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… specials ran deep. After boarding the ship Maheno at Auckland, the unionist Charles Reeve was pulled from his … have not seen the scale of conflict experienced in the Auckland area – where one lifestyler moved a herd of cows …
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Part of story: City images
… 1936, she was appointed school medical officer to the South Auckland Health District and assistant to Harold Turbott , … officer of the Kāritane Hospital and Mothercraft Home, Auckland, Basil Quin, told Deem in 1950: ‘It is not flattery …
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… and two years later the first group began in Devonport, Auckland. In 2012 there were over 400 groups and 4,000 … Zealand. They held weekly meetings, open to anyone – in the Auckland area alone there are over 100 such meetings. With a …
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Part of story: Alcohol
… From 1935 councils had to conduct housing surveys. In Auckland these revealed significant overcrowding, … overall from the 1960s, it increased in areas such as South Auckland, contributing to an epidemic of meningococcal …
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Part of story: Public health
… and others had performed weekly live stand-up shows in an Auckland pub. In 1997 Blanks opened the Classic Comedy Club in Auckland’s Queen Street as New Zealand’s first dedicated …
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Part of story: Humour
… field station) lie about 1,000 km north-east of Auckland. The uninhabited Bounty, Snares, Antipodes, Auckland and Campbell subantarctic islands lie south of the …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… out extensive geological mapping in the South Island, South Auckland, Taranaki, and also in the Pacific islands. In 1935 … age of 72 he married Indus Harrison Clark (née Fantham) in Auckland on 24 February 1967. Leslie Grange died in …
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… from Victoria to Tasmania, and then, in 1863 or 1864, to Auckland, New Zealand. A brief sojourn in Tauranga in the … of books to her nieces and nephews. She attended school in Auckland, Kaiapoi and Ashburton. By December 1878 she was a …
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… McLean, he reported on the defence needs of the harbours at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and Nelson. … wherever he worked. He was a member of the institutes of Auckland, Dunedin and Christchurch and of the Wellington …
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… New Zealand Olympic swimming history. At the age of 15 the Auckland schoolgirl competed in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, … Canada, in 1930. Gold was first won at the 1950 games in Auckland by the men’s 4 x 220-yard relay team of Lyall …
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Part of story: Swimming
… and high schools. Te Ahurea Tino Rangatiratanga, the Auckland regional secondary schools’ kapa haka competition, … such as a large-scale performance staged in Wellington and Auckland during the 2011 Rugby World Cup tournament. Kapa …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka
… Gulf and on the Coromandel Peninsula before larger yards in Auckland and at Mahurangi took over in the 1870s. Kauri was … for land and a house. Bushmen on the steamer from Thames to Auckland cut dashing figures in newly purchased suits and …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… theatre can probably be said to have begun in 1841 in Auckland and 1843 in Wellington. These theatrical … operatic societies from the 1870s and 1880s – in Whanganui, Auckland, Wellington, Napier, Christchurch and New Plymouth …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre
… The next year saw the inaugural meeting of the Ara Lodge in Auckland, under the Irish constitution. By 1861 Masonic … order to New Zealand in the 1840s, with the first lodge in Auckland in 1842. Along with its fraternal role and its …
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Part of story: Men’s clubs
… Hotel in Lyttelton, and coffee bars such as the Ca d’Oro in Auckland and Carmen’s Coffee Lounge in Wellington. … to meet new lovers, and the lesbian KG Club opened in Auckland in 1972. School balls School balls retained some of …
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Part of story: Love and romance
… pizzas with spinach, blue cheese and snails at Antoine’s in Auckland. At the other extreme, nouvelle cuisine became a … his own coffee beans and served espresso coffee in 1975. In Auckland, John’s Diner (1981–83) sold cappuccinos and …
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Part of story: Restaurants and food outlets
… opened prison management up to private companies. The Auckland Central Remand Prison, at Mt Eden, was contracted … that a new private prison would be built at Wiri, South Auckland, to open in 2015. Supporters of private prisons see …
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Part of story: Prisons
… half of the country’s screen production businesses, with Auckland (where the film industry was growing) home to … Wellington was seen as the feature-film hub, while Auckland was the centre of television production. Although …
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Part of story: Screen industry
… In October 1949 he accepted the chair in anthropology at Auckland University College. Arriving in Auckland in September 1950 with his wife and son, Piddington …
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… in New Zealand in 1952 and Armourguard was set up in Auckland in 1959. The rise of security firms was initially … transferring prisoners for the Corrections Department in Auckland and carried out electronic monitoring of offenders …
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Part of story: Security and personal safety