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… for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The Abrahams arrived in Auckland on the Emma on 6 August 1850, and Charles became … of Selwyn's chaplains and principal of St John's College, Auckland, until 1853. Well versed in the Classics, Charles …
Type: Biography
… became increasingly attracted to radical politics. In Auckland in 1920 he met a young New Zealand Labour Party … bicycle during his summer vacations. Bill Barnard died in Auckland on 12 March 1958, survived by his wife and a …
Type: Biography
… with his family on the Nimroud in 1860. After settling in Auckland the Brodrick family moved to Invercargill in 1864. … would block his appointment in favour of H. M. Skeet, an Aucklander. On his promotion Brodrick immediately became …
Type: Biography
… concern, and a two-year-old son, Henry, Chapman arrived in Auckland on 23 December 1843 on the Bangalore. Captain … of New Zealand, and they both took their oaths of office in Auckland on 26 December 1843. Chapman settled in Wellington, …
Type: Biography
… Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, and then in 1927 at the Auckland Society of Arts. However, the need for a regular … an anchor stones sculpture for the Bledisloe Building in Auckland (1959), the Opo memorial sculpture in Opononi …
Type: Biography
… of J. A. Bartrum , later professor of geology at Auckland University College. Studies of the Wellington … to hold until his retirement in 1953. On 17 July 1926, at Auckland, he married Hilda Mary Josephine Gibbons, who was …
Type: Biography
… Present without leave (1939). He published essays in the Auckland Star , Phoenix and Oriflamme , reviews in Tomorrow … , Roderick Finlayson , Jane Mander and Robin Hyde in Auckland, and with the parliamentarian Ormond Wilson , to …
Type: Biography
… Henry Hayward screened a comedy, Burglar and the girls , to Auckland audiences in 1905. During the 1920s his nephew … Ten stories were published during 1923 and 1924 in the Auckland Weekly News and Christchurch’s Weekly P ress . A …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Humour
… Dyson, a solicitor. They married on 3 February 1927 in Auckland. Hedda brought her son from the Dutch East Indies … and she and Vernon had separated. She died of cancer in Auckland on 17 October 1951. Hedda Dyson was remembered for …
Type: Biography
… pottery more fully as an art form in schools. He moved to Auckland with his family to become head of the Art … a spirit of experimentation almost until his death in Auckland on 18 February 1987. Field's achievements as an …
Type: Biography
… of Economics, of which there was no record. The head of an Auckland company specialising in background checks estimated … con artist was a woman. Tasmanian Amy Bock settled in Auckland and engaged in a variety of dishonesty offences …
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Part of story: Dishonesty crime
… and became more urban, the cities of Wellington and Auckland expanded. With substantial investment in buildings … Capstan cigarettes, first in Wellington, then in Petone. In Auckland, Fisher & Paykel began manufacturing washing …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Factory industries
… at Tokaanu and attended St Stephen’s Native Boys’ School, Auckland, and Wanganui Technical College. When he was 15 his … On leaving school he lived with an English aunt at Auckland, where he studied for his Māori interpreter’s …
Type: Biography
… welcomed a proposal to open a retail outlet for the large Auckland manufacturing and wholesale firm of Macky, Logan, … of most of its stores by Farmers’ Trading Company of Auckland. Davidina Hay had died in 1969, and on 22 April …
Type: Biography
… Sound and Vision), the Alexander Turnbull Library and Auckland Museum. Allison Dobbie of Auckland City Libraries was chair. The first meetings were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… the staff at the Plant Research Bureau of the DSIR in Auckland. When the Second World War began Harry Jacks was … 1944, and on 1 December 1945 he married Helen Cranwell at Auckland. They were to have two sons and two daughters. In …
Type: Biography
… his secondary education at Wesley College, Three Kings, Auckland, and Manunui Māori Boys' Agricultural College at … Land Court districts. Jones was also a member of the South Auckland Education Board's advisory committee on Māori …
Type: Biography
… two chiefs invited from the area from the Bay of Islands to Auckland, the other being his brother-in-law, Te Tirarau. In … war Parore was credited with preventing an attack on Auckland by Kawiti 's forces. His mana as a leading northern …
Type: Biography
… Alexander Wyclif Reed was born on 7 March 1908 in Ponsonby, Auckland, the only child of Alexander John Reed, a Methodist …
Type: Biography
… Kate Richmond was born on 12 September 1861 at Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, the third of five children of Mary … to six paintings at art society exhibitions in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch from 1905 until 1934. Richmond …
Type: Biography