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… Beginnings of masters competitions Running was the first sport to … Masters circuit began in 1972. Trailblazing women A group of Canterbury women came together to compete against women … international ‘Golden Oldies’ rugby festival was held in Auckland. Tom Johnson, a former Hawke’s Bay captain and …
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Part of story: Veterans and masters sport
… Professional Māori actors In the 1980s the renaissance of Māori culture brought a spectacular growth of Māori … formation of Māori theatre groups such as Maranga Mai in Auckland and Taki Rua Theatre in Wellington, the number of …
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Part of story: Actors and acting
… The development of a New Zealand university system from the 1870s allowed higher-level teaching of chemistry and mathematics. Despite this, it took almost a … of New Zealand Colleges were founded at Canterbury in 1873, Auckland in 1883 and Wellington (Victoria) in 1899. Each had …
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Part of story: Physics, chemistry and mathematics
… Paeroa Town 22 km south of Thames with a 2013 population of 3,888. Paeroa is at the junction of State Highway 2 and … and Ōhinemuri rivers. State Highway 2 links Paeroa with Auckland and Tauranga, State Highway 26 with Thames and …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… planted on a large scale in Marlborough by Montana Wines of Auckland in 1973. At the time, vineyards were concentrated … thought to be too dry and too cold for grapes. Ivan Yukich of Montana recognised that the Wairau valley had favourable …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… focused design practice in New Zealand in the latter half of the twentieth century. His work continually emphasised … course in landscape architecture at the University of Auckland’s Schools of Architecture and Town Planning for …
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… Arthur Desmond was unknown to the electors of Hawke's Bay when he stood for Parliament in 1884. 'We … know that Mr Desmond is a cattle-drover, and that he is of Radical tendencies', the editor of the Hawke's Bay Herald … own short-lived weekly paper, the Tribune . Published in Auckland from October to December 1890, the Tribune , 'New …
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… Dugard Fairburn was born at his parents' house beside the Auckland Domain on 2 February 1904. His mother, Teresa … his family as a clerk, then as an accountant. The eldest of three brothers, Rex spent his boyhood and adolescence in … his youth and early manhood at Green Bay. The landscapes of Auckland's Tāmaki isthmus, the Waitākere Range, the …
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… Charles Alexander Fleming was born in Auckland on 9 September 1916. He was the eldest of three children of Winifred Hardy and her husband, George Herbert Fleming. …
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… New Zealand the word 'prostitution' referred to the sale of sexual services. By the 21st century many people … sexual pleasure. Pre-colonial New Zealand Prostitution is often referred to as 'the oldest profession', but it is not … became the centre of Wellington’s red-light district, while Auckland’s Upper Queen Street had a similar reputation. …
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Part of story: Sex work
… Ayres, was born on 31 July 1912 in Christchurch, the son of Ellen Matthews and her husband, Henry Ayres, a gardener, … in 1934–35 – indicates that he was acquiring the skills of a climber and guide. By 1936 Ayres was an experienced … Nauru was so grim he signed off when the ship called in at Auckland. After short-term labouring and five months’ …
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… up in quartz reefs, unlike in the South Island where a lot of gold was alluvial – found in rivers and easily recoverable by small groups of miners. Extraction of quartz gold required machinery and … of gold at Coromandel Harbour in 1852 triggered a rush from Auckland, but diggers found little alluvial gold and the …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… to these global movements. The national importance of popular music was recognised by the establishment in 2000 of the government-funded New Zealand Music Industry … in 1987. There are also professional orchestras in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Chamber …
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Part of story: Creative life
… London, England, probably in 1852 or 1853, the daughter of Harriett Francis and Adelbert Sevyney Frantz, a silk … to New Zealand with him and her daughter. They arrived at Auckland on the Ida Zeigler in late October 1866. The family … Francis married Thomas Harris, a market gardener. The first of their seven children was born a year later. Jane shared …
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… The gatherings had a strong impact on the development of plays, playwrights and play-making in the 1980s and … renamed Taki Rua) began life as an actors’ collective. Founding member Colin McColl says, ‘We wanted primarily … world, to playwriting as a literary form. In 1970 the Auckland critic J. C. Reid published an 80-page survey of …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… Tatong, near Benalla in Victoria, Australia, the youngest of eight children of Irish immigrants Richard Savage and his wife, Johanna … in the Manawatū swamp and visiting Waihī, he arrived in Auckland in 1908. There he found board with Alf and …
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… Ancient origins Gymnastics refers to a variety of athletic exercises requiring physical strength, agility, … and competed without clothing. More recently specific forms of gymnastics have evolved, including: men’s artistic … schools and other institutions from the 19th century. The Auckland Gymnastic Association was formed in 1948, and …
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Part of story: Indoor sports
… are considerably smaller than the great albatrosses. Of the world’s nine species, only two do not breed in New … joined by a dark band across their back. The undersides of mollymawks’ bodies are white or very pale, apart from … Zealand region, with 70,000–80,000 breeding pairs on the Auckland Islands. Another 20 pairs breed on Bollons Island …
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Part of story: Albatrosses
… productions to New Zealand as early as the 1860s, but professional theatre developed slowly: it was the 1950s before … theatres and operatic societies throughout the country. Professional theatre Professional theatre took root with the … Fortune in Dunedin, were established in the 1970s. With the Auckland Theatre Company, these are the main professional …
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Part of story: Creative life
… First events Details of the first organised sporting event in European New Zealand are not certain. The earliest recorded game of cricket, which involved the children of English settlers … the Bay of Islands in 1835, with the first race meeting in Auckland in 1840 under the direction of Lieutenant-Governor …
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Part of story: Sport and society