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… Thames Thames is Hauraki–Coromandel’s largest town and the gateway … of Auckland and 104 km north-east of Hamilton. Gold town Thames came into existence when gold was discovered in 1867 … Kauaeranga valley, at the south-east corner of the Firth of Thames. The goldfield lifted Auckland out of the economic …
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… and return, drunk and disorderly, hours later. In 1975 Thames-Coromandel district council replaced Thames and Coromandel counties and Thames borough. In 1989 Hauraki district council replaced …
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… the first of many. Meanwhile, south-east of Auckland, the Thames goldfield developed rapidly. Its population was … stamper batteries for crushing gold-bearing quartz in the Thames area. There were also over 10 steamers and many small craft plying between Thames and Auckland. Foundries in Auckland profited from the …
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… at Waihī in 1896 and a Paeroa union in 1902. The Thames Valley Rugby Football Union was founded in 1921, with … of the Paeroa, Piako, Waihī and Hauraki Plains unions. Thames did not permanently join the Valley Union until 1951. … Provincial Competition in 1988, 1990 and 1995. In 2018 Thames Valley won the Heartland Championship contested by …
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… the completion of the branch rail line from Morrinsville to Thames in 1898. An Auckland–Thames road link was only built in the 1930s. Sea transport … from Huntly was needed to run a ‘big pump’ for the mines at Thames. The rail line reached Paeroa in 1895, Thames in 1898 …
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… (Edwin) Heina Taipari was born probably in 1889 or 1890 at Thames. He was the younger son of Hauāuru Tīkapa Taipari, … and were prominent political leaders and landowners at Thames. They lived at Pukerāhui in a large European-style … sports, and as a young man played representative rugby for Thames. He raced his own horses, riding as jockey in his …
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… a daughter had died in infancy. In 1868 Grigg moved to Thames with his two eldest sons; the younger boys remained … Grigg established a furnishing and upholstery business in Thames and later added a music shop, and taught singing to schoolchildren at district schools. He established the Thames Choral Society and became its conductor. He also …
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… of valleys and coastal lands separated by ranges. The Thames valley is divided from the Waikato basin by greywacke … Range, which runs south from Te Aroha, separating the Thames valley from the Bay of Plenty. The northern part is … gap at Piarere, down the Hauraki Plains to the Firth of Thames. Gradually, waterborne volcanic debris built up, …
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… bishop of Christchurch. In 1878 O'Reilly was moved to Thames parish where he was to spend most of the next 30 years. In addition to Thames, he had responsibility for Te Aroha and Ohinemuri … until 1882. O'Reilly's first priority was education. As Thames changed from a goldmining town to a farming centre, …
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… brought fish, vegetables and fruit from the Firth of Thames and the Waihou River. In the 1840s and 1850s Hauraki … Māori land on the west side of Tīkapa Moana (the Firth of Thames). A minority of Hauraki fought Crown troops on the … (forts) between Pūkorokoro (Miranda) on the Firth of Thames and Pōkeno on the Waikato River, and enforced a naval …
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… booms) in 1821. Lieutenant James Cook named the Firth of Thames and called the Waihou River ‘the river Thames’. The region surrounding the river was often called Thames valley until recently, and ‘Thames Valley’ is still …
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… attackers departed. That night he was rescued and taken to Thames hospital. He was ill for many months until a visiting … worked on this field and in mines at Waitekauri and Thames. Daldy MacWilliams married Florence Rosina Payne, a talented amateur musician, at St George's Church, Thames, on 21 November 1893. The couple were to organise …
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… the vast majority were in the gold-mining towns of Waihī, Thames, Karangahake and Coromandel, with smaller numbers … 1956. The former mining towns benefited. The population of Thames rose in the 1910s, and again in the 1950s and 1960s; … whom about two-thirds lived outside the three main towns of Thames, Paeroa and Waihī. In 2013 the Māori population was …
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… as a means of support. He agitated for the opening of the Thames goldfield in 1867, and at the request of a meeting of the unemployed, went to Thames to explore the prospects there. Lack of work in his own trade induced him to move to Thames where he worked as a miner and, according to an …
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… to 1866 he laid out the town of Milton. He moved to the Thames district in 1868 where he was appointed a mining surveyor for the Thames goldfield and engineer-in-chief of railways, tramways … into a boiler explosion at the Kurunui battery on the Thames goldfield in which three people were killed. From …
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… Ngātea Town on the Hauraki Plains, 23 km south-west of Thames and 25 km north-west of Paeroa, with a 2013 … coast faces the Coromandel Peninsula across the Firth of Thames. It is part of the Hūnua block, which has been raised … composed entirely of sand and shells. Kaiaua, 42 km from Thames, has an 800-year-old pūriri tree in the local domain. …
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… sailed around the Coromandel Peninsula into the Firth of Thames, and spent two days on the Waihou River. Botanist … at Mokoia-Mauinaina (Panmure) and Ngāti Maru at Te Tōtara (Thames) in 1821. The Marutūahu tribes fled inland to refuges … Marutūahu and the local Ngāti Hāua people, they returned to Thames, prompted also by the arrival of European traders …
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… But extracting gold from quartz was difficult. Hard rock at Thames The first big strike was near Thames in August 1867, when a speck of gold was seen in the … Stream. Other reefs were uncovered, and within months the Thames foothills swarmed with men. Mining quartz reefs …
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… Tukumana was born in the Thames district probably in 1862 or 1863. He was the son of … the Wharekawa district, on the western side of the Firth of Thames; Tukumana lived here and at Kūpata, near Thames. According to Tukumana, Wharekawa had been fought …
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… However, generally great toil brought little return. Thames The Thames goldfield made a slow start in 1867, as once again … which were found in an area of less than 80 hectares. Thames’s population was 15,000 in 1868, 8,000 in 1874, 6,000 …
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