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… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … 12,201 2013 census: 12,924 Major regional locations Bay of Plenty: 5,304 Auckland: 2,616 Ngāti Pūkenga 1991 census: 576 2001 census: …
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Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … asking Māori to indicate tribal affiliation – but not of multiple tribes – was that of 1901. Ngāti Whātua 1901 … census: 14,721 2013 census: 14,784 Major regional locations Auckland: 7,353 Northland: 3,120 Te Roroa 2001 census: 966 …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… 1887 at Crosthwaite, Westmorland, England, the eldest child of Thomas Grainger Barker, a farm labourer, and his wife, … in Wellington in 1909, this fiery young man travelled to Auckland to join his sister and her husband, who had … strike began, however, he was in his element, quickly founding Industrial Unionist , New Zealand's first and only …
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… shags belong to the Leucocarbo genus. They are part of a group of cold-water shags found on islands in the Southern Ocean, … to the Kiwi phrase, ‘as miserable as a shag on a rock’. Auckland Island shags The Auckland Island shag ( Leucocarbo …
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Part of story: Shags
… are locally known as ‘flip-flaps’, from their laboured take-off from the water. There are about 30,000 breeding pairs, and they nest in colonies of up to 700 pairs on rocky islets or coastal cliffs. They … They are found in two areas of the North Island (near Auckland and in Wellington Harbour), and around much of the …
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Part of story: Shags
… Jessie Finnie was one of a large number of prostitutes who worked in Auckland, New Zealand, in the 1850s and 1860s. She was born …
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… on 22 March 1879 in Greta, New South Wales, the 10th child of Daniel Canty, a miner, and his wife, Bridget Wade. In … Australian women recruited to join the Sisters of Mercy in Auckland. While still a novice, she began teaching at Thames … patients were encouraged to use it along with the nuns. The founding of a hospice for the terminally ill was dear to …
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… The most visible contribution of Pacific artists to the New Zealand arts scene has been in … band Ardijah made waves in the local industry. Herbs, the founding fathers of Pacific reggae, emerged in the early … She was a dancer and lead choreographer for the Auckland-based all-female dance group ReQuest, who won gold …
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Part of story: Pacific arts in New Zealand
… American entry into the Second World War (1939–45) turned Auckland into a training and supply base for the Pacific theatre of the war, boosting market gardening in Pukekohe and … the region’s dominance. The huge paper and pulp mills north of Taupō sent products through Auckland’s port. New Zealand …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… By the 2010s New Zealand had a substantial community of media artists, working in a broad range of formats. Their work was displayed in a variety of … showing media art included Testrip and Artspace in Auckland, Galerie Dressford Vogel in Dunedin and the Physics …
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Part of story: Media art
… moved further left. In 1903 he followed the disciples of Daniel De Leon into the Socialist Labour Party, a small … but influential group which stressed the revolutionary role of industrial unionism. Allen became one of the party's … a poor speaker. He found work as an unskilled labourer in Auckland. The war forced a complex realignment of the …
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… and baptised there on 10 January 1826. He was the son of Richard Sullivan, a merchant, and his first wife, … 26 January 1853 in London, England, and they emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1857. O'Sullivan was initially employed as the founding teacher of St Peter's, a Catholic school in central …
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… February) 1910, at Alcester, Warwickshire, England, the son of Thomas Jackson Chapman, an Anglican clergyman, and his … 1945 Chapman was appointed the first professor of botany at Auckland University College. He arrived in Auckland in 1946, … 1960s he collaborated with the zoologist John Morton in founding the university’s Leigh marine laboratory, and for …
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… was born in Sydney, Australia, on 9 March 1902, the son of Ernest Matthew Homer, a grocer’s assistant, and his wife, … and boys’ high schools, he began his sea career at the age of 14 in trans-Tasman sailing ships. His first ships were … Marine Department control. The following year he settled in Auckland, the port with which he was to be identified for …
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… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … 2013 census: 35,877 Major regional locations Waikato: 8,043 Auckland: 5,991 Bay of Plenty: 5,475 Manawatū–Whanganui: 4,965 …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… Employment Cambodians found employment with the help of sponsors, relatives and friends. But unable to speak … work in manual and processing jobs. Those who came from a professional background found it extremely difficult to find … Rouge far behind. In 1999 he opened his supermarket in Auckland’s Mt Albert. A huge banner on the wall depicts a …
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Part of story: Cambodians
… Timaru in the Canterbury Provincial Council; as a supporter of local self-government for his area he helped to promote … Wilkinson bought the newspaper and Horton moved to Auckland. In Auckland Horton purchased the Daily Southern … innovation. In 1878 Horton participated in the founding of the New Zealand Press Association, whose purpose …
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… between 1840 and 1860 has been described as the golden age of Māori enterprise. Māori were the key producers and … produce to markets. Markets In the early 1840s the founding of Auckland, Wellington, Whanganui, New Plymouth and Nelson …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… on 15 June 1896 at Dudley, Worcestershire, England, the son of Edmund Scambler Fisher, a jeweller, and his wife, Thirza … Archie studied fine arts at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art in 1918 and later at the Royal College of Art, … September 1924 Fisher took up an appointment as director of Auckland’s Elam School of Art. Sporting flannels in place of …
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… England, probably between 1832 and 1835. He was the son of William George Garrard but his mother's name is unknown. … and in March 1864, at Sydney, enlisted in the 4th Regiment of the Waikato Militia. He arrived at Auckland, New Zealand, on the Bella Marina on 24 March 1864. …
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