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… and females about 260 grams. There are several subspecies, of which Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus occurs only in New … known as silver gulls in Australia and New Caledonia. Gulls of Mokoia In 1823 the Ngāpuhi tribe attacked the Te Arawa … and Kaikōura gulls have been seen as far afield as Auckland and Invercargill. Female gulls live around nine …
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Part of story: Gulls, terns and skuas
… for disaster Mt Ruapehu erupted in 1945, but by the end of the year the excitement was over. The crater, about 300 … realised that the water was now held in by an unstable mass of ice and volcanic rubble and ash. The lahar At 8 p.m. on … express from Wellington, packed with 285 people heading to Auckland for the holidays. The train reaches the bridge The …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… Countries in Asia and mainland Europe have long traditions of eating a variety of fungi, but New Zealand does not. Few fungi were eaten by … sawdust and bran. The first shiitake farm started in Auckland in 1985. It was a large-scale operation, exporting …
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Part of story: Mushrooms and other cultivated fungi
… powerful tribes. To understand how he came to be the leader of his people involves returning to the time of his father Rereahu’s impending death. It was the custom … great pā Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill) in the present-day Auckland district. There he married the twins Mārei and …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… on 15 February 1855 at Macarsca, Dalmatia. He was the son of Matthaea Miličić and her husband, Andreas Vela, a farmer. … 1886 Mariano Vella married Mary Ida Furse, a young woman of English birth whose father was, like Mariano, a fisherman … for the last part of their voyage travelled from Sydney to Auckland on the Wairarapa. The ship was wrecked on Great …
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… level in New Zealand. He joined the new Department of Geography at Canterbury University College in 1938, and … prolific author. He later set up a geography department at Auckland University College, being appointed to its newly … for school and university students, and had a strong sense of the civic purpose and wider application of geography. He …
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… Early youth organisations Since the 1850s hundreds of thousands of young New Zealanders have joined … values. The first New Zealand association began in Auckland in 1855 and others soon opened. Camping was a … for 12 to 21 year olds. It revived in 1926 with the founding of the First Dunedin Company at the Caversham …
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Part of story: Youth organisations
… Television Television of the 1970s showcased mainstream pop acts such as the … Tongues and Craig Scott. C’mon evolved into the more middle-of-the-road Happen Inn . For much of the country, the … roll was a countdown of the week’s top 10. Split Enz From Auckland in the early 1970s came art-rock band Split Ends, a …
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Part of story: Popular music
… Reading Recovery programme changed the experience of learning to read for many children in many countries. She … the way reading was taught around the world. 1 One of New Zealand’s first echelon of senior female professors, … and control problems.’ 2 In 1955 the family shifted to Auckland to expand their employment opportunities, settling …
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… (Himi Te Nana) Tau Hēnare was born at Mōtatau in the Bay of Islands on 18 November 1911, the youngest of six sons and one of eight children of Hera Paerata and … H. W. Cleary , he was sent to Sacred Heart College in Auckland. After finishing his high school education, he …
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… Those with happy relationships have the highest level of wellbeing. For many older people, their spouses or … life – as a result, widowhood can be a difficult experience of older age. Children are also important and adult children … event, celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2019. In 2017 Auckland hosted the World Masters’ Games. There were 25,000 …
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Part of story: Older people
… and baptised there on 18 August 1823. He was the son of Mary Edward and her husband, Walter Pettit Tricker, a husbandman. Nothing is known of his early life but he can have received little schooling … left England on the Java on 18 May 1846 and reached Auckland, New Zealand, on 27 November. Tricker served in …
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… on 5 May 1910 at Enihau, her family’s home, a mile north of the East Coast township of Tokomaru Bay. Her parents, Te Rā Haangū Ngāwai, a farmer, … Arihia Ngata hockey trophy. In 1939 Tuini moved briefly to Auckland, where she joined a choir that made frequent radio …
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… Tom Clark was one of New Zealand’s leading twentieth-century industrialists, … and the driving force behind Crown Lynn pottery. As one of the fourth generation of Clarks to manufacture brick and … educated at Hobsonville Primary School and King’s College, Auckland. His education was cut short at the age of 14 in …
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… century. Organised women The first New Zealand branch of the Women’s Institute, an organisation that promoted … and in the community, was set up in Rissington (north-west of Napier), in 1921 by Bessie Spencer and her sister Amy … After the 1931 earthquake many architectural graduates from Auckland University College were employed to draft plans for …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… collaborated with Apirana Ngata on the renowned collection of songs Nga moteatea . Jones’s history of Tainui, Nga iwi o Tainui , was published posthumously in … Mattar remarked that ‘the jealousy was terrible. Those Auckland designers just hated it that a country boy from …
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Part of story: King Country region
… Māori burial practices Māori buried people of high status close to settlements, then disinterred the … arrived. The first town cemeteries Within a decade of their founding, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin had …
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Part of story: Death and dying
… Childbirth after 1990 The number of independent midwives increased from just 50 in 1991 to 350 in 1993. General practitioners (GPs) continued to offer maternity care after 1990, sometimes in partnership … to those for low-risk women at National Women’s Hospital in Auckland during the same period. However, data on home …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… New Zealand was not an industrial society, and the majority of people lived in the country or in small towns, there was … movement between occupations, and many workers had a number of seasonal jobs. Artisans (skilled manual workers) usually … ‘very uncolonial’. 2 Colonial insolence In a letter to the Auckland Herald in 1879 ‘Head of Family’ complained about …
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Part of story: Class
… probably in 1859 or 1860. She was the second child of George Connon, a carpenter from Wales, and his wife, … Brown arrived in Christchurch to become one of the founding professors of Canterbury College. Helen's mother … serious decline in her health, Helen travelled with John to Auckland. When she fell ill in Rotorua, the debatable …
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