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… tourism in Fiordland in the 1950s, before the full potential of New Zealand’s tourist industry was recognised. … venture grew into one of New Zealand’s largest tourist enterprises. ‘Fiordland was always in my blood’, 1 said Hutchins, and his love for this remote region prompted him to take a leading role in the Save …
Type: Biography
… John White was born in the village of Cockfield in Durham, England, … 1826, one of a family of eight children born to Francis White, a blacksmith, and his wife, Jane Angus. The White family emigrated to New Zealand in 1834. They were … White, John …
Type: Biography
… Davina Whitehouse’s career in performance spanned 70 years, from … Britain between the 1920s and the 1940s to radio, theatre, television and film roles in New Zealand from the 1950s to … Whitehouse, Davina …
Type: Biography
… Adkin was a self-taught scholar with the skills and integrity of a professional. Most of his working life he farmed with little profit or pleasure. His real interest was in geology and archaeology, and in the back room of his small farmhouse he worked late making meticulous records of his work. He was born in …
Type: Biography
… Zealand Air Force – and their respective reserve (part-time territorial) forces. Combined, they make up the New Zealand … was symbolised in Horace Moore-Jones's well-known watercolours depicting a soldier with his donkey, painted around the time of the First World War. Dogs and pigeons …
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Part of story: Armed forces
… visiting the coast of New Zealand, until he became a waterman, ferrying people across Port Jackson (the harbour of … further sailing vessels, he gained a controlling interest in most southern New Zealand whaling stations, … and a quantity of land near Waikouaiti for £225. To look after his business interests as well as his medical needs, he …
Type: Biography
… Brutalism From the 1960s architects like Miles Warren took modernism in a brutalist … emphasised the honest expression of structure and materials (especially concrete) – the term was derived from the French term ‘béton …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… William Mein Smith is said to have been born on 7 September 1799 at Cape Town, South Africa, and was baptised … the eldest son of William Proctor Smith, a naval purser, later secretary to the Port Admirals at Plymouth, and his … to a military family. He went to school in Devon, entered the army as a gentleman cadet at the age of 14, and …
Type: Biography
… In the genre-bending thriller Mr Wrong (1985), directed by Gaylene Preston, women took control both behind and in front of the camera. Barry Barclay’s (Ngāti Apa, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Hauiti) Ngati (1987) was … feature made by an indigenous culture living within a white majority culture. Merata Mita’s (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāi Te …
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Part of story: Feature film
… leaves of tobacco. In the 2000s smoking tobacco was estimated to be responsible for over 4,000 deaths each year in New Zealand. Tobacco’s role as an item of international capitalist trade dates back centuries. Its …
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Part of story: Smoking
… Wills Wills are written, witnessed statements which express the wishes of individuals regarding the disposal of their estates after death. They may also: appoint estate executors …
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Part of story: Inheritance
… and his wife Mary Chaplin. Harry, as he was known, attended a local elementary school until he was 10, then … hours and an oppressive employer – and developed two characteristics central to his future life. One was the habit of …
Type: Biography
… This raised questions about whether the moa had been exterminated by Māori, or by pre-Māori people. If the latter, who were these people and what happened to them? One …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… Bay of Islands Expanse of water with several long inlets and over 150 islands, south of … activity, with many eruption outlets and lava flows. Its outer limits are marked by the headlands of Tokerau on the … have a lengthy association with the bay. It was first visited by the ancestral navigators Kupe and Ngake (or Ngahue), …
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Part of story: Northland places
… son of John Henry Burnand, gentleman, and his wife, Harriette Davis. The Burnand family emigrated to New Zealand, arriving in Nelson in the Royal Albert … where Harry's father died on 4 March 1854. Two years later his mother married Henry Handyside, an engineer and …
Type: Biography
… giant wētā Wētā are insects unique to New Zealand. Related to crickets and grasshoppers, they have remained … in the North Island’s King Country. The gorse may have protected it from rats, and therefore extinction. Since the late …
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Part of story: Threatened species
… lowlands, Hauraki–Coromandel has a wide range of local climates and native vegetation types for a coastal region in the … altitudes annual rainfall can be twice the volume and mean temperatures 7°C lower than on the plains. Subalpine plants … of the Coromandel Range, but little of the original kahikatea forest, flax and raupō survive on the Hauraki Plains. …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… on the plains before the main road west turns to cross Porters Pass. The railway to the West Coast veers off to begin … journey through the Waimakariri Gorge. The Springfield Hotel was a coaching stop on the road west from Christchurch. … When trains became the usual way to travel between Canterbury and the West Coast, the station refreshment rooms …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… James Hector When James Hector was appointed to undertake a national geological survey in 1865, he … he had established the New Zealand Geological Survey (later GNS Science), the Colonial Museum (later the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) and the New …
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Part of story: Research institutions
… Society of Accountants (NZSA) remained low. Very few educated women were in paid employment before the Second World … accountancy profession. For most of the 1920s Auckland sisters Alice and Caroline Basten were New Zealand’s only female chartered (registered as …
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Part of story: Accountancy