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… The Silver Fern railcar travelling from Wellington to Auckland went too fast around a curve, and rolled over, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Railway accidents
… major ports, river ports and breakwater ports. Major ports Auckland, Wellington and Lyttelton were safe natural …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ports and harbours
… From the 1840s fortifications were erected in towns like Auckland, Whanganui and New Plymouth to resist Māori attack, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: City history and people
… Zealand identity differently from a Pacific person in South Auckland. National identity may change depending on the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: New Zealand identity
… 1979 the firm purchased Tri-Ang Pedigree (NZ) Limited, of Auckland, enlarging the factory to accommodate the extra …
Type: Biography
… main metropolitan centres: a quarter live in the region of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. Many continue to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Urban Māori
… cities of Australia and New Zealand. On 14 October 1947 in Auckland, Vaughan married Roma Hope Collins. After four …
Type: Biography
… can respond to coastal, surf, river or flood incidents. In Auckland and Wellington, there are Police Maritime Units, …
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Part of story: Search and rescue
… The communications equipment is now operated remotely from Auckland. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui places
… Wakefield worked as a clerk in the Customs Department at Auckland. In 1874 Stafford's influence helped to gain …
Type: Biography
… In the late 1960s Fraser McDonald, a psychiatrist at Auckland's Kingseat Hospital, drew attention to the very …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women and men
… won first prize in an egg-laying competition run by the Auckland Poultry Breeders' Association. She also specialised …
Type: Biography
… halved, with most of the change being primary treatment. In Auckland a major civic battle was fought from the 1930s to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sewage, water and waste
… (chairmen in 1946–49 and 1949–53 respectively), and by the Auckland firm Frank M. Winstone (Merchants) Limited. In 1952 …
Type: Biography
… products were shipped from Marokopa up the west coast to Auckland. Flax and sawmilling were also important industries …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country places
… 1840 there were 15 civil service departments, all based in Auckland, which employed a total of 39 men. The governor of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public service
… taken over from an independent firm in Queen Street, Auckland. In 1917, on the sudden death of his father, he was …
Type: Biography
… coast, the best-known colonies being at Muriwai (near Auckland), Cape Kidnappers in Hawke’s Bay and on Farewell …
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Part of story: Seabirds – overview
… Order of Oddfellows was formed in the 1890s in Dunedin, Auckland and Wellington. Most of the members were single …
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Part of story: Women’s networks and clubs
… on the Sir Edward Paget on 9 December 1852, arriving in Auckland on 25 May 1853. Maria, with Harry and Arthur … her and then Arthur to leave New Plymouth in mid 1860 for Auckland, where Arthur took a job as an interpreter in the …
Type: Biography