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… the most controversial man to have sat on the Bench of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Character flaws dogged his judicial career … the Court of Arbitration. He became the resident judge at Auckland in 1903. Edwards was an erudite and industrious …
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… in Taihape on 17 June 1906, the second child and only son of William James Hall McCormick, a boot merchant, and his … had moved to Taihape from Christchurch in the vanguard of a planned co-operative settlement. The Utopian dream soon … for an exhibition of the artist and her circle at the Auckland City Art Gallery. In the meantime, in 1947, he had …
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… probably on 16 December 1836 at Bristol, England, the son of James Rees, a surgeon, and his wife, Elizabeth Pocock. … with his mother. He began studying law at the University of Melbourne but soon became more interested in religion, … He then spent three years at Hokitika before moving to Auckland, where he practised law. Rees became interested in …
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… at Ōhinemutu, Rotorua, on 16 April 1898, the youngest child of prominent Te Arawa leader Hēnare Mete Amohau and his wife, Tūkau Te Hira of Ngāti Pikiao. Known as Mere, she was educated at … then from 1911 at Queen Victoria School for Māori Girls in Auckland. As a young woman, Mere embarked on her musical …
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… Dune lands are piles of wind-blown sand that build up behind beaches in exposed … sea. How dunes form Dunes form where there is a good supply of sediment from the sea. Waves deposit sand on the beach, … North and South Kaipara peninsulas, Awhitū peninsula), Auckland’s west coast (Manukau Heads), Waikato (Aotea and …
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Part of story: Dune lands
… at places like Kororāreka (later called Russell) in the Bay of Islands. They sold ‘American tobacco, Irish butter, … 1 General stores were prominent in European settlements, often offering credit for residents. Māori were keen … set themselves up as shopkeepers. Retail activity arose in Auckland around 1841, centred on Commercial Bay (today the …
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Part of story: Shops
… illustrators. Many honed their skills in the pages of local pictorial magazines like The Sketcher and The Free Lance . In 1922 Auckland returned serviceman George Finey led a bohemian gang of cartoonists to Sydney, including Noel Cook and Cecil … Early years of comics, 1900s to 1940s …
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Part of story: Comics and graphic novels
… Whanganui region nor the city has grown fast, but a series of initiatives has helped both to hold their own. New activities New economic activities took off in the 1970s and 1980s, mostly in resources such as … were lost in total, across a range of industries. In 1992, Auckland fishing company Sanford bought Wanganui Seafoods …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… Michael Kelly, was rector. James Liston, later bishop of Auckland, was a classmate. During his residence of seven years Kelly demonstrated a flair for languages and …
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… economic development. His career illustrates the importance of New Zealand's links with the London financial community. … born on 22 March 1833 at Weymouth, Dorset, England, the son of Ambrose Larkworthy, surgeon, and his wife, Amelia Rose … he was promoted to manage the Oriental Bank's branch in Auckland. Larkworthy had not been long in Auckland when the …
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… McCormack was born on 27 April 1883 at Napier, the son of Irish parents Elizabeth Kirwin and her husband, Thomas … interested only in athletics and drawing. He became captain of the school's rugby and cricket teams and, with his friend … was one of five New Zealand watercolourists shown by the Auckland City Art Gallery in 1959, and in the same year a …
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… was born in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, on 6 July 1898, the son of Agnes Hadrill, from Denmark, and her husband, Alexander … guidance in New Zealand: first in Dunedin, then in Auckland during 1936, when he was a lecturer in education at … also involved in a variety of other organisations. He was a founding member in 1941 of the Wellington Nursery Play …
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… Estuaries provided safe, sheltered waters with an abundance of fish, shellfish and birds for eating. Middens (ancient … beds. Estuarine rivers gave access to the interior of the country and its wealth of resources – tall-timbered … natural harbours; cities and towns like Whangārei, Auckland, Tauranga, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin …
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Part of story: Estuaries
… Donald John Stott, the son of Annie McKay and her husband, Robert Edward Stott, a butcher, was born in Birkenhead, Auckland, on 23 October 1914. He was educated at Northcote … for a VC for his ‘complete disregard for danger in the face of the enemy’, but was instead made a DSO. In July 1943 …
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… with deprivation. He left Ireland for Australia at the age of 18. Tall and strong, he suited the frontier environment … to public attention when he piloted a ship across the bar of the Hokitika River. He returned to Australia in 1865 and, … and becalmed, was washed into a cavern on the west side of Auckland Island where it sank. Teer was among the 15 …
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… hills to its west and east, the city lies on a long inlet of Whangārei Harbour on Northland’s east coast. Initially a … district, it has developed through its proximity to some of the country’s deepest harbour waters, and through the … site in 1839, but the first Europeans fled to Auckland for a time during the 1840s when war broke out in …
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Part of story: Northland places
… 1985, most sexual assaults were divided into the categories of rape (and attempted rape) and indecent assault. Rape carried a maximum sentence of 14 years’ imprisonment, attempted rape 10 years and … peaking at 7,738 in 2021 before dropping to 6,594 in 2023. Auckland serial rapist Malcolm Rewa had already spent four …
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Part of story: Violent crime
… Decline of the independents In the mid-1970s the New Zealand … and radio was under no obligation to play a minimum quota of local music, although many in the music industry had … 16- or 24-track facilities – Marmalade in Wellington, and Auckland’s Stebbings, Mandrill and Mascot – survived by …
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Part of story: Recording companies and studios
… Entrican was born at Devonport on 28 January 1898, the son of Robert John Entrican, a merchant, and his wife, Annie Isabella Lamb. Known as Pat, he was educated at Auckland Grammar School and in 1915 enrolled at Auckland … hydraulics. He then joined the Wellington engineering firm of Hay and Vickerman as chief assistant civil engineer. In …
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… three versions: the written or recorded text, the version of the text used for a production and the performance on any … to have significant connection with New Zealand in terms of its authorship, its content, or its time and place of … For example, Lancelot Booth’s Crime in the c louds (Auckland, 1871) was largely set in England but contained one …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights