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… could taste good coffee and exotic food. In the mid-1950s, Auckland restaurateur Otto Groen challenged the conservative …
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Part of story: Dutch
… on the southern flanks of Mt Ruapehu, and Riverhead in Auckland, most effort was concentrated on the Kāingaroa …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… union provided money and an organiser’s time to fledgling Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch tailoresses’ unions. …
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Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… 1994. With the exception of a dental therapy course at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), from 1999, …
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Part of story: Dental care
… domestic market was the steel mill at Glenbrook, south of Auckland. This used iron sand from the west coast of the …
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Part of story: Coal and coal mining
… had its greatest impact in Canterbury (307,984 acres), Auckland (279,405 acres), Otago (204,087 acres) and Hawke’s …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… the classic four-volume Nga moteatea . The University of Auckland’s sound archives include some 1,300 items of …
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Part of story: Waiata hōu – contemporary Māori songs
… The World Amateur Billiards Championships were held in Auckland in 1975. …
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Part of story: Billiards, snooker, pool and darts
… Antipodes Islands, and to a lesser extent the Bounty and Auckland islands. In three years, 140,000 seals were killed …
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Part of story: Sealing
… this gift in a quiet way to help people in pain. He died in Auckland on 13 June 1934, survived by his wife, Elinor, and …
Type: Biography
… began producing a plasterboard in 1927 in Mt Eden, Auckland. Winstone bought the company in 1930, increasing …
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Part of story: Building materials
… for five years Todd headed the psychological clinic at the Auckland Mental Hospital at Avondale. In 1935, feeling that …
Type: Biography
… Tompkins, a storekeeper. Gladys went to a private school in Auckland. After completing her training as a nurse in New …
Type: Biography
… first permanent rape crisis hotline was set up in 1978 in Auckland (funding and personnel shortages had forced earlier …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… centres have major art galleries, including the Auckland Art Gallery, the City Gallery in Wellington, the …
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Part of story: Creative life
… muskets. That year he attacked Ngāti Pāoa at Mauinaina in Auckland. The following year he attacked Ngāti Maru in …
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Part of story: Musket wars
… annual rainfall of 648 millimetres (roughly half that of Auckland and Wellington). Winds The nor’wester blows across …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… Almost half the fuel output was carried by pipeline to Auckland, the balance being shipped around the country by …
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Part of story: Northland places
… living along New Zealand coasts, and on the Chatham and Auckland islands. Their name refers to the narrow white band …
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Part of story: Gulls, terns and skuas
… Wilson stayed for a time at Grey's official residence in Auckland, before renting part of a house in New Plymouth. …
Type: Biography