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… years earlier after an unsuccessful attempt to settle the Auckland Islands. ‘Waifs & strays’ Surveyors working in the …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… An advertisement for a modernistic block of flats in Auckland declared: ‘Every living room has almost an entire …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Housing
… Tini Waihe), who had been a slave of Ngāti Mutunga on the Auckland Islands from 1842 to 1856. Rohana's owner, Matioro, …
Type: Biography
… 1870 17-year-old Marianne Allen Manchester arrived at Auckland on the Excelsior. She was one of a group of single …
Type: Biography
… died in 1885 at the age of 21, while studying law with the Auckland firm of Whitaker and Russell. …
Type: Biography
… the grounds that the King movement was planning to attack Auckland, Horonuku kept his uncle's promise. About September …
Type: Biography
… engaged in transporting flour and produce from Whakatane to Auckland on his people's schooner, the Ira. Maata's early …
Type: Biography
… was held in 1985. A two-year diploma course began at Auckland University of Technology in 1992, and later was …
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… later the discovery of gold at Thames boosted the town of Auckland. Wool ensured that Canterbury became the wealthiest …
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Part of story: History
… for the chair, but Beaglehole’s earlier appointment at Auckland University College had ended in politically …
Type: Biography
… part of respectable society. Rona trained as a teacher at Auckland and Christchurch training colleges. A keen … (now netball). She captained Poverty Bay, played for Auckland and Canterbury, and in 1936 was selected for a New …
Type: Biography
… practice. Although his ultimate destination was Jerusalem, Auckland was his initial stop. He discovered his niche in a … any longer, he sought refuge on a small commune in Auckland. On the evening of Sunday 22 October he died of a …
Type: Biography
… to support her university ambitions. Two years followed at Auckland University College (1952–4), studying English, … and families attended a commemorative event in the Auckland Town Hall organised by the Storylines Children’s …
Type: Biography
… 10 years. On 15 or 16 December 1869, while Takamoana was in Auckland attempting to obtain financial help from Donald … greater powers, and to work for a change of government. The Auckland lawyer John Sheehan was to help them to carry out …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand literature. Historian Kate Jordan wrote about Auckland graphic designer Bill Haythornthwaite . Tim … , a prominent leader of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei in central Auckland, who steered the hapū through transformational … at 47 just a few weeks after his Underwater World opened on Auckland’s waterfront. Matiu Rata was an influential …
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… name from official notices he had seen on a trading trip to Auckland. The missionary Thomas Grace , who considered him … a terror to the district'. He was involved in trade with Auckland, on two Māori-owned vessels which undercut the … at Ōpōtiki, Te Kooti was sent to Mount Eden gaol in Auckland and released after two days, when two sureties were …
Type: Biography
… writer Sydney Greenbie thought that ‘there is one cook from Auckland to Invercargill, and his name is Monotony’. 3 Some …
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Part of story: Visitors’ opinions about New Zealand
… at Christchurch in 1974 and was on the advisory board at Auckland in 1990. A dedicated advocate of amateur sport, …
Type: Biography