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… London, England, on 1 April 1827, the eldest son of John Patteson, barrister, and his second wife, Frances Duke Coleridge, a niece of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1830 his father … himself for missionary work in New Zealand. He arrived in Auckland with Selwyn on 5 July 1855. Patteson had been …
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… was born in Wellington on 24 September 1919, the son of Ethel Constance Mexted and her husband, Henry Frederick … artist, and studied part time at the art department of Wellington Technical College under F. V. Ellis, Roland … Zealand. He renewed his acquaintance with Theo Schoon in Auckland, but moved to Wellington again after having …
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… Union organisation, 1970s and 1980s A long-term effect of women’s increasing workforce participation was an increase in the number of women in unions, and in unions’ interest in women’s … new union’s concerns varied greatly from place to place: in Auckland it was family planning, in Wellington, childcare …
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Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… The Maxillopoda is a class of crustaceans that includes barnacles, which are immobile, … classmates are placed together by scientists because of their similar body segmentation. Filter-feeding barnacles … found in coastal middens around the Aotea Harbour in south Auckland, along with pipi, cockles and tuatua shells. It …
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Part of story: Crabs, rock lobsters and other crustaceans
… Clay is often found at the site of coal seams. If it is of suitable quality and there are … Lynn had its origins in the Specials Department of the Auckland brickworks, R. O. Clark Ltd, which began making …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… manner. People harvested timber, and also seals and whales, often to near extinction. In the 1860s there were gold rushes, and in the last decades of the 19th century native timber, gold from quartz, other … by further borrowing. In Wellington in the 1850s and Auckland in the 1860s capital was acquired through …
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Part of story: Economic history
… Futsal is a five-a-side version of football normally played indoors. It is played with a … or nets. Futsal is the only five-a-side football that is officially approved by FIFA and New Zealand Football. There … Football Confederation events in New Caledonia, Fiji and Auckland, and at the World University Games in Kazakhstan. …
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Part of story: Football
… Victorine Rogers was the 10th child of a blacksmith John Rogers and his wife, Mary Faul, New … a whare at Waiwhakaiho, Glenavon, near the settlement of New Plymouth. It was here that Victorine Rogers was born, … to death. Victorine was a key witness at Cassidy's trial in Auckland on 1 March 1855 and was described as 'an …
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… because they fear for their lives. They are the casualties of crises such as brutal regimes, civil war, anarchy and famine. Often, they are at risk because of their ethnicity, … and jobs. ‘The fear is in our bones’ After a year in Auckland, Teuta Fusha, a Kosovar Albanian who fled Serbian …
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Part of story: Refugees
… Numbers In terms of species, fungi far outnumber plants. Worldwide there are an estimated 1.5 million species of fungi (compared to 250,000–420,000 flowering plants). By … The New Zealand Fungal Herbarium at Landcare Research, Auckland, is the centre for scientific research on New …
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Part of story: Fungi
… Te Aute and Hukarere In 1857 the people of the Te Aute settlement granted 1,745 acres (700 hectares) … school Hukarere Maori Girls’ College have produced some of the best-known Māori leaders. The Te Aute College … of Ngāti Kahungunu members living in urban areas such as Auckland and Wellington. Altogether, there are 86 Kahungunu …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… and information services. In 1995 American imports were 20% of the country’s total imports by value – a proportion that … US dropped to under 10% by the mid-1990s, largely because of increased demand from Australia and Japan. In the 2000s … American interest southwards. American sailors competed in Auckland in 2000 and 2004, and coverage of the regattas …
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Part of story: United States and New Zealand
… known as boardsailing) became possible with the advent of new materials in the 1940s. The sport was born in Pacific Palisades, California, where a group of sailors, surfers and skiers sought to devise a craft … devotees. They are to be found in harbours (especially Auckland and Wellington), on lakes such as Wakatipu and …
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Part of story: Sailing and windsurfing
… Marti Friedlander was one of New Zealand’s most outstanding twentieth-century … Her work was massively influential both in the development of photography as an artistic practice in New Zealand and in … moved to New Zealand, via Israel, arriving in early 1958. Auckland was Friedlander’s home for the rest of her life, …
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… Rex Mason was born on 3 June 1885 in Wellington, the son of Harry Brooks Mason, a compositor from Cape Town, and his … Social and Political League in 1894. Rex Mason was dux of Wellington College in 1902 and graduated MA with honours … he set up in practice as a lawyer. On 27 December 1912, at Auckland, he married Dulcia Martina Rockell; they were to …
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… Atkinson was born in Wellington on 3 March 1909, the son of Mary Herrick Hursthouse and her husband, Samuel Arnold … his immediate family he was known as Dunstan, but because of his striking red hair when young he earned the nickname … of the DSIR, moved to a new laboratory at Mount Albert, Auckland. However, planned expansion of its work was halted …
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… attempts to ‘boost’ the reputation and perceptions of a place. The term, which originated in the US in the 19th … used any more, but the practices are still common. Boosters often dealt in myth-making, idealism and overstatement, but … towns and cities was an integral part of boosterism. Auckland and Wellington were early rivals for capital-city …
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Part of story: City boosters and promoters
… New Zealand, on 25 November 1862, the eldest daughter of Louisa Augusta Kunkel, whose father was a Prussian army officer, and her husband, Thomas Cabot, a farmer and … shifts to Greymouth about 1910, Wellington in 1912 and Auckland in 1915, and his disinclination for public life may …
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… Unfulfilled promise of trade Land purchases were often justified to Māori on the basis that tribes would … in 1865, Christchurch in 1868, Wellington in 1870 and Auckland in 1871. Dunedin Māori In 1844 Ngāi Tahu chiefs …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… The emergence of Māori and Pacific Island choreographers and companies underlies some of the most innovative developments in modern dance. Māori … a dance company for unemployed young Māori men and women in Auckland, Te Kanikani O Te Rangatahi (dance of the youth). …
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Part of story: Contemporary dance