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… (Brightwell’s home town) in 1985, Okahu Bay Canoe Club in Auckland and Mitimitaga o le Pasifika in Whangārei. First …
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Part of story: Waka ama – outrigger canoeing
… in Birmingham. In 1880 he emigrated with his family to Auckland, New Zealand, where his father practised dentistry. …
Type: Biography
… sport, there were women’s teams by the 1890s. Auckland became the first North Island club, playing …
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Part of story: Ice sports
… kū te whe (loud and soft) was recorded at Rattle Records’ Auckland studios in a day and a half. It featured some 19 …
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Part of story: Māori musical instruments – taonga puoro
… periodically been embroiled in espionage scandals. Former Aucklander Paddy Costello worked at the New Zealand …
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Part of story: Foreign policy and diplomatic representation
… Peggy’s collections of craft material are now housed in the Auckland Museum and in the Otago Museum. After their return …
Type: Biography
… conditions. School assembly Dorothy Butler, who attended Auckland primary schools in the 1930s, remembered the strict …
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Part of story: Primary and secondary education
… Island). Rangitoto Rangitoto Island, immediately east of Auckland City, is the youngest and largest of the region’s …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… of the English-language name, including Ākarana (Auckland), Pōneke (Port Nicholson) and Hamutana (Hamilton). …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… an extreme visual sensibility with the dynamics of pop. The Auckland-based group Fetus Productions (around 1980 to 1989) …
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Part of story: Experimental film
… farms were generally too small, and many Māori migrated to Auckland in search of work. The growth of farming After the …
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Part of story: Northland region
… indignant at this deference to apartheid.’ 3 The Akarana (Auckland) Maori Association described the exclusion as ‘a …
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Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… albatrosses ( Diomedea antipodensis ), which nest on the Auckland Islands, frequently feed in the middle of the …
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Part of story: Seabirds – overview
… early paper was the New Zealand Farmer , produced in Auckland. It started in 1885, and by 1892 had subscribers …
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Part of story: Rural media
… created in 1894. Tourist drawcards In 1894 the railway from Auckland reached Rotorua, encouraging growth. Māori guided …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… Gemmell. Nothing is known of his life until he arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1858. Soon afterwards he moved to …
Type: Biography
… 200-metre and 220-yard backstroke at the Newmarket Pool, Auckland, on 16 January 1957, with a time for the 200-metre …
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Part of story: Swimming
… lakes and farm ponds around New Zealand, mainly north of Auckland. …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… Nightingale’. By the end of the war Airini had moved to Auckland, where she worked at 1ZB as a programme assistant. …
Type: Biography
… in the negotiations. Hilda Haddon died in 1950, and in Auckland on 16 May 1953 Haddon married Ruth Windle Cosh, née …
Type: Biography