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… became a full participant in the war. The immediate impact of the Japanese attacks was sobering. Japanese troops landed … the Solomon Islands from their pre-war holdings just north of the equator. The Japanese also invaded Burma and attacked … troops landed in New Zealand in June 1942, encamping near Auckland and Wellington. They were the first of 150,000 who …
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Part of story: Second World War
… to personal memories and opinions, but always with a note of humour. In Māori society, both in the past and the present, humour naturally accompanies every type of activity. Humour can leaven a serious situation, or can … has exhibited massive white elephants in the window of an Auckland art gallery, which he said was ‘a little …
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Part of story: Māori humor – te whakakata
… The plant has escaped from gardens and is abundant in Auckland City and northern Hawke’s Bay. It is a problem in … margins and in broken bush, from Gisborne northwards. South of Gisborne, jasmine is a well-behaved garden plant. Charles … its thick stems sometimes growing 30 metres long. Masses of fluffy seeds are released in autumn, and plants can …
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Part of story: Weeds of the bush
… Strait cable In 1866, only a few decades after the arrival of the first European colonists, a simple copper telegraph … cable was laid across the stormy and tide-scoured seabed of Cook Strait. It was not reliable. Further attempts were … been laid along the ocean floor. They stretch from near Auckland to Sydney, and onto South-East Asia and North …
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Part of story: Engineering on the sea floor
… first approach had come from France under the leadership of Bishop J. B. F. Pompallier and the Society of Mary. But from the early 1860s, the vast majority of … Patrick Moran in Dunedin, and of Bishop Thomas Croke in Auckland the following year, the New Zealand Catholic Church …
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Part of story: Irish
… Locations The richness of New Zealand’s underwater environment became apparent in … but the decommissioned navy vessels Tui and Waikato , sunk off the Tutukākā coast in 1999 and 2000, are also well … of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow warrior and sank it in Auckland Harbour, intending to prevent a protest against …
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Part of story: Diving and snorkelling
… Harbour Sheltered harbour between Mangōnui and the Bay of Islands on the east coast. It is a drowned river system, … a twin, St Peter, facing it across the water. At the head of the harbour are extensive mangrove swamps. A quiet, … vessel Rainbow Warrior , bombed by French saboteurs in Auckland in 1985, was sunk in Matauri Bay as a diving …
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Part of story: Northland places
… processes led directly to the crash. He accused the airline of covering up its mistakes with ‘an orchestrated litany of lies’. This controversial finding was fiercely refuted by … in October 1972. This involved a move from Christchurch to Auckland. While Mahon was considered an able and articulate …
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… departments In 1926 the government set up the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) to co-ordinate … an applied biochemistry division in 1969. The Department of Agriculture concentrated on animal research, but also … continued to play an important role in biological research. Auckland Museum was an especially active research centre in …
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Part of story: Life sciences
… Kurahaupō Ngāti Kurī of Muriwhenua say that Pōhurihanga was the captain of … Taipā River. Te Parata married Kahutianui-a-te-rangi, the founding ancestor of Ngāti Kahu. Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi … the Kaipara region between Hokianga Harbour and Tāmaki (Auckland). According to tradition Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi came …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… born Clas Edvard Friström on 23 January 1864 in the parish of Torhamn, near Karlskrona in southern Sweden. His parents … nor Oscar is recorded as having attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm; both were probably self-taught. … he was already painting in New Zealand. Friström joined the Auckland Society of Arts, and in the society's 1904 …
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… in Halcombe, northern Manawatu, on 12 March 1904, the ninth of eleven children of Francis Robert Linton, a stock dealer, and his wife, Emma … North Island and was educated at Hamilton High School and Auckland University College, where he trained as a surveyor. …
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… in Plymouth, Devonshire, England, on 28 July 1871, the son of Mary Ursula Alves and her husband, Henry Daniel Major, a … influenced in his religious beliefs by the Tractarian views of his mother and the local vicar, William Katterns. In 1890 Major moved to Auckland where he gained a first-class honours degree in …
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… football in New Zealand was an amateur, or at best semi-professional, sport. As a result, most of New Zealand’s top footballers keen to make a living from … Footballer of the Century and returned home to lead the Auckland-based Football Kingz club in the Australian …
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Part of story: Football
… Leslie Bourneman Neale was born at Devonport, Auckland, on 26 June 1886, the sixth child of Isabella Selby and her husband, William Henry Neale, a … After attending Ponsonby School, which he left at the age of 14 in 1900, he was initially employed with Thompson and …
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… ports were useful for keeping people in isolation. Ships often carried people with contagious diseases, and crew and … In wartime, the islands became jails for prisoners of war and ‘enemy aliens’. Dunedin – Quarantine Island/St … Luckner During the First World War, Motuihe Island near Auckland was a prisoner-of-war camp. One inmate was a German …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… plays’. 1 The result was Unity Theatre, a local version of the people’s theatre workshops formed in Britain and the … decades and played an important role in the development of a professional local theatre. The original members were … in 2023. Other regional companies Mercury Theatre opened in Auckland in 1967 in a renovated building off Karangahape …
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Part of story: Theatre companies and producers
… In the 2000s a new generation of composers benefited from the committed and stimulating … his essays for publications such as Canzona (the yearbook of the Composers’ Association), and works such as his 2006 … As a major supporter of New Zealand compositions, the Auckland Philharmonia has supported a Composer-in-Residence …
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Part of story: Composers
… Roman Catholic family in County Limerick, Ireland, the son of Bridget Corney and her husband, William Broham, a farmer. … where in March 1859 he joined the renowned police force of Victoria. Although he was not considered to be very … did not eventuate. In 1870, when the police force of Auckland province was absorbed by the Armed Constabulary, …
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… their sister Catherine and brother Timothy, were members of the New Zealand Police Force during the first half of the twentieth century. They were four of the twelve … February 1904 his brother Tim was appointed a constable at Auckland. Soon afterwards Denis persuaded James to enter the …
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