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… North Canterbury, New Zealand, on 10 July 1865, the son of Samuel Corrigan, a contractor, and his wife, Susan … which milled local timber and built houses as far away as Auckland. He was a director and chairman of the South … at Addington and Hāwera in the same Easter weekend and confounding the bookmakers. He bought the Australian horse Man …
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… 40 plant specimens. Ten days later at Anaura Bay, north of Tolaga Bay, he collected many more plants and shot ‘some … life, Europe was fascinated by Māori. Among the examples of Māori art collected during Cook’s first voyage was a rei … In the late 1890s Eric Craig’s Museum in Princes Street, Auckland, sold ferns for collectors. His specimens were …
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Part of story: Collecting
… In 1877 school attendance became compulsory from the age of six. The educational and care needs of younger children remained the responsibility of parents – … to care for the children of working women. Creches began in Auckland in 1887 and Wellington in 1903. Early crèches …
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Part of story: Early childhood education and care
… down by waka to a central butchering area at the mouth of the Waitaki River. Wind-powered sailing waka were also … bullocks, wheeled carts, sailing ships and widespread use of coal. Artificial light was provided by candles or simple … Southland, Nelson and Wellington were well supplied and Auckland was richly supplied, while Otago and Canterbury had …
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Part of story: Energy supply and use
… was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 31 January 1884, the son of Henry Gray, a blanket factor, and his wife, Helen Mackay. … locally and graduated in medicine from the University of Aberdeen in 1906. He then spent a short period in general … Mental Hospital and senior assistant medical officer at Auckland Mental Hospital. He then worked under Frederic …
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… Madsen Bay, D’Urville Island, on 25 August 1929, the eldest of 10 children of Benjamin (Peneamine) Hippolite, a labourer, and his wife, … John Hippolite attended school on D’Urville Island, at Auckland Point School in Nelson, and also at Matapihi in …
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… in the late 1940s through the highly publicised exposure of his communist activity as a New Zealand Public Service … on 23 June 1921, Cecil William Holmes was the son of English-born farmer Alan Holmes and his wife, Ivy Marion … run (1947), which documented the weekly RNZAF flights from Auckland to Japan to supply Jayforce, Holmes was able to …
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… 1927. Her father, Thomas Berge Tūpeka (Bert) Mathieson, of the Taranaki iwi, was a motor mechanic and later a taxi … Her mother was Norah Laura Te Aroaro o Paritutu Ruakere of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and of Taranaki hapū Ngā … in athletics and team sports. After teacher training at Auckland, Pat Mathieson began teaching in 1948, firstly at …
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… born Edward Ray Gill at Blenheim on 28 July 1928, the son of Muriel Doreen Gill, also known as Amuri Fredreka Doreen … School, then, after the family moved to Nelson in 1938, Auckland Point School. By the time he was 10 Horton had fallen into a pattern of truancy and theft, first appearing before the Nelson …
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… was born in Lower Hutt on 14 December 1929. He was the son of a Christchurch horse trainer, Benjamin Alexander Jarden, and Jean Johnston, who was later to be one of the world’s leading croquet players. Ron Jarden’s … run sixth in the 120 yards hurdles at the Empire Games in Auckland in 1950. ‘My only quality was speed and I soon …
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… at Coventry, Warwickshire, England, on 9 March 1859, one of nine children of Sarah Jane Mattocks and her husband, Thomas Kirk, a … Harry came to New Zealand aboard the Gertrude , arriving at Auckland on 9 February 1863. He attended Auckland Grammar …
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… concepts Traditional Māori society did not have a concept of absolute ownership of land. Whānau (extended families) and hapū (sub-tribes) … (Otago) by the New Zealand Company and significant sales in Auckland. Crown title When Governor George Grey restored …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… The New Zealand Federation of Labour (FoL) was established in 1937 to represent the … was the first convener and Syd Jackson, secretary of the Auckland Clerical Workers’ Union, was the first secretary. … representation in the trade union movement. Syd Jackson, a founding member of Ngā Tamatoa, was a staunch trade unionist …
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Part of story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement
… presence and voice was stifled. The overwhelming majority of television personnel were middle-class Pākehā who … official night of television broadcasting (1 June 1960). An Auckland Star reviewer described the quartet (which had … contrast with the advertiser-funded position of TVNZ, the founding legislation of MTS (the Māori Television Service …
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Part of story: Television
… Winston John McCarthy, the ‘Voice of New Zealand Rugby’, was born at Wellington on 10 March 1908, the son of Hugh Donald McCarthy, a salesman, and his wife, Alice … loving couple. Winston McCarthy died on 2 January 1984 at Auckland, survived by Joan and two sons and one daughter …
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… among them choir masters, and numerous private teachers of music. From the early 1890s students could sit the exams … set by London’s Trinity College. The lost chord By 1844 Auckland’s Harmonic Society was up and running, and being … the Wellington Polytechnic Conservatorium of Music. Under founding director Harry Botham it taught classical and some …
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Part of story: Arts education and training
… County Meath, Ireland, probably on 11 January 1843, the son of John O'Connor, a farmer and company secretary, and his … quick and accurate surveying, able accountancy, acceptance of responsibility, and immediate response to emergency. In … led O'Connor to emigrate to New Zealand. He arrived at Auckland on the Pegasus on 28 March 1865. An introduction …
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… departments within general hospitals, became a feature of New Zealand hospital care in the 20th century. An … the 19th century spas were credited with curing all sorts of bodily ailments and problems. Men suffering from ‘sexual … North Canterbury and Otago all had sanatoriums. From 1908 Auckland Hospital Board provided accommodation for …
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Part of story: Hospitals
… hit, alcohol consumption fell. By 1933 only 25.5 litres of beer per person was drunk, less than half of the 1920 … in the more respectable private bars upstairs, or at home. Founding 10 The 10 breweries which formed New Zealand Breweries were Captain Cook and Lion in Auckland, Barry’s in Gisborne, Staples in Wellington, Crown, …
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Part of story: Alcohol
… English penal reformer John Howard. It grew out of the Howard Association, set up in Britain in 1866 to advocate humane treatment of prisoners, and the Penal Reform League, founded in 1907. … in hand. Peter Williams QC continued to lead the league in Auckland, providing advocacy by way of media interviews, …
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Part of story: Prisoner support and advocacy