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… Raurimu Township 34 kilometres south-east of Taumarunui. Raurimu began life as a railway construction … man, and wounded four others. Anderson was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity and detained in a mental … were moved elsewhere or abandoned. Avondale College of Auckland leased the remaining buildings from 1973 for an …
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Part of story: King Country places
… New Zealand have been introduced by migrants, and new forms of Christianity continue to appear as new migrant communities develop. Some of the more recent migrants to New Zealand have been from … These include the New Zealand Onnuri Church in Birkenhead, Auckland, and the Christchurch Korean Presbyterian Church. …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… They called themselves Israelites and denied the validity of the large 1848 land purchase. They claimed the interior … had developed in the 1860s, partly under the influence of the prophets Te Ua and Te Whiti; it was named Kaikārara … for attempted arson, he was transferred to the asylum in Auckland in April 1899. Cheerful when he arrived, he was …
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Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… Moriori The Moriori people of Rēkohu (Chatham Islands) are said to have practised pacifism for hundreds of years. A chief named Nunuku ordered two rival tribes to … 1985 when the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was bombed in Auckland Harbour by French secret agents. Subsequent …
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Part of story: Conscription, conscientious objection and pacifism
… allowing for shorter exposure times, and the release of the Kodak camera in 1888 made cheap, easy-to-use cameras available to non-professionals. Photography moved from studio posing to a new … and John Johns in the following decade. Wedding traffic On Auckland’s Karangahape Road on Saturday mornings in the …
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Part of story: Photography
… Public art is any form of art that is located in a public space outside galleries … like universities and hospitals. It can be part of structures such as bridges and tunnels. The main forms of … Yul Oh’s ‘Globgob’, a series of egg-shaped sculptures in Auckland’s Teed and Osborne streets, was unintentionally …
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Part of story: Public and street art
… The Waimarino district lies at the foot of the 2,797-metre volcano Mt Ruapehu. The region's main … Raetihi Town on the Waimarino plain, 89 km north-east of Whanganui at the junction of State Highways 4 and 49. It … The communications equipment is now operated remotely from Auckland. …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… Hugh Francis Carleton was the son of Francis Carleton and his wife, Charlotte Margaretta Montgomerie, of both Clare More, County Tipperary, and Greenfield, County … art, then spent three years travelling, finally arriving in Auckland in 1845. His first New Zealand ventures were …
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… 26 December 1888. According to tradition, he was the first of his people born in a European-style house and was known … known as Lou Parore. His father, Pouaka Parore, was of the leading families of Ngāpuhi and Te Roroa, his … local primary school, he went on to secure a scholarship to Auckland Grammar School, which he attended in 1904–5. After …
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… The development of aviation in New Zealand has inevitably been accompanied … before the First World War, and the pioneering phase of aviation stretched into the 1930s. During these years … members of a Union Airways Electra that crashed at Māngere, Auckland, in May 1938 were the first people to die on a …
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Part of story: Air crashes
… on 13 January 1902, the seventh child and youngest son of John Black, a farmer at nearby Ōtara, and his wife, Polly … who was also known as Mary. He grew up in a family of 12 children, two of whom were adopted, and belonged to … 1921, after matriculating from high school, Black went to Auckland University College. During his time there he …
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… the 20th and 21st centuries they moved into the new media of radio, television and the internet. The subjects they … from literature, art exhibitions and live performances of music and drama, to films, recorded music, radio and … American Lingard Company put on a season of HMS Pinafore at Auckland’s Theatre Royal. The Auckland Star wrote reviews of …
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Part of story: Arts reviewing
… in the 1840s, they brought with them their enjoyment of making and watching theatre. The earliest performances were held in pubs, and variety shows (a mix of singing, dancing, comedy and dramatic recitations) were … other actors staged a comedy called The lawyer outwitted at Auckland’s Watson’s Hotel. It was the first known theatre …
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Part of story: Actors and acting
… in Clerkenwell, London, England, on 15 June 1852, the son of William Ferguson, a chemist and later a brewer, and his … College, Dublin, where he graduated BA (1877), bachelor of engineering (1879) and MA (1881). He undertook … then and 1908 he advised on harbour proposals at Napier, Auckland and Melbourne. He resigned from his harbour board …
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… at Baden, near Vienna, Austria, on 24 March 1923, the son of Kaja Olsen and her husband, Kai Gnatt, a floral merchant. … when Poul and his sister Kirsten entered the ballet school of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. In 1939 they both … In 1952 Poul, Rigmor and their two infant sons moved to Auckland, where he started teaching ballet classes, driving …
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… Victoria, Australia, the fourth child and third daughter of Mary Ann Beeby and her husband, George Smales Searle, a … university classes in Wellington. She subsequently lived in Auckland, and spent 10 years apart from her husband in … of Helen Macmillan Brown (Helen Connon) in 1905. She was a founding member of the Lyceum Club in London, and of the …
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… Leslie George Kelly was born in Auckland on 10 May 1906, the elder of two sons of Sidney Mellish Kelly, a french polisher, and his wife, …
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… Andrew Stanley Keyworth was the younger of twin sons born at Auckland to Herbert Reginald Keyworth, a merchant, and his … Andy, as he was known, would remain at sea for the whole of his working life. After his education at Devonport …
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… Hawke's Bay, on 17 February 1898, the eldest child of Helen Caroline Watt and her husband, Thomas Henry Lowry, … family: his paternal grandfather, Thomas Lowry, a graduate of the University of Cambridge, had arrived in New Zealand … in 1916 Lowry trained at the New Zealand Flying School in Auckland. In 1918 he joined the Royal Air Force, but did not …
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… Te Aute College Students’ Association Some of the earliest academic writing by Māori can be found in the proceedings of conferences of Te Aute College Students’ Association … Incumbents have included Jim Peters at the University of Auckland and Piri Sciascia at Victoria University of …
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