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… a prolific trader of natural history specimens. He lived in Auckland from around 1900 to 1910 and in Christchurch from …
Type: Biography
… at baptism, and later studied at St John's College in Auckland. There he married a Māori woman, whose name is not …
Type: Biography
… militiamen connected with Pūhoi settlement north of Auckland, and some of their descendants still live there. A …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato places
… the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in Christchurch and the Auckland City Art Gallery. The organising committee worked …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… entered the Wesleyan Native Institution at Three Kings in Auckland. He was sent to the Chatham Islands as a missionary …
Type: Biography
… Company attracted £60,000 from investors as far away as Auckland for a mine at Ngakawau in Buller. Investors were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Coal and coal mining
… funded by donations from the community, were established in Auckland, Masterton and Christchurch. Decline Social and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Methodist Church
… selling their produce to markets such as the new towns of Auckland and Wellington. Some even supplied markets in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori
… the capital of the colony was in the upper North Island (at Auckland), close to the largest Māori populations, whereas …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Colonial and provincial government
… in New Zealand at Bartlett’s Studios in Queen Street in Auckland in 1895, with the first public screening the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Screen industry
… of European colonists arriving in key settlements such as Auckland, Wellington and Nelson came as a shock. The …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi
… advantage of this. They rented a small shed in Onehunga, Auckland, and designed and built their first product: a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Workshop industries
… In the 1970s Muriel Fisher, a suburban gardener in Auckland, and Lawrie Metcalf, a South Island parks …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Horticultural use of native plants
… Okareka, Tarawera and Rotoiti – mostly drew visitors from Auckland. Taupō visitors came from Hawke’s Bay, Wellington …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… on the Wairau River on 11 June 1921. His next challenger, Aucklander Darcy Hadfield, was a ‘pocket Arnst’ in physique. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rowing
… supporter. The 1999 APEC Leaders’ Meeting was held in Auckland and, among other things, it thrashed out a response …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Asia and New Zealand
… and attacked the Salvationists during their services. In Auckland larrikins organised an alternative ‘skeleton army’, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Salvation Army
… Force in 1877 Thomson became the inspector in charge of the Auckland district, a position he held from 1878 until 1887, …
Type: Biography
… and when at the close of 1916 Jim Thorn was imprisoned in Auckland for ‘seditious utterances’, she supported him with …
Type: Biography
… Trent returned to New Zealand, eventually settling north of Auckland at Mathesons Bay. He died at North Shore Hospital …
Type: Biography