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… caused Zeppelin L-15 to crash in the sea some miles off the Thames Estuary. But Brandon's assault on L-15, at 9,000 feet …
Type: Biography
… brother-in-law, but three years later he departed for the Thames goldfields. He had little success in the search for …
Type: Biography
… in specifying equipment for goldmining operations at Thames and other parts of Auckland province. His association …
Type: Biography
… Zealand’s east coast, between North Cape and the Firth of Thames, support such waves. They can be more than 80 metres …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ocean currents and tides
… metric maps (NZMS 260) was also begun, with the first (T12 Thames) published in 1977. West Coast primary triangulation …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Modern mapping and surveying
… settled at Whakatīwai, on the western side of the Firth of Thames, where he came to live in reduced circumstances. Some …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… John Snow renamed it after his home town, Richmond-on-Thames in London. Richmond has long been a favoured town for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Nelson places
… She had a child in either 1868 or 1869, in Auckland or Thames. The possible father, a man named Massay, left her …
Type: Biography
… ran a hotel in a hollowed-out kauri log, near Pūriri in the Thames–Coromandel district during the 1870s. He stabled his …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hotels and motels
… have encountered Cook again when the Endeavour visited the Thames estuary two weeks later. Te Horetā was probably … , but Te Horetā objected to this unless he was landed at Thames, fearing being killed at the Bay of Islands because … pā of Ngāti Pāoa and Ngāti Maru at present day Panmure and Thames, the local tribes, including Ngāti Whanaunga, …
Type: Biography
… of the greatest floods in its 20th-century history in 1981. Thames was cut off by floodwaters for several days. Once …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… South Island for river gold-dredging in the 1890s, and at Thames in the North Island for gold mining. Freezing works …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hydroelectricity
… life of migratory birds, four large estuaries – Firth of Thames, Manawatū River, Farewell Spit and Waituna Lagoon – …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Estuaries
… from 1888 to 1890. In the early 1890s he was on the Thames goldfields, and in 1892 was instrumental in forming …
Type: Biography
… on a forge and anvil rather than a lathe. A. & G. Price of Thames produced top-end machines. They got away with copying …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Bush trams and other log transport
… for access to Maori 'waste land' in the Waikato and Thames regions. Soon after the outbreak of war in Taranaki …
Type: Biography
… eastern side, sandy bays edge the shore from the Firth of Thames northwards to Pākiri. The western coast stretches …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Auckland region
… and hutches off the island and Poingdestre left for the Thames and West Coast goldfields. He died a bachelor at …
Type: Biography
… these machines were built at Addington, at A. & G. Price in Thames and the North British works in Glasgow. Before the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Railways
… 7 March 1900 at Paeroa he married Alice Fox. From 1901 the Thames Miners' Union had been seeking wage increases and … management consistently refused. After some activity in the Thames union, Armstrong became involved in the new Waihī …
Type: Biography