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… waters. Fake it till you make it In 2008 decoy gannets made of concrete were used to entice Australasian gannets to … easily identified seabird. Adult gannets are about the size of a goose, with black-tipped wings, black central tail … Muriwai In the 1980s a colony established itself north of Auckland at Muriwai Beach. Two headlands were fenced off to …
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Part of story: Gannets and boobies
… stores were more prevalent in small country towns or parts of cities not well served by public transport. They stocked … a grocer’s licence, which allowed them to sell any quantity of liquor as long as it was drunk off the premises. General … watches as a major part of their business. Some, such as Auckland’s James Pascoe, survived lean times by doing repair …
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Part of story: Shops
… to Māori, became mainly a settler church. The discovery of gold in the 1860s brought thousands of eager migrants to the new frontier. Intensive programmes … Thomas Croke arrived to lead the dioceses of Dunedin and Auckland respectively. The new men judged their French …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… James Livingston, a founding settler of the Patea district, was born on 7 February 1840, at … and a sister emigrated to New Zealand in 1859, arriving in Auckland by the British Queen on 30 August. By 1864 they had …
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… All in the name Under the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Act 2002, full members (who had to be blind or vision-impaired) would elect eight out of the 11 board directors. It also changed the organisations … (RNZFB) Beginning as the Jubilee Institute for the Blind in Auckland in 1890, the RNZFB provided services to blind, …
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Part of story: Disability and disability organisations
… The legacy of Erebus Although it did not occur on New Zealand territory, the crash of an Air New Zealand DC10 on Mt Erebus, Antarctica, in 1979 … sightseeing flights to Antarctica began in 1977. Leaving Auckland, the aircraft headed for Antarctica, where …
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Part of story: Air crashes
… make-up, props and rehearsals. An important aspect of the event is its drug- and alcohol-free status. Natural … able to participate in J Rock, a non-competitive version of Stage Challenge. National Youth Drama School The National … are a number of youth theatre companies in New Zealand. Auckland’s Massive Theatre Company (founded in 1991) mounts …
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Part of story: Young people and the arts
… Angus was born in Wellington on 22 September 1893, the son of Matthew Angus, a railway clerk, and his wife, Ann Jane Bell, who were both originally from Auckland. He was educated at Greymouth District High School … at Canterbury College. He later became an associate member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London. From …
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… craft had moved from being an alternative practice to part of mainstream culture. Although pottery dominated, weaving, … glass. Glass facilities at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland were established by US-trained glass-blower Mel … studio in Northland in 1975. Second career Many of the founding members of Fingers gallery became jewellers after …
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Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… Iwi regional cultures The cultural life of 19th-century Māori varied for iwi and hapū living in different parts of the country. Cultural practices such as weaving, carving … regions almost simultaneously. Between 1852 and 1863 Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin set up choral …
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Part of story: Regional cultural life
… In 1936 Rosemary Rees described herself, with a mixture of pride and self-deprecation, as 'the "best selling’’ New … theatre producer and playwright. Born in 1875 or 1876 at Auckland, she was the youngest of seven children of Hannah (Annie) Elizabeth Staite and her …
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… One of just four men to have both captained and coached the All … Fred Allen was arguably New Zealand’s best rugby coach of the amateur era. He was certainly the most successful; … soon employing 20 machinists to make dresses for leading Auckland department stores such as Milne & Choyce and Smith …
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… 1912 at Ngāhina pā, near Rūātoki, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. His parents were Winiata Piahana and his wife, Te Ruakawhena Kohu, both of Ngāi Tamarāwaho, a hapū of Ngāti Ranginui . The springs … find paid work during the depression, and did not enrol at Auckland University College until 1935. Despite the …
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… in Kennington, London, England, on 21 July 1803, the son of Henry Chapman, a civil servant in the Barrack Department, … 1822 and acquiring facility in Dutch and German. At the age of 19 he was sent by his employer to Quebec. For the next 10 … concern, and a two-year-old son, Henry, Chapman arrived in Auckland on 23 December 1843 on the Bangalore. Captain …
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… Rāhiri Rāhiri is the founding ancestor of Ngāpuhi. Born at Whiria pā, he was the son of Tauramoko … Waimirirangi and they had 10 children. All tribes north of Auckland can trace their descent from one of these children. …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… introduced in the 1860s and 1870s in Canterbury, Otago, Auckland (Kawau Island), Hawke’s Bay and Wellington. They … disappeared altogether, but magpies are now found over most of the country except the most densely forested regions, … catching alight and falling into dry vegetation in a ball of flames. Magpies were introduced to control pasture pests, …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… crab ( Halicarcinus lacustris ) in the streams and lakes of Auckland and the Waikato. Characteristics Crabs have wide, … one that supports their eggs. True crabs have a pair of claws followed by four pairs of walking legs. Various …
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Part of story: Crabs, rock lobsters and other crustaceans
… kept studying past secondary school, to the disappointment of their parents. Marked by Kiwi life With the majority of Tokelauans living in New Zealand, a visit to the islands … the Hutt Valley community. Tokelauan could be heard on Auckland's Radio 531pi and Wellington’s Access Radio. …
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Part of story: Tokelauans
… in the north In Ngāti Awa’s earliest days a large group of the tribe occupied the northern regions around Kaitāia, … the region also belonged to the tribe. After a long series of battles with Ngāti Whātua and Ngāpuhi, there was a … Taranaki. Tītahi also established pā in Tāmaki-makau-rau (Auckland), which included Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill). The …
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Part of story: Ngāti Awa
… mountainous, especially inland, where probably runs a chain of very high hills’. 1 It would fall to future explorers and … landscape so dynamic? Pre-scientific ideas At the time of Cook’s visit, most Europeans believed in the biblical … 1858 and during 1859 Hochstetter and Haast travelled to Auckland, Waikato, the central North Island and Nelson. …
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Part of story: Geomorphology – a history