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… and was baptised on 12 January 1826. He was the fifth son of John Buckland, a broker, and his wife, Elizabeth … Wallen at Stoke Damerel, Devon, on 26 May 1850. She died in Auckland, New Zealand, on 12 July 1866, and on 15 May 1867 … dealing, and had bought land for himself and on behalf of the government for the settlement of immigrants. An …
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… James and Walter McDonald were born in the townland of Nicholastown, Mooncoin parish, County Kilkenny, Ireland, … Dublin: James was ordained there in 1851; Walter in Auckland, New Zealand, on 9 March 1856 by Bishop J. B. F. … McDonalds came to Auckland, Pompallier was in the process of establishing his diocese after the removal of the Marist …
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… was born in Ayr, Scotland, on 2 November 1825, the son of Agnes Todd and her husband, Alexander Murdoch, a lawyer. … travelled to Australia where David worked with the Bank of New South Wales. In 1856 he became manager in their … was dispatched to New Zealand where, as manager of the Auckland branch and inspector for the Wales throughout the …
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… A number of Christian – mostly Catholic – religious orders were … social services such as education, health services and care of the elderly. In most, members eschew private property. … The Irish Catholic order of the Sisters of Mercy arrived in Auckland from 1850. By 1897 congregations had been founded …
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Part of story: Communes and communities
… was not only urban but metropolitan – by 1916 much of the urban population lived in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The South Island was home to most of the population briefly, from about 1870 to 1900, but most …
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Part of story: Population change
… Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 27 September 1893, the daughter of Elizabeth Gilmour and her husband, Walter Brown, a ploughman. Agnes was one of a large family and had only a primary school education. … were to have two children. The Kent-Johnstons arrived in Auckland in 1919. They lived in Devonport and Mount Albert …
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… Doris Adelaide Canham was born in Auckland on 21 August 1898, the eldest of five children of Lillian Henrietta Cornish and her … and Districts Rose Society. In the mid 1950s Palmer was founding president of the Rotorua branch of the National …
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… born on 13 April 1885 in Nelson, New Zealand, was the son of Thomas Pettit, a grocer, Baptist, temperance advocate and … 1919. In 1919 Pettit went into general medical practice in Auckland. By this time his theological position had become … groups in most state secondary schools. Pettit was the founding chairman of the new organisation (initially called …
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… they had two children. He explained that he took a pay cut of more than 50% so the family could live in a country with … to New Zealand, stimulated migration. By 1996 the number of people born in Singapore had reached 3,477. Life in … most prominent. Culture Most Singaporeans have settled in Auckland, which supports a national club. There are also …
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Part of story: Malaysians and Singaporeans
… The story of human settlement on the subantarctic islands is a tale of dreams blighted by the realities of climate and soil. … in the dunes behind Sandy Bay on Enderby Island in the Auckland Islands. They were dated to the 13th or 14th …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… wrecked, but people who got lost in the backcountry were often never rescued, or were found only by chance. From the … 1890s, volunteer coastguard organisations in Canterbury and Auckland helped people in trouble at sea. In the 1920s, local search parties of police and volunteers from tramping, hunting and climbing …
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Part of story: Search and rescue
… drawbacks as well. Employment and education Urban centres offered better paid jobs, although in the main, the first wave of arrivals were poorly educated and took up unskilled … the major difficulty was finding suitable accommodation. In Auckland numerous migrants were forced to live in the then …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… The void left by the demise of the nationally recognised, full-time repertory company Limbs in 1989 was filled with a proliferation of pick-up companies (formed for a particular work or tour) and choreographic experimentation in the 1990s. In Auckland, Brian Carbee, Catherine Chappell, Michael …
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Part of story: Contemporary dance
… Revivalism The buildings of settlers in New Zealand mirrored the architectural … church cemetery. The colonisation of New Zealand and the founding of towns from 1840 led to a rush of new buildings. … architectural flair, but there were some exceptions. In Auckland architect William Mason designed the town’s first …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… on 17 February 1872 (registered simply as Hyam), the son of Moss Davis, an immigrant Jewish merchant, and his wife, … Bishop's School in Nelson, but completed his education at Auckland Grammar School after his father joined, then acquired, the Auckland liquor firm of Hancock and Company. Ernest disliked academic study and …
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… David Hendry was born the third of four children to Robert Hendry, a labourer, and his wife, … becoming a subscription seller for Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory. He then moved to Christchurch, where he … with Henry Starkie. When the business failed he shifted to Auckland to start afresh. Hendry, now calling himself Henry, …
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… Modern graffiti is associated with the New Zealand version of hip hop culture which arose in Auckland in the 1980s. The American graffiti documentary … Alongside the tag, a simple and stylised rendering of a name or pseudonym, artists created large and colourful …
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Part of story: Public and street art
… Christchurch Exhibition orchestra The professional orchestra formed for the New Zealand … a full orchestra is necessary’, and insisted on a minimum of 56 performers. 1 He ended up with 44. When the exhibition … orchestra’s concert so that the musicians could perform in Auckland the following night. The Star described its …
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Part of story: Orchestras
… Albert Edward Cooke was born in Auckland on 5 October 1901, one of four sons and three daughters of Sarah Jane Peterson and her husband, Albert Edward Cooke, …
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… in England at Reigate, Surrey, on 30 January 1842, the son of Harriet Thompson and her husband, John Sisson Steele, a surgeon. His mother was said to have been a cousin of the French painter William Haussoullier. Louis was … (A pencil self-portrait done in Florence is in the Auckland City Art Gallery collection.) He was in Paris again …
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