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… light opera and minstrel shows in the 19th century is reflected in the many visits by overseas performers from the … bag Vaudeville shows were a series of diverse and unrelated acts which performed in one theatrical show. Acts … performed in the city in 1909, became a standard in the international brass-band repertoire. World famous The …
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Part of story: Popular music
… butcher. Both were among the pioneer settlers who had emigrated from Devon to Taranaki in 1841. William was educated at Schofield's private school and H. R. Richmond's private school in New …
Type: Biography
… Steel is made by combining iron and carbon. It has been … fundamental to construction and engineering since the late 19th century, when it replaced iron as the preferred material. Bridges, railway stations, office blocks, hospitals, … Steel …
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Part of story: Pulp and paper, aluminium and steel industries
… Sullivan, an Australian-born labourer and tunneller. Jack attended Raekohua School, Tangarakau, and played schoolboy … club and played for Taranaki from 1934 until 1940; he later became a life member of both his club and the Taranaki … in rugby, the former representing Taranaki and the latter becoming an international referee. On leaving school …
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… People ask three big questions about taxes. Who will the state take money from? How much will it take? What will it … over the decades. The introduction of the welfare state in the late 1930s was a watershed. Until then taxation mainly … Tax, ideology and international comparisons …
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Part of story: Taxes
… 19th century Writing The Canterbury Association had a vision of Christchurch as a place where culture, literature and art would flourish. Verse appeared in the Lyttelton Times in the 1850s. In the 1860s, the Press published …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… Charles Philippe Hippolyte de Thierry claimed that he was born in April 1793. He was … at the French court, and his wife, Marie Louise Pierrette, or Louise Antoinette, de Laville. By April 1793 the family had reached Grave, … Thierry, Charles Philippe Hippolyte de …
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… Māori children traditionally played a wide range of games. Teka (darts), tī rākau (stick games), whai (string games), … played by both children and adults. Children made small kites called manu taratahi. Boys learned combat skills through … with various games of the country such as flying kites, which are formed of leaves, the game of maui [a string …
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Part of story: Children’s play
… at birth. Some trans people change their physical sex characteristics and some do not. A trans identity does not indicate sexual orientation, anatomy, or hormonal makeup; simply … is different from what was assumed at their birth. The term ‘transsexual’ was first popularised in the 1950s by the …
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Part of story: Gender diversity
… is tidal. At Maioro, on the north head, New Zealand Steel mines ironsand for its Glenbrook mill. Sand combined with water travels to the mill through an 18 km underground … to the Waiuku River and into the Manukau Harbour. Later commercial shipping to and from Waikato passed through …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… Squires and his wife, Mary Beatrice Moffett. She was educated at Nelson College for Girls, and worked for a time as a … and his wife, Laetitia Frances Menzies. Laetitia was a daughter of Dr J. A. R. Menzies, runholder, politician and first provincial superintendent of Southland, and his wife, Laetitia Anne …
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… marriage; Edward was the third of three sons, and was later in partnership with his elder brothers, Joseph Brooks (1804–1835) and George (1805–1875). His sister Anne married Charles Schultze, who took over the … Sydney about 1829 and were soon followed by their father, after he had sold his estate for, reputedly, £80,000. The two …
Type: Biography
… important contributions to New Zealand’s visual, musical, literary and academic culture. There were overlaps, … continuities and connections between all his diverse interests, which ranged from the practical (including …
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… George Augustus Selwyn was born on 5 April 1809 at Hampstead, England, the second son of William Selwyn, a noted constitutional lawyer, and his wife, Laetitia Frances …
Type: Biography
… arrived at Port Jackson where James's father had been appointed to survey coal resources and to construct Sydney's water supply. James Busby took up a grant of 2,000 acres in the Hunter River district and began to experiment with …
Type: Biography
… forebears, descended from the chiefs of their clan, after 1745 pursued careers in the British army. Sir John … in the Peninsular campaign, and reached the rank of lieutenant general. He attended Eton College; his son may have also. Lady Cameron was …
Type: Biography
… Barry Crump was one of New Zealand’s most popular writers. In total, his novels sold more than a million copies … a high-profile media personality who worked in radio and television, and appeared in memorable advertisements. Born … the second of six children of a share-milking couple, Walter William Crump and his wife, Lily Valley Hendery. By his …
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… upper Turakina River valley, 30 kilometres north-west of Hunterville. It was an isolated but idyllic childhood, ‘a richly varied and potent human and natural context to shape a young …
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… education at King Edward VI Grammar School. Formally admitted to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1824, he took up … and mathematics, graduating BA in 1829. In 1832 he graduated MA and was elected a Foundress fellow of his college. He became a student …
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… the Taylors were not well-to-do, Mary and her only sister, Martha, two years her junior, were sent to a boarding … their home. Here in January 1831 Mary Taylor met Charlotte Brontë and they became firm friends. They both left the … years regularly stayed in each other's home. Of all Charlotte Brontë's friends Mary Taylor was the one who seems to …
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