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… on 2 September 1812 at South Shields. He was the third of five surviving sons of George Townshend Fox and his wife, Ann Stote Crofton. His … to the entire government and missionary establishment in Auckland. He condemned the Treaty of Waitangi as 'shallow, …
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… William Clarke, a gunsmith and builder. Between the ages of 11 and 20 he learnt carpentry and gunsmithry from his … circumnavigation for scientific purposes under the command of Louis Duperrey. Duperrey and the naturalist René Lesson … in 1852. When it did not meet, he was elected to the Auckland Provincial Council, on which he served from 1853 to …
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… Te Horetā, also known as Te Taniwha, was a leader of Ngāti Whanaunga, one of the Marutūāhu confederation of Hauraki Gulf and … the wars of Ngāti Pāoa against Te Kawerau, a tribe of the Auckland isthmus. In the mid 1790s, after the murder of a …
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… Te Hura was the chief of Ngāi Te Rangihouhiri, once a powerful hapū of Ngāti Awa , which occupied several villages in the region … and remnants of his army were tried in the Supreme Court in Auckland, he was said to be 50 years old. He came into …
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… England, on 17 January 1822, the third child of the Anglican clergyman Henry Williams and his wife, … for holy orders. When the college was moved to Tāmaki, in Auckland, late that year, he went too. As senior bursar at … Māori girls in Napier, which he had played a major part in founding in 1875. Upset by the treatment meted out to his …
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… public intellectual in New Zealand during the second half of the twentieth century. A refugee from Nazi Germany, he … years in New Zealand Rosenberg arrived at Queen’s Wharf, Auckland, on 28 June 1937, a date he would later celebrate … would be published until 1996. In 1975, he was one of the founding members of the Campaign Against Foreign Control in …
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… Thomas Bracken, the son of Margaret Kiernan and her husband, Thomas Bracken, was … to Samoa with John Lundon , representative there for the Auckland South Sea Island Produce Company, and was an … back at least to 1874, when R. A. Loughnan , one of the founding directors of the New Zealand Tablet , employed him …
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… Te Kaeaea was a chief of Ngāti Tama of northern Taranaki. He was born in the later eighteenth … Kaeaea was got out of the way by sending him on a visit to Auckland. In the 1850s government officials feared that Te …
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… born in Melbourne, Australia, on 15 December 1866, the son of Emilia Louisa Aronson and her husband, Charles Baeyertz, manager of the National Bank of Australasia at Colac, Victoria. … series on public speaking. Isabella Baeyertz died in Auckland on 9 February 1929; she had been living in New …
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… in New Zealand has been around since the earliest days of European settlement. Kororāreka (later Russell) in the Bay of Islands was the country’s first town. From the 1830s … accompanied by opium smoking. Wellington’s Haining Street, Auckland’s Greys Avenue and an area round Dunedin’s Carroll …
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Part of story: Gambling
… Europeans, this meal pattern continued into the second half of the 20th century. Less isolated communities adopted … cookery and housekeeping book stressed the importance of punctual meals and said that any breakfast that lasted … Islanders had their main meal at midday, compared to 11% of Aucklanders. The midday dinner remained a defining feature …
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Part of story: Eating
… Politics of old age Although older people have much the same … the New Zealand Super Fund in 2001. It was the initiative of the then Minister of Finance Michael Cullen, who wanted … older people’s advocacy groups. It was established in Auckland in 1985 after the government placed a tax surcharge …
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… Raharuhi Rukupō of Rongowhakaata is said to have been born at Ōrākaiapu pā, Manutūkē, in Poverty Bay, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the second son of Te … work on the war canoe Te Toki-a-Tāpiri, which is now in the Auckland War Memorial Museum. It is said that Rukupō carved …
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… was born in Dunedin on 11 February 1888, the first child of John Gibson Smith, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, … Invercargill, where his father had become the minister of the First Presbyterian Church. After a period as a pupil … own. Smith married Eva Jane Cumming on 23 November 1915 in Auckland, and their daughter was born in October 1916, but …
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… Decline of translation services For much of the 20th century the role of Māori-language translators … was held in 1985. A two-year diploma course began at Auckland University of Technology in 1992, and later was …
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… been killed eight days before, during an attack by the Duke of Wellington's army on Napoleon's soldiers in the fortress of Badajoz, Spain. George Grey's mother was Elizabeth Anne … of Grey's intentions. A major problem was that the Auckland settlers feared a Waikato attack. To forestall …
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… George Laking was one of New Zealand’s key twentieth-century public servants. In a … ombudsman and in law reform. Early life Born in Onehunga, Auckland on 15 October 1912, George Robert Laking was the second of five children of tailor Robert George Laking and his wife …
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… humour, the supernatural and the transformative power of language. Early years Margaret Mahy was born in Whakatāne on 21 March 1936, the first child of English-born Francis George (Frank) Mahy and his wife … to support her university ambitions. Two years followed at Auckland University College (1952–4), studying English, …
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… Bermondsey. His father, Nathaniel Domett, was a ship owner of naval and merchant service background; he and his wife, Elizabeth Curling, had nine children, of whom Alfred was the sixth child and the fourth son. … June 1843, he and David Monro were sent as a deputation to Auckland to represent the feelings of the Nelson settlers. …
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… Paraire Karaka Paikea was the great-grandson of Paikea Te Hekeua, a prominent chief of Te Uri-o-Hau and Ngāti Whatua . His father was Karaka … Boys’ School (1907–9) and at Wesley College at Three Kings, Auckland (1910–1915), where he was dux in 1914. He played …
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