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… express from Wellington, packed with 285 people heading to Auckland for the holidays. The train reaches the bridge The …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… Australian solo cornet champion. Garnet Saunders arrived in Auckland in 1902 and soon gained a position as conductor of …
Type: Biography
… Force (1916–18), and on his return became a member of the Auckland Land Board (1920–29) administering the Returned …
Type: Biography
… sawdust and bran. The first shiitake farm started in Auckland in 1985. It was a large-scale operation, exporting …
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Part of story: Mushrooms and other cultivated fungi
… to have been held in 1966 in an opencast coal mine south of Auckland. The fastest time was 17 seconds by a 1937 V8 …
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Part of story: Motor sport
… Waikato. They progressively expanded northwards, reaching Auckland around 1947, and have become very abundant in …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… Va‘a Federation) World Sprints Championship was held in Auckland in 1990. In 2012 waka ama clubs existed around the …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori games – ngā tākaro
… south by canoe along the Kaipara and Kumeu rivers, crossing Auckland Harbour to the Coromandel Peninsula, where he …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… same message were erected every eight kilometres between Auckland and Whangārei. Despite their efforts, the post …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers
… great pā Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill) in the present-day Auckland district. There he married the twins Mārei and …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… in Australia. Horace Belshaw was a professor in both Auckland and Wellington and had an international career with …
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Part of story: Economic thought
… temperatures were only around 4° to 5°C lower than today. Auckland’s glacial climate probably resembled that of …
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Part of story: Glaciers and glaciation
… commercial flights between Masterton’s Hood Aerodrome. and Auckland Since then the nearest passenger airports have …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… a northern relative of kāmahi, is found in forests around Auckland and Northland. It grows up to 15 metres high. …
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Part of story: Tall broadleaf trees
… Porirua in Wellington, and Ōtara, Ōtāhuhu and Ponsonby in Auckland. They often experienced discrimination and …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities
… for the last part of their voyage travelled from Sydney to Auckland on the Wairarapa. The ship was wrecked on Great …
Type: Biography
… stage) and 'The Inimitable Thatcher' appeared frequently in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Napier, and …
Type: Biography
… for her husband's health, they retired to Sumner, then Auckland, where William Williams died in 1936. Alice …
Type: Biography
… in his evolving architectural consciousness. He attended Auckland University College’s School of Architecture in … horizons. Three further years of architectural study in Auckland from 1946 completed his formal education. He was … Institute of British Architects in 1959. The University of Auckland awarded him a Diploma of Architecture in 1965. He …
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… at the age of 29, to the foundation chair of economics at Auckland University College. Belshaw returned to New Zealand … Second World War Belshaw collaborated with colleagues in Auckland and with fellow members of the New Zealand …
Type: Biography