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… days; the service car took just one. Rutherford drove one of Mount Cook Motor Company’s new De Dion cars, and company … – tyres cost the company more than wages in the first years of operation. Newman Brothers, which had run horse coaches … The RM Company in the central North Island put touts on the Auckland–Rotorua train to push their services to passengers. …
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Part of story: Coaches and long-distance buses
… Island’s most recent urban centre, Taupō is 84 km south of Rotorua, 360 km north of Wellington and 205 km south of Auckland. In 2013 its population was 21,864. Early days …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… Numbers of Catholics In the 2013 census just over 492,000 people in New Zealand, about one-eighth of the population, identified themselves as Catholic. The … Catholic parishes throughout the country: the Diocese of Auckland had 67, Hamilton 37, Palmerston North 33, …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… The history of Tāmaki (Auckland) shows the area to be a highly contested and rich … Bay of Plenty. Tāmaki was visited by many of the important founding canoes, and several different iwi (tribes) have …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… A new way of life By the 1980s, the proliferation of Māori committees, clubs, and marae complexes had created … Urban Māori authorities Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust (West Auckland), founded in 1984, is one of a number of …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… 21 April 1902 at Boulogne sur Seine, Paris, the only child of Lucie Jeanne Alphonsine Guerin and her husband, Daniel … her father to Rodin’s house at Meudon and play with chips of marble while the men talked. Louise Sauze attended the … Hitchings’s gallery. In 1948 she visited the studio of Auckland painter John Weeks and began to correspond with …
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… 1865 at Castle Church, Staffordshire, England, the son of a pharmacist, Henry Alcock Averill, and his wife, Sarah … tireless energy were soon coveted by the diocese of Auckland, whose last two bishops, M. R. Neligan and O. T. L. … diocese, which ran from the King Country to North Cape. The founding of the Auckland City Mission, extensions to …
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… Ladd was born on 27 October 1908 at Warkworth, north of Auckland, the eldest child of Thomas Joseph Frederick James Ladd, a locomotive …
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… belief that town planning could improve the quality of city life was widely accepted after 1945. This was demonstrated in the construction of new state-housing suburbs in the main cities. The Hutt … confined to areas within or beyond the belt. The 1949 Auckland Development Plan adopted this measure, although a …
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Part of story: City planning
… 1960s Exhibitions demonstrate the important contribution of Pacific arts in New Zealand. The 1962 Primitive Sculpture exhibition at Auckland Museum was described by Paula Beadle, director of the Elam School of Fine Arts, as the most important …
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Part of story: Pacific arts in New Zealand
… Communist and trade unionist Bill Andersen was one of the best-known figures in New Zealand’s radical left in the middle decades of the twentieth century. An influential union leader in the … Gordon Harold Andersen was born on 21 January 1924 in Auckland, the youngest child of Minnie Boneham and Hans …
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… As editor of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly for 32 years, Jean Wishart became a virtual friend to thousands of New Zealand women who warmly responded to her editorials. … later she was the first woman elected to the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. Her career spanned a …
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… Smith, settled in Adelaide, Australia. He 'spent ten months of misery', waiting to buy what he considered to be … to trans-ship for New Zealand. He arrived at the Bay of Islands on 2 February 1840. On the Palmyra he had made … Tama-Te-Rā. On 13 August they shifted to their island. When Auckland was proclaimed capital, as they had expected, they …
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… who worked for 35 years in the Plant Diseases Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). Her … and playing a major role in the establishment of the Auckland Regional Botanical Gardens. She was among the first …
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… 1817 at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England, the son of Second Captain Francis Haultain, Royal Artillery, and his … part in the Gwalior campaign and saw action at the battle of Maharajpur on 29 December 1843. On 7 November 1844 … man without notable career prospects, Haultain emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, on the Oriental Queen , in charge of …
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… Ronald Allison Kells Mason was born in Penrose, Auckland, on 10 January 1905, the son of Francis William Mason and his wife, Jessie Forbes Kells. His father, a perfume maker, died of an accidental overdose of opium in 1913 and he and his …
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… John Te Herekiekie Grace was typical of a group of Māori leaders that emerged in the 1950s. They represented … at Tokaanu and attended St Stephen’s Native Boys’ School, Auckland, and Wanganui Technical College. When he was 15 his …
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… Many islands In 2018 the six largest groups of Pacific peoples in New Zealand were Samoans, Tongans, … and Tokelauans. However, there were also people from most of the other islands that pepper the world’s largest ocean. … lived in the north of the North Island, particularly in Auckland. Although groups were small, many had distinct …
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Part of story: South Pacific peoples
… Voluntary welfare in the depression The economic depression of the late 1920s and early 1930s saw existing voluntary … and their families. Depression and joy At the height of the depression in 1932, some Wellington businessmen … without knowing their benefactor was the Smith Family. In Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, church city …
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Part of story: Voluntary welfare organisations
… at Camberwell, Surrey, England, on 5 April 1862, the son of Edwin Edwards, a ship broker's clerk, and his wife, … local licensing committee, Ōhinemuri representative on the Auckland Harbour Board and the Thames Hospital Board, a … school committee and the Ōhinemuri River Board, and a founding member of the Ōhinemuri Agricultural and …
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