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… came late in 1889 when he was appointed director of the Thames School of Mines. The goldfields schools of mines had … of science Professor James Gow Black. The schools, of which Thames was by far the largest, taught miners basic skills in … physics and mathematics. Park rewrote the syllabus for the Thames school, expanded weekend classes for high school …
Type: Biography
… about 3 metres over the 25 kilometres from the Firth of Thames to Paeroa. Flood protection of the surrounding … ongoing task. The Hauraki depression The sea (the Firth of Thames) covered the northern part of the depression on the … the southern part (the Hauraki Plains) to the Firth of Thames. Vast quantities of river-transported muds, sands and …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… and left the company to take a position as a barmaid at Thames, on the goldfields. She was able to perform on stage … dynamic American magician who created box office records at Thames in July 1873, may have influenced Jane in her career. … Oxford Combination Troupe delighted audiences in Auckland, Thames and Coromandel for the next three months. The …
Type: Biography
… in New Zealand, but when it was found in London’s River Thames in the 1850s, British scientists did not recognise … eventually tipped out with the last foul dregs into the Thames after the long voyage from the Antipodes. During the …
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Part of story: New Zealand species overseas
… Otago Brokers’ Association formed in 1868. Scrip Corner At Thames, brokers met on ‘Scrip Corner’ – the intersection of … and their agents waited for telegrams from the goldfields. Thames gold In 1868, after a rich lode of gold was discovered at the Manukau mine north of Thames, a stock market boom began. The adjacent Caledonian …
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Part of story: Stock market
… in late October 1866. The family settled at Parawai, Thames, where Henry Stilwell, a seedsman and florist, … established a nursery in 1868. On 21 January 1873 at Thames, Jane Francis married Thomas Harris, a market … she had sought Grey's endorsement was serialised in the Thames Advertiser in early 1883; a rather contrived romantic …
Type: Biography
… On his third voyage in 1820, aged 55, he went overland from Thames to Tauranga, visited Manukau Harbour, and walked … a number of Anglicans. Henry Williams led a party up the Thames valley to Matamata in November 1833. The next year, …
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Part of story: European exploration
… claim to the foreshore and seabed out from the township of Thames. This claim gives context to contemporary Hauraki … and Rātāroa mountains on the western side of the Firth of Thames, and Te Aroha and Moehau on the eastern side were …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… and miner on the newly opened quartz goldfields at Thames, then moved to alluvial goldfields in the South … stone was favourably assayed by the Bank of New Zealand at Thames, sufficient development capital was not forthcoming … in 1884 as the representative for Ohinemuri riding on the Thames County Council. On 2 February 1887 at Ponsonby, …
Type: Biography
… were completed north-east to Te Aroha in 1886 (extended to Thames in 1898 and Waihī in 1905) and south-east to Rotorua … At this time wetlands covered a huge area from the Firth of Thames to present-day Te Aroha, Waitoa, Waihou, Morrinsville … 20th century. Later, dairy farming became profitable. The Thames Valley Dairy Company opened a cheese factory at …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… In 1828, when Ngāti Maru of Thames destroyed Ōtamataha pā at Te Papa, Tauranga, they … in 1846; and on his own missionary journeys he travelled to Thames in 1842 and Matamata in 1849. In April 1851 he … large party of Ngāi Te Rangi, led by Hōri Kīngi Tūpaea , to Thames to make peace with Ngāti Maru. There, on Sunday 12 …
Type: Biography
… his wife and their two children, George and Daisy, moved to Thames, where their third child, Anne, was born. There, Joe … soon opened a fruit and vegetable shop in Pollen Street, Thames. In 1925 Joe Ah Chan began growing grapes at Totara … initiated one of the first passenger road services from Thames to Auckland. He purchased an American Wolverine car …
Type: Biography
… Paeroa Town 22 km south of Thames with a 2013 population of 3,888. Paeroa is at the … Paeroa with Auckland and Tauranga, State Highway 26 with Thames and Hamilton. Beginnings The lower Waihou was an area … on the eastern side of the Waihou River between Paeroa and Thames is made up of a series of alluvial fans deposited by …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… world. Championship of the World The Championship of the Thames was first raced in 1831 on the River Thames in London, England. It was renamed the Championship … to Arnst losing his title to Ernest Barry on the Thames on 29 July 1912. When 30-year-old Arnst failed to win …
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Part of story: Rowing
… Hood may have had a financial interest in a grog shop in Thames. She made regular journeys to Auckland in order to … stock, and may have extended these journeys to include Thames to allow her to supervise her business interests …
Type: Biography
… The sport of yachting had its origins on the River Thames in 18th-century England, where it had royal … Auckland. The main use was in netting mullet in the shallow Thames estuary, south-east of the city. They were …
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Part of story: Sailing and windsurfing
… the thriving and vigorous mining and timber-milling town of Thames. At first the new school attracted mainly children of … and the Auckland Education Board, being distant from Thames, could offer little support to teachers in dealing …
Type: Biography
… the 1890s and, disappointed, left to live at Paeroa, then Thames. Maria Mackay supported herself and her family by … or on foot. She continued this work after Joe's death at Thames in 1908, following which she moved to Te Aroha. She …
Type: Biography
… Tauranga of residents leaving by boatloads, many for the Thames goldfields. Most settlers on 50-acre (20-hectare) … region, provided a boost as returns from the goldfields at Thames and Ōhinemuri waned. In 1906 Waihī, with a population …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… 225,000 acres of recently bought Māori land in the upper Thames (Waihou) valley, or the Whāiti–Kuranui block, which … on 600,000 acres) to a London company, the New Zealand Thames Valley Land Company. The incorporation brought no … such as the Auckland Fibre Manufacturing Company, the Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway Company, and the New …
Type: Biography