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… sports’. These were a popular part of anniversary-day fêtes, and other celebratory occasions in the early European … champion William Edwards in a six-day competition. His greatest triumph came in 1888, when he won a 72-hour ‘world …
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Part of story: Athletics
… Assisted immigrants Some immigrants paid for their own passages, … companies or the government. They travelled in steerage – a low-ceilinged space beneath the main deck. Those paying their own way were usually in ‘second’ or ‘intermediate’ cabins, or in a saloon cabin below the poop …
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Part of story: The voyage out
… the management of native plants and animals was complicated by overlapping and divided responsibilities. The Lands … and forestry, and the Wildlife Service (Department of Internal Affairs) oversaw native and some introduced animals … wide-reaching reform of public sector administration. After considerable discussion, the Department of Conservation …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… Despite the exodus of the middle class to the suburbs in the … building them because of their association with the squalid tenements of European cities. Even terraced housing had been treated with suspicion, and very …
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Part of story: Inner-city living
… Climate Warm summers and mild winters characterise the climate in the region. In summer daytime temperatures average … Climate, flora and fauna …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… Climate In terms of rainfall, Marlborough consists of three climate zones: the dry Wairau valley and its surrounds, the less dry Kaikōura coast and a wetter northern zone. Hot enough for you? The Awatere valley … Climate, plants and animals …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… 130 km from the sea. It is a very long coastline: estimates range from 15,000 to 18,000 km. Precise measurement is … to the sea, with the rest in harbours and estuaries. The western and southern coasts are more exposed than the eastern and northern coasts. Currents Warm, salty, sub-tropical …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… 1849 former New Zealand Company surveyor Samuel Brees created the ‘New Zealand Panorama’ in a theatre in London’s Leicester Square. It comprised a series of oversized paintings of … for nearly two years and was very popular, with an estimated 40,000 people going to see it. Promoting settlement …
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Part of story: Arts and social engagement
… Andrew McRae Davidson had a distinguished teaching career in Otago and helped shape the social security legislation that was implemented in New Zealand after 1938. Born in Mornington, Dunedin, on 10 November 1894, …
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… the rich usually lived in roomy mansions on prominent sites, while the poor crowded into tiny cheek-by-jowl cottages on lesser streets. Class and territory Class and territory also defined relations between children. Children …
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Part of story: City children and youth
… In the late 19th century Leonard Cockayne studied the ecology of New Zealand plants, examining their roles in natural systems. Cockayne disagreed with the popular idea that native … New Zealand, including studies of alpine plants on Te Moehau, marine algae on the Poor Knights Islands and …
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Part of story: Life sciences
… Ellen Elizabeth Aley was born in Auckland on 13 September 1869 to Ellen Beck and her husband, Alfred Aley, a … of Nellie’s life until she married James Ferner, a bill poster, on 13 October 1890 in Auckland. The couple were to have … family, Nellie Ferner became skilled as a portrait painter and photographic artist of children: her entry in the …
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… Rugby was the national game of both New Zealand and white South Africa, and the two countries competed fiercely on the field from the 1920s. South Africa was ruled by a white minority which enforced rigid segregationist laws over …
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Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… that timber could not be easily moved far, let alone exported from the region. The timber trade increased by the start of the 20th century, once timber could be transported to ports by rail. A number of mills were opened, with modern, steam-driven machinery. In 1910–11, 20% of New Zealand’s …
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Part of story: West Coast region
… the Fulbright programme, festablished in 1948 through a bilateral treaty between the governments of New Zealand and the … New Zealanders and Americans wanting to study, research, teach or present work in each other’s country. By 2014 more than 1,700 New Zealand graduate students, artists, academics and professionals had …
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Part of story: Awards and prizes
… Suva in Fiji and Nuku’alofa in Tonga are closer to the international date line, the sun rises earlier in summer the further the … behalf of a Sydney firm. The founding of the town is attributed to G. E. Read, who settled on the Kaiti (east) side of …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… Nelson in the 1840s. Nelson’s quest for workable land prompted the survey party to the Wairau that led to the disastrous encounter with Ngāti Toa on 17 June 1843. Nelson province, formed … in 1853, included the Sounds, Wairau and Kaikōura. By the late 1850s the Wairau provided a livelihood for number of …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… form the ancient order Podicipediformes. These freshwater diving birds have separate web-like lobes on each toe. Their legs are set far back – efficient for swimming underwater but awkward for walking on land, which the birds avoid. …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… The golden age of guided climbing After the first ascent of Aoraki/Mt Cook in 1894, the … guides. For the next 40 years, professional guides dominated New Zealand mountaineering. Clarke was chief guide from 1897 to 1906, when Peter Graham took over. Graham and his brother Alec had been …
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Part of story: Mountaineering
… child of Norman Leslie Gurr, an insurance agent, who was later a manager with the New Zealand Insurance Company, and his wife, Eily Maude Ringwood, a former teacher of physical culture. Elaine spent her early … by 1905 her family was living in Dannevirke. She was educated at Woodford House as a boarder, and later at Wellington …
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