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… Ireland, and baptised there on 24 May 1823. He was the son of Anne Doyle and her husband, Simon Moran, a farmer. Privately tutored until the age of 12, Patrick attended the Vincentian school in Dublin; St … also had temporary oversight of Wellington (1872–74) and Auckland (1875–79). In 1889 two of his nieces, Sarah and …
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… in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 7 February 1802, the second son of Sarah Kennedy and her husband, John Busby, a mineral … Sydney's water supply. James Busby took up a grant of 2,000 acres in the Hunter River district and began to … in public life. He represented the Bay of Islands in the Auckland Provincial Council from 1853 to 1855, and again …
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… In the 1990s the controversy of the 1970s and 1980s waned. Although the law was … internet became a base for activity. In the 2010s a wave of pro-abortion activism focused on persuading the … pregnant were able to have abortions in Wellington and Auckland. A limited service for women over 14 weeks pregnant …
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Part of story: Abortion
… are awards and prizes? The terms ‘award’ and ‘prize’ are often used interchangeably. An award generally refers to a … competitions run by newspapers and magazines such as the Auckland Weekly News were almost the only source of prizes … Choice award. State Literary Fund In addition to founding individual awards for poetry and prose, PEN NZ …
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Part of story: Awards and prizes
… born on Chatham Island on 7 July 1848. He was the second of nine children of Johann Heinrich Christoph Baucke and his wife, Maria … life and customs written for the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Weekly News. This material was collected in 1905 as …
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… Economic growth altered trading patterns, the arrival of steam power changed shipping routes, new navigational … on this low-lying and extensive danger’, he wrote in 1867 of Farewell Spit. That light was funded. However, his … lighthouse at Tiri, on Tiritiri Matangi Island, north of Auckland, was complicated by the steep terrain. Remoter …
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Part of story: Lighthouses
… was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 15 April 1892, one of eight children of Jane Thomson and her husband, James Cameron, a … years later she was promoted to senior nurse inspector in Auckland, where she remained until 1947. In May of that year …
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… Te Paea was the eldest daughter of Hēmi Tonoriri Kīngi and Ākinihi Ngaro Brown. Her father was a direct descendant of Te Whareumu of Ngāti Manu, now regarded as Ngāpuhi ; her … work as a missioner, they lived at many places in Auckland, Northland and the Gisborne district. The …
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… Land grants Like promoters of immigration, colonial politicians and governments … governments had schemes to assist people onto the land. Auckland gave land grants to immigrants and military settlers, other provinces offered land on liberal terms such as low prices or deferred …
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Part of story: Rural mythologies
… in Glasgow, Scotland, probably on 24 October 1831, the son of Robert Gilmour, a farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth Gemmell. Nothing is known of his life until he arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1858. Soon afterwards he moved to …
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… Māori as tikitiki – the name for the topknots worn by men of rank. Adults are about 50 centimetres long and weigh 1.1 … fluffing up their head crests and neck ruffs. At the height of the display they rear upwards until almost vertical, … lakes and farm ponds around New Zealand, mainly north of Auckland. …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), on 26 August 1838, the son of William Edward Ivey, a clerk and landowner, and his wife, … a 600-acre farm after completing the training course of the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. He took up … Christchurch. He was survived by Sophia Ivey, who died at Auckland in 1914, and their two children. Little evidence …
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… on 30 April 1913, John Patrick Kavanagh was the eldest of 10 children of Margaret Harris and her husband, Laurence … St Joseph’s School, Hawera, and then Sacred Heart College, Auckland, on a scholarship. There he displayed great ability … to the government in 1956. In 1960 he was appointed founding chairman of the Catholic Education Council for New …
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… 1970s a growing interest in Asian cultures, and the impact of Asian migration, led more people to take up a martial art. The Rembuden Institute of Martial Arts, founded by John Jarvis in 1968, had over … arts clubs. Less than a decade later there were over 150 in Auckland alone, and another 100 in Christchurch. The Korean …
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Part of story: Martial arts
… on the shore, where they live in a fluctuating environment of sea water and fresh water. These plants must cope with: … ) is the only flowering plant in New Zealand capable of living submerged in sea water. Small and dark green, with … 1952 few patches were left. Extensive loss was noted in the Auckland area in the 1930s, and seagrass cover reduced by …
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Part of story: Estuaries
… polythene, as well as sound, light, text and movement, all of which were ‘installed’ to create maximum impact in a … did not aim to be aesthetically pleasing. Because of their deliberately ephemeral, non-commercial nature, few … aluminium ‘Smirnoff sculpture’ (1969) in Newmarket, Auckland, was a finished, crafted and aesthetically powerful …
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Part of story: Sculpture and installation art
… and Pacific Island workers were engaged in these kinds of jobs. In 1981 they made up 10.4% of the workforce, but 31% of the total unemployed. Fallen … action from the New Zealand Meat Workers’ Union and the Auckland and Tomoana Freezing Workers’ Union to bring about …
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Part of story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement
… in Europe arrived in New Zealand. These included hundreds of Polish children who had lost their parents, and others … early 21st century many organisations in different parts of the country cater to the needs of refugees generally or … support from four regional refugee community groups – the Auckland Refugee Community Coalition, Hamilton Refugee …
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Part of story: Migrant and refugee organisations
… The major examples of religious intolerance in New Zealand involved hostility … and Protestants during the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century. At Ōkārito on the West Coast in 1865, … in 1922 for sedition after a St Patrick’s Day speech in Auckland. Liston had been vocal on Irish independence and …
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Part of story: Ethnic and religious intolerance
… at Brookside, Canterbury, New Zealand. She was the youngest of the nine children of Mary Armit and her husband, David Scott, a farmer. After … Scott had returned to New Zealand, and was in practice in Auckland. During the smallpox epidemic of that year, Scott, …
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