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… The most controversial pioneer of the Pentecostal movement in New Zealand, Arthur Henry … in Penshurst, Kent, England, on 14 September 1873, the son of an inland revenue officer, John Holmes Dallimore, and his … medium. In 1927 Dallimore returned with his family to Auckland and established the Revival Fire Mission. At the …
Type: Biography
… When settling a new country, a hospitality industry is often one of the first created. In 19th-century New Zealand itinerant … Zealand’s early frontier settlements. Restaurant growth In Auckland, the urban infrastructure necessary for growing and …
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Part of story: Restaurants and food outlets
… Bert Potter. Based on a 16-hectare property near Albany, Auckland, the community had up to 300 members at its peak. … who was revolted by a woman’s colostomy was given the task of changing her bag. More controversially, Potter told a … and in 1992 he and six other residents were convicted of charges including indecent assault on minors and rape. …
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Part of story: Communes and communities
… in reaction to immediate issues (such as an incident of serious gang-related violence) rather than as long-term responses addressing the causes of gang formation. Research suggests that an approach using … his honour. An interventionist approach was used in South Auckland in 2006 to combat youth gangs. In Counties Manukau …
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Part of story: Gangs
… Cheshire, England, on 3 February 1864, the fifth of six children of Elizabeth Bishop and her husband, John Briscoe, a master … Amy was sent to board at St Mary's Convent in Ponsonby, Auckland, where she received a good all-round education, …
Type: Biography
… Land agents After organised settlement of New Zealand began in 1840, land dealings became a central … for both Māori and Pākehā, and land agents (the forerunners of real estate agents) played a critical role. From 1840 to … the early 1860s, and there was a boom in property values in Auckland after the end of the Waikato war of 1863–64. …
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Part of story: Real estate
… New literary magazines By the end of the 1960s new generations of writers and poets were beginning to react against the … Among the new magazines were: Freed (1969–72). An Auckland University student venture, it featured …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… Trade with Auckland Hauraki Māori were well placed to supply Auckland’s … (canoes) brought fish, vegetables and fruit from the Firth of Thames and the Waihou River. In the 1840s and 1850s … G. S. Cooper, New Zealand’s first treasurer and collector of customs, wrote of travelling from Tararū to Kaweranga …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… Perrett Mead is best known for his role in the development of the Tongariro National Park and Whanganui River … River and started exploring routes in the mountains of Tongariro National Park. Because the trips were often … found southern beech was better. Although Arthur lived in Auckland and by now Bill was employed as a draughtsman by …
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… Hauraki–Coromandel is a region of photogenic coastline, relics of gold mining, rich plains and rugged hill country – some still forested, much not – around an hour’s drive from Auckland, Hamilton or Tauranga. It has two distinct zones: …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… radio A nationwide radio service started with the vision of William Goodfellow, founder of the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company. He saw radio … national radio coverage, upgrading radio stations in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. This …
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Part of story: Rural media
… opened in Dunedin, where customers picked their own goods off tables, and placed them in a basket provided by the shop. By the end of the 1920s the Farmers’ Trading Company operated an experimental ‘Help-Yourself Groceteria’ in Auckland along similar lines, offering a slightly lower …
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Part of story: Food shops
… One of the great characters of New Zealand sport, Paul Thomas Silva overcame the loss of … Timber Company’s mill on Great Barrier before moving to Auckland, where he found work as a seaman. In December 1914 …
Type: Biography
… clothes they stood up in. The endless rain and bitter winds of the ‘roaring forties’ and ‘furious fifties’ made cold a … stories. A General Grant survivor watched in dismay as five of the six matches the group possessed were squandered: … off our boots.’ 2 During their 20-month sojourn on the Auckland Islands, two of the Grafton ’s crew wrote journals …
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Part of story: Castaways
… Te Aroha Town 56 km north-east of Hamilton, with a 2013 population of 3,906. Established in the late 1870s, Te Aroha flourished … Park. The 360-degree views from the summit take in the Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions. One story says …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… and Prisoners’ Aid Society. The religious instruction of prisoners was an early guiding principle. The society also offered visiting, letter writing, clothing, and fares home … his chaplaincy at Mt Eden Prison with his work for the Auckland Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, was dismissed as …
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Part of story: Prisoner support and advocacy
… Yates ran a large farm and general store in the far north of New Zealand during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Samuel Yates was born in London, … and did not pursue his legal studies. After a brief stay in Auckland, he moved north to Mangonui, where he opened a …
Type: Biography
… with non-Māori and intermarriage increased accordingly. Officials argued that the rate of ‘miscegenation’ (a negative term for marriage between … of society resisted intermarriage. Samuel Goldstein, Auckland’s rabbi from 1880 until the 1930s, refused to marry …
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Part of story: Intermarriage
… In New Zealand there are 10 species and one subspecies of dolphin, the most prevalent being the dusky and the … Other dolphins are occasional visitors. The larger members of the Delphinidae family, such as orcas, are commonly … summer the common dolphin plies the warm waters of the East Auckland Current for food, moving closer to the Bay of …
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Part of story: Dolphins
… disabled people. In the 2010s it advocated on behalf of its 300 organisational and 1,200 individual members, and offered them advice. Most members on the national executive … and reformers in 1978 led to a protest march along Auckland’s Queen Street and strident calls for the …
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Part of story: Disability and disability organisations