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… first wage workers needed to live within walking distance of their workplaces. The earliest suburbs, such as Thorndon in Wellington and Freemans Bay in Auckland, therefore grew up on the edge of the inner city. By the end of the 19th century, public … The role of transport …
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Part of story: Suburbs
… Lewis Alfred Eady was born in Auckland on 12 May 1891 into a staunch Congregationalist … in Auckland, ran a rival music store. By 1912 the firm of Lewis R. Eady and Son was importing pianos and selling … town planning, a proposed civic centre, and the setting up of a metropolitan board for the management of public …
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… Trevor Lloyd was born at Wade (Silverdale), near Auckland, New Zealand, on 21 December 1863, the son of Henry Lloyd, a farmer, and his wife, Hannah Miles. After … artist, he began filling small sketch-books with drawings of his immediate environment and with caricatures of his …
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… Geology All New Zealand’s subantarctic islands are parts of the Campbell Plateau, a shallow section of the Zealandia continent extending south and east of New Zealand. The Auckland, Campbell and Antipodes islands are primarily of …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… 1891 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, the youngest of five children of Henry Anderton, a forge labourer, and … at the Spiritual Scientist Church. From September 1922, in Auckland, he did the same at the Progressive Church of … the British Fabian socialists. In 1928 he was the principal founding member of the Auckland Fabian Club and later became …
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… when the police charged Carmen Rupe with ‘behaving in an offensive manner in a public place’ after they found her … never dressed as a man again. Since the 1970s many forms of gender diversity have been visible and celebrated at gay and lesbian community events such as Auckland’s Hero Festival and Big Gay Out. Gender-diverse …
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Part of story: Gender diversity
… Freda Ellen Jacobs, who was always known as ‘Fuzz’ because of her exceedingly curly hair, was born on 12 August 1902 in Lyttelton, the eldest of six children of English-born parents Jane Ellen Ransley … Girls’ College briefly before the family shifted to Auckland, where she transferred to Auckland Girls’ Grammar …
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… 1889 above his father's fruit shop in Karangahape Road, Auckland, the son of Maude Mary Constable and Edward Turner (born Tredgett). … Turner was also active in the community. In 1913 he was a founding member of the Mount Albert Baptist Church and he …
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… Land grants While Auckland offered assisted passages to domestic servants and builders, its main energies went into offering land to those who could pay their own way – 40 … Auckland’s immigrants: 1853 to 1870 …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… In the early 21st century Plunket supported the repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961, which meant that parents could no … high-profile child-health organisation which was started in Auckland in 1978 by a group of parents and health …
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Part of story: Health advocacy and self-help
… men married Italian women, or New Zealand-born daughters of Italians. There were regular get-togethers with other … days, or lively evening meals with music, wine and a bowl of pasta. Italians generally socialised with others from … games. It was still active in the 2000s. Club Italiano in Auckland brought scattered groups together from 1925 until …
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Part of story: Italians
… Sailing Auckland is known as the City of Sails. Every Anniversary … who launched a thousand sailing careers’ – including that of Peter Blake, who won two America’s Cup victories. One of …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… Characteristics In 2018 Sri Lankans comprised just over 2% of the Asian population of New Zealand. Of all Asian residents, they were the most … and the retail and manufacturing sectors. Most lived in Auckland and Wellington, with smaller populations in …
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Part of story: Sri Lankans
… and have a distinctive blunt nose. Dark brown, with a mane of thick hair about the neck and shoulders, they can tip the … yellow. Breeding sites The main breeding grounds are in the Auckland Islands. A small number breed on Campbell Island, … on the Otago coastline. The sea lions like sandy beaches, of which there are plenty, but 95% of the population breeds …
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Part of story: Seals
… Thomas Bannatyne Gillies was born at Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, on 17 January 1828. He was the eldest of nine children of John Gillies, local lawyer and town … on 25 February after childbirth, Thomas quit Dunedin for Auckland. With him went his four children and his youngest …
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… Gus Fisher was one of the most prominent figures in the New Zealand fashion … life as Gus. In the mid-1920s the Fisher family moved to Auckland, where Gus later attended Auckland Grammar School. … had suffered from Parkinson’s disease. He also became the founding donor of the Hoods Fellowship Fund, a programme …
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… up to several hundred metres high, built by many eruptions of andesite lava over tens of thousands of years. Eruptions at cone volcanoes can be … same cone as can be seen at One Tree Hill (Maungakiekie) in Auckland. The Auckland volcanic field has about 48 cones and …
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Part of story: Volcanoes
… trams created a riding culture – which led to high usage of electric trams. Patronage peaks and falls Patronage of trams peaked in 1944 and 1945, with 220 million trips … the number of people using public transport in the 1950s. Auckland was the most significant with a 42% decrease by …
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Part of story: Public transport
… industrial exhibitions, in particular the Great Exhibition of 1851. In New Zealand the first such exhibition was held in Dunedin in 1865. During the second half of the 19th century museums were established in New Zealand’s four main centres: The Auckland Institute and Museum had its modest origins in an …
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Part of story: Museums
… John Balmain Brooke was born in Auckland on 28 July 1907, the eldest of three children of Ernest Brooke, a commercial traveller, … Jack, as he was known, was a renowned sailor and a founding member of the Wakatere Canoe Club (later the …
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