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… Media New Zealand’s mass media are concentrated in Auckland. It is the headquarters for the main networks for … stations. Radio Hauraki returned to shore. Print media Auckland newspapers had a chequered history until the … major paper until it closed in 1991. Diverse interests of Aucklanders have found expression in Metro magazine – which …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… Then in mid 1931 she became acting charge nurse at the Auckland branch of the Plunket Society. Her appointment … she organised emergency precautions to ensure the safety of Auckland’s mothers and babies in the event of an invasion. … be examined by Department of Health medical officers at the Auckland Plunket clinic. However, doctors’ attendance was …
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… year, the family continued on to New Zealand, arriving in Auckland in February 1856. A son, Thomas, was born at sea on … of his name to 'Mahoney' to avoid confusion with an Auckland solicitor named Edmund Mahony, set up in business … became known as E. Mahoney and Son. They produced many of Auckland's banks and hotels during the boom of the 1870s and …
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… Frederick was educated at nearby High Barnet. He arrived at Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 October 1862 on board the … On 22 December 1864 he married Mary Catherine Phelan at Auckland. With the Waikato war concluded Ewington returned to Auckland and in 1866 commenced business as a land and estate …
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… The Auckland region changed dramatically in the early 1900s. By … of the gold and gum had been taken, and the forests felled. Auckland’s comparative isolation ended with the completion … The poor remained in the central city. From the 1920s, some Aucklanders could go by car to bach (holiday-home) …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… year he was appointed to the chair of mathematics at Auckland University College, and travelled to New Zealand to take up the post. He married Elise Frederica Scherff at Auckland on 16 January 1895; they were to have two sons and … of New Zealand from 1914 until 1934 and was a member of the Auckland University College Council from 1913 to 1929. He …
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… James William Tibbs, headmaster of Auckland Grammar School for nearly 30 years, was a key … school in Hobart. He was appointed to teach mathematics at Auckland College and Grammar School (later Auckland Grammar School) in 1885. He became headmaster in …
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… Lewis Alfred Eady was born in Auckland on 12 May 1891 into a staunch Congregationalist family, already well known in Auckland musical circles. His father was Lewis Roberts Eady, … and the Pioneer Women's and Ellen Melville Hall in 1962. Aucklanders flocked to its booking office to reserve seats …
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… Trevor Lloyd was born at Wade (Silverdale), near Auckland, New Zealand, on 21 December 1863, the son of Henry … at this stage of his life. In 1883 Lloyd exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts. Although essentially self-taught, … Constance and Olive. Lloyd exhibited again with the Auckland Society of Arts in 1896, 1898 and 1899. In the …
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… the age of eight and spent the rest of his childhood in the Auckland suburb of Newton, where he attended Newton East … as a carpenter when he married Sarah Louisa Craig at Auckland on 30 November 1886. The couple then lived in … a new career as a union organiser, becoming in the process Auckland's first professional union secretary. In 1899 he …
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… mayor in the city’s history, Jack Allum dominated Auckland’s local political life in the 1940s and 1950s. In … to become indelibly associated with the construction of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. He was born John Andrew Charles … where ‘hard work would count’. After a brief spell in Auckland he spent four years working in Dunedin. In 1914 he …
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… Alice Mary Stanton was born in Auckland on 7 August 1914, the second of five children of … Alice Stanton was appointed resident medical officer at Auckland Hospital. Problems accommodating a female resident … Hospital. From 1940 to 1944 she acted as locum for an Auckland general practitioner on overseas wartime service, …
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… June 1891, and spent a month in Wellington before moving to Auckland where Emily spent the rest of her life. She was … three children was born she worked as a proof-reader at the Auckland Star . She had been involved in the women's …
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… New Zealand with the Church Missionary Society, arriving at Auckland on the Persia on 21 August 1860. She was posted to … disrupted by the outbreak of war in 1863. She returned to Auckland where, over the next 10 years, she devoted herself … the establishment of a state secondary school for girls in Auckland. Auckland Grammar School, for boys, had opened in …
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… New Zealand developed four main cities of similar size – Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Later Auckland grew to become the country’s primary city, with …
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… England for New Zealand, probably in 1865, and settled in Auckland, where he was educated at the Church of England … three-quarter but occasionally at centre, he represented Auckland nine times between 1882 and 1888. Included in his … Wales teams and one against Great Britain. He captained Auckland in 1886. In 1884 Ryan toured New South Wales with …
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… moved around the Wesleyan preaching circuits, reaching Auckland province when Elsie was 16. She attended the Methodist Prince Albert College in Queen Street, Auckland, and in 1906 was awarded an MA with first-class honours in botany after studying at Auckland University College. In the same year she took up a …
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… Emma Hilda Keane was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 18 May 1873, the eldest of six … Girls' High School. By 1894 Keane was living in Auckland, where she attended Auckland University College. She was a member of the drama …
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… London on the Wellington on 30 September 1881, arriving in Auckland on New Year's Day 1882. While the family moved to … on the banks of the Waikato River, Sarah chose to remain in Auckland, teaching briefly at the Beresford Street School. … uninteresting'. However, her appointment as matron of the Auckland Industrial School in April 1882 marked the …
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… of the main centres – just 6.7% in 2006, compared with Auckland’s 11.3% and Canterbury’s 12.8%. Tourism The … rose to 17.8%. Two distinctive cities In the early 2000s Auckland and Wellington had high concentrations of workers … cities, particularly the largest, Auckland. In 2006, 19% of Aucklanders were Asian, compared with the national figure of …
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Part of story: Regional economies