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… is different from that in the much drier Canterbury. Aucklanders love to sail because of the regular winds and … the reward of spring flowers and brilliant autumn foliage. Auckland’s high rainfall and warmer temperatures allow …
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Part of story: Climate
… than bucket brigades. In July 1858 a whole block in central Auckland was destroyed by fire. Agents for British fire and … The New Zealand Insurance Company (NZI) was founded in Auckland in 1859 and followed by the Auckland-based South British Fire and Marine Insurance …
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Part of story: Insurance
… from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia and Peru. Later, the Auckland Latin American Committee built on the experiences … brightened New Zealand’s cultural life included Kantuta in Auckland and Pachamama in Christchurch. Carnivals brought … the main means of communication among Latin Americans in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Even in these cities, …
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Part of story: Latin Americans
… through family reunification. In 2003 most had settled in Auckland’s western suburbs (1,200–1,500) with 1,000 in … to 2002, 966 Ethiopian refugees arrived. Most settled in Auckland; smaller numbers went to Wellington and …
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Part of story: Africans
… settled In 2018, over 75% of Tongans were living in the Auckland region. The 1990s saw a shift from central to south Auckland, in part because inner-city rental houses were … community centres. Other notable concentrations were in the Auckland suburbs of Grey Lynn, Glen Innes, Ōtāhuhu, …
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Part of story: Tongans
… sculpture honouring David Lange was built in Ōtāhuhu, Auckland. Yachtsman and adventurer Peter Blake was … a new building and exhibition at the Maritime Museum in Auckland’s Viaduct Basin. Mountaineer Edmund Hillary was … (1957), and at the accident site (1989), and a monument at Auckland’s Waikumete cemetery to those who died in the 1979 …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… in North America. In the 1850s, driving dams to the west of Auckland were copies of the timber-built structures of Nova … Timber Company, rafted logs by sea to large sawmills at Auckland and at Mercury Bay in the Coromandel. The longest trip, 300 kilometres from Whangaroa to Auckland, took three days. At Auckland the logs were stored …
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Part of story: Bush trams and other log transport
… chose to commemorate individuals with full names. Near Auckland Airport are streets named George Bolt, Tom Pearce, … formally. In the mid-20th century Northland displaced North Auckland as the preferred name for the region north of Auckland. South Auckland, which once described the city’s …
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Part of story: Place names
… Te Puke Ōtara marae opened the United Flea Market in South Auckland in 1978 – before there was Saturday shopping. The … to bring out the flavour of this area.’ 1 Avondale market Auckland’s Avondale market, established around 1982, became … Brown’s Mill market, which opened in an old flour mill in Auckland’s Durham Lane in 1968, was New Zealand’s first …
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Part of story: Markets
… Pacific dance community (particularly but not only in Auckland) was so large and active that it attracted people … Pacific Island Nations Development Association and the Auckland City Council. It became one of New Zealand’s … largest event of its kind in Oceania. Run over two days in Auckland, with 11 stages and 10 villages (representing …
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Part of story: Cultural dance
… arrived in New Zealand in mid 1880 with his wife. The Auckland Free Public Library was due to open on 7 September … in that year in the former entertainment hall of the Auckland Mechanics' Institute, whose own library had … servitude. The opening of a new library building – now the Auckland City Art Gallery – on 26 March 1887 brought …
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… Wellington and Penrose. Their position – close to central Auckland and beside a suburban railway – has encouraged … and medium-density housing. A campus of the University of Auckland is sited in Tāmaki. Panmure, Mt Wellington and … the abattoir walls, reaching out to many parts of South Auckland.’ 1 The 1980s changed the landscape and workforce, …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… more confident sense of local identity. In parts of west Auckland and the Hutt Valley young people developed a … and beer. Pacific Island people concentrated in South Auckland and Porirua developed their own distinctive styles … country. This has led to the rise of ‘ethnoburbs’ such as Auckland’s Howick, which has a high proportion of Chinese …
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Part of story: Suburbs
… in 1964 of the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland, with its displays of aircraft associated with … Force, the association acquired a hangar and clubrooms in Auckland. It now operates over 60 aircraft, which are owned … by Boeing, Bluebird and Mallard , were imported by the Auckland-based New Zealand Flying School. After the school …
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Part of story: Aerial recreation
… North Island and on 18 September 1865 took his discharge at Auckland. In 1872 Jane Whiteside appeared on the stage as a … Jane in her career. In December 1873 she toured back to Auckland. Jane Whiteside now appeared on stage as Blanche … of the Oxford Combination Troupe delighted audiences in Auckland, Thames and Coromandel for the next three months. …
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… Tongans, Fijians and others are prominent, especially in Auckland. Many smaller Pacific groups have also made New …
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… merchant. Within three months they sailed on the Egmont for Auckland, New Zealand, where they were to live for 16 years. Three daughters were born in Auckland, and the couple may also have had a son. A brother … 1870s. Hoyte is said to have worked as a customs clerk in Auckland before embarking on a career as a school teacher, …
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… course in landscape architecture at the University of Auckland’s Schools of Architecture and Town Planning for … the rest of his childhood with his mother and sister in Auckland. He attended Brixton Road Primary School in … he was noted for his drawing ability. He won entry to the Auckland University College School of Architecture, but …
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… and the retail and manufacturing sectors. Most lived in Auckland and Wellington, with smaller populations in … Buddhist centres include the Sri Lankaramaya Temple in Auckland. Maintaining religious practices – Buddhist, Hindu, … Association (USLA) was founded in 1983 with branches in Auckland and Wellington. Though open to all Sri Lankans, its …
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Part of story: Sri Lankans
… New Zealand wars, and there was continuing migration into Auckland. Although Canterbury’s emigration agent John … of Ireland, and most were Catholic. Elsewhere, in Auckland or among Canterbury’s assisted migrants, Ulster in … immigration scheme, which aimed to provide a buffer between Auckland and the King Movement Māori further south. They …
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Part of story: Irish