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… Enterprises in 1961, which spread Foodtown branches across Auckland and launched the Georgie Pie fast food restaurant … chain in 1977. Early years Thomas Henry Ah Chee was born in Auckland on 4 January 1928, the son of Clement Calliope Ah … (Guangzhou), China, in 1921, and brought his bride home to Auckland. Their daughter Betty was born in 1922, followed by …
Type: Biography
… by large crowds. Notable bridges include the kilometre-long Auckland Harbour Bridge, and the impressive series of …
Type: Story Front
… change was the establishment of a ‘super-city’ council for Auckland in 2010. …
Type: Story Front
… to the many tribes of Whangārei. From Muriwhenua down to Auckland, traditions and place names such as Ngunguru …
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… speculation Many buyers at the first Crown land sales in Auckland in 1841 were speculators who bought on deposit, … keep up payments. The flow-on effect led to almost all of Auckland’s merchants going under. Jobbers The 13 government officials who bought property in the 1841 Auckland land sales were dubbed ‘the Auckland official …
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Part of story: Business failures and corporate fraud
… Walker and her husband, Frank Bayly, a farmer, was born in Auckland on 15 July 1906. The family subsequently lived on farms in Waikato and to the south and east of Auckland. In June 1925 Bill Bayly moved to Pāpāmoa, a few … Bill married Phyllis Dorothy Palmer, a stenographer, in Auckland on 29 August 1928. The couple then lived briefly in …
Type: Biography
… and secondary schools. Classics programmes were offered at Auckland, Canterbury, Massey, Otago and Victoria … professorial chair in classics. The classics departments at Auckland and Otago published their own journals. No love of … in the 19th century – Otago (1869), Canterbury (1873), Auckland (1883) and Victoria (1899) – commenced with …
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Part of story: Classical and foreign-language studies
… local renown as an athlete spread when he went to Auckland and became serious about rugby football. By now six … tall and weighing 13 stone, he was first selected for the Auckland provincial team in 1896 and thus contributed to a … national passion for rugby. In all, he donned the Auckland jersey 26 times. Rugby gave way to soldiering …
Type: Biography
… Back in New Zealand the family lived in Dannevirke, then Auckland. Keith left school in standard six to split … After working briefly on a farm in Ngatea, Hay returned to Auckland, and at 16 was chosen from a queue of unemployed … he won a tender to relocate an American army camp from the Auckland Domain to Panmure, and he succeeded by using the …
Type: Biography
… Neil Lloyd Macky was born in Auckland on 20 February 1891, the son of Thomas Lindsay … from boyhood) was educated at Prince Albert College and Auckland University College and was articled to J. A. Tole, the Auckland Crown prosecutor. He graduated LLB in 1912, was …
Type: Biography
… Snodgrass. After boarding at St John’s Collegiate School, Auckland, he enrolled at Auckland University College in 1905. The following year he … the installation of the first alternating-current plant in Auckland, a 6,600-volt link between tramways. His knowledge …
Type: Biography
… university. A third was the ambivalent relationship with Auckland. Auckland capitalists financed the development of Waikato … electors were often represented in central government by Aucklanders with local financial interests. From the 1890s …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… Wystan Curnow and John Hurrell), was staged at Artspace Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in … Open Drawer, the post-object archive at the University of Auckland, the E. H. McCormick Research Library at Auckland …
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Part of story: Post-object and conceptual art
… Anna Lois White was born in Auckland on 2 November 1903, the daughter of Annie Phillipps … a leading member of the Mount Albert Methodist Church in Auckland. Throughout her life Lois struggled to reconcile … and early 1940s Lois White was considered a mainstream Auckland artist with a significant national profile. Many of …
Type: Biography
… Communist Party of New Zealand (CPNZ). In 1939 he moved to Auckland, where he boarded with Tom Stanley, national … CPNZ. Supported by a WEA scholarship, Wilcox began study at Auckland University College, but he did not complete a … CPNZ supported her in the struggle with the government over Auckland’s Orakei marae. Wilcox stood for Parliament under …
Type: Biography
… members but in 1879 Alan's paternal grandfather moved to Auckland and in 1890 his father obtained a teaching position … Alan attended Katikati School, Parnell School, and then Auckland College and Grammar School from 1892 to 1899 on a …
Type: Biography
… editor of the music magazine Rip it U p , formed the Auckland-based label Southside. It specialised in dance … Alan Jansson founded Uptown Studios (originally Voxpop) in Auckland in the late 1980s and began producing young Polynesian hip hop and R&B acts, mostly from South Auckland. A number of these recordings were collected on the …
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Part of story: Recording companies and studios
… Regiment of the Royal New Zealand Fencibles, arriving at Auckland in August 1847 on the Ramillies . The family lived in the Fencible settlement at Onehunga, Auckland, where John Bates was employed as a tinsmith. … the mail that was delivered to Onehunga twice weekly from Auckland. She 'discharged her duty very satisfactorily', and …
Type: Biography
… Oak in Wellington, the Occidental and Shakespeare hotels in Auckland and the British Hotel in Lyttelton. Coffee bars included the Ca d’Oro in Auckland and Carmen’s Coffee Lounge and the Tête-à-Tête in … spots. The first lesbian social club was the KG Club in Auckland, which opened in 1972. KG stood for Karangahape …
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Part of story: Lesbian lives