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… Planning has been a hallmark of New Zealand towns and cities since the beginning of colonial settlement in 1840. New Zealand Company The New … was laid about a square and Dunedin about an octagon. Auckland’s early plan featured a (London-styled) circus and …
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Part of story: City planning
… early 1950s continued urban growth and the rising number of private cars had created chronic congestion in city centres and along arterial streets. In Auckland planners first suggested building suburban railways … solution. Construction soon began on a master plan of motorways across the city. The linchpin of the system was …
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Part of story: City planning
… on 31 January 1864 in Whanganui, New Zealand, the fifth of eight children of James Speed and his wife, Janet Montgomery. James had … within a few years, moving north and eventually settling in Auckland. In June 1913 Janet Gillies wrote to the new …
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… between trotting and galloping was still blurred, as clubs often included events from the other code on their … had become, especially in the South Island. By the start of the 20th century, trotting was firmly established as a … was traditionally shared between six Australian states and Auckland or Christchurch, with New Zealand holding it every …
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Part of story: Horse and greyhound racing
… Today, their plants and animals generally resemble those of the nearby coast, but few remain in their original state. … to many native creatures – to mainland New Zealand and some of these islands. Europeans cleared the land and brought new … Kāpiti Island near Wellington and Tiritiri Matangi near Auckland have similar histories. Once cleared for farming, …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… the insatiable demand for lottery funding led Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet to promote a new numbers … racing industry. The initiative was revived after a change of government. In early 1986 the cabinet agreed to introduce … games To replace the Golden Kiwi and raise money for the Auckland 1990 Commonwealth Games, the Lotteries Commission …
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Part of story: Gambling
… philosophy department was founded at the University of Otago in 1871, the year teaching began there. Otago’s first three philosophy professors devoted their time to teaching rather than … the other three foundation university colleges, Canterbury, Auckland and Victoria (in Wellington). None established …
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Part of story: Philosophy
… was born on 16 March 1896 in Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland, one of five sons and two daughters of Lillias Tweed Miller and … was appointed to the Logan Campbell chair of agriculture at Auckland University College, New Zealand. Tertiary education … of Palmerston North, among other organisations. He was a founding member of several and held high office in many. He …
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… Russia was formerly one country of many incorporated in Tsarist Russia and then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, 1922–1991). The USSR, … ports caused anxiety in New Zealand. In 1873 an Auckland newspaper editor alarmed townsfolk with a false …
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Part of story: Russians, Ukrainians and Baltic peoples
… more likely than men to be paid for sex, but a small number of men also sell sex (mainly to other men, but sometimes to … people have also worked in the sex industry. A survey of sex workers published in 2007 indicated that 72% were … that there were nearly 2,500 sex workers working in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Nelson and Hawke’s Bay, …
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Part of story: Sex work
… as his navigator. He also abducted Whakaotirangi, the wife of Ruaeo, a prominent man of the village. While at sea Tamatekapua also tried to … the Bay of Plenty, Coromandel Peninsula and Tāmaki (Auckland) areas before making its final landfall at Maketū …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… Heremia Te Wake belonged to Ngāti Manawa, a hapu of Te Kaitūtae and Te Rarawa. He was born at Te Karaka in the Hokianga district, probably in the 1830s, the son of William Hoard (known to his Māori family as Pire Hoa), a … at Te Karaka and on 20 June was sent to Mount Eden gaol in Auckland. Once subjected to prison life he decided to escape …
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… was baptised there on 11 August 1833. He was the third son of Henry Ward, rector of Killinchy, and his wife, Anne Mahon. He married Margaret … production of Sheridan's The rivals , at Government House, Auckland. In 1862, in the company of William Fox , Henry …
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… was born at Kneesall, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of James Whiteley, a grocer, and his wife, Elizabeth Rainor. He was born on 20 July 1806, which was also the day of his baptism. He went to primary school at Farnsfield and … decided to let the matter rest. In 1854 Whiteley moved to Auckland, where he was chairman of the Auckland district of …
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… at Whāngārei, New Zealand, on 10 January 1843, the eighth of twelve children of Elizabeth Gilbert Puckey and her husband, Gilbert Mair, a … history and culture. Articled to the surveyor general in Auckland in 1860, Mair gained a provincial surveyor's …
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… From the 1980s composers benefited from the increasing professional status of music in New Zealand. Significantly, not all of these … music such as the 2006 Clarinet q uintet . David Hamilton Auckland composer David Hamilton, unlike many colleagues, …
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Part of story: Composers
… in Martinborough, Wairarapa, on 1 August 1898, the eldest of three children of Henry Oakes Ramsden, an Englishman, and his New … with language were regarded as assets. Soon he was in Auckland working for the Auckland Star , and then in …
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… Pūriri in the Thames district, New Zealand, was the oldest of seven children of the missionary James Stack and his wife, Mary West. He married Eliza Rachel Jane Jones on 28 January 1861 at Auckland; they had seven children. He spent his childhood …
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… Edward Robert Tregear, son of William James Tregear and his wife, Mary Norris, was born … On 27 June 1863, 17-year-old Edward brought them to Auckland, New Zealand, on the War Spirit. They lived for … Institute of Surveyors; he was its vice president and the founding editor of its journal. He organised the Civil …
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… Famous visitors At least until the advent of jet travel in the mid-1960s, the arrival of famous people in New Zealand led to considerable media … writer Sydney Greenbie thought that ‘there is one cook from Auckland to Invercargill, and his name is Monotony’. 3 Some …
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Part of story: Visitors’ opinions about New Zealand