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… Henry Matthew Stowell was born at Waimate North, Bay of Islands, according to his own account on 4 February 1859, the son of John Shephard Stowell, a sawyer who had come to New … woman of Ngāpuhi . Attending school first at Parnell in Auckland, Stowell, apparently at the instigation of Governor …
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… Industrial design is the practice of devising the form of products to be made by industry. It integrates … Other schools included: Wellington School of Design (1886) Auckland’s Elam School of Art and Design (1889) Wanganui …
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Part of story: Industrial design
… to the Coromandel Peninsula. It had a 2013 population of 6,693, and is 115 km south-east of Auckland and 104 km north-east of Hamilton. Gold town Thames …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… Hāmiora Wiremu Maioha, of Ngāi Tawake hapū of Ngāpuhi resident in the Bay of Islands, was often known … His main work was for law firms, some as far afield as Auckland, interpreting deeds and accounts for their Māori …
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… Edward Puttick was born in Timaru on 26 June 1890, the son of John Prior Puttick, a London-born railway platelayer, and … School, Oamaru, and in 1906 joined the engineering branch of the Roads Department (later the Public Works Department) … was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 15th (North Auckland) Regiment on 1 May 1911. In 1912 he transferred to …
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… John Alfred Alexander Lee was the son of Alfred Lee and Mary Isabella Taylor . In 1889 they had filled out a form giving notice of their intention to marry but failed to actually do so. … entering – he was sent for 12 months to Mount Eden prison, Auckland. He reputedly heard through the bars of his cell …
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… born in Lyons, France, on 11 October 1809, the eighth child of Claude Viard, a metal founder, and his wife, Pierrette … as a religious name at confirmation. In New Zealand he was often known as Philip Joseph Viard. Philippe attended the … the North Island, using Kororāreka as his base. He visited Auckland many times, consecrating St Patrick's Church on 19 …
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… was born on 2 November 1893 in Wellington, the daughter of Daniel Laurie Christie, a grocer, and his wife, Eva … with Norman Edward Blomfield, a lieutenant commander of a minesweeper in the Royal Navy, who was receiving … for arthritis. They were married on 12 December 1922 in Auckland and went to Rawhiti to live on a farm owned by …
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… chaplains. During the Second World War a tiny number of Anglicans were pacifists. Archbishop Campbell West-Watson … George Armstrong, an Anglican priest, was involved in founding the Peace Squadron in Auckland to oppose nuclear ship visits. This protest …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… In 1856 the first compromise in a series of moves that eventually led to parliamentary control over Māori affairs was made. The official roles of native secretary and chief land purchase … provincial government. All the money was expended in Auckland and outlying districts were neglected, he …
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Part of story: Self-government and independence
… to take just any job. Failing to find work in their areas of expertise, some established small businesses with their own funds. The income from these enterprises often augmented earnings from investments. In 1996 over 50% … manager for Chanel cosmetics in Seoul. Arriving in Auckland in the early 1990s, he opened a shop called The …
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Part of story: Koreans
… Hungarian refugees Most of New Zealand’s Hungarians came as refugees after the 1956 … Zealand reacted rapidly to the Hungarian refugee crisis and offered to accept 1,000 of the 200,000 seeking refuge. The … Settling in When the first 66 Hungarians landed at Auckland’s airport in December 1956, Department of Labour …
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Part of story: Hungarians
… Greater Māori participation The declining rate of Māori home ownership led to Māori demands to be given … agreed to hand over to iwi (tribal) authorities some degree of ownership and control of housing resources. This saw an … Innovation Fund to build 10 houses on its papakāinga near Auckland airport. The development would provide affordable …
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Part of story: Māori housing – te noho whare
… Of the 18,500 Europeans living in the region in 1911 the vast majority were in the gold-mining towns of Waihī, Thames, Karangahake and Coromandel, with smaller … town was the part of the peninsula most accessible to Auckland and Hamilton, and after 1945 it was dotted with …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… Bay, New Zealand, probably on 13 October 1854, the eldest of 10 children of the CMS missionary William Leonard Williams and his wife, … After attending St John's College and, from July 1871, Auckland Grammar School, Williams in 1873 became a junior …
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… Using the land Nineteenth-century Pākehā society was a world of immigrants. To attract people halfway around the globe, … with a benign climate, ‘reserved by Providence for the use of men,’ 1 which could provide rural labourers with land and … and diarist Sarah Mathew in 1840 on seeing the land around Auckland. 5 Others described the landscape as barren, gloomy …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… the 1912 Olympic Games. Newspapers also debated the ethics of rugby players taking oxygen at half time to stimulate … doped to either make them run faster or to ruin the chances of a favourite winning. In 1930 the New Zealand Truth … Adams finally received her gold medal at a ceremony in Auckland a month after the Olympics. …
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Part of story: Sports medicine and drugs
… on 18 January 1857, Henry Francis Wigram was the son of a barrister, William Knox Wigram, and his wife, Mary Ann … one of the first in Christchurch to own a car and became founding president of the Canterbury Automobile Association. … Walsh, who had formed the New Zealand Flying School at Auckland in 1915. With Christchurch business and …
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… or eighth-acre (1,000 or 500 square metres) sections of land. The area behind the house – the backyard – was the centre of outdoor domestic activity, while the front garden was for … Children grew vegetables in their school grounds, and Auckland and Wellington city councils provided public land …
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Part of story: Gardens
… Clare was born at Wanganui on 17 April 1925, the son of Vera Mildred McNamara and her wool-store worker husband, … Vern Clare was a music-maker in public from the age of eight, when he joined the Wanganui garrison band and … cities whetted his appetite for a career in music: in Auckland in 1939, he played with the Lew Jones orchestra at …
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