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… legacy supports this assertion. Richard Farrell Avenue in Auckland is named for him. …
Type: Biography
… men to launch and fly them. Tamapahore and Tamapahure The Auckland suburb of Manurewa or Te Manurewa o Tamapahore (the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Traditional Māori games – ngā tākaro
… live folk music, among them Wellington’s Monde Marie, Auckland’s Poles Apart and Christchurch’s Folklore Centre. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Folk, country and blues music
… as the country’s oldest surviving club. By mid-1887 Auckland had 13 clubs. The New Zealand Football Association …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Football
… class in 1959–60, and served as a mother ship for the 1964 Auckland–Noumea yacht race. A committed Christian, Bill also …
Type: Biography
… major roads including the concrete Great South Road in Auckland. Although the Gibbons family had shares in many …
Type: Biography
… Back home, he commanded a battery on Motutapu Island, near Auckland, then became a regional training officer. During …
Type: Biography
… full ownership in 2012 they expanded the R&D resources in Auckland and Dunedin. Sustainable design Environmental …
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Part of story: Industrial design
… Hooker collected some 400 plant species from the Auckland and Campbell islands in 1840. During a stay in New …
Type: Biography
… first recorded full-scale race meeting took place at Epsom, Auckland, on 5 and 6 January 1842. In October that year, a …
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Part of story: Horse and greyhound racing
… private hospitals, such as Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Auckland, grew to rival public hospitals in size and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hospitals
… to Harriett Garard Goring. In March 1891 he jumped ship in Auckland and took the name Edwin John Howard. He then joined …
Type: Biography
… suicide In 1943, MP William Polson told Parliament that an Auckland firm had imported ‘3000 gross of a singularly …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… 14% of the population visited the train. When it reached Auckland, awards ($1,000 and a trophy) were bestowed on the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Industrial design
… played the ‘Last post’ and members drank champagne. In Auckland members sang ‘For they are jolly good fellows’ for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Stock market
… the judge was not impressed with the specimen submitted by Auckland’s J. Goodfellow: ‘a sample of curd soap (with …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Exhibitions and world’s fairs
… a range of military and general air services in the Auckland region and elsewhere. As the international …
Type: Biography
… dancing, awarded at the South Pacific championships in Auckland. Earlier that year he had won the annual Peter …
Type: Biography
… with youth, and the focus of fascinated media attention. At Auckland’s first rock ’n’ roll dance, held in 1956 at the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Dancing
… until 1923, by which time John A. Lee was the Labour MP for Auckland East. Fred Lee left school to run messages and …
Type: Biography