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… Gifford Jackson was an important pioneer in the field of industrial design in New Zealand. After training as a … in Devonport just as New Zealand’s industrial design profession was finding its feet. As a benchmark-setting … as Gifford) was born at his parents’ home in Devonport, Auckland, on 3 April 1922. He was the first of three sons …
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… 1819 at London, England, the oldest surviving child of Thomas Kinder, a wealthy merchant, and his second wife, … the Church of England Grammar School to be established at Auckland, New Zealand. He was accepted, and in July 1855 … of the Auckland Society of Artists, of which Kinder was a founding member. Major collections of his work are now held …
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… born at Ōmarumutu, near Ōpōtiki, on 11 July 1912, the son of William Turakiuta Cooper of Ngāti Kahungunu , a licensed … accepted as part of the first intake of Māori students into Auckland Training College. His colleagues in this pioneering … Māori Council (under the Māori Welfare Act 1962) he was its founding chairman and delegate to the New Zealand Māori …
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… Aggregate, which is crushed rock from a mixture of sources, is an essential material in New Zealand’s built … The term aggregate includes naturally occurring collections of rock particles like beach pebbles (often used in … the country. As proximity to the market is vital, Auckland has large quarries in suburban areas. Quarry …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… cervical caps and diaphragms From 1900 new barrier methods of birth control – condoms and cervical caps – were used, but only by a small proportion of couples. The birth rate kept dropping – to 2.1 births per … Making Daddy One woman remembered that her grandfather, Auckland grocer Fred Hutchinson, used to import his own …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… enabled the gum diggers to purchase small scrubby plots – often damaged by holes from gum digging – with clay piled … settler Mrs Vica Srhoj recalled a visit by the minister of lands: ‘He said the land was worthless and advised us and … and fish shops became popular family businesses in Auckland and Wellington. Many Dalmatians still worked in …
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Part of story: Dalmatians
… in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, on 22 September 1832, the son of Joseph Haley and his wife, Jane Knowles. He was an … he was listed as John Cyrus Haley and his father as manager of a coal company. He arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, with his wife and three young …
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… Dundonald, County Down, Ireland, on 28 August 1842, the son of Francis McMinn, a doctor, and his wife, Mary Day. Little is known of his early years, but in 1863 he arrived in Auckland to cover the New Zealand wars for a London …
Type: Biography
… in Romania. Before the Second World War a high proportion of the small number of Romanian-born were probably ethnically Greek. Among the … turmoil. By 2018 there were 2,340 Romanian-born residents. Auckland was the major centre for the Romanian community. …
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Part of story: Central and South-eastern Europeans
… Activist groups Māori commentators often say that nothing has been achieved without protest and … Te Rōpū Matakite o Aotearoa Early in 1975, a matriarch and founding president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, Dame … Ōrākei Māori Action Group led a 506-day occupation of prize Auckland real estate at Takaparawhā (Bastion Point) …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… New Zealand’s fourth-largest city, located 129 km south-east of Auckland, with a 2013 city population of 141,612. Hamilton was established in 1864 by the 4th …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… Many Māori and Pacific people and other members of ethnic minorities live in inferior housing compared to … Home ownership There was a general decline in the number of New Zealand residents owning or partly owning (as … signs of residential segregation between ethnic groups. In Auckland, for example, two-thirds of the Manukau ward’s …
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Part of story: Ethnic inequalities
… that intermarriage with other peoples would create a race of ‘hybrids’ who would inherit the worst features of each ‘race’. Intermarriage between white women and … Miraka Szaszy, was the first Māori woman to graduate from Auckland University College. The descendants of Dalmatians …
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Part of story: Intermarriage
… the Wellington gaol in 1844' a similar facility opened at Auckland gaol in the same year. Inmates received no … removed, but the only alternative was the overcrowded wards of public hospitals. A disappointing country? In 1871, at an … lunatic asylums, Legislative Councillor Dr M. S. Grace offered this comment on the country’s rate of mental …
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Part of story: Mental health services
… throughout the country. This was partly driven by a sense of pride in New Zealand’s achievement. It was widely believed that the country ‘came of age’ in the war, and this was cause for celebration. Yet … friends.’ 1 Function There were few functional memorials. Auckland built a war-memorial museum, Hastings a hospital. …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… was born in Hereford, England, on 3 August 1879, the son of Mary Ann Gurney and her husband, Thomas Pickerill, a commercial clerk, later the managing director of a tile factory. He attended Hereford County College, and … was given for a new building a powerful lobby group from Auckland sought to have a dental school established there. …
Type: Biography
… inactivity. Several studies have shown that more than 65% of Pacific people are obese. Obesity is one of the major causes of poor health, especially diabetes, for … in hospital services. The Pacific touch Teuila Percival, an Auckland paediatrician of Samoan descent, commented that …
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Part of story: Pacific Island health
… Waikato Heads Headlands at the mouth of the Waikato River, 40 km south-east of the Manukau Harbour entrance. Huge sand dunes cap both … Mercer became a transport hub. In 1875 the railway from Auckland reached Mercer, shortening the two-day journey to …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… Hungarian-born George Haydn co-founded the successful Auckland construction company Haydn and Rollett. Outgoing … in the Auckland arts and literary scene in the second half of the twentieth century. Early life and immigration Gyorgy … insufficient, however, and they went through a succession of short-term jobs, sometimes being fired by lunchtime. …
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… Moore was born in Warkworth on 14 July 1906, the fifth of eight children of Janet Morison and her husband, Harry Blomfield Moore. … 1920 to the recently founded Epsom Girls’ Grammar School in Auckland, where botany was taught from form four. Excelling …
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