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… of New Zealand where Shea was a miner. The couple emigrated to California, and Thomas was born at San Francisco on … school and the Marist brothers' school in Napier. He attended St Patrick's College, Wellington, from its opening … 1885 and taught there in 1889. He was an accomplished cricketer and rugby player, retaining a keen interest in the …
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… Characteristics A country town is a place in which the economic … no relationship to farming. Some were port towns, like Lyttelton, which owed its population and economic activities to … in the early 20th century as having ‘something of the character of a market town, of a Feilding or a Waimate, with …
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Part of story: Country towns
… Land, climate and vegetation Taranaki region projects into the Tasman … coast of New Zealand’s North Island. The region is dominated by the 2,518-metre, cone-shaped volcanic peak of Taranaki Maunga (Mt Taranaki), which is often dramatically capped with snow. The older volcanoes of …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… fighting, destroy their weapons and make peace. He insisted that in future, serious disagreements would be settled … symbolised their rejection of violence by wearing white feathers in their hair, which later became an international symbol of peace. Parihaka For …
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Part of story: Conscription, conscientious objection and pacifism
… a 2013 population of 3,888. Paeroa is at the junction of State Highway 2 and State Highway 26, and of the Waihou and Ōhinemuri rivers. State Highway 2 links Paeroa with Auckland and Tauranga, State …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… ‘Pākehā–Māori’ was the 19th-century term for Europeans who chose to live among Māori as part of … European goods and skills and needed someone to negotiate with Pākehā on their behalf. Before 1840 Pākehā–Māori … in many parts of New Zealand. They sometimes introduced literacy and Christianity to Māori in advance of the …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… comes a distant second. These public spaces were often used as sports grounds in the 19th century – for cricket in the summer and rugby in the winter. Some were used for horse racing, which is why Hastings … Christchurch in 1863. Botanical gardens were closely associated with the 19th-century acclimatisation movement, which …
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Part of story: City public spaces
… in the parish of Edinkillie, Morayshire, Scotland, on 7 September 1846, the son of Alexander Petrie, a farmer, and his wife, Isabel Morrison. Donald was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, and later attended the University of Aberdeen, graduating MA in …
Type: Biography
… fires, and these areas were covered in scrub. Higher, wetter and less accessible areas were cloaked in podocarp forest, including rimu, tōtara and kahikatea trees. Kahikatea was also common around rivers and lakes. As the region …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… Plants Before humans arrived Hawke’s Bay was heavily forested. Beech trees and subalpine plants grew on the mountain … Hawke’s Bay, and on the hill country and ranges, were later burned and felled by farmers and sawmillers. In 2007, … amount of native forest in the region is found on the western mountain ranges and around Lake Waikaremoana. Special …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… century the older grounds became unsatisfactory. Improved television coverage threatened attendance. If spectators came to the grounds, they demanded …
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Part of story: Sports venues
… through scrubland where farming was abandoned on kauri-depleted soils. The amount of regenerating secondary forest and scrubland containing kauri (estimated at 60,000 hectares) far exceeds that of the remnant … mature forest. The places where kauri grow are being protected and restored by conservation authorities and local …
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Part of story: Kauri forest
… for travellers. First called Oxford to identify it as a sister town to Cambridge, it was later named Tīrau to avoid confusion with Oxford in Canterbury. A dairy factory was built in 1938, and a casein …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… Richardson, an artist, and his wife, Mary Linley. Harry attended Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich, before … art training in London. Initially he studied black-and-white illustration at Henry Blackburn's School for Drawing for … went to Goldsmith's School of Art. From 1896 to 1899 he attended the Westminster School of Art where he excelled in …
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… Thomas Orr Richmond, a farmer, and his wife, Catherine (Kate) Stewart. William left school at the age of 13 and emigrated four years later to New Zealand, working his passage on …
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… milk and cream to Mercer customers. He also spent time whitebaiting, eeling, duck shooting, rafting logs, and canoeing … he had learned to paddle a canoe at the age of five, and later rowed competitively. Caesar earned some money working as … borrowed £100 to buy his first boat in 1902. Two years later he ordered the Rawhiti from the shipbuilding firm of …
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… together atoms, molecules or different elements to create new forms. These may meet a functional need or may have … at Victoria University of Wellington in the 1950s. Years later, at the chemistry department of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, he worked on a newly discovered golden-coloured …
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Part of story: Physics, chemistry and mathematics
… the Second World War. When war was declared many volunteered immediately for the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), … battalions throughout the war, while numerous Māori volunteers were spread throughout the other services. They were …
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Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… a religious and ethnic community based in the Indian state of Punjab. The population had more than doubled between … immigration policy in the 1980s. The first Sikh gurudwara (temple) opened in Hamilton in 1997. Seven more gurudwaras … were set up in the Auckland area, and others in Tauranga, Te Puke, Hastings, Palmerston North and Wellington. and in …
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Part of story: Diverse religions
… Zealanders with Pacific Island backgrounds have gained international renown. Jonathan Lemalu Otago University-educated Samoan New Zealander Jonathan Lemalu, a bass-baritone, … a sensation at the BBC Proms in 2004 and 2005 (on the latter occasion appearing with the New Zealand Symphony …
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Part of story: Classical musicians