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… of Marutūahu, and the carved meeting house Hotunui, at Auckland Museum. …
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… Gaelic footballers named their new club in his honour. When Auckland and Christchurch clashed in 2012, the team from … In 1949 the first Irish Games competition took place in Auckland and the first provincial games were played in … first New Zealand Gaelic Athletic Association was formed in Auckland. The game was helped by Irish immigration, which …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… Fanny Malcolm was born at Auckland, New Zealand, on 29 January 1852, the second of 13 … moved to Great Barrier Island, 56 miles north-east of Auckland, where Neill Malcolm began cattle farming at … it scope by providing proper art materials purchased from Auckland. Apart from these early sketching activities Fanny …
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… Margaret Beveridge Stevenson was born in Onehunga, Auckland, on 30 November 1865, the daughter of Margaret … there were others interested, she was the sole member in Auckland for 10 years. However, when a Baha’i couple, John … to become the first Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Auckland. Margaret was elected the assembly’s secretary, a …
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… Zealand’s, unusually, were both in cities – Wellington and Auckland. Waiting around Unless vice-regal children required … describing her as ‘a woman who was perfectly ready!’ 1 Auckland In 1840 Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson set up … A year later he moved into a prefabricated building in Auckland. This burned down seven years later and was …
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Part of story: Governors and governors-general
… settlement on the Kaipara Harbour. He arrived at Auckland with his family on the Annie Wilson in September 1863. Initially he settled in Auckland, where he began working for Daniel Pollen's Whau … when Pollen exhibited his work, first at the 1864 Auckland Horticultural Society show, and the following year …
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… Willis Thomas Goodwin (Bill) Airey was born in Auckland on 7 January 1897. His father, Walter Henry Airey, … won a Junior National Scholarship and in 1911 enrolled at Auckland Grammar School. There he gained seven first prizes … In 1914 he won a Senior National Scholarship and went to Auckland University College, where he shone at English and …
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… on 25 February after childbirth, Thomas quit Dunedin for Auckland. With him went his four children and his youngest … horse for the entire overland journey between Dunedin and Auckland. In Auckland he re-entered legal practice, and … holding judicial office, at Auckland on 26 July 1889. As Auckland's only resident Supreme Court judge, he had earned …
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… short-story writers and literary stylists. He was born in Auckland on 25 November 1922 and grew up on the North Shore. … the manager of George Court and Sons Limited, a large Auckland department store. He soon married again. Maurice … to Paeroa to open his own business. Maurice returned to Auckland a year later to attend Sacred Heart College but, …
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… 1828. He came to New Zealand with his family, arriving at Auckland on the Westminster on 1 April 1843. He started work … marriage to Mary Ann Oakes at St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland, on 15 April 1854. Their son, John Raphael (Jerry), … of the Great South Road, and later supplied wood for Auckland's pier and for the breakwater at Napier. During the …
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… Mulvany, were operating a successful weaving business in Auckland. They helped revitalise the craft of fine fabric … sister, Aileen. All three children were born in Parnell, Auckland, and after a year spent in Masterton, the family … After leaving school Sybil found employment with a leading Auckland photographic firm, Bartlett's Studio, and Josephine …
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… School, Parramatta, New South Wales and St John's College, Auckland. He began farming in 1845 at Ōpōtiki with his … to New Zealand, on 7 October 1857 Wilson was elected to the Auckland Provincial Council for the Pensioner Settlements …
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… dominated the economy of the upper North Island – the old Auckland province – until 1910. Together, kauri and kauri … in 1885. A fair proportion was exported through the port of Auckland, which was by far the principal port nationally for … shipping routes linked smaller ports in the region to Auckland. Story of a New Zealand region Jane Mander’s The …
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Part of story: Regional economies
… and former goldminer. His parents had both arrived in Auckland from Prince Edward Island in 1858. Harry, as he was … had become the headmaster), at Paparoa School, and at Auckland College and Grammar School. After passing the civil … at Mauku. The first of their five children was born at Auckland in January 1888. Haszard was a member of the …
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… and enamel belt buckle at the first exhibition of the Auckland Arts and Crafts Club, and gained the first-class … New Zealand in early 1922, he taught at Elam School of Art, Auckland, and Southland Technical College before his … on a local and national level. About 1925 he published Auckland: a sketch-book. He was a member of the New Zealand …
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… to 1993, Lin Saunders was to be a central figure on the Auckland musical scene, becoming one of New Zealand's most … 1936, Saunders became director of music at King's College, Auckland, where over the next 38 years he taught Latin and … always accompanied by his wife, he was a familiar sight to Auckland concert-goers. He invariably refused to divulge his …
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… such as that encircling Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill in Auckland) in the 18th century, but none approached city … for windfall profits. Consequently, early sales were brisk. Auckland Speculation also drove Auckland’s early growth. Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson …
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Part of story: City history and people
… Cambridge, Te Awamutu and Alexandra were connected to Auckland by telegraph. The telephone, introduced in Auckland and Christchurch in 1881, took longer to become … shipped down the river and across the Firth of Thames to Auckland. Again, willows became a problem and river traffic …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… while long coastlines, rivers and sea access to Auckland promoted movement by water. Gold mining was a great … branch rail line from Morrinsville to Thames in 1898. An Auckland–Thames road link was only built in the 1930s. Sea … sailing vessels to transport logs and sawn timber to Auckland and beyond: first schooners, and from the 1880s …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… from Whangārei before the main line was extended south to Auckland in 1925. The line from Auckland stopped at Ōkaihau, leaving the far north without … Moerewa), and weekly freight services between Whangārei and Auckland were halved. Ports For years the north relied on …
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Part of story: Northland region