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… experience, nightlife remained under a legal cloud for much of the 1950s. Drinking and dancing were still kept apart. A breakthrough of sorts came in December 1956 when a central Auckland hotel, the Trans-Tasman, was granted a special …
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Part of story: Nightclubs
… known as Daldy MacWilliams, was born at Papakura, south of Auckland, New Zealand, on 23 July 1860. He was one of eight children of Martha Letitia Tullkin and her husband, …
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… Students Students have been the most significant group of Malaysians to arrive since they first started coming in the 1950s, because of a shortage of places at their local universities. … to emigrate, often coming to New Zealand (usually Auckland) to establish business ventures. Of the 8,820 …
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Part of story: Malaysians and Singaporeans
… In the early 2000s Māori business made up only a small part of the New Zealand economy (1.4%), mostly concentrated in export industries. Approximately 75% of the Māori asset base was in the North Island, with a high percentage – 47% – in the Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions. Customary trade …
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Part of story: Ngā haumi a iwi – Māori investment
… Māori The large Ngāti Porou tribe, based on the east coast of the North Island, enjoys a reputation for playing tricks, especially against non-Māori. A history of the tribe records that one elderly Ngāti Porou man asked … Maori figure cast in bronze outside the chief post office, Auckland’ is as bawdy and direct as a pub conversation. …
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Part of story: Māori humor – te whakakata
… James Murdoch was born at Onehunga on 18 April 1877, one of at least five children of Mary Ann Nealis and her husband, John Murdoch, a clerk. … was mayor of Papatoetoe (1959–65) and later served on the Auckland Regional Authority for 18 years, including 7 as …
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… with fish from the coast or estuary. At night by the light of a hurricane lamp, they use a spear to catch flounder from … good-quality fillets. Even so, many clubs keep a record of their heaviest catches. Easy pickings T. E. Donne spent … – especially among young Asian men fishing from rocky Auckland shores. Saltwater fly-fishing Fly-fishing is …
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Part of story: Recreational sea fishing
… Company for failing to set aside for Māori the tenths of land in the Wellington region, as it had promised. … Fletcher made progress among the Ngāti Tūwharetoa people of Taupō. This mission work was later extended to Nūhaka in … and by the 1960s the church had established four hostels in Auckland to offer practical and spiritual support for young …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… Geraldine, South Canterbury, on 1 June 1910, the daughter of Joseph Albert Rawlinson, a printer, and his wife, Agnes … was educated at Otago Girls’ High School and the University of Otago, where she graduated bachelor of music in 1934. She … speech, drama and vocal competitions, including the 1960 Auckland Aria and 1968 Sun Aria in Sydney. In 1973 she was …
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… society. The attitude was summed up by senior immigration official Dr Reuel Lochore: ‘We must make new Britishers: by … and by assimilation; by making suitable aliens into vectors of the British way of life.’ 1 On arrival the ‘aliens’ were … Dutch retirement villages like Ons Dorp in Henderson, Auckland. Others returned to the Netherlands. Speaking Dutch …
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Part of story: Dutch
… In the early 1900s dairy production transformed coastal Bay of Plenty into a thriving agricultural region. In the … and Te Puke in 1902, and in Tauranga in 1905. The output of butter at Katikati was only 29 tons in 1907–8, but … was the arrival of a Northern Steam Ship Company ship from Auckland. Not until 1908 did the government commit itself to …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… towns in the Wairarapa, and in Wellington. The epicentres of the earthquakes were both near Masterton, but because the … 11.16 p.m. by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that was felt from Auckland to Dunedin. This main shock lasted about a minute, … footpaths and the electricity and telephone lines. Heavy roofs and water tanks collapsed. In many Wairarapa towns, …
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Part of story: Historic earthquakes
… or teaching. In the 20th century, increasing numbers of women worked in light manufacturing or as clerks or … carnival to recoup the shortfall, but failed to keep track of funds. Accused of embezzling money, Morison resigned. Its … union provided money and an organiser’s time to fledgling Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch tailoresses’ unions. …
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Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… Promoting Māori oral health A positive outcome of the 1990s ‘health reforms’ was an increase in Māori … under kaupapa Māori (Māori ideology and practice), and offer a whānau ora (family health) approach to care. Other … 1994. With the exception of a dental therapy course at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), from 1999, …
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Part of story: Dental care
… Klakring, a village in Jutland, Denmark, the second child of Jørgen Andersen, a watchmaker, and his wife, Johanne … March 1887 he was given a temporary job in the Christchurch office of the Department of Lands and Survey, where he … much for her health, and the Andersens decided to move to Auckland in 1946, members of the Polynesian Society council …
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… Frederic Truby King, the fifth of seven children, was born in New Zealand on 1 April 1858 … Bell in Parliament and from 1861 to 1878 managed the Bank of New Zealand at New Plymouth. Truby King was a sickly … Plymouth branch of the Bank of New Zealand, and then at the Auckland branch, all the while continuing to study in areas …
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… Godfrey (who had worked as a maid in the Picton home of Katherine Mansfield ’s family, the Beauchamps), and her … and her mother’s earnest Christadelphianism and sales of her poetry from door to door. Late in 1934 Janet was … Frame spent much of the next eight years in Seacliff and in Auckland’s Avondale Hospital, sometimes as a voluntary and …
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… sex worker, and celebrated LGBTIQ+ icon. Proprietor of several notorious Wellington nightspots and one-time mayoral candidate, she pushed the boundaries of Wellington nightlife and both entertained and outraged … at Taieri airport. In about 1953 she briefly shifted to Auckland, where she discovered a lively ‘camp’ (homosexual) …
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… cycling changed from a novelty activity for the better-off to an essential part of everyday life – a way for New Zealanders to commute to … cities. Services on bikes By 1905 police in Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington were using bicycles, mainly as a …
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Part of story: Bicycles
… court cases, police raids, street marches and pickets, acts of Parliament and vigils. Rate The number of known abortions climbed rapidly through the 1970s and … was 0.02. By 1986 it was 0.30. First abortion clinic The Auckland Medical Aid Centre (AMAC) opened in 1974, providing …
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Part of story: Abortion