Search
… School, in 1885 he entered Wesley College, Three Kings, Auckland, for theological training. Despite matriculating he … to engage in university studies, but later studied as an Auckland extramural student and graduated BA. Laws served … ministries in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Hāwera and Auckland. He married Charlotte Emily England, a Sunday …
Type: Biography
… Clyde, received a commission from his brother James in Auckland, New Zealand. He was to build a small steamer, named the Eclipse , for the Auckland to Riverhead service on Waitemata Harbour and have … family subsequently emigrated to New Zealand, arriving in Auckland on the Zealandia on 15 October 1874. In 1878 he set …
Type: Biography
… and soon became an advocate of the demands of South Auckland landholders for access to Maori 'waste land' in the … colonial volunteers. Gazetted a lieutenant colonel in the Auckland Militia and the Royal Volunteer Cavalry in 1860, he … for guarding the line of communications and supply between Auckland and the South Auckland redoubts and outposts. His …
Type: Biography
… legend. With financial backing from Edward Anderson of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, and with Charles Newham as … being demobilised in October 1919 he settled permanently in Auckland. Tarr's other major work as a film-maker was the … Solomon Islands. When the film was first screened at the Auckland Town Hall on 19 April 1922, the bishop of …
Type: Biography
… until 1905 there was a golden age of keel-yacht building in Auckland – mainly the international 2½-raters, about 35 feet … interest By the mid-1890s Australian yachtsmen, who came to Auckland to purchase second-hand raters, were commissioning … in Australian thoroughbred racing. Almost international Auckland’s first yacht race open to competitors from outside …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sailing and windsurfing
… William Blomfield was born in Auckland on 1 April 1866, the son of Emma Watts Collis and … moved to Thames the next year. In 1880 they returned to Auckland where William's uncle, the prominent artist Charles …
Type: Biography
… Strip’, Wellington had Courtenay Place and Cuba Street, and Auckland Parnell and the Viaduct Basin. The extension of … people into the city. However, in some cities – especially Auckland – the suburban mall was as much the scene of … companies – Wellington’s Downstage (1964) and Circa (1976), Auckland’s Mercury (1968) and Christchurch’s Court Theatre …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Culture and recreation in the city
… Thames, where he won a district scholarship awarded by the Auckland Education Board. This entitled him to three years' free tuition at the Auckland College and Grammar School. Concentrating on … as a teacher when he was introduced to J. M. Alexander, an Auckland solicitor. Parr immediately signed up as an …
Type: Biography
… for the rights of her fellow Pacific Islanders in Auckland, both new migrants and their New Zealand-born … in her community. Her initiatives also supported struggling Auckland families from a variety of other backgrounds. Early … and support many social organisations, as the needs of Auckland’s Pacific Island community changed over the …
Type: Biography
… Ewen William Alison was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on leap day, 29 February 1852, the … from 1918 until 1932. In addition, he was a member of the Auckland Harbour Board from 1891 to 1895 and from 1911 to … achievement. Ewen Alison's name will always be known in Auckland as that of the founder, guiding spirit and driving …
Type: Biography
… scientists on Campbell Island and German scientists on Auckland Island who came to observe the transit of Venus in … it to shore to await rescue. Seven groups ended up on the Auckland Islands – castaways from the Grafton and Invercauld … to provide food. By the 1890s there were five depots on the Auckland Islands, with more on the Snares, Campbell Island …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… in India working for the East India Company. He arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, on the Louisa on 28 March 1865, … and six other family members. The Cussens settled in Auckland but little is known of Laurence Cussen's life there … Later he helped with surveys for the railways between Auckland and Riverhead, and Hamilton and Ngāruawāhia. In the …
Type: Biography
… First film festivals Growing from the film programme in the Auckland Festival of the Arts, the Auckland Film Festival began in 1969. Ten thousand tickets … who were suffering under a commercial cinema duopoly. The Auckland Film Society worked with the Adelaide Film Festival …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Arts festivals
… horses. The family moved to Wellington, then later to Auckland, where he attended Mount Albert Grammar School in … Woolf Fisher married Maurice’s sister, Joyce Paykel, at the Auckland synagogue on 12 September 1935. Fisher and Paykel … premises until a factory was opened in Lorne Street, Auckland, in 1945. During the Second World War it supplied …
Type: Biography
… Ronald Alexander McIntosh was born in Auckland on 21 January 1904, the only child of William John … as a clerk and accountant in Hamilton. He then returned to Auckland and in 1926 joined the New Zealand Herald as a … six papers reviewing the ‘Astronomical history of the Auckland province’. He also wrote papers on Maori astronomy, …
Type: Biography
… returned to New Zealand in 1909 and settled at Herne Bay, Auckland. Eliza Jane joined the Auckland branch of the WCTU and became a valued member of … The Freedom League was founded by members of the Auckland branch of the International Arbitration and Peace …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand. Within a year the family had moved to Auckland. Two more brothers and a sister were born before … James to the Californian gold diggings. On his return to Auckland, John was articled to become a lawyer, for much of … an articled clerk, John Russell married Mary Ann Nolan at Auckland. Also of Irish stock, she had recently arrived from …
Type: Biography
… a private secondary school for girls which flourished in Auckland at the beginning of the twentieth century. She was … in Dunedin. Most of May Bews's working life was spent in Auckland. She was on the teaching staff of a small private … when she and her sister Kate, who was employed privately in Auckland as a governess, were approached to found a school …
Type: Biography
… the flight out. Springbok Radio, which played on Sundays in Auckland, helped people maintain a sense of identity. … you are.’ 1 The South African Charity Trust NZ is based in Auckland. Some South African immigrants speak Afrikaans, a … of South Africans had religious affiliations. In Auckland there were several Afrikaans churches offering …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: South Africans
… live in the northern half of the North Island. The Auckland urban area is home to more than one million people, … people or more. Half are concentrated in just four cities – Auckland, Hamilton , Wellington and Christchurch . (Although …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Society