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… the province and, later, the goldminers of Coromandel and Thames. He was trenchant in debate and capable of wielding a …
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… to goldmining in the Coromandel area, and later the Thames, Karangahake, Waihī and Te Aroha fields. The …
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… his wife, Agnes Macmillan. Algie was educated at Arrowtown, Thames High School and Balclutha District High School. After …
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… Here, and later at their thatched cottage at Dorchester-on-Thame, they welcomed countless other visitors who shared the …
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… working as a farmhand in South Otago, Canterbury and the Thames valley, he crossed to Sydney with a close friend, …
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… this country, but the world’. Keith Rodney Park was born in Thames, New Zealand, on 15 June 1892, the third son and …
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… managing a schooner on the Waihou River and the Firth of Thames for the trader John McLeod. Here he acquired a good … him occupied on specific tasks, notably the opening of the Thames goldfield against Kingite objections. Grey's decision …
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… Zealand history and stories from her mother’s childhood in Thames. Perhaps the best known was her series about ‘My …
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… known as the ‘stoker sculptor’, he lived in a barge on the Thames, lent by A. P. Herbert. In 1928 he was elected to the …
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… 1883 he was sent as a boarder to the Waiokaraka School at Thames, where he won a district scholarship awarded by the …
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… had been killed that year by Ngāpuhi, at Te Tōtara, in the Thames district. His wishes were heeded, and the killing of …
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… became involved in other ventures. He was interested in the Thames goldfield, having obtained a mining licence on 17 …
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… July and November 1834 he had travelled overland to the Thames and Waikato regions, accompanied by Alfred Nesbit …
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… on to attack Ngāti Maru at Te Tōtara pā, near present day Thames. The next year the northern tribes again combined to …
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… return, in a goldmining company, which he managed near Thames. He resigned from the General Assembly to take up the …
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… was born in 1965. The family later settled near Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, in a house McLaren named ‘Muriwai’ after …
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… found sympathy and help in the mining towns of Waihi, Thames and Huntly. He established a network of contacts with …
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… or 1832. In the early 1830s he took part in fighting in the Thames area as an ally of Ngāti Pāoa against Te Waharoa of …
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… trained as a surveyor. Between 1869 and 1871 he worked at Thames and Coromandel as a surveyor on the goldfields (and …
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… An outbreak of intertribal warfare and cannibalism at Thames was another challenge to Hobson's authority: the …
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