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… respected him as 'friend and protector'. When he visited Auckland in the late 1840s, Iwikau became acquainted with …
Type: Biography
… Ruapehu) over the last 20,000 years. Similar studies from Auckland showed that scores of thin tephras from the same …
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Part of story: Volcanoes
… (2014) was the first Bollywood-style film to be made in Auckland. The great maiden's blush Written and directed by …
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Part of story: Feature film
… can stab. 2 Grim realism R. A. K. Mason was a native-born Aucklander who published remarkably mature poems while still …
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Part of story: Poetry
… shorter, more manageable tours possible. In the 2010s in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, works are …
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Part of story: Orchestras
… and Kapetaua of Ngāti Pāoa, conquered much of Tāmaki (Auckland) in separate battles. Ngāti Pāoa fought a number of …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… climate and so came to New Zealand. On his arrival in Auckland in February 1856 on the Ashmore he found that his …
Type: Biography
… Zealand Rifle Brigade, in October 1917 he was posted to the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment in Palestine. Late in …
Type: Biography
… the Leith in Dunedin in 1903. In 1910 the Grafton bridge in Auckland became the world’s largest reinforced concrete arch …
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Part of story: Bridges and tunnels
… Whātua people occupied Bastion Point above Ōkahu Bay in Auckland. The tribe had been evicted from the bay in 1951, …
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Part of story: Māori
… Ngāti Maniapoto territory, the British troops returned to Auckland. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… Bell’ Dr Muriel Bell fought for the fluoridation of Auckland’s water supplies. She was opposed by the mayor, …
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Part of story: Dental care
… Rural Women New Zealand still operated a holiday home near Auckland, and bed and breakfast accommodation in Wellington. …
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Part of story: Rural services
… Walsh, who had formed the New Zealand Flying School at Auckland in 1915. With Christchurch business and …
Type: Biography
… In the summer of 1909–10 he rode from Christchurch to Auckland in just five days. He also toured Europe and …
Type: Biography
… of cervical cancer patients at National Women’s Hospital in Auckland, which led to a commission of inquiry, overseen by …
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Part of story: Health advocacy and self-help
… 1895 and 1898 she attended primary schools in Mercer and Auckland. She was known to her family as Te Kirihaehae. Her … then arrested and taken to Narrow Neck training camp at Auckland, where they were subjected to severe military … she supported Ngāti Whātua against the government and the Auckland City Council, who were trying to evict the people …
Type: Biography
… a close friendship with Norman Richmond, his director in Auckland, based on their shared passion for the music of J. … In 1932 he accepted a temporary lectureship in history at Auckland University College but within months the college … of Hunter and others, Beaglehole was not appointed; his Auckland reputation made him unacceptable to a number of …
Type: Biography
… Instead he took up a post-primary teachers’ bursary at Auckland University College, and his interest in religion … of Arts (with honours) in history in 1959, and a year at Auckland Teachers’ College, he taught the subject at his old … leapfrogging Labour into second place. According to the Auckland Star , the ‘Bruce Beetham band-wagon’ was ‘rolling …
Type: Biography
… slow journey to the second sitting of Parliament in Auckland in 1856 seemed to drain the 71-year-old of much of … and argued that the whole of New Zealand, including Auckland, should be liable for the New Zealand Company's …
Type: Biography