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… (despite some complaints about Wellington’s weather). While Auckland has become a significantly larger city, with …
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Part of story: Capital city
… reputation as a singer and teacher, giving recitals from Auckland to Dunedin and adjudicating at numerous …
Type: Biography
… immediately appointed as an assistant Classics lecturer at Auckland University College. After enlisting in the army in …
Type: Biography
… on the growing connection between sport and tourism. When Auckland hosted the World Masters Games in 2017, 28,000 …
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Part of story: Veterans and masters sport
… social advancement, he decided to emigrate. He landed in Auckland on 2 January 1911. Pat Fraser, as he was known in … found employment first as a labourer and on the wharves in Auckland. He joined the New Zealand Socialist Party, and was elected president of the Auckland General Labourers' Union. A tall, somewhat gangling …
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… ombudsman and in law reform. Early life Born in Onehunga, Auckland on 15 October 1912, George Robert Laking was the … education at Onehunga and Te Papapa, Laking attended Auckland Grammar School, where he was an able student. On 18 … an LlB in 1935. As a Customs clerk, Laking shuttled between Auckland and the department’s head office in Wellington, to …
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… by the removal of the capital from Kororāreka (Russell) to Auckland, the imposition of customs duties, and restrictions … ground of Pōmare II's pā, and made peace. Nene went to Auckland; there the governor consented to the proclamation … He went with the governor to Whanganui in 1847. He visited Auckland often in the 1850s to advise and comfort the …
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… Island main trunk railway line, linking Wellington and Auckland, was the most significant. Progress was slow, and …
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Part of story: Engineering
… showed quite different political loyalties. Sydenham and Auckland Central had huge Labour majorities; Karori and …
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Part of story: Class
… was well known in early colonial New Zealand, and in 1851 Auckland listed one accountant among its professionals and …
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Part of story: Accountancy
… was an organiser of the Seventh Pacific Science Congress in Auckland. He also sat on the Cashmere High School board from …
Type: Biography
… of place. Phoenix Phoenix was first published in 1932 by Auckland University students. Despite lasting just four …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… and 1980s From the late 1960s another generation of largely Auckland writers, influenced by the counter-culture movement …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… it for their collections. In exile Jack Bennett, an Aucklander who became professor of medieval and renaissance …
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Part of story: Creative and intellectual expatriates
… (1948 winner) and 'Valse impromptu' (winner of the 1953 Auckland Competitions Society prize) – some of which were …
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… its members), Postbank (the old Post Office Savings Bank), Auckland Savings Bank (later ASB Bank), Westland Bank, …
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Part of story: Banking and finance
… establishments for skilled working men) were open in Auckland, Nelson and Wellington by 1842 and there were over …
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Part of story: Adult education
… the last four years of his life in a retirement home in Auckland and died in the Argyle Hospital in Herne Bay on 18 …
Type: Biography
… of the University of New Zealand in 1962 Otago and Auckland, and later Victoria and Canterbury, set up their …
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Part of story: Publishing
… 1 In 1842 there was at least one billiard room in Auckland, and by the end of the decade tables were found in …
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Part of story: Billiards, snooker, pool and darts