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… rail, has an engaging and resourceful nature. Weka are most often seen or heard shrieking around dusk. They emerge from … on the Chatham Islands and some tītī (muttonbird) islands off Stewart Island. Weka culture On the Chatham Islands, 800 … to walk from its release site, the Waitākere Range near Auckland, to Tāneatua, 300 kilometres away. It was heading …
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Part of story: Large forest birds
… and Ngāi Tahu , and was related to the Whaitiri family of the Chatham Islands. He was the youngest of three children and the only one to survive into … married Ida May Mills (née Martin) on 15 August 1942, in Auckland; they were to have one daughter. After the war he …
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… A large portion of the population has at some time in their lives engaged in some form of dishonesty or theft but few are ever caught. There are … in tax evasion. In 2014 Alex Swney, the chief executive of Auckland’s business association, Heart of the City, and …
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Part of story: Dishonesty crime
… director then as director, during the middle decades of the twentieth century. His career followed an upward … worker during the depression, to botanist in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, to senior Forest … the East Coast: Whatatutu, Tūpāroa and Pūhā. He boarded in Auckland to attend Belmont Primary School, in Rotorua to …
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… first chief justice, William Martin, the youngest son of Henry Martin, a manufacturer, and his wife, Mary Martin, … In 1832 he graduated MA and was elected a Foundress fellow of his college. He became a student at Lincoln's Inn on 9 … 1841, and after a month's stay sailed on the same ship to Auckland, where he disembarked on 25 September 1841. Mary …
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… Te Wherowhero was born in Waikato towards the end of the eighteenth century. He was the eldest son of a Waikato warrior chief, Te Rauangaanga, and Parengāope … meeting impressed on Governor Robert FitzRoy the fact that Auckland's security depended on Waikato friendship. In the …
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… on 1 September 1913, the second son and fourth child of Mary Magdalene Sullivan and her husband, Patrick Davin, a … and Dan grew up immersed in their culture: its love of language, story-telling and song, its religious faith, … 1930 a place was found for him at Sacred Heart College in Auckland. Here he was in the same class as a number of …
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… Ireland, probably sometime between 1838 and 1841, the son of Annie Parker and her husband, John Hume. Arthur attended … before being commissioned as an ensign in the 79th Regiment of Foot or Cameron Highlanders in July 1859. Three years … and often decrepit. Hume recommended the rebuilding of Auckland's prison at Mount Eden and the erection of a new …
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… Mitchell was born at Ōhinemutu on 5 May 1877, the elder of two children of Te Whakarato Rangipāhere Taiehu of Ngāti Te Takinga, a … He received his secondary education at Wesley College, Auckland. For about 12 months from 1893 Tai Mitchell farmed …
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… was born at Otaki, Horowhenua, on 5 April 1905, the son of Jessie Mary Richardson and her husband, Charles Guy … the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) and the Auckland maximum security prison at Paremoremo. Designated … Zealand section from 1963 and a commissioner from 1965. A founding member of the New Zealand Commission of the …
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… Rona Bailey was one of the most important figures on the radical left in … part of respectable society. Rona trained as a teacher at Auckland and Christchurch training colleges. A keen … the formation of new communist organisations. Bailey was a founding member of the Wellington Marxist-Leninist …
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… at Nurse Ross’s maternity home, Dunedin, the second son of Archibald McColl Learmond Baxter , an Otago farmer, and … highlands, Millicent was the strong-minded elder daughter of noted Canterbury College professor John Macmillan Brown . … practice. Although his ultimate destination was Jerusalem, Auckland was his initial stop. He discovered his niche in a …
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… Lawlor was born on 12 February 1893 in Wellington, the son of Irish-born Catholics David Roche Lawlor, a stationer and … from 1908 to 1909, where he was recognised as a violinist of some competence. After leaving school Lawlor began what … following year failing health necessitated his moving to Auckland, where he and his wife lived with a daughter in …
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… Hirini Rāwiri Taiwhanga was born probably at Kaikohe, west of the Bay of Islands, in 1832 or 1833. His mother was Mata Rawa of Te … at the Waimate mission school and at St John's College, Auckland, showing ability in theology. He trained and worked …
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… Whiwhi, sometimes called Te Whiwhi-o-te-rangi, was the son of Te Rangitopeora , the sister of Te Rangihaeata , a woman who held a foremost place among … Later that year he spent some time at St John's College, Auckland. In March 1847 he was one of those who signed, on …
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… both parents he was connected with the upper echelons of the aristocracy. His father, Lord Charles FitzRoy, was a son of Augustus Henry, the third duke of Grafton, a … After sailing in the Bangalore to Sydney and thence to Auckland, FitzRoy, his wife and three young children, and …
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… 1875, aged 13 and weighing only 23 kilograms. He became a professional, beating all comers in New Zealand. When he … weight ever to victory (66 kilograms) following a series of wins over the previous three years. New Zealanders … and Murphy insisted he was ‘not an Australian, but an Auckland boy, having been born in Chapel Square [in the …
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Part of story: Sport and the nation
… born on 20 June 1906 in London, England, the second child of James Willie Berry, a clerk, and his wife, Amy Blanche Clarissa Wakefield. After the death of his father in 1911, James was sent to board at Russell … to relatives and friends in England before returning to Auckland. There, on 6 November 1979, he boarded the plane …
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… on 9 November 1896 at Alvescott, Oxfordshire, England, one of four children of Emma Bertha Harrison and her husband, Samuel Arnott Pym, … to New Zealand and from mid 1926 until early 1927 worked in Auckland as girls' work activity secretary for the YWCA . In …
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… born at Muriwai, Poverty Bay, probably in 1885 or 1886, one of twin sons of Robert Cooper and Mere Morera (or Christie). Both parents … was placed in charge of land consolidation schemes in North Auckland: he was one of Ngata's specially selected men and …
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