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… at Minnyhive (Moniaive), Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the son of Andrew Inglis and his wife, Margaret Maxwell. A foreman mason by trade, he resolved at the age of 31 to enter the ministry of the Reformed Presbyterian … 1850, he spent a year as a relieving minister in the Auckland parish while he awaited a decision from the foreign …
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… was born in Hoxton, London, England, on 22 June 1850, one of five children of Scots parents Jemima Crawford Souter and … in the WCTU magazine, the White Ribbon. She moved to Auckland in 1898 and that year was elected Auckland … participate in the women's movement and became one of the founding members of the Lyceum Club, a women's organisation …
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… was born at Wellington on 10 August 1919, the only child of Andrew Murray Roberts, a surveyor, and his wife, Annie Isabelle Huckstep. He was brought up in a well-to-do Auckland home. His father was Presbyterian and his mother … such as the surgeon Sir Carrick Robertson and Classics professor E. M. Blaiklock. Andrew Roberts, 52 at the time of …
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… was born in Lower Hutt on 24 May 1887. She was the daughter of Gertrude Maynard Snow and her husband, George Herbert Scales, an insurance agent and the founder of the exporters and auctioneers G. H. Scales and Company. … solo exhibition was arranged by Colin McCahon and the Auckland City Art Gallery. She returned to France in 1976, …
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… organised once workers did. Faced with an increasing number of strikes in the early 1890s, the first employer … Employers’ Federation was set up, to represent the view of local associations to central government. Purpose The … Island, where industry was then concentrated. By 1921 the Auckland Employers’ Association had become the largest, with …
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Part of story: Employer and business organisations
… New Plymouth District Council confirmed the construction of the $10 million Len Lye Centre, which will operate in … sculptor who made his name overseas is just one indication of the high status of sculpture in 21st century New Zealand. … the Wellington biennale ‘Shapeshifter’ and the Auckland Triennial are regular events. Permanent sculpture …
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Part of story: Sculpture and installation art
… Act 1947 A massive scrub and forest fire in the hot summer of 1946/47 threatened the towns of Taupō and Ātiamuri, and at its height blocked the … rest homes. Parnell fumes emergency Residents of the Auckland suburb of Parnell woke on 27 February 1973 with …
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Part of story: Fires and fire services
… Arthur Whitlock was born at Nelson on 2 July 1891, the son of William Charles Whitlock and his wife, Hobart-born Mary … team of talented journalists commissioned to establish the Auckland Sun. He remained in Auckland as the Sun ’s chief … and in 1950–51 as Rotary’s district governor; as the founding chairman of directors of Leopard Brewery Limited in …
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… Northland, New Zealand, on 25 February 1839, the daughter of Jane Nelson and her husband, William Williams , Church … Society missionaries. Maria was the sixth child in a family of nine. In late December 1839 Jane and William Williams and … with a spinal deformity. She was sent to relatives in Auckland to see what could be done to help her. The …
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… was born probably on 4 August 1814 at Bombay, India, son of Captain Sir William Saltonstall Wiseman of Canfield Hall, Essex, England, and Catherine Mackintosh, … on 22 September 1863, Wiseman sailed the same day for Auckland. Meanwhile, war had broken out. By July 1863 the …
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… Loire, France, on 19 June 1835. She was the daughter of Henriette Catherine Clarice Périer and her husband, Louis Aubert, a bailiff. Little is known of Suzanne's early life but in later years she identified … The first, shortest and least successful was spent in Auckland between 1860 and 1869, teaching young Māori girls. …
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… coast Before Europeans arrived in New Zealand, Māori tribes of the Whangārei coast operated seafaring and trading networks that reached from the territory of the Muriwhenua tribes in the far north, through Motu … in the Rock) and Rākaumangamanga (Cape Brett), to Tāmaki (Auckland) in the south and eastwards to Hauturu (Little …
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Part of story: Whangārei tribes
… The Animal Welfare Act 1999 addresses many, but not all, of the concerns raised by advocates for animals. It covers … adequately. It places further controls on the export of live animals, performance of surgery, and the use of some … Waikato and Canterbury), Lonely Miaow Association, Auckland Cat Rescue, Cavy Creek Guinea Pig Refuge, the …
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Part of story: Pets
… Robert Thompson Batley, the son of Jane Thompson and George Batley, a mariner, was born in … 1849. He was educated in Portsmouth, and at about the age of 13 joined the crew of the Royal Bride , which sailed from London to Auckland, New Zealand, arriving on 29 April 1863. On 22 June …
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… clubs Another canoe club was formed on the North Shore of Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour in 1926, and around 1930 the … Canoe Club, based in Hamilton, began exploring the reaches of the Waikato River. Rob Roy and Canadian canoes were used …
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Part of story: Canoeing and rafting
… also includes financing this process. In the early years of European settlement publishing was often … of the Māori text of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document. Colenso did not last long as a government … were abortive attempts to set up a government press in Auckland using local newspaper printers, but the Government …
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Part of story: Publishing
… By 2000 the rustic crafts of the 1970s had been vanquished from memory, and ‘handmade’ … had developed new social cachet. In the first decades of the 21st century craft had found itself a secure position … of contemporary craft culminated in the establishment in Auckland of Objectspace, New Zealand's first public gallery …
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Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… sheets and towels, mostly produced in the English city of Manchester). A draper sold fabrics and sewing equipment. … products and organise deals with suppliers. Pharmacies Some of New Zealand’s first shops were pharmacies, which sold … Pharmacies also operated in Dunedin, Christchurch and Auckland from the late 1840s and early 1850s. They sold …
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Part of story: Shops
… Elizabeth Rowe, daughter of Sarah Netherton and her husband, Henry Rowe, a carrier … Cornwall, England, on 6 April 1814. Nothing is known of her until her marriage to Edward George at Battersea, London, on 21 September 1841. They arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, in May 1842 on board the Louisa …
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… coconuts and pineapples from Samoa were for sale in Auckland. Chinese greengrocers From the late 1800s Chinese … West Coast moved into market gardening in different parts of the country. Some opened shops as outlets for produce … Chinese supplied the European greengrocer. The children of Chinese shop owners helped out in the shop, but their …
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Part of story: Food shops