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… that two-thirds of those signing were working women. In Auckland in 1891, 397 women signed. The local tailoresses’ … the next petition in 1892, and it was signed by 2,479 Aucklanders. Industrial feminism The Dunedin Tailoresses’ …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… settlement, including Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland, as well as in Hokitika, Nelson and Timaru. A range … prominent in early commercial ventures, particularly in Auckland and Dunedin. In Auckland, this tradition began in 1840 when David Nathan …
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Part of story: Jews
… is scored. Competition Local competitions take place in the Auckland and Wellington regions. In 2013 the Wellington … or seven due to the difficulty of maintaining numbers. The Auckland league, with seven teams, was a stronger league. … first American football clubs in New Zealand were set up in Auckland in 1980, followed by Wellington and the New Zealand …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… including Ngāti Pōneke in Wellington and Ngāti Ākarana in Auckland, and Māori church groups, flourished. Māori … Others were church-based, for example Te Ūnga Waka (Auckland), Hui te Rangiora (Hamilton) and Te Tātai Hono (Auckland) used religion to unify whānau from different …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… a mark. Competition In 2013 there were regional leagues in Auckland, Waikato, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago. A … 1860s, and in 1904 there were club games being played in Auckland. The New Zealand Football League was formed in 1907, and the following year there were clubs in Auckland, Waihī, Wellington and Christchurch. At the 1908 …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… people with jobs their ability to purchase goods improved. Auckland’s economy Until the main trunk railway line was completed in 1908 Auckland was not well connected to the south, so Auckland was not dependent on the wool economy. It relied on …
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Part of story: Economic history
… Mary Keane. Peter and Mary O'Reilly brought their family to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1852. Patrick attended the boys' … Patrick's Cathedral and went to St Peter's select school, Auckland's first Catholic secondary school for boys. In 1858 …
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… Norman Edward Tate, known to a generation of Auckland schoolchildren as 'The Fun Doctor', entertained … from the 1920s to the 1950s. He was born in Papakura, Auckland, on 12 October 1890 to 20-year-old Elizabeth … with his nose, recalled some 60 years later by elderly Aucklanders who remember the excitement and pleasure of The …
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… Into the early 1860s Welsh immigrants settled mostly in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and, especially, Canterbury. … distribution pattern had emerged, with concentrations in Auckland and Wellington. By 1976 more than half of New Zealand’s Welsh residents lived in Auckland. In 2018 the largest numbers of Welsh in New …
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Part of story: Welsh
… moved to New Zealand, via Israel, arriving in early 1958. Auckland was Friedlander’s home for the rest of her life, … for the entertainment magazine Playdate , edited by West Auckland friend Des Dubbelt, in the early 1960s. They …
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… own short-lived weekly paper, the Tribune . Published in Auckland from October to December 1890, the Tribune , 'New … trade union and political news, and satirical jabs at Auckland's 'self-styled capitalists'. Desmond had gone to …
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… He was a prominent leader of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei in central Auckland and chairman of its trust board for 26 years. He … in September 1916 and returned home. The family shifted to Auckland when Hugh was about two, and Wiremu resumed work as … were educated. His father was an early Māori pupil at Auckland Grammar School, and Hugh followed in his footsteps. …
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… change. In 1956 Peter Tomory was appointed director of the Auckland Art Gallery. He took painting seriously as a profession and tried to expose Aucklanders to New Zealand art history and international …
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Part of story: Painting
… brigade, which attended all fire callouts, was formed in Auckland in 1854. Others followed in Christchurch in 1860, … those already in existence. 1858 – fire destroyed much of Auckland’s commercial district around High and Shortland … Hotel that took five lives, led to the restructuring of the Auckland fire brigade. 1906 – another fire on Lambton Quay …
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Part of story: Fires and fire services
… with Henry Starkie. When the business failed he shifted to Auckland to start afresh. Hendry, now calling himself Henry, … a wide range of organisations, such as the Rotary Club of Auckland, the Boy Scouts’ Association, the YMCA, the Auckland Manufacturers’ Association (eventually becoming …
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… in Palmerston North, Prince Albert College as a boarder in Auckland, and Palmerston North High School. When his mother … to New Zealand in 1919. Leary resumed his legal studies at Auckland University College, where he was admitted to the … was one daughter of the marriage. On 25 January 1934, at Auckland, Leonard Leary married Dorothy Lovelace Milne, with …
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… also owned and ran a variety of business enterprises. Auckland City operated a fish market and fishing fleet, … and little reform was achieved apart from boundary changes. Auckland Regional Authority By 1956 the Auckland region’s population was overwhelmingly urban and …
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Part of story: Local and regional government
… the early 1970s. In 2013 modern languages were offered at Auckland, Canterbury, Massey, Otago, Victoria and Waikato universities and the Auckland University of Technology. French and German French … literature department was established at the University of Auckland in 1966. The first professor of Chinese was …
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Part of story: Classical and foreign-language studies
… that year a second son, Joseph Patrick, was born in Auckland. The family ran a small grocery shop in Grey … in their 30s to cinema employees. On 31 October 1927, at Auckland's St Patrick's Cathedral, Michael married Alma … attendant. The Moodabe brothers took over Thomas O’Brien’s Auckland theatres in 1932, including the Civic Theatre, the …
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… Morton, was born on 5 October 1885 in Melrose, Devonport, Auckland, the daughter of William Edmund Morton, an … was educated privately and attended English lectures at Auckland University College in 1906. Her first articles as … She was one of the first to promote the attractions of the Auckland west coast. By 1926 she was the only woman member …
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