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… He visited Ruapuke Island, Milford Sound and the Auckland and Campbell islands in 1903. Cockayne never … Kapiti Island in 1906, the Waipoua kauri forest in North Auckland in 1907, and Tongariro National Park in 1907 or …
Type: Biography
… and bookkeeping at Brain’s Commercial College in Auckland, after which she commenced a professional career as a typist and secretary. On 3 April 1930, in Auckland, Mavis Gedye married Lewis Welton Hunt, a …
Type: Biography
… June 1843, he and David Monro were sent as a deputation to Auckland to represent the feelings of the Nelson settlers. … Russell and Frederick Whitaker in particular, the two Aucklanders having vigorously opposed Domett's eventual …
Type: Biography
… save for three years at Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland. He had pestered his parents to let him attend an … while he was serving. He completed his training through Auckland University College in 1947, and the following year …
Type: Biography
… Boys’ School (1907–9) and at Wesley College at Three Kings, Auckland (1910–1915), where he was dux in 1914. He played … of Ngāti Whatua over the ongoing land losses at Ōrākei in Auckland. By 1929 Paikea had taken over from Pita Moko the …
Type: Biography
… immediately before or after the able-bodied games. The Auckland and Otago–Southland regional associations were … Jamaica. The team comprised 10 athletes – seven from Auckland and three from Dunedin. The third Commonwealth …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Disability sport
… and conversation, while awaiting transport to trial in Auckland. They were permitted to attend an all-night meeting … would not agree. Transported to Mount Eden prison in Auckland by 16 May, they faced a preliminary hearing in the …
Type: Biography
… marriage Joan was born on 4 February 1922 in Mount Eden, Auckland, and was adopted the following year by Alfred … plotter, then posted to Northern Group Headquarters in Auckland. She later worked as a medical clerk at Ardmore, …
Type: Biography
… 1950s, and was in increasing demand as a speaker. His 1960 Auckland Gallery Associates lecture was published as The … hills: a meditation on New Zealand landscape. In 1963 the Auckland City Art Gallery’s touring retrospective exhibition …
Type: Biography
… Chinese immigrants ‘An overdose of Yellow Peril’ In 1920 an Auckland police officer’s report on a Chinese applicant for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Citizenship
… skin and eye test used on animals) in New Zealand. SAFE In Auckland the local BUAV branch regrouped and renamed itself …
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Part of story: Animal welfare and rights
… After the 1931 earthquake many architectural graduates from Auckland University College were employed to draft plans for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… Mattar remarked that ‘the jealousy was terrible. Those Auckland designers just hated it that a country boy from …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country region
… late 1990s, Los Angeles-styled youth gangs emerged in South Auckland, then spread elsewhere. Gangs are defined by …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: City children and youth
… including one – of which he was a member – in 1908 to the Auckland Islands, and Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated …
Type: Biography
… Māori in the Australian census were Australian-born. After Auckland, Brisbane has the second largest Māori population …
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Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… he was in Sydney. Eliza and her family were evacuated to Auckland, where a son was born. Brind applied to Governor …
Type: Biography
… first town cemeteries Within a decade of their founding, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin had …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Death and dying
… the first, in 1930, was as relieving art lecturer at Auckland Training College. From the mid 1930s she worked at …
Type: Biography
… to those for low-risk women at National Women’s Hospital in Auckland during the same period. However, data on home …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care