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… suburbs, such as Thorndon in Wellington and Freemans Bay in Auckland, therefore grew up on the edge of the inner city. … and subdividing more land on the city fringes. Mt Eden in Auckland, St Albans in Christchurch and Newtown in … and on most nights and weekends it was almost empty. In Auckland, pressure for housing space caused suburbs to take …
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… by Leonard Terry in the Greek revival style, including Auckland’s Union Bank (1864, demolished 1972), which … buildings from the 1860s also stand out: the Supreme Court, Auckland (1868). Designed by Edward Rumsey in the Gothic … and an ornate tower. Good for business The erection of Auckland’s Union Bank was greeted as a sign of the town’s …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… Ivy Margaret Copeland was born in Auckland on 15 June 1888, one of five children of … Technical School. Copeland went on to Elam School of Art, Auckland, where she was taught by Edward Friström and … over the purchase of paintings in Europe for the Auckland Art Gallery. Copeland, who was appalled at the …
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… The matriarch of the Wong Doo clan in Auckland, New Zealand, was born sometime between 1873 and … to join his elder brothers who were market gardeners in Auckland. By the time he returned to China to find a wife he … gardens and establishing his own general store in central Auckland around 1912. He had the foresight to become …
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… Ida Gertrude Eise was born on 9 September 1891 in Auckland, the daughter of Emma Mary Ann Cox and her husband, … and silver. In 1915, while in New Plymouth, she joined the Auckland Society of Arts (ASA) as a working member. She returned to Auckland in 1920 to join the staff at Elam, and stayed until …
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… Arthur Owen Jensen was born in Auckland on 5 August 1907, the son of Olaf Jensen, a … to conduct at John Fuller and Sons’ vaudeville theatre in Auckland. Piano studies followed (he eventually gained his … films. He began, but did not complete, work for a BMus at Auckland University College. On 24 March 1934, at Hamilton, …
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… where she met Luigi Rinaldi, a car salesman. In 1935 at Auckland she had his child (who died shortly after birth). … Roy Clark, whom she married at the Registrar’s Office, Auckland, on 6 January 1937. Although 32, she gave her age … while living in extreme poverty with two small children on Auckland’s North Shore (her husband often stayed away in the …
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… Edward Mulgan was accepted as a probationer teacher for the Auckland Education Board. This abrupt career change may have … probationary teachers. In 1890 the family shifted back to Auckland and for the next four years Mulgan was first … School. During his time at Parnell, Mulgan enrolled at Auckland University College. He graduated BA in 1894, and in …
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… Wellington College. From 1903 he worked for a law firm in Auckland and that year enrolled at Auckland University College. He commenced law practice in … married Violet Constance Mitchell in St Mary’s Cathedral, Auckland. On the formation of the Hamilton District Law …
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… journalists to write about them into the 1960s. He moved to Auckland in 1949, briefly working as a nurse at Auckland Mental Hospital, Avondale, before shifting to … silica formations around Rotorua and Taupo. He returned to Auckland in 1952. After observing a correlation between moko …
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… Isabella Matilda Bramley. Soon after, her parents moved to Auckland, where Freda attended Grafton School, St Benedict’s … an adagio dancer. In the early 1930s she studied at several Auckland dancing schools, where she was persuaded to take up … opera, The Duchess of Dantzic , at His Majesty’s Theatre in Auckland. Thelma, the star of the show, was now married to …
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… the central government. The General Assembly did not agree. Auckland separatism The government led by Frederick Weld shifted the capital from Auckland to Wellington in 1865. Aucklanders felt the interests of their province, in which …
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Part of story: Colonial and provincial government
… since 1887. Eleven months later he became district clerk at Auckland. Appointed a delegate of Auckland sergeants to the Royal Commission on the Police … later he was promoted to sub-inspector and transferred to Auckland. When a civil administration took over from …
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… Bennett was back in New Zealand, touring the West Coast and Auckland on behalf of the Federation of Labour. When the Auckland branch of the Socialist Party invited him to become their organiser he accepted, returning to Auckland in May. His Sunday night lectures quickly attracted …
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… up a family of six. Delargey attended Sacred Heart College, Auckland, as a boarder, before commencing study for the … in Takapuna parish and later at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland. From 1940 to 1947 he acted as director of Catholic … lessons learned then throughout his life, and many young Aucklanders benefited from the inspirational leadership he …
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… As in the past, these reflected overseas developments. Auckland’s slim and sculptural West Plaza Building (1974), … of the financial markets created an office building boom in Auckland and Wellington. Many of the resulting towers were … others shone. Among them were: the National Bank Centre, Auckland (1987). The elegant twin oval-shaped glass towers …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… wider Wellington region, mostly in Hutt Valley and Porirua. Auckland Early Fakaofo migrants had Samoan links and settled near Auckland’s inner city. Many belonged to one of three … western suburbs. In 2013, 27% of Tokelauans lived in the Auckland region. Taupō and Rotorua Families rather than …
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Part of story: Tokelauans
… canoes tied up at wharves and jetties, particularly in Auckland. William Swainson recorded that in the 1850s, Auckland was annually visited by 100 ships from overseas, … 1 For the rest of the 19th century produce sales in Auckland continued to be informally organised at the bottom …
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Part of story: Markets
… Gordon Harold Andersen was born on 21 January 1924 in Auckland, the youngest child of Minnie Boneham and Hans … Hans left Esbjerg, Denmark to go to sea, jumped ship in Auckland in 1902, and married locally-born Minnie in 1912. … public opposition to trade unions had grown. Thousands of Aucklanders marched under the banner ‘Kiwis Care’, chanting …
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… Stretching from Mahurangi, north of Auckland, to Katikati near Tauranga, the Hauraki district …
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