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… Kate Challis Excelsa Hooper was born at Devonport, Auckland, on 25 June 1894 to Sophia Frances Hould and her …
Type: Biography
… the Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Auckland. Following the forum he played golf near Queenstown …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: United States and New Zealand
… Thomas Croke arrived to lead the dioceses of Dunedin and Auckland respectively. The new men judged their French …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… and grew wheat and food crops. They took their produce to Auckland markets in their vessel, the Fairy . A few …
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Part of story: Northland places
… Craig Baird and Jonny Reid all spent time racing karts. Aucklander Wade Cunningham won the Karting World …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Motor sport
… Kura Kaupapa Maori o Hoani Waititi, was established in West Auckland in 1985. As with kōhanga, in the early stages …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… campaigns. The presence of up to 100,000 Americans in Auckland and Wellington from 1942 reinforced a sense of how …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… Thomas Gore Browne held a conference at Kohimarama, Auckland, to justify the government’s war in Taranaki. It …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kotahitanga – unity movements
… houses, on the western shore in particular. Well-known Auckland families such as the Winstones and the Caugheys are …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… in 1800. A whaling captain, Abraham Bristow, came upon the Auckland Islands in 1806, and a sealing captain, F. …
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Part of story: European discovery of New Zealand
… his goldmining business. Similarly, the Ah Chee family (of Auckland) should be the Chan family. Their ancestor was Chan …
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Part of story: Chinese
… and a sister emigrated to New Zealand in 1859, arriving in Auckland by the British Queen on 30 August. By 1864 they had …
Type: Biography
… working as a labourer with the Public Works Department in Auckland at the time of his enlistment in the Second New …
Type: Biography
… Lodge, a bank accountant. He attended primary schools in Auckland, Manurewa and Te Kuiti before finishing his formal …
Type: Biography
… in some of the hill suburbs, which ran short of food. In Auckland on 27 July, 5 centimetres of snow fell on the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Weather
… thee, Oh! Tāmaki of numerous lovers. 1 The Māori name for Auckland is Tāmaki. Among the many versions is …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Auckland region
… public art works include ‘Manu tawhiowhio’ (1996) at the Auckland University of Technology and ‘Kaiwhakatere – the …
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Part of story: Sculpture and installation art
… in 1920 she corresponded and worked closely with the Auckland branch of the WILPF. She was the link between the …
Type: Biography
… many of them stone workers from Treviso and Udine, came to Auckland. They manufactured terrazzo, a flooring material …
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Part of story: Italians
… In 1977 Kerry Rogers and colleagues from the University of Auckland analysed the fine-grained rock and recognised a new …
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Part of story: Rock and mineral names