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… Tarapīpipi was the second son of Te Waharoa of Ngāti Hauā. His mother was Rangi Te Wiwini. He was born … and traded surplus produce to Pākehā settlers in Auckland. On the diplomatic front he played an important …
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… Robert David Muldoon (known as Rob or Bob) was the only son of James Henry Muldoon, a government inspector, and his wife, Amie Rusha Browne. He was born in Auckland on 25 September 1921. His paternal grandfather, … was a Methodist evangelist and social worker in one of Auckland’s poorest working-class areas. His maternal …
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… Jack Kent Hunn, the eldest of three children, was born on 24 August 1906 in Masterton … Wairarapa High School in 1923, Jack joined the Public Trust Office in Wellington in 1924, and embarked on a part-time … Trust he mainly administered estates. He transferred to Auckland in 1927 where, on 24 December 1932, he married …
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… 2 January 1817 at Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. He was the son of Margaret Saunders and her husband, James Thomson. Arthur Thomson studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he developed an interest in the … climatic conditions were also tabled in Parliament in Auckland, and published in the Wellington provincial …
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… Howard Morrison was one of the most beloved New Zealand entertainers of the second half of the twentieth century. A household … Hall in 1956 and invited them to join a variety show at the Auckland Town Hall. Levin introduced them to recording …
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… in Wigan, Lancashire, England, on 9 February 1898, the son of James Belshaw, a master greengrocer, and his wife, Mary Pilkington. His father was one of the first Labour councillors in Britain and the family … at the age of 29, to the foundation chair of economics at Auckland University College. Belshaw returned to New Zealand …
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… Little Marstone, Pencombe, Herefordshire, England, the son of Thomas Chilton, a farmer, and his wife, Jane Price. The … New Zealand in 1862, settling in the East Eyreton district of North Canterbury. At an early age Charles suffered from … Hinemoa to the subantarctic islands, visiting the Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, and Bounty islands. The party …
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… More Lusk was born on 5 May 1916 in Dunedin, the daughter of Thomas Younger Lusk, an architect, and his wife, Alice … in Hamilton, where the family had a house on the banks of the Waikato River. In 1928 they returned to Dunedin, and … public institutions, the most prominent of which were the Auckland City Art Gallery and the Hocken Library. The same …
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… Tourism begins Tourist visits increased after 1865 because of: the peace that followed the New Zealand wars the development of faster, more comfortable steamships in the 1870s and … on the enthusiasm of New Zealand locals: ‘They compare Auckland with Naples, Nice, Genoa, and Constantinople, and …
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Part of story: Visitors’ opinions about New Zealand
… at the missionary college at Hamburg, Völkner was one of several missionaries sent to New Zealand by the North … missionary Johann Riemenschneider, in Taranaki. In 1852 he offered his services to the Church Missionary Society. For … Völkner had remained at Ōpōtiki, making several visits to Auckland in 1864, and again in January 1865. Ignoring …
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… consul at Bordeaux. His mother, Frances, was the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, the Reverend J. Matthews. Dillon … family was in financial difficulties and he had no chance of further education or professional training. In 1839 his … 1843 aboard the Ursula. William Wakefield sent him to Auckland to buy land for the company and then to Nelson. …
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… moved the family, including a new brother, David, to Auckland, then back to Wellington. In 1939, as she was … working in bookshops. Sonja had felt the ‘first stirrings of a social conscience’ when she saw her mother disparaging … unemployed during the 1930s depression. Now she became part of a left-wing group of socialists centred on Victoria …
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… was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 28 August 1784, the son of James Cargill and his wife, Marrion Jamieson. His father, … in marked contrast to the rigour of life on board the other founding ship, the Philip Laing. Thomas Burns converted this … slow journey to the second sitting of Parliament in Auckland in 1856 seemed to drain the 71-year-old of much of …
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… Ararat, Victoria, Australia, on 15 November 1858, the son of Arthur Beauchamp, an auctioneer, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Stanley. At the age of two Harold sailed to New Zealand with his parents on the … 4 January 1920. The next day, at the registrar's office in Auckland, he married Laura Kate Bright (née Newton). She had …
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… Matutaera Nihoniho, in his narrative of the fighting on the East Coast, states that he was born … Waipiro Bay. He belonged to Te Aowera and Te Aitanga-a-Mate of Ngāti Porou . His father was Hēnare Nihoniho, a major … ended peacefully with a surrender of weapons to police from Auckland. Nihoniho and other Te Aowera people founded the …
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… is said to have been born on 19 December 1808, the son of Sir John and Lady Cameron. His mother's birth name was … Duncan Cameron's forebears, descended from the chiefs of their clan, after 1745 pursued careers in the British … this was clearly a side-show. Cameron returned to Auckland to await Grey's decision on Waikato. Finally, on 12 …
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… born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 23 April 1819, eldest son of Berkeley Buckingham Smith Stafford of Maine, County Louth, Ireland, and his wife, Anne Tytler. … 1857. On 5 December 1859 Stafford married Mary Bartley in Auckland. They were to have three daughters and three sons. …
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… Herefordshire gentry family. As younger sons of a large family they would not inherit land, but in New … prepared to buy land which they could farm. On arrival in Auckland the brothers went north. After investigation they found the Unuwhao block of 2,500 acres on the Hukatere peninsula, jutting south into …
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… ‘narrow lanes ... crowded alleys and reeking habitations’ of cities, ‘where ignorance and crime have their headquarters’. 1 In other words, it was a product of city life. Larrikin behaviour Larrikinism and street life … late 1990s, Los Angeles-styled youth gangs emerged in South Auckland, then spread elsewhere. Gangs are defined by …
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Part of story: City children and youth
… at Taonui, near Feilding, on 3 October 1891, the daughter of Elizabeth Keeble and her husband, Richard Octavius … to Sydney to study under J. S. Watkins. This was the first of several trips she was to make to Sydney for tuition … the first, in 1930, was as relieving art lecturer at Auckland Training College. From the mid 1930s she worked at …
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