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… Shows The popularity of light opera and minstrel shows in the 19th century is … to local militias in the 1840s. This tradition led to the founding of local groups such as the Timaru Artillery, the Wellington City Rifles, the Auckland Artillery Band and many others. Besides creating a …
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Part of story: Popular music
… landscape North Island volcanoes have blasted huge volumes of tephra into the air, to be blown over northern New … kilometres. This volcanism has deposited layer upon layer of tephras over the landscape. The layers have helped … Ruapehu) over the last 20,000 years. Similar studies from Auckland showed that scores of thin tephras from the same …
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Part of story: Volcanoes
… and was baptised on 28 September at Warenford. He was a son of Alexander Thomson and his wife, Janet Turnbull. Thomson … climate and so came to New Zealand. On his arrival in Auckland in February 1856 on the Ashmore he found that his … most important visual record of the early town. He was a founding member of the Otago Institute in 1869, founder of …
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… those who had never been pregnant – were at high risk of developing pelvic inflammatory disease, a condition … associated with infertility. FA lobbied the Department of Health, and the contraceptive was eventually withdrawn … of cervical cancer patients at National Women’s Hospital in Auckland, which led to a commission of inquiry, overseen by …
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Part of story: Health advocacy and self-help
… at Marton District High School. He left school to become office boy in the Marton law firm Fullerton-Smith, Miles and … work as Wellington secretary and national secretary of the WEA. In Wellington he attended the Methodist church … Plymouth. He was arrested, convicted and fined in Wanganui, Auckland and Gisborne for his anti-war writings and …
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… 24 June 1872 at Neutral Bay, Sydney, Australia, the sixth of seven children of William Christopher Bennett, an exceptionally able … King's position at the Australasian Medical Congress in Auckland in 1914. In 1915, after the outbreak of the First …
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… Te Ika a Maui Players The rise of Māori political activism from the mid-1970s powered a … three years, and a television version screened in 1978. Two founding members of Te Ika a Maui, Jim Moriarty and Brian … became prominent theatre practitioners. Political theatre Auckland University English lecturer Michael Neill wrote …
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Part of story: Māori theatre – te whare tapere hōu
… David Blackwood Paul, always called Blackwood, was born at Auckland on 12 October 1908. His father, William Henry Paul, … His early life was imbued with the deep Presbyterianism of his mother and affected by his apparently heavy-handed, … and law. He became involved in student affairs: as a member of the Literary Club he was one of the editorial committee …
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… England, probably on 25 April 1809, the eldest son of the merchant William Swainson. His mother's name is not … Court. They arrived, via Port Nicholson (Wellington), at Auckland on 25 September. The five month voyage was spent … of the Crown.' He was aware of the responsibilities of the founding settlers and held that future inhabitants would …
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… Johnsonville, Wellington, on 2 August 1902, the eldest of five sons of Gertrude Matilda Burd and her husband, … continued his church activities after transferring to the Auckland audit office in early 1926. He also maintained his … a widely read publication. In March 1936 Carman was a founding member of the Christian Pacifist Society of New …
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… business itself was shaken to the core by the raw new sound of rock ’n’ roll. TANZA The TANZA label followed up its … quartet, the Tumbleweeds. Noel Peach’s Astor Studio in Auckland’s Shortland Street also began to record artists for … Pat McMinn, whose ‘Opo the crazy dolphin’ was the hit of 1955. However, in 1956 TANZA’s parent company, the Radio …
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Part of story: Recording companies and studios
… and was baptised there on 3 July 1814. He was the son of Captain Thomas Abraham and his wife, Louisa Susanna … for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The Abrahams arrived in Auckland on the Emma on 6 August 1850, and Charles became … Hobhouse , formerly of Nelson, and Sir William Martin , in founding Selwyn College, Cambridge; in 1882 he became its …
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… awarded a Royal Exhibition and entered the Royal College of Art in London in September 1919. He spent five years there and made the study of the figure his chief aim in whatever medium he was using. … pottery more fully as an art form in schools. He moved to Auckland with his family to become head of the Art …
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… New Zealand roots: his grandfather was an early settler of Southland, and his father, William Stevens, was an employee of the New Zealand Shipping Company. His mother, Catherine … during childhood. He attended Beresford Street School and Auckland Grammar School. Academically gifted, he was headed …
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… States to refer to crimes committed by people in positions of power and high social status in the course of their jobs. Also referred to as ‘commercial crime’, its … three staff) was created within the Department of Justice’s Auckland office. This fraud unit was underfunded and …
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Part of story: Dishonesty crime
… M. K. Joseph was a novelist, poet, and literary academic of the 1940s–1970s, best known for the powerful short novel, A soldier’s tale . Outwardly conservative, with a professorship, scholarly publications, a stable marriage, and … before winning a scholarship to Sacred Heart College in Auckland. Already a voracious reader, he progressed from …
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… In the two decades of the 20th century, evidence of increasing economic differences appeared. Income – wealth … build a $30-million mansion on fashionable Paritai Drive in Auckland. He also owned a holiday home on Waiheke Island …
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Part of story: Class
… Read a history of the Te Ara project . What is Te Ara? ‘Te ara’ in Māori means ‘the pathway’. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand offers many pathways to understanding New … on: Places – 22 major geographic regions: Northland , Auckland , Hauraki–Coromandel , Waikato , the King Country , …
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… Elijah Carey was born in the goldmining town of Gympie, Queensland, Australia, on 20 August 1876, a twin son of Catherine Newman and her husband, Elijah Carey, a miner. … helped to revive hotel and restaurant workers' unions in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin, and established a branch …
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… countries, the late 1960s and 1970s saw an explosion of counter-cultural activity. Many idealistic young people, … Tim Shadbolt, helped establish a commune at Huia, west of Auckland, in the early 1970s. At first they slept …
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Part of story: Communes and communities