few risqué coffee bars – ‘Santi the sloe-eyed stripper from the Tijuana [coffee bar]’ featured in Truth newspaper in 1962. 1 By 1967 …
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Part of story: Nightclubs
… energy contributed significantly to the shape and direction of the New Zealand dairy industry in the twentieth century. One of six children of Thomas Goodfellow, a farmer, and his … (Pirongia) on 26 May 1880. About 1892 the family moved to Auckland where William was educated at Mount Eden School and …
Type: Biography
… was born in Whanganui on 1 January 1920, the second child of Aida Doris Mildred Clayton and her husband, Alfred James … they lived in town, Ruth and her elder brother spent most of their free time in the country with their father. She … went on a paper-chasing visit to Gisborne and in 1944 to Auckland, the Bay of Islands and Hokianga. There, as well as …
Type: Biography
… Amritsar, Punjab, India, probably in 1885 or 1886, the son of Muslim parents, whose names he recorded in New Zealand as … India when only 14 years old to travel the world in search of knowledge and adventure. Salaman arrived in New Zealand about 1903. By 1914 he was a silk merchant in Auckland. In 1915 he moved to Wellington, and on 23 December …
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… There is a developing consumer resistance to the sameness of malls, and some malls now feature boutique shops. From … such as The Warehouse and large hardware retailers, often offering discounted prices, have also become common. … products. For example Unity Books in Wellington and Auckland offers rarer, less popular titles than the large …
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Part of story: Shops
… New Zealand is significant in the evolution of crested penguins – four of the world's eight species breed there, three exclusively. … Bounty Islands, with a few isolated pairs breeding on the Auckland Islands. A relatively solid medium-sized penguin at …
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Part of story: Penguins
… New Zealand was slow to embrace astrophysics – the branch of astronomy that seeks to understand the nature and properties of stars and associated objects in space. It was not until … MOA project began at Mt John in 1995, mainly supported by Auckland, Canterbury and Victoria universities in New …
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Part of story: Astronomy – overview
… belong to the Myrtle family (Myrtaceae), a large family of flowering plants that includes pōhutukawa, gum trees, … maire shrubs: mānuka, rōhutu, ramarama vines: six species of climbing rātā. Metrosideros species Rātā and pōhutukawa … from the subtropical Kermadec Islands to the subantarctic Auckland islands, 500 kilometres south of the mainland. Of …
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Part of story: Tall broadleaf trees
… Club rugby The bedrock of rugby has always been the clubs – they are where players start and, even in the professional era, where most finish. Clubs existed before … first quasi-interprovincial match occurred when combined Auckland clubs (then including Hamilton) played combined …
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Part of story: Rugby union
… on 26 October 1904 at Melksham, Wiltshire, England, the son of Edward Thomas Abraham Richards Fell, a farmer, and his … learned to play the Highland bagpipes and was a member of the Ellesmere pipe band. Fell joined the New Zealand … North until April 1942, when he became head of the CIB in Auckland. In 1947 he headed the investigation into the death …
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… in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the eldest son of Johannes Krippner, a blacksmith, and his wife, Anna … in the Imperial Austrian Army and rose to the rank of captain before his resignation in 1859. While stationed … to emigrate. Martin and Emily and their children arrived at Auckland on the Lord Burleigh on 22 March 1860. With them …
Type: Biography