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… Coal Mining of the extensive Waikato coalfields began at Huntly in 1876. Production increased steadily until the 1960s, followed by fluctuations depending … heating for most of the 20th century. Production leapt after 2000, mainly to provide fuel for the Glenbrook steel …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… Mary Teresa Enright was born in Charleston on the West Coast on 22 July 1880, the daughter of Irish Catholic parents Mary Hayes, a hotel-keeper from County Clare, and her husband, Timothy John … Enright, Mary Teresa …
Type: Biography
… Britain has been the main destination for expatriates from New Zealand, with good reason. Academic study and research New Zealand’s university system was modelled on British institutions and at first … Britain was therefore the obvious place for postgraduate study. Not a fair exchange Writer and academic C. K. …
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Part of story: Creative and intellectual expatriates
… Morton (Mortie) Foreman was born at Pendleton, near Manchester, England, on 24 April 1902, the son of James Somerville … an electrical engineer, and his wife, Agnes Morton. After serving his engineering apprenticeship in Manchester, he decided to emigrate to Australia in 1925. He married …
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… by a spring bow to force the shears apart. They were operated with a scissor action. In early colonial slang, shearers … the early years, shearing tallies were not high. In 1856 at Te Awaiti, near Martinborough, a gang of eight men tackled … the best day’s tally of 79, but the average around this date was 35 sheep a day. Tallies were low because the sheep …
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Part of story: Shearing
… Mass-market production In the protected environment from the late 1930s to the 1980s, clothing firms proliferated, and some …
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Part of story: Clothing and footwear manufacturing
… regiment in the Crimea during 1855, and in 1856 was decorated and promoted to the rank of major. In 1861, after a period of attendance at the British Army's recently …
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… In the 19th century playing cards for money was a favourite pastime of all social classes. Among the wealthy, poker, … loo were played by sheep-station owners and the urban elite in the gentlemen’s clubs established in the main centres. … premier of New Zealand, was described as a ‘by no means contemptible player of unlimited loo’ 1 . Houses and farms …
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Part of story: Cards, board games and puzzles
… provinces. Because the West Coast was virtually uninhabited, it was split between Nelson and Canterbury provinces, with the boundary along the Grey … most of the miners who arrived in 1865–67 had little interest in politics, they protested against the unwillingness …
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Part of story: West Coast region
… In 1988 the Medical Research Council posited the concept of a more broadly based Health Research Council (HRC), to give greater prominence to public health research. The HRC came into existence on 1 October 1990 under the Health Research Council …
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Part of story: Medical research
… West Holmes was born in Hackney, London, England, on 25 September 1856, the son of Alice West and her husband, Robert Thomas Holmes, a brewer and (later) engraver. Little is known of Robert's early years, but it is thought that he was educated at private schools in London. He came to New Zealand in …
Type: Biography
… farmer, Nicholas Irwin Hunt, and his wife, Annie Lilian Souter, a former schoolteacher. Around 1901 the family purchased land at Paemako, near Te Kūiti, where they developed a prosperous farm and became …
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… factories were built mainly at Woolston, near the Heathcote River. Large woollen mills were built at Kaiapoi and in … the clothing centre. Initially Christchurch dominated the rubber industry. The Para Rubber Company was founded … for electrical goods became important from 1932. In the later 20th century many long-established factories closed down …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… marriage, to Hine-i-turuma of Ngāti Whakaue. Marsden later commented, ‘The more Christian customs and manners prevail in New … day … do you suppose that the fairest of England’s daughters will then refuse to grace with her charms the palatial … Intermarriage in colonial society …
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Part of story: Intermarriage
… and his wife, Elizabeth Ellen Burfoot. Owen was educated at Grey Lynn School and Seddon Memorial Technical College, where he studied engineering, but he soon … to music through an initial passion for vaudeville. His greatest ambition at the age of nine or ten had been to conduct …
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… wars between some Māori tribes and the government targeted prime agricultural lands, particularly in Taranaki, … Native Lands Act 1862 was passed to individualise and register Māori land in a form that was recognisable under English … so that it could be readily traded. Traditional Māori land tenure was communal, carrying obligations to the wider …
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Part of story: Ahuwhenua – Māori land and agriculture
… for horse racing; quickly organised games of cricket and later rugby; and informal gatherings of settlers for social purposes, especially in the summer. Churches often played a role in such occasions, which often involve concerts, even in as small a settlement as …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… Freshwater eels have a remarkable life cycle, which begins and ends … the longfins 1–20 million eggs. Males fertilise the eggs. After spawning, the adults die. Larvae: drifting to land … floating on ocean currents towards the coast. They have teeth, but it is not clear for what purpose – they may store …
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Part of story: Eels
… New literary magazines By the end of the 1960s new generations of writers and poets were beginning to react against the modernist and nationalist bent of New Zealand literary culture, which they saw as antiquated, white and … Literary magazines, internet publishing, 1960s to 2010s …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… settlers across the country. Memorials at the conflict site and in the cemetery remember the settlers who died. Autopography The poet … In 1949, when contributing to a school history, she wrote that 'to be asked to write of Tua Marina is almost like a …
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Part of story: Marlborough places