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… and fighters for justice. The Ngāti Whātua story is part of Auckland’s story. …
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… Every Sunday morning, Sinhalese children from around Auckland gather at the Buddhist Srilankaramaya temple to …
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… career was interrupted by the birth of a daughter in Auckland in 1905. She also seems to have spent time working … be marked 'under protest'. When the family moved to Auckland in 1920, Miriam Soljak found a friend and political … Assisted by a reference from the chief announcer at Auckland's radio station 1YA, which described her as a 'well …
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… of her career was spent in the hospital service, first at Auckland Hospital from 1895 to 1902, and then as matron of … January 1913 and was based at the District Health Office in Auckland. One of the first crises she had to deal with was the 1913 smallpox epidemic. This spread throughout the Auckland province, affecting approximately 1,800 Māori and …
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… David Watt Ballantyne was born on 14 June 1924 in Auckland, the son of David Watt Ballantyne, a foreman … equally brief attempt at studying medicine, he joined the Auckland Star as a cub reporter. In 1947 he moved to … Memorial Award for Prose. That year he returned to the Auckland Star , where he worked as a reporter and film …
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… number of settlements, this lanky young Irishman settled in Auckland as accountant to the New Zealand Banking Company in … also acquired properties in the township and throughout the Auckland province. He was the astutest of land buyers. In … the 1860s Dilworth prospered. With the continued growth of Auckland's population his suburban farm, three miles from …
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… after leaving school. He later captained both the Auckland University rugby team and the North Shore Cricket … Universities rugby team in 1920 and 1922, and represented Auckland at rugby in 1923. Park entered the Royal Military … December 1922 he married Ozgiene Spiers (née de Senna) at Auckland. After serving as adjutant of the garrison …
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… of textile machinery. In December 1863 he arrived at Auckland, New Zealand, on the Green Jacket. He was employed … New Zealand with his wife and brother, George, arriving at Auckland on the Ballarat in August. Alfred and George were … Its population was estimated as 18,000 by August 1868; Auckland's population at that time was around 12,000. …
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… at Woodlands School on the outskirts of Ōpōtiki, and at Auckland Grammar School. He showed an early interest in … Charles Anderson in Ōpōtiki, and continuing his studies at Auckland Grammar. His interest in jazz arose from listening … Boys, a name he gave to successive bands in Rotorua and Auckland. He taught himself to play clarinet and saxophone …
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… King Writers’ Centre offers a young writers programme for Auckland students, while Christchurch’s School for Young … that has been tutoring young writers since 1993. Dance The Auckland Youth Dance Festival was launched in 2013. It is open to secondary-school students in the Auckland region. Bring It On is a secondary-schools hip hop …
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Part of story: Young people and the arts
… afterwards they travelled to New Zealand, arriving in Auckland on 6 August. Charles Abraham had left his … chaplaincy at Eton College to work at St John's College, Auckland, with his old friend Bishop G. A. Selwyn . In … titled. Less didactic are the lively watercolours of Auckland, views of North Head, Howick and Taurarua (Judges …
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… he was placed in the Jubilee Institute for the Blind in Auckland. His teacher, Jane Collier , championed his cause … passing his matriculation exam after two years. He attended Auckland University College, graduating BA in 1906 – the … but he was baptised at the Anglican pro-cathedral in Auckland on 20 July 1902. He offered himself for the …
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… as a source of produce and raw materials for commercial Auckland. To promote settlement the Auckland provincial government offered each settler 40 acres … live at Port Albert decided that other settlements in the Auckland region were more attractive. Other small settler …
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Part of story: Northland region
… Ruth Mason was born in Auckland on 7 November 1913, the eldest of four children of … in Pukekohe until 1923, when her family moved to Epsom, Auckland. She attended St Cuthbert’s College as a day pupil, and left as dux in 1930 to study at Auckland University College. She graduated BA in 1934 and …
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… engineer in 1915. In 1916 he was transferred again, to Auckland as district engineer. The biggest project then in the construction phase was the North Auckland section of the main trunk line, and many difficult … after his retirement he maintained a consulting practice in Auckland, where he was a member of the Auckland Town …
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… 26 January 1853 in London, England, and they emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1857. O'Sullivan was initially … teacher of St Peter's, a Catholic school in central Auckland with a roll of 37 boys. He became the publisher of … and shortly afterwards the clerk and librarian of the Auckland Provincial Council. In 1869 the council passed the …
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… road tunnels are the Waterview Tunnel (2,400 metres) in Auckland and the Lyttelton road tunnel (1,970 metres). The … on a road tunnel to link the city and port. As with the Auckland Harbour Bridge, an authority was set up to take … ever constructed from only two entrances, one at each end. Auckland city infrastructure: a 9.4-kilometre tunnel was …
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Part of story: Bridges and tunnels
… collapsed buildings in the 2011 Canterbury earthquake, from Auckland city governance to contraception and abortion – …
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… census: 3,375 2013 census: 3,768 Major regional locations Auckland: 1,230 Waikato: 1,185 Ngāti Pāoa 1991 census: 1,695 … census: 3,375 2013 census: 3,456 Major regional locations Auckland: 1,440 Waikato: 966 Ngāti Tamaterā 1991 census: 903 … 2013 census: 2,577 Major regional locations Waikato: 1,152 Auckland: 618 Ngāti Whanaunga 1991 census: 177 2001 census: …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… during the 1990s. Almost three-quarters of Iraqis lived in Auckland followed by Wellington and Hamilton. Many Iraqis … were Muslims. Like Iraqis, they were also concentrated in Auckland. Religion In Auckland, Iraqi and Iranian Christians attended three main …
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Part of story: Middle Eastern peoples