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… Hintz taught at Raffles Institution, the family settled in Auckland in 1915. Orton initially attended Auckland Grammar School, but in 1922 became a foundation … one of his passions and he was later vice president of the Auckland Cricket Association. While in England he met Flora …
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… Olive Emily Jones was born in Onehunga, Auckland, on 20 June 1893. Her parents, Emily Mary Rout and … had married in 1888. Olive attended Onehunga School, Auckland Girls’ Grammar School and then Elam School of Art. … Onehunga. She trained as a girls’ work secretary at the Auckland YWCA in 1922 and worked with its Girl Citizen youth …
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… He joined an older brother on the gumfields north of Auckland. Little is known of his first few years in New … 1907 a long poem by Kosovich appeared in Napredak , the Auckland Croatian-language newspaper. The poem was addressed … (The resurrection of Yugoslavia), which was published in Auckland on 5 January 1920 with the support of 496 donors. …
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… sisters came to New Zealand in the early 1880s and lived in Auckland. For a while their mother ran a ladies’ seminary in … music teacher. Alice had studied the violin and piano in Auckland and later in England, becoming a licentiate of the … Academy of Music. She also taught in a studio in central Auckland. Mary Law’s influence on teaching the blind was …
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… Association of Gerontology) and an active member of the Auckland Old People’s Welfare Council (later renamed Age Concern Auckland). His medical interests extended beyond the aged, … In 1968 he was founding vice president of the Civic Trust Auckland, which sought to preserve historic buildings, and …
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… lemurs and a number of types of monkey are usually present. Auckland Zoo also holds orang-utans. New Zealand icons Kiwi … stay healthy in zoos. Various polar bears were kept at Auckland Zoo between 1923 and 1993, and although some lived … unpredictable and the only one to have been kept at Auckland Zoo was shot when he became unmanageable. …
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Part of story: Zoos and aquariums
… John Balmain Brooke was born in Auckland on 28 July 1907, the eldest of three children of … Balmain, a schoolteacher. He attended Belmont School and Auckland Grammar School before studying at Auckland University College and Canterbury College. Having …
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… they hoped to start a nonconformist community north of Auckland. Shortly after arriving at Auckland in February 1863, the Coopers went north to their … to farm their infertile land forced the family back to Auckland by 1865. However, the short time spent by young …
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… Band, were influential. Walter Smith and Robert Adams Two Auckland band leaders can claim that their bands were the … 1927 the Walter Smith Jazz Band was regularly performing at Auckland cabarets. Robert Adams played percussion in pit … dance band genre in New Zealand include Edgar Bendall, an Auckland pianist and band leader for 50 years. Ted Croad …
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Part of story: Jazz and dance bands
… was one of a large number of prostitutes who worked in Auckland, New Zealand, in the 1850s and 1860s. She was born … and the names of her parents are unknown. She arrived in Auckland on 18 September 1849 with her husband, John Finnie, … In 1855 she made her first recorded appearance before the Auckland courts, charged with using abusive language. By the …
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… Alice Woodward was born on 3 February 1871 near Auckland. She was the eldest of four children of Laura … on her career. Upon graduation Alice Woodward moved back to Auckland and became the first woman doctor to register … was appointed honorary bacteriologist and pathologist to Auckland Hospital. She was the first woman doctor to be …
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… years he was apprenticed to a blacksmith at Freemans Bay, Auckland. During this time his voice developed into a basso … known as Gard), a former opera singer then teaching in Auckland. It was Garratt who introduced Natzke to the Auckland public. As song leader at the popular town hall …
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… reason. New Zealand’s first freethought organisation, the Auckland Secular Society, appeared in 1854 but lasted just … an anti-Māori, anti-missionary and pro-settler newspaper in Auckland in 1856, alarming the government. The Auckland Secular Society re-emerged in 1866 as the Auckland …
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Part of story: Atheism and secularism
… latest gossip and do business. Plans for public squares in Auckland and Wellington were shelved when the land was … meeting places. The corner of Fort and Queen streets in Auckland was an early meeting place for Māori, some of whom … For a long time, there were no large public squares in Auckland and Wellington to act as focal points for civic …
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Part of story: City public spaces
… died in infancy or youth. In 1849 the couple arrived at Auckland on the Berhampore with their two daughters and … in the Huntly area. Although she was living in Mangere, Auckland, by 1880, Margaret Schlinker closely supervised … in Bellary, India. She married Lewis Bassiere Harris in Auckland in 1861. He was at that time a painter, and later …
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… northern hemisphere. Islands of optimism After visiting the Auckland Islands, Benjamin Morrell concluded: ‘I think that Auckland’s Island is one of the finest places for a small … Islands. Then in 1840 came three major expeditions to the Aucklands: Charles Wilkes, leading the United States …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… in the Bay of Islands, in 1840, then, just a year later, at Auckland. Since 1865 the more centrally located Wellington …
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… very popular among South Koreans. They have flocked to Auckland, where they have built up business and cultural …
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… home to a fertile literary and arts community. In the 2000s Auckland had a vibrant Pacific arts and fashion scene, while …
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… Alice Eleanor Cossey was born on 8 November 1879 at Drury, Auckland, New Zealand, the eighth of nine children of … tailor, and starting out as a tailoress, Cossey lived in Auckland, attending Sarah Heap 's physical culture classes … time. In 1917 Alice Cossey became the secretary of the Auckland Tailoresses' Union (ATU), a position she was to …
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