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… artist’. Her own articles and illustrations appeared in the Auckland Weekly News and the New Zealand Railways Magazine. …
Type: Biography
… as a temporary major, King took over the remnant of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment. In the last major thrust …
Type: Biography
… Cybele Ethel Kirk was born at Auckland on 1 October 1870, the youngest of nine children of …
Type: Biography
… Authority (MUMA) and Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust in West Auckland. These groups are pan-Māori organisations that …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kotahitanga – unity movements
… early in 1935 to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Auckland, where he spent his last days dictating articles …
Type: Biography
… in Tokomaru Bay in 1934. In 1939 Ngāwai moved to Auckland and began composing songs for a choir which made …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori composers – ngā kaitito waiata
… Melbourne. Meanwhile he had married Ida Marion McMaster in Auckland on 30 June 1909, but in 1912 she died six days …
Type: Biography
… Natzke began full-time work as a blacksmith’s striker in Auckland at the age of 15. Just 11 years later he had become …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Classical musicians
… dispute, when on 3 June up to 17,000 people gathered in Auckland’s Domain to support the wharfies (waterside …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public protest
… many active and dormant volcanoes, and the largest city, Auckland, is built on a volcanic field. The most destructive …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Natural hazards – overview
… in the British Empire when she was elected mayor of the Auckland borough of Onehunga in 1893. Four male councillors …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Local and regional government
… underground cables had reached Wellington and by 1909, Auckland. Under James Logan telephone use was made more …
Type: Biography
… first automated parcel-sorting machine was installed at the Auckland post office in September 1961, and mechanised …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Mail and couriers
… She is said to have studied at St Mary's Convent in Auckland, and was an accomplished pianist. In the late 1880s …
Type: Biography
… if they could fly the tino rangatiratanga flag atop the Auckland Harbour Bridge on Waitangi Day, but Transit refused …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Flags
… papers (in the National Library) and the Grey collection (Auckland Libraries). Māori-language newspapers Māori …
Type: Story Page
… in Lyttelton in August on the William Miles. He visited Auckland and Wellington before taking employment, in October …
Type: Biography
… being a member of the Poverty Bay rugby team that defeated Auckland 17–14 in 1926. He continued to represent Poverty …
Type: Biography
… health. McEwan was employed for some time by the Auckland booksellers Upton and Company, but when he applied …
Type: Biography
… 1920, and on 15 January 1921 Meikle married Emily Mills at Auckland; the first of their five children had been born in …
Type: Biography