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… Local cyclist Gary Anderson won three gold medals at the Auckland Commonwealth Games in 1990 and a bronze at the …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… 1985 when the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was bombed in Auckland Harbour by French secret agents. Subsequent …
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Part of story: Conscription, conscientious objection and pacifism
… city is 140 km north-east of Wellington and 546 km south of Auckland, with a 2013 population of 77,259. Beginnings Until …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… a lay reader in the Anglican church, serving in and around Auckland, apart from a brief sojourn in Rarotonga. From 1905 …
Type: Biography
… adjacent creek was named after him. On 9 August 1893, at Auckland, Peebles married Annie Bright Jackson. Peebles was …
Type: Biography
… and John Johns in the following decade. Wedding traffic On Auckland’s Karangahape Road on Saturday mornings in the …
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Part of story: Photography
… Wellington and Queen Victoria School for Girls in Parnell, Auckland (now closed). Commitment to, and interest in, …
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Part of story: Royal family
… By 1872 there were eight plumbers and 11 tinsmiths in Auckland, seven plumbers and eight tinsmiths in Dunedin, …
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Part of story: Building trades
… guidance about New Zealanders’ values. The University of Auckland, for instance, advises international students that …
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Part of story: Political values
… were made to fit inside horse collars that were sent to Auckland by train for ‘repair’. The collars were returned …
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Part of story: King Country region
… huge Haparangi class of 1947–49. In 1949 the smaller Port Auckland turned many heads with its 12,000 tons of …
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Part of story: Shipping
… the Three Kings Islands in the north to the subantarctic Auckland Islands. The New Zealand storm petrel ( Fregetta …
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Part of story: Petrels
… days, to the work of dealers, to the redevelopment of the Auckland Art Gallery in the 2000s. Naming rights Sometimes, …
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Part of story: Arts funding and support
… for over 30,000. Cricket moved to the University Oval. Auckland also saw fierce debate as to whether to replace …
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Part of story: Sports venues
… installed a lager plant at the Captain Cook brewery in Auckland in 1900, lighter German-style beers began to …
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Part of story: Alcohol
… patrols The first traffic officer was employed by the Auckland City Traffic Department in 1894 to police …
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Part of story: Road accidents
… Yul Oh’s ‘Globgob’, a series of egg-shaped sculptures in Auckland’s Teed and Osborne streets, was unintentionally …
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Part of story: Public and street art
… did not take part. Some British troops were withdrawn to Auckland, but on 21 June a reconnaissance force of 600 …
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… It was located near the Meremere Drag Strip, south of Auckland, and was privately owned and part of a …
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Part of story: Motor sport
… in 1892 he left Christchurch to live with a son in Otahuhu, Auckland. There he died on 7 February 1894, having told a …
Type: Biography