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… July 1868 at Sandridge, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of Emma Walton and her husband, Frederick Charles Platts, an … farewell for nurses leaving for service overseas. She was a founding member of the Women's National Reserve of New … to detail. Based on evidence gathered on visits to Auckland, Napier, Christchurch and Dunedin, as well as in …
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… Ernst Anton Plischke was a key figure in the introduction of modernism into Wellington architecture in the period … the Second World War. Born in Klosterneuberg, a suburb of Vienna, on 26 June 1903, he was the elder child and only … housing blocks to be built by the government in Auckland and Wellington. A personality clash with Wilson led …
Type: Biography
… have never had an established or state religion, and have often been open to new religious developments and movements. … Also popular were the Anthroposophical Society, the Society of Guardians, the Rosicrucians and the Order of the Golden … Los Angeles in 1954. The New Zealand church established in Auckland the following year is thought to have been the …
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Part of story: Diverse religions
… Born at Inglewood, Taranaki, on 8 December 1906, Geoffrey Newland Roberts was to serve two air forces and the … 1 General Reconnaissance Squadron, stationed at Whenuapai, Auckland, with Roberts in command. With war in the Pacific … The company was also shattered by the sudden death of its founding chairman, N. S. Falla, in 1945. Roberts’s first …
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… immigrants. Enid's mother, Annie Maria Elliott, was of Northern Irish heritage and raised her children as … having five younger brothers. After the family moved to Auckland about 1908, she attended Grey Lynn primary school until standard six, then completed a part-time office training course while working for the family …
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… overcame discrimination against the disabled to achieve professional and personal success. Her memoir, Over my dead … rights, and she maintained strong support for equality of opportunity for those with disabilities throughout her … School. In 1943 she completed a teaching qualification at Auckland Training College, followed by a speech therapy …
Type: Biography
… century as childhood became recognised as a separate stage of life. Children were seen as vulnerable and in need of protection. This was not understood in terms of ‘rights’ … for the Protection of Women and Children (established in Auckland in 1893). New laws aimed to protect children from …
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Part of story: Childhood
… John Larkins Cheese Richardson, the son of Robert Richardson and his wife, Mary Anne Romney, was … died in 1842. Richardson fought in the Afghanistan campaign of 1842. He distinguished himself in the storming of the hill fort of Istalif, being wounded and later …
Type: Biography
… and baptised there on 28 March 1850. He was the son of Mary McNulty and her husband, Patrick Cullen, a farmer. Details of Cullen's life are unknown until he joined the Royal Irish … was sent to relieve at the most important district covering Auckland, Waikato, the Bay of Islands and other northern …
Type: Biography
… and other Polynesian peoples were rapidly losing knowledge of their customs and traditions, perhaps even dying out as a … dedicated to recording material before it was lost. Other founding members included noted anthropologists Walter … at Canterbury Museum in 1938. In the 1930s the director of Auckland Museum, zoologist Gilbert Archey, began producing a …
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Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… Ocean. Canada and New Zealand had agreed to an exchange of high commissioners in 1939. Following the Japanese attack … relations with New Zealand. After the war, the loosening of ties with Britain made New Zealand realise the advantage … counter-offensive in the Pacific. They were based mainly in Auckland and Wellington, and at any one time swelled the …
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Part of story: North Americans
… shooting galleries and skittle alleys provided simple forms of entertainment outside the home. Skittles was an early version of tenpin bowling, and skittle alleys were often part of a … machines were part of the entertainment on offer at Auckland’s Luna Park in the late 1920s. Indecent peeps Peep …
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Part of story: Arcade, computer and video games
… Bernard Cracroft Aston was born on 9 August 1871 at Beckenham, Kent, England, the son of Mary Griffin and her husband, Murray Aston, a … ecological investigations of Campbell Island and the Auckland Islands, Turakirae Head and various parts of the … Aston, Bernard Cracroft …
Type: Biography
… and exploratory expedition in 1769. His first sighting of New Zealand was of the Hokianga heads; from there he sailed around North … were baptised. Mission stations were established from north Auckland to Akaroa on Banks Peninsula. For some Māori, …
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Part of story: French
… introduced to New Zealand. Chaffinches The natural range of the chaffinch ( Fringilla coelebs ) is from Europe and … societies at several sites. They are now one of the most widespread species in New Zealand, including on … Greenfinches were introduced to Nelson, Canterbury, Auckland and Otago from the early 1860s. Numbers increased …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… on 19 September 1898 at Pārāwai, near Thames, the daughter of Katherine Helen Gifford and her husband, Victor Grace … Girls’ High School. In 1916 she entered the University of Otago Medical School and when she graduated MB, ChB in … in 1944, worried about her husband’s health, Eva shifted to Auckland and set up practice in Dominion Road, Mount Eden. …
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… Born at Cox's Creek, Auckland, New Zealand, on 3 March 1872, Mabel Hill was the youngest of the nine children of Charles Hill, a hatter, and his wife, Eliza Ann Hulbert. …
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… 1896 at Mangamako, near Hunterville. He was the youngest of three children of sheepfarmer Ewen McGregor and his wife, … Vivian Walsh's New Zealand Flying School at Mission Bay, Auckland, qualifying on 9 September. In October 1916 … Flying, however, remained McGregor's passion. He was a founding member of the New Zealand Air Force (Territorial) …
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… was born probably in 1778 or 1779. Although no records of his birth and marriage have been found he is said to have … born at Stoer Point, Sutherlandshire, Scotland, the son of Margaret and Daniel McLeod. His father was a fisherman. … could settle. The first group of Normanists arrived in Auckland on 17 September 1853. One year later they began to …
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… were 'insane'. Between 1900 and 1950 there was evidence of psychiatric illness among two in five women and more than … childbirth (post-natal depression). Among men the effects of war were significant. Physically maimed and emotionally … more than 40% of those over 60 who killed themselves in Auckland wanted to avoid continuing illness. Improvements in …
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Part of story: Suicide