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… was born at Invercargill on 18 May 1920, the eldest of three daughters of Stanley Morell Macalister, a … an entire diorama on the kakapo. Molly Macalister moved to Auckland in 1943 and met George Hajdu (later known as Haydn) … when very little was made or exhibited in New Zealand. A founding member of the New Zealand Society of Sculptors and …
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… Auckland is by far the country’s most populous region, with a 2013 population of 1,415,550. One in three New Zealanders live in the … British Isles, the town also attracted a high proportion of Irish migrants – nearly a third of the population of …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… There were two main sources of business failure – reckless immigration schemes and … speculation – in the first 25 years after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840. Immigration schemes … speculation Many buyers at the first Crown land sales in Auckland in 1841 were speculators who bought on deposit, …
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Part of story: Business failures and corporate fraud
… mayor in the city’s history, Jack Allum dominated Auckland’s local political life in the 1940s and 1950s. In … was to become indelibly associated with the construction of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. He was born John Andrew … elected Auckland Transport Board. Allum was appointed its founding chairman, a position he was to retain until 1943. …
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… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … 2006 census: 342 2013 census: 498 Major regional locations Auckland: 312 Waikato: 78 Ngāti Hako 1991 census: 453 2001 … 2013 census: 1,392 Major regional locations Waikato: 597 Auckland: 363 Ngāti Hei 1991 census: 177 2001 census: 363 …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … 2013 census: 1,113 Major regional locations Northland: 495 Auckland: 369 Ngāti Kahu 1991 census: 4,275 2001 census: … census: 8,313 2013 census: 8,580 Major regional locations Auckland: 3,747 Northland: 2,733 Ngāti Kurī 1991 census: …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… Auckland In 2018 around half of New Zealand’s South Africans … that this was the country for us. I like the compactness of New Zealand. We go skiing in winter and camping every …
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Part of story: South Africans
… Frost was born in England, probably in 1862 or 1863, one of ten children of Mary Ann Antwis and her husband, Thomas Frost. When she … She also became honorary bacteriologist and pathologist at Auckland Hospital, the second woman doctor to hold this …
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… New Zealand mosquitoes New Zealand has 16 species of mosquito, known to Māori as waeroa. Twelve are endemic … swamps – are notorious for their swarms. One site north of Haast, on the West Coast, is called Mosquito Hill. In her … mosquito ( Culex pervigilans ). It is commonly found around Auckland city, where it enters houses. A night-time feeder, …
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Part of story: Sandflies and mosquitoes
… have been Jewish people in New Zealand from the beginnings of European settlement. In the north, Jewish traders from … settlement, including Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland, as well as in Hokitika, Nelson and Timaru. A range … business. Hugo Friedlander became mayor of Ashburton after founding a substantial company supplying grain to the …
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Part of story: Jews
… Suffolk, England, probably in 1810 or 1811, daughter of Richard Lothian Dickson and his wife, Julia Dickson. An … In 1857 she set out with five other sisters to join the Auckland community of the Sisters of Mercy, arriving in New … the venture failed, the sisters had broken new ground in founding the first community of Catholic nuns in the South …
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… 1837 at Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the fifth child of Aloys Schmitt, a celebrated composer, pianist and … position at Königsberg (Kaliningrad). Schmitt came to Auckland, New Zealand, on the Breadalbane from Sydney, New … Auckland Amateur Opera Club was formed, and Schmitt was its founding conductor. In 1888 the fledgeling Auckland …
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… Morton, was born on 5 October 1885 in Melrose, Devonport, Auckland, the daughter of William Edmund Morton, an accountant, and his wife, … later known as the Penwomen's Club, of which she was a founding member and vice president. She was particularly …
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… and family or personal problems. Early social services Auckland Anglicans founded an orphanage in 1860, and Eliza … and Children. St Saviour’s Guild took over the running of a refuge in Christchurch in 1891. Down and out in Parnell Eliza Cowie, the wife of the Anglican Bishop of Auckland, was well known for her …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … asking Māori to indicate tribal affiliation – but not of multiple tribes – was that of 1901. 1901 census: 4,542 … census: 40,083 Major regional locations Waikato: 13,971 Auckland: 13,011 …
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Part of story: Waikato tribes
… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … asking Māori to indicate tribal affiliation – but not of multiple tribes – was that of 1901. 1901 census: 599 1991 … 12,177 Major regional locations Bay of Plenty: 4,890 Auckland: 2,382 …
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Part of story: Te Whakatōhea
… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … asking Māori to indicate tribal affiliation – but not of multiple tribes – was that of 1901. 1901 census: 6,361 … 122,214 2013 census: 125,601 Major regional locations Auckland: 50,580 Northland: 25,026 …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … asking Māori to indicate tribal affiliation – but not of multiple tribes – was in 1901. 1901 census: 1,572 1991 … census: 35,358 Major regional locations Waikato: 11,955 Auckland: 8,349 …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … asking Māori to indicate tribal affiliation – but not of multiple tribes – was that of 1901. 1901 census: 4,164 … census: 71,907 2013 census: 71,049 Major regional locations Auckland: 13,161 Gisborne: 11,985 Wellington: 11,133 …
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Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… In the New Zealand censuses since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which … asking Māori to indicate tribal affiliation – but not of multiple tribes – was that of 1901. 1901 census: 853 1991 … 2013 census: 7,260 Major regional locations Taranaki: 1,827 Auckland: 1,149 …
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Part of story: Ngāti Ruanui