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… Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand, on 4 August 1887, the son of Moravian-born parents Jozef Pavelka, a bushman, and his … and spent five months in hospital, during which time part of a lung was removed. On 29 September 1909 at Ashhurst, … in New Zealand. Family lore has it that he was assisted to Auckland by family and friends, and sailed aboard the Makura …
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… A provincial government was formed three years after the founding of the settlement. The Canterbury Provincial Council was the … commitment to ‘municipal socialism’. This prompted Auckland businessman Douglas Myers to describe the city as …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… Until the arrival of television, newspapers were by far the most important … Sunlight soap even advertised their wares on the back of New Zealand postage stamps. Peep show In 1922 a window … was set up to establish non-commercial stations in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. The stations …
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Part of story: Advertising
… or 1815. His parents' names are unknown, as are details of his early life before he came to the Pacific in the mid … 1843 he had advanced to captain, and by 1852 was the owner of a 20 ton schooner, the Mendlesham. He also set up stores … and informant. Although he declined nomination for the Auckland Provincial Council election in 1873, in 1876 he …
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… was born on 4 January 1900 at Marton, the eldest child of Alfred Richdale and his wife, Amy Stewart. Alfred became … New Zealand, fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and a founding member of the Ornithological Society of New … and his wife returned to Hamilton before moving in 1966 to Auckland, where he died on 19 December 1983; Agnes survived …
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… Elizabeth Atkinson, had emigrated from England with others of their kin group in December 1852 to join an extended family of Richmond brothers, Hursthouses and Stephenson Smiths who … briefly at New Plymouth the Richmonds shifted in turn to Auckland, Dunedin, Nelson and Wellington. In 1875 they went …
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… or 1844, at Downpatrick in County Down, Ireland, the son of John Ritchie, a farmer, and his wife Eliza McMurray. He … tales, he sold his horse for £25, pocketed the gift of a further £50 from his father, and sailed for New … a high place in Ritchie's affections, and is now in the Auckland War Memorial Museum. His papers reveal the keen …
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… were designed in 1863. Hokitika was probably the location of New Zealand’s first skating rink – one was operating there in 1866, in the midst of the region’s gold rush. The evils of roller skating While … their jammer. New Zealand’s first roller derby league – Auckland’s Pirate City Rollers – started competitive bouts …
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Part of story: Roller skating and skateboarding
… Gordon Ross was born in Thames on 6 February 1909, the son of blacksmith Charles Godfrey Ross and his wife, Maretta … hair and a long, sharp nose, he held a succession of short-term jobs, mostly as a labourer, although he also … Released in January 1946, he died of tuberculosis in Auckland on 29 August that year, aged 37; he had never …
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… set, lighting, costume and audiovisual elements. The scope of theatre design in New Zealand ranges in scale from opera … as Bats Theatre in Wellington and the Maidment Theatre in Auckland. Realist influences Until the second half of the 20th century the concept of theatre design in New …
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Part of story: Theatre design
… in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 26 February 1857, the son of Prudence Veale and her husband, Thomas Kingwell Skinner, … from Devon to Taranaki in 1841. William was educated at Schofield's private school and H. R. Richmond's private school … Plymouth, formed in 1874, and represented Taranaki against Auckland. Skinner began his survey cadetship in July 1872 …
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… a major part in Taranaki life, and the region has a record of success and national representation in many codes. The … on local occupations such as wood-chopping. Rugby Teams of Armed Constabulary (AC) members and locals were almost … games between 1963 and 1965. Taranaki won the shield from Auckland in 1996 but it was lost at the second defence. …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… Rugby Rugby was one of the earliest organised sports in Hawke’s Bay. A club was … in 1884) was the first union outside the four main centres (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin). By then … Most 19th-century settlements had annual race meetings, often during the Christmas–New Year period. The first formal …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… regulated by local authorities. T for taxi Because people often hailed private cars thinking they were taxis, Auckland City Council decided in 1915 to mark taxis by … the letter ‘T’ in red on their number plates, in front of the black registered number that all cars had. Taxi …
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Part of story: Taxis and cabs
… In 1937 the head of the National Broadcasting Service (NBS), James Shelley, first mooted the establishment of a National Broadcasting Service Orchestra. A more … shorter, more manageable tours possible. In the 2010s in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, works are …
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Part of story: Orchestras
… (Coromandel). There, he married Tukutuku, a descendant of Marutūahu. Rautao, a descendant of Marutūahu, and Kapetaua of Ngāti Pāoa, conquered much of Tāmaki (Auckland) in separate battles. Ngāti Pāoa fought a number of … the famous woman chief Te Atairehia, a granddaughter of the founding Te Wai-o-Hua chief Te Hua-o-kaiwaka. She was given …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… The earliest bridges in New Zealand were simply the trunks of trees laid across a stream. Many Māori paths crossed such bridges. British settlers brought a long tradition of bridge-building, especially arched stone bridges and, … the Leith in Dunedin in 1903. In 1910 the Grafton bridge in Auckland became the world’s largest reinforced concrete arch …
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Part of story: Bridges and tunnels
… left Parliament in 1943 and died in 1950, and a new breed of leaders emerged in the context of the rapidly urbanised Māori communities. The rise of … Whātua people occupied Bastion Point above Ōkahu Bay in Auckland. The tribe had been evicted from the bay in 1951, …
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Part of story: Māori
… families depended on neighbours to help them in times of trouble. The spirit of mutual aid still exists, but there are also services to … Rural Women New Zealand still operated a holiday home near Auckland, and bed and breakfast accommodation in Wellington. …
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Part of story: Rural services
… The author of a dozen novels and many scores of short stories that were widely read in New Zealand during … and write Promenade (1938), set in nineteenth century Auckland and Canterbury. By this time, when she had at last …
Type: Biography