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… Victoria, Australia, the son of John Barton, a minister of the United Methodist Free Churches who had emigrated from Lancashire in 1866, and his second wife, Ann Eliza …
Type: Biography
… 11 species of beaked whales known to inhabit New Zealand waters is slight. In some cases the only proof of their existence is their bodies washed up along the coastline. These … pockets for their flippers. The males of some species have teeth that emerge from the bottom jaw like tusks, which they …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whales
… set up a trading post. In 1836 Captain William Stirling started a whaling station for pioneer merchant Johnny Jones. A … port; a freight and passenger service to Melbourne lasted for 60 years. The Bluff Harbour Board was formed in … it. A busy port town Bluff thrived on its productive hinterland. It had two freezing works until 1925. A new island …
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Part of story: Southland places
… and her husband, James Bragge, a mechanic and later a builder and architect. Of his early life little is known. Following his father's trade he completed an apprenticeship as a journeyman cabinet-maker. On 21 …
Type: Biography
… on public perceptions of the hazard posed by earthquakes. Attention was focused on weaknesses in building construction, … This led to a draft by-law in 1931, which was incorporated into a building code in 1935. The code recommended … so that buildings could resist the horizontal motions created by ground shaking. Masonry buildings had to be firmly …
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Part of story: Earthquakes
… Hampshire, England, on 15 January 1872. In 1883 he emigrated with his parents, Joseph Cawte Butler and his wife, Jane Tiller, to New Zealand where … as a builder with premises in Cuba Street, Wellington. After completing his education at Te Aro School George worked …
Type: Biography
… and his wife, Isabella Braid Christie. He was educated at Manaia School and New Plymouth Boys’ High School. In … had bought at Ngarua. Marriage to Sarah Nicholson, daughter of his former employer, took place at Te Aroha on 27 May 1925. The couple were to have two sons …
Type: Biography
… In the later 20th century the Māori population continued to increase, … Māori moved from rural to urban areas. Health conditions After the Second World War a tuberculosis campaign began to … bear fruit among Māori. From the early 1950s decreasing rates of tuberculosis incidence and mortality were recorded, …
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Part of story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health
… Local government constructed many public buildings. Some of the most impressive of … structures such as public marketplaces were also erected. The creation of a municipal government system in the 1870s led to a spate of construction work. New …
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Part of story: Public buildings
… companies have established that New Zealand has an estimated 16 billion tonnes of in-ground coal. However, 80% of this is lignite in Otago and Southland. Of the balance, much of the … remaining amount that could be recovered is relatively quite small and depends on geological, engineering, economic …
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Part of story: Coal and coal mining
… Because pre-colonial Māori buildings were constructed of non-permanent materials, they tended to rot or be replaced. Accordingly, knowledge of such …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Historic places
… Wider horizons Not all contemporary New Zealand writers have set their fiction in New Zealand, and none of them … by the requirements of establishing a national literature like their predecessors of the 1930s and 1940s. … Contemporary fiction …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Fiction
… children. Latima George (known as George) was born on 12 September 1858. He claimed to be the first Pākehā boy born at Pōrangahau. The children were educated at a settlers' school at Pōrangahau, and later the boys attended Napier Grammar School. On 21 January …
Type: Biography
… Dance, music and tīvaevae In the 1940s a favourite Auckland meeting place was a dance hall called The Polynesian. Men also held ‘drinking schools’, which often began with an imene tuki (traditional song) and ended … band Netherworld Dancing Toys in the mid-1980s, and writer Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, who arrived in the 1930s, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cook Islanders
… Zealand, opportunities to dance and act were abundant. Amateur, semi-professional and professional theatre and dance were widely attended and enjoyed, and provided a living for some of those involved. Dancers and actors were trained by private teachers or on the job. After taking classes and …
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Part of story: Arts education and training
… Department of External Affairs Although it was a relatively small government department, the Department of External Affairs (renamed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in … 1970) traditionally carried extra importance within the state bureaucracy because its minister was usually the prime …
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Part of story: Foreign policy and diplomatic representation
… at Dagenham, Essex, England, on 26 June 1901, the son of master butcher Harry Digby and his wife, Ada Helen Holttum. After leaving school he worked for a time as a clerk with the meat company Vestey’s. He then became an assistant at R. N. Speaight’s …
Type: Biography
… century carts were pulled by horses or bullocks. From the late 1800s vehicles powered by engines arrived. Many early New Zealand roads were known as bridle trails (named after the head-gear of a horse’s harness) – they were too … they were metalled (surfaced with crushed stones). If a route got enough traffic it was upgraded. In this way, over …
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Part of story: Roads
… was the part of suburban Christchurch most severely affected by the earthquake of 22 February 2011. There was … near the lower reaches of the Avon River. Burwood was the site of a plague hospital built at Bottle Lake in 1902. Now … built for the 1974 Commonwealth Games. It was so badly affected by the earthquake that use of the park was abandoned. …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… Katharine Reeman, at Deloraine, Tasmania. Elliott was appointed to a succession of increasingly prestigious pastorates and served as secretary of the Queensland Baptist Union … a reputation for sectarian controversy. In 1909 he was invited to New Zealand as pastor of the large Mount Eden Baptist …
Type: Biography