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… 1856 Alfred emigrated to New Zealand, and was employed in Auckland as a printer for about three years. After a similar … by his daughter, Oona Burton, until her departure to Auckland in 1925. Harold Burton had died in a riding …
Type: Biography
… in 1852. When it did not meet, he was elected to the Auckland Provincial Council, on which he served from 1853 to …
Type: Biography
… Sydney’s bohemianism. In 1924 Lye spent about six months in Auckland, followed by a similar period in Samoa in 1924–25. … school at Columbia University. In August that year the Auckland City Art Gallery held a major exhibition of his …
Type: Biography
… Two sons became lawyers; a third became registrar of Auckland University College. Two daughters achieved … were very low. The largest and most financial province, Auckland, operated virtually independently of the dominion …
Type: Biography
… maintaining the neutrality of the union, especially as the Auckland provincial Farmers' Union pushed to form a Country … of Reform stalwarts within the union. In the event, the Auckland union broke away from the New Zealand Farmers' …
Type: Biography
… the wars of Ngāti Pāoa against Te Kawerau, a tribe of the Auckland isthmus. In the mid 1790s, after the murder of a … his deathbed he dictated a letter to a European friend in Auckland, asking him to guard the interests of both …
Type: Biography
… and remnants of his army were tried in the Supreme Court in Auckland, he was said to be 50 years old. He came into … tried in the civil courts, the 37 prisoners were taken to Auckland and tried at the Supreme Court in March 1866 on a …
Type: Biography
… and stage productions, including at the Mercury Theatre in Auckland, the Court Theatre in Christchurch and Downstage in … At times she worked from her house in Titirangi, Auckland, but she lived principally in the Pukerua Bay, …
Type: Biography
… for holy orders. When the college was moved to Tāmaki, in Auckland, late that year, he went too. As senior bursar at … of William and Jane Williams , at St Thomas's Church, Auckland. They had seven children, three of whom died in …
Type: Biography
… overland journeys to Wellington and to St John's College, Auckland. Selwyn inducted him as archdeacon of the East Cape …
Type: Biography
… if buildings were erected, and when carpenters arrived from Auckland in March 1863 to begin building a fortified … at Hikurangi, but were made unwelcome. They returned to Auckland, where Te Wheoro arrived a week later with a … the Māori (Wellington, 1887–90). In January 1890 he visited Auckland, with other Waikato chiefs, for the celebration of …
Type: Biography
… (VUC) in Wellington, graduating in 1956. He trained at Auckland Teachers’ College before returning to VUC in 1957 … Restless, Ward abandoned his PhD; the couple moved to Auckland, where Ward took up teaching at Mount Roskill …
Type: Biography
… at Canterbury Museum in 1938. In the 1930s the director of Auckland Museum, zoologist Gilbert Archey, began producing a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… than 2 million hectares of land, almost all of it in the Auckland, Wellington and Hawke’s Bay districts. All of this …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua
… counter-offensive in the Pacific. They were based mainly in Auckland and Wellington, and at any one time swelled the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: North Americans
… their views carried weight. According to a newcomer to Auckland in the 1860s, ‘A servant thinks nothing of sitting …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Manners and social behaviour
… became the centre of Wellington’s red-light district, while Auckland’s Upper Queen Street had a similar reputation. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sex work
… 1710), then south to below 49˚ (about the latitude of the Auckland Islands), before running east along about the 45th …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: European discovery of New Zealand
… personal relationship. By 1929 the company had bakeries in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and its …
Type: Biography
… at Waitaki Boys’ High School in Oamaru, and graduated MA at Auckland University College the following year. On 7 …
Type: Biography