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… Bill Wilson was a key figure in Group Architects, an Auckland collective instrumental in developing a modern architecture responsive to New Zealand’s culture and conditions. This interest informed the buildings he designed and the influence …
Type: Biography
… Nineteenth-century settlers and colonisers brought architectural knowledge with them. New Zealand’s earliest architecturally designed dwellings were influenced by a range of … 19th-century domestic architecture …
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Part of story: Domestic architecture
… Kororāreka In the late 1820s the number of non-Māori living in New Zealand began … rest and recreation, Kororāreka in the Bay of Islands attracted retailers, grog-sellers and other ‘panderers to the … As sperm whales became elusive, whalers turned their attention to right (or black) whales , which they hunted from …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… In the 19th century the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Institute, local athenaeums (libraries) and mechanics’ institutes provided cultural and learning opportunities. Some towns later had amateur operatic and theatrical societies. …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… left at the end of the year with a recognised ability in literature and elocution. The New Zealand Herald first accepted his verse when he was 16. To enlist for the First World … his age. Quickly discovered, he returned home and as a protest slept under canvas until he was able to re-enlist, in …
Type: Biography
… In June 1925 Bill Bayly moved to Pāpāmoa, a few miles from Te Puke, to work on a farm his father had purchased. The … personality, Bill married Phyllis Dorothy Palmer, a stenographer, in Auckland on 29 August 1928. The couple then … Public disquiet grew as an implausible scenario was constructed by the police: Elsie, a young woman who probably could …
Type: Biography
… born at Taonui, near Feilding, on 3 October 1891, the daughter of Elizabeth Keeble and her husband, Richard Octavius Egerton Carey, a farmer. Although she painted from a young age, her first formal training was in music and she initially became a piano teacher. Around 1910 the family shifted to Tuhikaramea, near …
Type: Biography
… early 1960s were a quiet time in the city. The arrival of television in 1960 hit attendances at the movies severely, and city streets were deserted at weekends and in the evenings. But things were about …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Culture and recreation in the city
… in the mid-19th century In the mid-19th century the western view of relationships between human groups was dominated by the idea of race. Europeans ranked races … evolution appeared to explain why indigenous peoples often seemed to decline in numbers when their lands were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… Australian-born men, including Savage himself. From the late 1960s the flow was reversed, as Kiwis went west to … migrants to Australia’s population. Australia became an extension of home because of visits to family, on holiday or … which allows them to reside and work there for an indefinite period. Combined queues for New Zealand and Australian …
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Part of story: Australia and New Zealand
… diseases than Europeans did. The Māori population plummeted in the mid-19th century and only started to recover in the 1890s. Vaccination provided protection from smallpox, but the causes of diseases such as …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Primary health care
… Samuel Edger was born probably in 1822 or 1823, at East Grinstead, Sussex, England, the third of eight children of John … his parents. His academic abilities earned him a place at Stepney (later Regent's Park) Baptist College, where his poetic and …
Type: Biography
… was to be the second New Zealand Company settlement, after Wellington. They anchored at Astrolabe Roadstead on the west coast of Tasman Bay and explored Riwaka, Moutere and areas around the Motueka and Waimea rivers. Māori …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… Land purchases By the late 1840s pastoral farmers in Wairarapa were pushing north in … Bay arrived in Pourerere in 1849. Early pastoralists negotiated leases directly with Māori, which was illegal at the … could control all land transactions. Hawke’s Bay Māori wanted more Pākehā settlers, because they brought money and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… 15 June 1852, the son of William Ferguson, a chemist and later a brewer, and his wife, Louisa Ann Du Bois. William was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Burton on Trent, and … at Rathmines School, Dublin. At 15 he was indentured to Courtenay, Stephens and Company, mechanical engineers. On …
Type: Biography
… but at least one canoe may have come directly from eastern Polynesia. There was probably no further contact with … developed into the Moriori, who had distinct lifestyles, material culture and language. Moriori lived as hunter-gatherers, obtaining most of their food by netting off …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Chatham Islands
… 1950s continued urban growth and the rising number of private cars had created chronic congestion in city centres and along arterial streets. In Auckland planners first suggested …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: City planning
… Film school graduates In the 1980s, for the first time, students were able to learn film-making skills in tertiary institutions, increasing the potential for documentary projects. Art school graduate …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Documentary film
… opening of the last art gallery of the 19th century (the Suter in 1899) and the first gallery of the 20th century. When … Christchurch Art Gallery), opened in 1932. As with the Suter and Sarjeant, the name commemorated the gallery’s founding benefactor, a Christchurch …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Art galleries and collections
… were there for drugs, violence or sexual violation. Often the most publicly visible form of violence by gang … Highway 61, the Polynesian Panthers and the Mongrel Mob. Ten years later Black Power and the Mongrel Mob brawled at a family day …
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Part of story: Gangs