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… by islets, approximately 32 kilometres north-east of Stewart Island and about 20 kilometres south-east of Bluff. Just over 1,400 hectares in size, the island has … years earlier after an unsuccessful attempt to settle the Auckland Islands. ‘Waifs & strays’ Surveyors working in the …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… 1870 17-year-old Marianne Allen Manchester arrived at Auckland on the Excelsior. She was one of a group of single women brought out from Britain on … other channels as well as the WDU. In August 1895 she was a founding member of the Anti-Chinese League, believing that …
Type: Biography
… Alfred Henry Burton was the eldest of four sons of John Burton and his wife, Martha Neal. He was born at … 1856 Alfred emigrated to New Zealand, and was employed in Auckland as a printer for about three years. After a similar …
Type: Biography
… John Polson was born at Whanganui on 6 June 1875, the elder of two children of Scottish immigrants Donald Gunn Polson, a farmer, and his … maintaining the neutrality of the union, especially as the Auckland provincial Farmers' Union pushed to form a Country …
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… England, on 18 July 1800, the ninth and youngest child of Mary Marsh and her husband, Thomas Williams. He was baptised on 30 October 1800. Thomas Williams was of Welsh descent, a hosier by trade and a man of substance … overland journeys to Wellington and to St John's College, Auckland. Selwyn inducted him as archdeacon of the East Cape …
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… wife, Agnes Campbell. He began work as a pit boy at the age of 14 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1911. One of a number of Scottish migrant coalminers who made their … opposition to stabilisation. In 1948 he deregistered the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Carpenters' and Joiners' …
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… born in Carterton, Wairarapa, on 29 January 1886, the son of Ellen Banks and her husband, Charles Leonard Barnard, a … about a year in Foxton he moved to Te Aroha, becoming a founding member of the Hamilton District Law Society in … became increasingly attracted to radical politics. In Auckland in 1920 he met a young New Zealand Labour Party …
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… with his family on the Nimroud in 1860. After settling in Auckland the Brodrick family moved to Invercargill in 1864. … was appointed a survey cadet by J. H. Baker, inspector of surveys for Southland. Qualifying as a licensed surveyor … an assistant to Baker, who was appointed chief surveyor of Canterbury in the new post-provincial Survey Department. …
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… Stuart) was born in Christchurch on 27 August 1905, the son of Mary Elizabeth Wyatt and her husband, William Clark, a … 1922 he began evening classes at Canterbury College School of Art, and from 1923 to 1928 he also enrolled in day … Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, and then in 1927 at the Auckland Society of Arts. However, the need for a regular …
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… The first comedy films When the new medium of cinema reached New Zealand its comic potential was … Henry Hayward screened a comedy, Burglar and the girls , to Auckland audiences in 1905. During the 1920s his nephew … comedy films such as The bloke from Freeman’s Bay and Tilly of Te Aroha using a standard script and local residents as …
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Part of story: Humour
… in the Netherlands, on 15 January 1897, the daughter of Joziena Regiena van Haeften and her husband, Tiemen … Dyson, a solicitor. They married on 3 February 1927 in Auckland. Hedda brought her son from the Dutch East Indies … she represented the New Women's Club (of which she was a founding member) to make a submission to the Committee of …
Type: Biography
… Going north For much of the 19th century Otago had been the centre of industrial production, and was the chief province in both … and became more urban, the cities of Wellington and Auckland expanded. With substantial investment in buildings …
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Part of story: Factory industries
… The role of non-text content As well as over 3 million words, by … 950 sound files 2,100 interactives. Beyond the call of duty Resource researchers often found themselves … Sound and Vision), the Alexander Turnbull Library and Auckland Museum. Allison Dobbie of Auckland City Libraries …
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Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… Herman Harry Jekeles was born at Dubauti, in the district of Cernauti, Romania (now Chernovtsy, Ukraine), on 5 August 1908. He was the youngest of five children of Jewish parents Mina Rosa Croon (Corne) … the staff at the Plant Research Bureau of the DSIR in Auckland. When the Second World War began Harry Jacks was …
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… Parore Te Āwha, of the hapū Te Kuihi, was born at Mangakāhia, probably … Toretumua Te Āwha, he was descended from the high chief Toa of Te Roroa , kin of Ngāti Whātua, whose grandson … two chiefs invited from the area from the Bay of Islands to Auckland, the other being his brother-in-law, Te Tirarau. In …
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… Alexander Wyclif Reed was born on 7 March 1908 in Ponsonby, Auckland, the only child of Alexander John Reed, a Methodist minister, and his wife, … leaving his four-year-old son (known as Clif) to the care of his mother. She encouraged a catholic taste in reading: …
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… or distressing, including references to the sexual abuse of children. Commune leader Bert Potter was one of late-twentieth-century New Zealand’s most controversial … the creation of Centrepoint, an intentional community in Auckland, which he led according to the principles he had …
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… Fraser was born on 28 August 1884 at the highland village of Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland, the son of Donald Fraser, a master shoemaker, and his wife, Isabella … social advancement, he decided to emigrate. He landed in Auckland on 2 January 1911. Pat Fraser, as he was known in …
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… From the late 1950s through to the first decade of the twenty-first century, Peter Beaven was one of the … in his evolving architectural consciousness. He attended Auckland University College’s School of Architecture in … urban design and for the retention of heritage. He was a founding member of the Christchurch Civic Trust in 1965 and …
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… Allan was born in Nelson on 27 April 1882, the youngest of six children of Emma Maria Lewis and her husband, Robert Allan, a … at Waitaki Boys’ High School in Oamaru, and graduated MA at Auckland University College the following year. On 7 …
Type: Biography