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… Taupō sent products through Auckland’s port. New Zealand Steel chose Glenbrook in South Auckland – close to ironsands and transport routes – as the site for the country’s only steelworks, opened in 1969. City …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… Timber Sawmilling was a major enterprise from the 1860s. Brownlees were the biggest … and Pelorus valleys from 1864. At their peak they operated 45 km of tramways and three mills. Brownlees had shipped approximately 189 million cubic feet (5.35 million cubic metres) of …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… Native timber The native timber of the Volcanic Plateau came mainly from massive conifers – tōtara, rimu, mataī and miro. The area’s native wood was first exploited by Europeans in the late 19th century, in the Mamaku Range and around the northern …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… place on 14 July 1853 at Russell. The successful candidate for the Bay of Islands parliamentary seat was Hugh … political scene, with three notable exceptions: Gordon Coates won the Kaipara seat in 1911 and held it until his death in 1943. He was prime minister and minister of external affairs from 1925 to 1928, and …
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Part of story: Northland region
… and Charles Clifford, having leased coastal land between Whitecliffs and Kēkerengū from Te Puaha of Ngāti Toa, shipped 3,000 merino sheep there from … made out of whale bones. The walls were whale ribs and vertebrae, sunk in the sand floor. Bones from a nearby beach …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… Location In New Zealand in 2022, 14,700 hectares was planted in kiwifruit. By far the greatest concentration of orchards was in Bay of Plenty, especially near Te Puke. There were smaller concentrations in the Northland, …
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Part of story: Kiwifruit
… mats. By 2012 Jenkins Gym offered classes in BodyPump, Tae Bo, Pilates and many other gymnastic disciplines. …
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Part of story: Indoor sports
… high-status hairstyles identified by different names. Twisted or knotted on the head, they include tiki, pūtiki, tikitiki, tuki, koukou and rāhiri. Unfortunately, early European writers translated all the various …
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Part of story: Māori clothing and adornment – kākahu Māori
… Reginald Bedford Hammond was born on 10 September 1894, at Te Kopuru, North Auckland, the son of Lucy Gertrude … Hammond, a civil engineer. He trained and worked as an architect and surveyor in his father's firm in Dargaville, and …
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… adaptation of animals or plants to an environment or climate where they are not naturally found. Polynesians were New … ( Cordyline fruticosa ). Early European seafarers liberated pigs and introduced potatoes in the late 1700s. In the 1800s Pākehā settlers arrived in New …
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Part of story: Acclimatisation
… chipmunks, gnus, and bharals (blue sheep). Fortunately, many of these did not establish feral populations, as … have become pests. Wallaby pies Michael Studholme of Te Waimate Station released three wallabies – two females and one …
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Part of story: Exotic farm animals
… European Catholics immigrate From the 1840s to the 1870s European settlers steadily streamed into New Zealand. New Zealand’s Catholic … brought thousands of eager migrants to the new frontier. Intensive programmes of immigration sponsored by provincial …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… his mother was Takau Tuaraūpoko Mokoroa ki Aitū (she later took the title Makea Karika Ariki). Pā George was educated at the local London Missionary Society school. On 14 … Ngāūpoko) Ariki o Tangiia. Ngāpoko was said to be the daughter of a sea captain by the name of Wilson; she was also a …
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… born at Oamaru, North Otago, on 11 February 1884, the daughter of Mary McGowan and her husband, Thomas King, a … she was dux of Oamaru North School and only two years later, senior dux at Waitaki Girls' High School. She also … ablest and most accomplished lady student that has ever attended Otago University'. In 1907 King joined the staff at …
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… Lakes are home to waterfowl, fish and smaller invertebrates that live in fresh water or burrow in mud on the lake …
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Part of story: Lakes
… Nevile Sidney Lodge was born in Timaru, South Canterbury, on 19 May 1918, the son of Elsie Irene Grant Smyth … her husband, Leonard Arthur Lodge, a bank accountant. He attended primary schools in Auckland, Manurewa and Te Kuiti before finishing his formal education in Wellington …
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… and her husband, Charles London, a sheepfarmer. Harold attended Valley Road School in Kimbolton (1913–20) and … next 18 years. In 1922 London helped form the Donbank Philatelic Society (forerunner of the Wellington Philatelic Society). This started a lifelong association with …
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… son of Robert Campbell Maclaurin, the resident stationmaster, previously a clergyman, and his wife, Martha Joan … arrived the year before. His father was to become a schoolteacher, and the family lived at Alexandra (Pirongia), Te Awamutu and Hautapu. Maclaurin attended Auckland College …
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… labourer. At the Marist brothers' school in Napier he was interested only in athletics and drawing. He became captain of the school's rugby and cricket teams and, with his friend Lewis Evans, he experimented with …
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… William Victor McIntyre (better known as Victor or Mac) was born on 24 May 1887 at Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, New Zealand. He was the son of Robert McIntyre, a … and his wife, Eliza Ann Cochrane. McIntyre was educated at Pleasant Point School, where he was dux in 1900. He …
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