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… tolerated as a colourful, if sometimes disturbing, aspect of street life. Plain and popular In an ordinary day Jim … set up in 1935. His recipe was simple: the filling was made of mince, salt and water. This was thickened during cooking, … A 2006 survey showed numbers actually declined in Auckland and Wellington. In the same year Christchurch …
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Part of story: Street life
… Leaving Lebanon Lying at the crossroads of the Orient and Europe, Lebanon, a mostly Muslim country, has a history of trading and dealing. The mountain village where many of … Lebanese would often gather to enjoy traditional meals. Auckland Lebanese Some Lebanese settled in Auckland as early …
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Part of story: Middle Eastern peoples
… and America during the mid-19th century. These ‘cathedrals of consumption’ were large, multi-storeyed retail … establishments, situated in the central business districts of cities and provincial towns. Stores displayed a wide … Smith’s. In 1867 Mary Jane and Charlotte Milne started the Auckland millinery and drapery shop that later became Milne …
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Part of story: Department stores and shopping malls
… 1825 or 1826, at Exeter, Devonshire, England, the daughter of Thomas Titboald; her mother's name is not known. She … The couple appear to have had no children. Little is known of Anne Ward's early years in New Zealand. The couple … In 1886 Dudley Ward was appointed to the same position in Auckland, a position he also held in Christchurch in 1887 …
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… England, on 8 April 1861, the ninth and youngest child of Henry Wright, a prominent mechanical engineer, and his … 1879 he arrived in New Zealand on the Fernglen. Settling in Auckland, he worked as a clerk and then as a waiter, and on … promotion to second-class constable. With the abolition of the Invercargill police district in 1891, Wright was …
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… provide care and assist families. This enabled a wide range of welfare-, Pacific Islands- and iwi-based groups to work … Society for the Protection of Women and Children began in Auckland in 1893 – and for many years also worked to prevent … taken an active role in child abuse prevention since its founding in 1907. Plunket nurses who visited homes sometimes …
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Part of story: Child abuse
… was born at Belfast, Ireland, on 1 August 1864, the son of Robert Jones, a painter, and his wife, Eliza Rae. Brought … Zealand as an infant, he was educated in public schools in Auckland and Gisborne. He was admitted as a solicitor in … Lowndes; they had four sons and four daughters, two of whom died in infancy. Jones became involved in many …
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… in the USA and is probably derived from the British sport of rounders. Baseball differs from softball by allowing overarm pitching of a smaller, harder … Waiwhetū Māori. In 1888 an exhibition match was played in Auckland between the Chicago White Stockings and All …
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Part of story: Softball and baseball
… County Tipperary, Ireland, on 29 April 1844, the second of eight children of Maria Shortt and her husband, Thomas Crawford. When he … prompted Crawford's emigration. He left Ireland for Auckland on the Statesman on 17 December 1863, arriving on 6 …
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… was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 19 March 1898, the son of George McArthur, a blacksmith, and his wife, Margaret … and on his return to Wellington that year he was elected founding secretary of the Wellington Aero Club. When the Auckland Aero Club raised an impressive £12,093 in a …
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… In 1877 news of the development of telephony – the electrical transmission of sound – … asylum) where the first exchange opened on 1 October 1881. Auckland followed the same month. The other large population …
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Part of story: Telecommunications
… Leslie Cecil Lloyd Averill was born in the vicarage of St Michael and All Angels, Christchurch, on 25 March … in Christchurch. Averill began his medical intermediate at Auckland University College in 1916, where he played in the … Le Quesnoy appointed him Citoyen d’honneur. In 1960 he was founding president of the Canterbury Medical Research …
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… late 20th century. From the 1980s the public celebration of Chinese New Year and Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, the increasing number of tours by dance groups … dancer, teacher, and choreographer. He organised classes at Auckland University, tours and festival performances, often …
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Part of story: Cultural dance
… stayed just over a year, helping establish the study of geology. Alpine pantheon The explorer and scientist … and other geographical features after the great scientists of his age. He gave the name of his friend, Ferdinand von … Zealand for clubs to emerge in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland. The Auckland and Wellington clubs have survived …
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Part of story: Central and South-eastern Europeans
… Familiar birds of gardens and parks The habitat in mature suburbs and town parks often replicates that of the forest edge – the richest area … Bellbirds, common in some districts, vanished from the Auckland region and northward in the 19th century, but …
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Part of story: Birdwatching
… Debates about farm training Because of the significance of agriculture to New Zealand’s economy, high-quality … successful farmers that, in the late 1840s and early 1850s, Auckland relied on them for cereals, vegetables and fruit. …
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Part of story: Agricultural education
… Ōrākei Home of the Ngāti Whātua tribe from the 1840s, when land sales … hectares) around Ōkahu Bay. In 1914 the bay became the site of Auckland’s main sewer outlet, polluting traditional fishing …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand The Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand (PIANZ) represents the interests of poultry … country’s poultry meat. They are Tegel Foods (operating in Auckland, New Plymouth and Christchurch), Inghams …
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Part of story: Poultry industry
… media. Design historian Philip Meggs has said the essence of graphic design ‘is to give order to information, form to … training at art schools such as Canterbury College School of Art (founded in 1882), Wellington’s School of Design (1886) and Auckland’s Elam School of Art (1889). In 1962 the Wellington …
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Part of story: Graphic design
… export market after Australia and China, taking 16% of total exports. Although there were disagreements, trading … diplomacy. In 2012, New Zealand’s Treasury, its ministries of Economic Development, Education and Health, the Public … the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the National Library were …
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Part of story: Britain, Europe and New Zealand