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… As they moved on, speculators moved in. Māori owners in the Thames valley whose lands had escaped confiscation were … Waikato Land Association, Auckland Agricultural Company and Thames Valley Land Company, which by 1890 together owned …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… inspector of secondary schools in New Zealand, was born at Thames on 2 January 1882 to Rebecca Brown and her husband, … up in an educated family with books and music. She attended Thames High School for two years, transferring to Prince …
Type: Biography
… are the Kaipara Harbour, Manukau Harbour, the Firth of Thames, Farewell Spit, Golden Bay, the Avon–Heathcote … as Wetlands of International Importance: the Firth of Thames, Kopuatai Peat Dome, Whangamarino, Manawatū Estuary, …
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Part of story: Bird migration
… first Oxford vs Cambridge eight-oared race was rowed on the Thames in 1829. This ‘Boat Race’ has been contested annually … during the world wars. The first Henley Regatta on the Thames was held in 1839. Rowing in New Zealand Rowing as …
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Part of story: Rowing
… on the river floodplains in the Waikato basin and the Thames valley. Some of these forest fragments are protected … of the Waikato River, and the Kopuatai Peat Dome in the Thames valley, are havens for wetland bird species, …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… Land Company in the early 1880s, later passing to the Thames Valley Land Company. A settlement emerged about 1886 … of Putaruru. In the 1880s Lichfield, the base for the Thames Valley Land Company, was larger than Putaruru. It was …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… little is known. He is said to have spent some time on the Thames goldfields. His interest in the dairy industry began … dairy and cheese companies, and subsequently with the Thames Valley Co-operative Dairying Company, to form the New …
Type: Biography
… Auckland’s exports until the 1900s. Gold was discovered in Thames in 1868, and in the 1890s Waihī’s Martha Mine became … of former Māori land was offered for sale in the upper Thames valley and Waikato. Easy credit from the Bank of New …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… Harbour Waihīhī – on the western side of the Firth of Thames, and in Auckland Waihāhā – in Auckland. The name …
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Part of story: Hawaiki
… ships calling into the Bay of Islands and the Firth of Thames would sound and chart their anchorages while waiting …
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Part of story: Early mapping
… and 1871 he and Russell invested heavily in a number of Thames gold mines. They were promoters and leading directors of the Thames Goldmining Company and the Thames Investment Company. Whitaker had substantial …
Type: Biography
… Miriam Bridelia Cummings was born at Thames on 15 June 1879, one of eight children of Irish-born … and their six daughters as Catholics. After attending Thames and New Plymouth high schools, where she excelled, … New Plymouth Central School and then at Kauaeranga School, Thames. Tall and rather angular, she had dark colouring and …
Type: Biography
… Lands Act, 1865".' He first worked as a surveyor on the Thames goldfield. Later he helped with surveys for the … the same year, at St Francis' Catholic Church, Shortland, Thames, he married Annie Wallnutt, who was also of Irish …
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… with a population of 1,227 in 2013. Tairua is 41 km east of Thames and 37 km south of Whitianga. Paku hill (179 m), … Harbour, 31 km north of Waihī and 51 km south-east of Thames. It had a 2013 population of 3,471, with a summer …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… but a long separation when Ben was teaching in Auckland and Thames caused the engagement to be broken off. Ben married while at Thames, but in 1903 his wife died of tuberculosis six months …
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… Peninsula, Mahoney spent the years from 1867 to 1870 in Thames before returning to Auckland, where in 1870 he set up … practice. He designed St George's Anglican Church, Thames (1871); St Columba's Presbyterian Church, Warkworth …
Type: Biography
… Sydney Gordon Ross was born in Thames on 6 February 1909, the son of blacksmith Charles … Maretta Elizabeth Feiney. He attended Waiokaraka School, Thames, from 1915 to 1918, then moved with his family to …
Type: Biography
… hectares: Farewell Spit (upper South Island) Firth of Thames (at the base of the Coromandel Peninsula) Kopuatai …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… They culminated with the sacking of Te Tōtara (a pā near Thames) by the Ngāpuhi chief Hongi Hika. In the 19th century …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… culminating in an attack on Te Tōtara pā (near present day Thames) in 1821, Ngāti Maru tribes retreated inland up the … When CMS missionaries made exploratory journeys in the Thames, Tauranga and Rotorua districts between 1831 and … and on 19 September 1835 a party of Ngāti Maru from the Thames district was welcomed to Matamata at a peacemaking …
Type: Biography