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… St Helena, probably in 1827 or 1828. He was the son of Sarah Britton and her husband, a farmer whose first name is unknown. Frederick was educated at the head school of the East India Company (which then administered the … Zealand Herald , and then as a temporary employee with the Auckland provincial treasury. This position was concerned …
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… Ernest Mervyn Taylor was born on 4 August 1906 in Auckland, the son of Emily Webber and her husband, Ernest Herbert Taylor, a … he attended Grafton School from 1912 to 1920, passing his proficiency examination. His schooling was interrupted by …
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… Hira Te Popo was the only son of Tāne Whirinaki. No record of his mother's name has been found. He was born into Te … by Ngāti Ira, was used to transport their produce to the Auckland market. Land sales and the confrontations that were …
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… Inter-provincial games Old boys of English public schools persuaded football clubs to adopt the rugby rules in Auckland, South Canterbury and Otago, and they were … the gospel and attaching local pride to the success of the rugby team. The elite encouraged and facilitated …
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Part of story: Rugby union
… society than Britain. Distinctions between amateurs and professionals were not as rigorously adhered to and new … to accept an inferior status in sport. But the idea of New Zealand as a sporting paradise for all during the … games. The elite boys’ schools such as Christ’s College and Auckland Grammar School devoted time to organised sport, …
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Part of story: Sport and society
… in 1891 he rated New Zealand ‘a long way up on the scale of yarn power’. 1 Out of the country’s migrant population and egalitarian … merriment of crowded audiences.’ 3 When Thatcher arrived in Auckland he found an open drain running down the main … The origins of Kiwi humour …
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Part of story: Humour
… New Zealand agent, sailed from Wellington in search of more land, leaving instructions for the settlement to be … William Mein Smith, placed the town near the mouth of the Hutt (Heretaunga) River, where there was enough flat … Quay. The Ark soon became a centre for Wellington trade. Auckland the capital Wakefield had hoped to make Wellington …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… pasture. This reputation grew through the shrewd judgement of the earliest breeders in selecting quality bloodlines … and England. Horses’ birthdays All racehorses have their official birthday on 1 August (or, in the northern … friend, Major General John Brocklehurst. Hawke’s Bay and Auckland At this time, Sir William Russell, John Ormond and …
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Part of story: Horse and greyhound racing
… several notable ascents, leading the first all-women ascent of Aoraki/Mount Cook in 1953, at a time when women were … and bookkeeping at Brain’s Commercial College in Auckland, after which she commenced a professional career as … for the natural world into scientific study. She became a founding member of the Wellington Botanical Society in 1939, …
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… hyperactive running coach Arthur Leslie Lydiard is one of the few New Zealand sportsmen to have influenced millions … and his wife, Elsie Laura Welch, Arthur was born in Auckland on 6 July 1917. He attended Edendale primary, … in athletics administration. Lydiard instead inspired the founding of the Auckland Joggers’ Club. This began a …
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… Scrimgeour was born at Wairoa on 30 January 1903, the son of John Graham Scrimgeour, a farmer, and his wife, Robina Maud Clunie. He left school at the age of 11 and unsuccessfully tried to enlist for service in the … and attended the Methodist Theological College in Auckland for four months. However, he was more at home doing …
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… Hickey was born on a backblocks farm at the junction of the Wangapeka and Motueka rivers in Nelson, New Zealand, on 19 January 1882. He was the fourth of seven children of Irish Catholic immigrants Thomas … and to consolidate support for it in Waihi, Huntly and Auckland. As part of that campaign he contested Ohinemuri in …
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… with the law. She was the daughter, wife and mother of lawyers, had her own law practice, and became New … life Georgina Catriona Pamela Augusta Dunlop was born in Auckland on 11 October 1929, the daughter of barrister … her family was not overtly political, Augusta became a founding member of the Howick branch of the Junior National …
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… Matiu Rata was a greatly respected and influential Minister of Māori Affairs and of Lands in the third Labour government, and progenitor of … when he was 10, and his mother moved her four children to Auckland, where she worked as a Post Office cleaner. There …
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… Mira Szászy emerged from a humble upbringing to become one of the greatest Māori leaders and proponents of mana wāhine in the twentieth century. Throughout her … Penfold) were selected to continue their education in Auckland. Mira remembered leaving home with little more than …
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… was born in London, England, probably in 1820, the youngest of five children. His father, Thomas Heaphy, was a … a notable watercolour record of the expedition and the founding days of the Nelson settlement, and was then sent to … 1847 he applied for a post with the colonial government at Auckland. In August 1848 he was appointed a draughtsman in …
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… and institutional projects. Athfield was the figurehead of the practice and provided an insightful and engaging … was born in Christchurch on 15 July 1940. He was the first of two sons adopted by Charles Ernst Leonard (Len) Athfield, … after he finished his schooling. In 1961, Athfield moved to Auckland to complete three years of the four-year Diploma in …
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… became the norm in the 1930s, midwives and nurses were often paid to stay in the home after the birth. Some did … Babies were kept in hospital ostensibly to reduce the risk of infections. But by the 1950s the Department of Health … quickly withdrawn. In the 1990s hospitals in Waikato and Auckland had similar schemes, but they did not result in …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… such memorials in New Zealand. ‘Great men’ The only statues of local ‘great men’ in the European tradition, both in … Memorials were also erected to Burns in Timaru (1913), Auckland (1921) and Hokitika (1923). His nephew, Dunedin … began to see monuments as evidence of civic success. As the founding generations died there was a desire to honour the …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… Gnatt founded the New Zealand Ballet, the country’s first professional dance company. Six decades later the Royal New Zealand Ballet survived, with a cumulative repertoire of over 420 productions. The company is unique for the … was performed, but Alfred Hill’s opera Tapu , staged in Auckland in 1904, included two ballets, ‘Canoe’ and ‘War …
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Part of story: Ballet