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… more than 15,000 fish into the wild, primarily in the Auckland, Northland, and Waikato regions, hoping to bring … nineties. He bred the fish in a commercial garage north of Auckland. Smith was a major contributor to the development … a committed socialist for the rest of his life. He moved to Auckland in 1936, aged 23, and secured a job mending fishing …
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… she and her mother travelled to New Zealand, settling in Auckland. Favoured with beauty and intelligence, Gloria had … arriving. She was hospitalised for four years, first in Auckland and then in Rotorua, and used a wheelchair for the …
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… New Zealand’s first acclimatisation society was probably in Auckland, around 1861. Many others soon followed, including … shed in favour of focusing on animals – for example the Auckland society handed over its gardens to the Auckland Domain Board in 1882. Hatcheries were built for …
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Part of story: Acclimatisation
… renowned for country and folk music. Fashionable Pacific Auckland Auckland’s cultural profile reflected its position as the … centre of New Zealand and the most ethnically diverse city. Auckland was New Zealand’s fashion capital, since 2001 …
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Part of story: Regional cultural life
… American troops were stationed in New Zealand, mainly in Auckland and Wellington. American soldiers brought a sense … Silver Grill, the City Grill and the Cocoanut Grove (all in Auckland), or Garland’s and the Green Parrot (Wellington). … contemporary music were found at the El Rey nightclub in Auckland, a favourite of American naval chief Admiral …
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Part of story: Restaurants and food outlets
… banks, public buildings, and houses of the well-to-do in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin. Building in stone was … example, the volcanic rocks of the western Bay of Islands, Auckland, New Plymouth, Christchurch, Timaru and Dunedin. … the kerbing stones used on streets in the central part of Auckland were produced by prisoners held in Mt Eden jail. …
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Part of story: Building stone
… New Zealand. No 3 Company of the 58th Regiment arrived in Auckland on 22 April 1845 aboard the Slains Castle en route … pa at Puketutu and the subsequent retreat. Returning to Auckland, Whisker celebrated his survival in the local grog … discipline and living conditions. Whisker had remained in Auckland when the company was sent north again in May 1845 …
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… Johnson, Fleur Adcock, Peter Bland and Alistair Campbell. Auckland avant garde In the early 1950s important groupings of writers and artists emerged in Auckland. At his Takapuna property, short-story writer Frank … institutionalisation in 1955. Allen Curnow moved to Auckland in 1951 and encouraged other poets including …
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Part of story: Regional cultural life
… schools in Sheffield. In 1921 the family emigrated to Auckland, staying for 13 months before returning to England. … in early 1923 George worked as a meter reader for the Auckland Gas Company. By the end of the year he had been … Bates (née Louisson), a divorcee, on 30 October 1935 in Auckland. The couple moved to Sydney and in December Horry …
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… to work in the family business, first in Thames, then in Auckland, where Ehrenfried had transferred the whole of his … Campbell and Company, a leading liquor business in the Auckland province, whose sole proprietor was John Logan … went on an extended honeymoon in Europe. On his return to Auckland after a year away, Myers was disappointed to find …
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… 12,924 Major regional locations Bay of Plenty: 5,304 Auckland: 2,616 Ngāti Pūkenga 1991 census: 576 2001 census: … census: 2,175 Major regional locations Bay of Plenty: 921 Auckland: 465 Waikato: 321 Ngāti Ranginui 1991 census: 4,476 … census: 8,967 Major regional locations Bay of Plenty: 4,641 Auckland: 1,434 …
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Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… census: 14,721 2013 census: 14,784 Major regional locations Auckland: 7,353 Northland: 3,120 Te Roroa 2001 census: 966 … census: 1,170 2013 census: 1,176 Major regional locations Auckland: 504 Northland: 387 Te Uri-o-Hau 2001 census: 732 … census: 1,071 2013 census: 1,260 Major regional locations Auckland: 459 Northland: 417 …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… Nevertheless, before 1925 Hindu Indians in Wellington and Auckland met regularly to pray and listen to readings from … a centre for religious instruction, was established in Auckland. Both Auckland and Wellington now have Hindu temples. Sikhs …
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Part of story: Indians
… Mitchell was engaged to Ernest Hyam Davis, a brewer from Auckland. They were married at Auckland on 2 August 1899. She had retired from the Pollard … Mollie and Desmond. Ernest Davis was elected mayor of Auckland in 1935, and as mayoress she ably supported him …
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… Wandering albatrosses The Antipodes Islands and the Auckland Islands each have a distinct form of wandering … Island and the Chatham Islands. Some 12,500 pairs of Auckland wandering albatrosses ( Diomedea antipodensis gibsoni ) breed on the Auckland Islands. Because great albatrosses breed every …
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Part of story: Albatrosses
… Great Barrier Island had a regular pigeon-post service to Auckland, and boasted the world’s first airmail stamps. … was one-way, with birds trained to return to a dovecote in Auckland. They went back to the island on the weekly … clubs. A good racing pigeon can travel from Invercargill to Auckland in two days. Barbary doves The Barbary dove ( …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… younger sons emigrated to New Zealand in 1859, arriving in Auckland on the John Scott on 7 March. Reyburn soon decided … Maungakaramea near Whangārei with land order scrip, leaving Auckland for Whangārei the same day. Reyburn acquired other … shares in the Argyle , which provided a steamer service to Auckland. Robert Reyburn was closely involved with the …
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… international freight movement. National freight flows The Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions, in which New … the Marsden Point oil refinery was carried by pipeline to Auckland. Almost all of New Zealand’s natural gas is … much of this was oil. The value of imports unloaded at Auckland’s port was highest – 50% of the total. Virtually …
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Part of story: Freight and warehousing
… The open sailing-boats which played a big part in early Auckland anniversary regattas were called peach boats. They … vegetables and other produce from the Hauraki Gulf to Auckland. The first yachts During the 1870s, as regattas … new type of fishing smack, the mullet boat, was emerging in Auckland. The main use was in netting mullet in the shallow …
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Part of story: Sailing and windsurfing
… Wanganui Balneavis was sent to Riverhead, north-west of Auckland, in command of a small cadre detachment of the 58th … Service Institution Museum. By 1855 Balneavis was posted to Auckland where his military skills were overshadowed yet … became a founding member of the organising committee of the Auckland Choral Society. Around this time Balneavis became …
Type: Biography