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… the All Blacks rugby team. Sport is an important expression of national feeling for new or emerging countries, as New … recognition on international sporting fields and feed off admiring remarks of foreign commentators. Rarity value Auckland sports writer Don Cameron suggested, ‘[t]he great …
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Part of story: Sport and the nation
… flourishing all round New Zealand. Packing a punch Minister of Internal Affairs William (Bill) Parry was remembered as a large man who enjoyed and was proud of keeping fit. He set up a gym in the basement at … the years following the First World War. That was when the Auckland YWCA advertised ‘The First Gymnasium in Australasia …
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Part of story: Gyms
… station, South Canterbury, New Zealand. He was the second of four children born to Thomas Henry Wigley, a sheepfarmer … in the family property and teamed up with Samuel Thornley of Waitohi in 1904 to form a transport company specialising … Chateau Tongariro in 1929 and Wigley purchased hotels in Auckland, Rotorua and Queenstown and with Jessie and Sandy …
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… in Cape Town, South Africa. She was the second daughter of Edith Ellinor (Nelly) Butler, an Australian nurse who on … Edward Wilkinson, an Englishman working on the installation of a post and telegraph system in South Africa. When Iris … in a nursing home and he was later fostered by a family in Auckland. Hyde was saved from penury by the offer of a job …
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… born on 21 October 1922 at Kokewai, a rural area south-east of Kaikohe, Northland. He was of Ngāpuhi descent, with … around Kaikohe, and later in the Freemans Bay area of Auckland. Later still, they lived in Avondale, Panmure and … the writers’ organisation PEN, and pub life. Tuwhare was a founding member of the Birkenhead Māori Committee and an …
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… had regular columns on drama and film, although these often concentrated more on gossip and advertising than serious reviews. The advent of radio in the 1920s brought a new platform for reviewers, … included: Alan Mulgan, who wrote on literature in the Auckland Star Hilda Keane who reviewed music in the New …
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Part of story: Arts reviewing
… fought in local bouts and travelled to bouts in other parts of New Zealand and in Australia. From the 1970s New Zealand … boots … [and] was reputed to drink an occasional glass of beer behind the matron’s back and also to smoke … David Tua, who won the heavyweight bronze medal in 1992. Auckland boxer Paea Wolfgramm, fighting for Tonga, won a …
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Part of story: Boxing and wrestling
… the Anglican Church came from rapidly growing numbers of Anglican migrants. The early CMS missionary beginnings and the large number of settlers who came from England resulted in Anglicans … began a ministry training school at St John’s College in Auckland in the 1840s, but most bishops and some clergy were …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… Pākehā and as Mita Rēnata to Māori, was born at Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, on 22 July 1829. He was the third child and eldest son of Jane Nelson and her husband, William Williams , of the … had established at Te Waimate and then shifted to Pūrewa, Auckland. In November 1847 Williams left St John's, where he …
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… land, and Māori resistance to its sale is the subject of Octavius Hadfield ’s One of England’s little wars (1860) and John Gorst ’s The Maori … interestingly described by James Cowan in The adventures of Kimble Bent (1911), the story of a deserter who preferred …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… John Weeks, although one of the leading New Zealand painters of the 1930s and 1940s, has been rather neglected by art … this property and later bought a dairy farm at Northcote, Auckland, in 1908. From that year, Weeks worked as a …
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… Edward Shortland was the third son of Captain Thomas George Shortland, RN, and his wife, Elizabeth Tonkin, of Courtlands, near Plymouth, England. He was baptised on 19 … involved in a series of duelling challenges between an Auckland land trading coterie and a group which included his …
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… Although the majority of Filipinos arrived from the 1990s, a handful had settled … for immigrating Filipinos have come to New Zealand as part of a worldwide diaspora. This escalated from the 1970s, … who identified with the Filipino ethnic group lived in the Auckland region, 19% in Canterbury and around 11% in the …
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Part of story: Filipinos
… Deep-sea sharks A number of sharks live hundreds or even thousands of metres deep, and never come near the surface. Among these … Islands and south to the Bay of Plenty. Following the East Auckland Current, which flows past the east coast of …
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Part of story: Sharks and rays
… Women as accountants For most of the 20th century the number of women members of the New Zealand Society of Accountants … to join the accountancy profession. For most of the 1920s Auckland sisters Alice and Caroline Basten were New …
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Part of story: Accountancy
… to catch the heaviest individual fish and greatest quantity of fish. In 1962 national championships began, and by the … fin swimming (surface and underwater swimming using a monofin and snorkel), distance races, and diving for treasure, … have been employed building large structures like the Auckland Harbour Bridge, installing harbour equipment and …
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Part of story: Diving and snorkelling
… diet. Although like other orcas they consume a variety of food such as fish, squid, dolphins, sharks and seals, … two stingray spines inside her. She died either because of blood loss from the spines penetrating her body, or … day, and two males were logged making the return trip from Auckland to Kaikōura, a distance of 2,000 kilometres, in two …
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Part of story: Orcas
… Beginnings The advent of powered flight in the early 20th century was greeted with … New Zealanders. Enthusiasts set about building aircraft – of their own design, or from imported plans. Experimental … pilots learned to fly at the New Zealand Flying School in Auckland and the Canterbury (NZ) Aviation Company in …
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Part of story: Aerial recreation
… born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 10 December 1869, the son of Christina Drummond and her husband, Charles Henry Fraser, … Kensington. He then became the top apprentice for a firm of decorative artists, Collinson and Locks. By 1893 Fraser … country. Notable examples of his work are to be found in Auckland, Waipawa, Mount Peel, Dunedin and Invercargill. …
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… was born at Kristianstad, Sweden, on 6 July 1839, the son of Else Lundgren and Nils Erik Friberg, a farmer. Following … his early education he attended a course in the science of forestry and worked as a forestry officer in Scandinavia. … sailed from Hamburg on 9 February 1866 on the Grimsby. From Auckland, New Zealand, after the birth of their first child …
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