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… in 1921, and in 1924 forestry schools opened there and at Auckland University College. Forestry was then seen as a …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… 8–7 over France, when the final was played at Eden Park in Auckland for the second time. With New Zealand sole host of …
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Part of story: Rugby union
… killed. Rua and others were arrested and transported to Auckland for trial for sedition. Rua was sentenced to one …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… his involvement with the Anglican church. The bishop of Auckland, W. G. Cowie, licensed him as a lay reader in 1871, …
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… After France sank the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Auckland in 1985, a dispute arose over compensation. New …
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Part of story: Multilateral organisations
… 2006 more than 500 supermarket distribution workers in Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch went on strike …
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Part of story: Strikes and labour disputes
… sewage to the Moa Point outfall. It closed in 1946. In 1905 Auckland also opted for a destructor as the solution to its …
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Part of story: Sewage, water and waste
… been laid along the ocean floor. They stretch from near Auckland to Sydney, and onto South-East Asia and North …
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Part of story: Engineering on the sea floor
… Patrick Moran in Dunedin, and of Bishop Thomas Croke in Auckland the following year, the New Zealand Catholic Church …
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Part of story: Irish
… However the trademark was registered in 1957 by an Auckland businessman named Morris Yock. In the 1980s and …
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Part of story: Inventions, patents and trademarks
… of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow warrior and sank it in Auckland Harbour, intending to prevent a protest against …
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Part of story: Diving and snorkelling
… vessel Rainbow Warrior , bombed by French saboteurs in Auckland in 1985, was sunk in Matauri Bay as a diving …
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Part of story: Northland places
… were established in the North Island (Feilding in 1927 and Auckland in 1932), but it was in the South Island that the …
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Part of story: Farmer and grower organisations
… In 1924 Acheson became judge of the Tokerau (North Auckland) district, beginning a long period of close … Crown, represented by Vincent Meredith, Crown solicitor at Auckland. The point at stake was whether the Native Land … played an important part in the long-running Ōrākei case at Auckland. Following petitions from Ōrākei Māori, he …
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… in October 1972. This involved a move from Christchurch to Auckland. While Mahon was considered an able and articulate … appointed to an academic post in the University of Auckland’s law school. Sam Mahon subsequently donated a bust … Queen Street riot. Peter Mahon died of heart failure in Auckland on 11 August 1986, aged 62. He had been suffering …
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… Court. They arrived, via Port Nicholson (Wellington), at Auckland on 25 September. The five month voyage was spent … years, and in 1866 became chancellor of the diocese of Auckland. He held this post until his death. Swainson lived … He purchased a property (over six acres) in Judges Bay, Auckland, for £98 14s. 9d. in 1844. This adjoined land owned …
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… Harold Bertram Turbott was born in Auckland on 5 August 1899, the son of Alice Dillicar, a … the department’s assistant medical officer of health at Auckland in 1927, and the officer for Gisborne in 1928 with … to be medical officer of health at Hamilton for the South Auckland Health District; he remained there for the next …
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… Hall in 1956 and invited them to join a variety show at the Auckland Town Hall. Levin introduced them to recording … – took them to another level. Recorded in concert at the Auckland Town Hall, it was an instant hit, selling over … fresh impetus in 1981 after a Royal Variety Performance in Auckland before Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of …
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… blogs were influential. TransportBlog covered Auckland’s transport and planning issues, Throng carried … Media Awards for breaking a controversial news story about Auckland mayor Len Brown's extramarital affair. Welcome to …
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Part of story: Digital media and the internet
… nationally famous athletes and bodybuilders. Sandow in Auckland ‘The curtain rises to show Sandow, arrayed simply … partly due to the opening of new gyms. Clive Green’s gym in Auckland, opened in 1958, became a training centre for …
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Part of story: Bodybuilding, weightlifting and powerlifting