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… metres in diameter. It is found throughout lowland forests of the North and South islands. It favours fertile, … husband Pikiao beside the tree and the two became the founding ancestors of the Ngāti Pikiao tribe, in the Rotorua … distributed in lowland and high-altitude forests from north Auckland to Stewart Island. The tree prefers moist, …
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Part of story: Conifers
… Pātea Township 28 km south-east of Hāwera and 64 km north-west of Whanganui on State Highway 3, with a 2013 population of … (1930), a neo-Georgian-style brick building designed by Auckland architects Gummer and Ford. Where’s Waverley? A …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… A male sport A 1991 survey found that only 7% of New Zealand men rated hunting and shooting as one of their favourite leisure activities. Still, the 37,000 … back to 1945, when a field section was formed within the Auckland Archery Club. Ten years later the New Zealand …
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Part of story: Hunting
… so-called green or biological issues such as the protection of birds and native forests. These overshadowed aspects of the physical environment that were seen as permanent and … the sites. Save a cave Because lava flows and scoria in the Auckland region are sought after for quarrying aggregate, it …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… crops, and compete with tūī and bellbirds for the nectar of flax, rātā and other native plants. Large flocks roosting … weigh 85 grams. Breeding Starling nests are untidy heaps of grass in holes in trees or buildings, or at the base of … Waikato. They progressively expanded northwards, reaching Auckland around 1947, and have become very abundant in …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… as a distinct academic discipline in the 1880s, and as a profession in the 20th century. Before then it was taught … in Britain in 1890. At that time economics was seen as part of a liberal education and a preparation for a life of … in Australia. Horace Belshaw was a professor in both Auckland and Wellington and had an international career with …
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Part of story: Economic thought
… the central North Island southwards to Stewart Island. It often begins life as an epiphyte (perching plant) on the trunks of wheki tree ferns ( Dicksonia squarrosa ). It eventually … a northern relative of kāmahi, is found in forests around Auckland and Northland. It grows up to 15 metres high. …
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Part of story: Tall broadleaf trees
… New Zealand and were responsible for the first appearance of an aeroplane in most parts of the North Island. Early … year the family emigrated to New Zealand and settled in Auckland. There they had two more children, son Vivian … coachbuilders Cousins and Atkin. Leo and Vivian were founding members of the Auckland Power Boat Association and …
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… for scuba diving into a successful career as an explorer of shipwrecks and maritime construction engineer. Eager to … he established two museums, the Boyd Gallery and the Museum of Shipwrecks, and later an aquarium, Kelly Tarlton’s … When Tarlton was 12, the family moved briefly to Auckland. There he attended Pasadena Intermediate School, …
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… Roderick David Finlayson was born in Devonport, Auckland, on 26 April 1904. His father, John Maclennan Finlayson, was an accounts clerk in the Bank of New South Wales in Auckland. Because of gambling debts he … to him in the early 1940s, 'Men like you & Sargeson are founding our native style, if we are to have any.' Although …
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… Sandy Chapple, a butcher, and his wife, Elizabeth Bancroft, both English immigrants. William drowned on 23 April … school run by his two maiden aunts. In 1881, at the age of 16, he was serving as an apprentice plumber. His mother … He had been in contact with the Unitarian church in Auckland, and preached there late in 1910. With the support …
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… process called adjustment – mainly through the application of pressure to the affected area by hand, though instruments … to heal itself. Chiropractic is used to treat a range of ailments in addition to spinal problems, and also assists … and trained at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic in Auckland, or overseas. In the 2006/7 New Zealand Health …
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Part of story: Alternative health therapies
… Softball is a derivative of baseball played on a smaller diamond with a bigger, … place at Wellington’s Winter Show Grounds on 25 March 1939. Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Wanganui and Wairarapa … tournaments. Wellington, Hutt Valley and, more recently, Auckland have been the game’s hotbeds. In softball’s golden …
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Part of story: Softball and baseball
… the 1920s archaeology assumed a greater role in the study of New Zealand’s past. David Teviotdale had worked for years … Anthropologist H. D. Skinner made comparative studies of the artefacts Teviotdale unearthed, leading him to reject … New Zealander Raymond Firth studied economics at Auckland University College in the early 1920s, before going …
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Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… on 12 March 1908, Henry Gordon Taylor was the son of William Taylor, a farmer, and his wife, Isabella … 1928 he studied at Victoria University College. Shifting to Auckland, he attended St John’s College and in 1931 … University College. The following year he passed the Board of Theological Studies grade three examination. He was …
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… Hōhepa Te Umuroa was a member of Ngāti Hau of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi . He may have been born in the … captive without trial, first on the Calliope and then in Auckland. The following month Te Umuroa also fell victim to …
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… Edward Thomas Te Whiu was one of the last four people to be hanged for murder in New … Waipapakauri, Northland, on 27 February 1935, the seventh of twelve children of Thomas (Tāme) Te Whiu, a labourer, and … was then living in the Catholic youth hostel at Herne Bay, Auckland. At Easter he stole money and clothes from the …
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… the 1960s the National government’s rhetoric was critical of excessive taxation, yet it actually changed little. There … was falling behind other developed countries. The majority of the government favoured retention of high progressive … also sought tax relief. The 1967 tax commission In 1966 Auckland accountant Lewis Ross chaired another tax …
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Part of story: Taxes
… Hull, Yorkshire, England, probably in 1847 or 1848, the son of Thomas Williamson Hall, a farmer, and his wife, Sarah … station owned by his uncle, John Hall, later to be premier of New Zealand. Hall's family was prominent in Timaru, and … now be alive.' Hall was released from Mount Eden prison, Auckland, in 1907. Sir John Hall granted him an annuity of …
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… Māori use of stone Although Māori did not use metals, stone was widely … local rocks were used in different areas, but some types of stone were widely traded or taken as spoils of war: … resource for the industrious unemployed, and has enabled Auckland in times past to tide over periods of commercial …
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Part of story: Mining and underground resources