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… came to New Zealand in 1902, but after a short time in Auckland and two years mining at Karangahake he returned to … him on a fund-raising mission to Australia. He moved to Auckland in 1915 to become an agent for the Maoriland Worker … the Labour Party and promoting the Maoriland Worker in Auckland. They were also closely associated in relief work …
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… he was educated at Waimate and Remuera primary schools, Auckland Grammar School and Nelson College, and then … in secondary schools. In 1928 he took up a position at Auckland Grammar School, teaching there until 1932, when he … Rotorua High School. The following year he graduated from Auckland University College with an MA in chemistry and was …
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… on the Black Eagle in 1861 and settled at Mount Albert in Auckland. Soon afterwards, the devoutly religious Annie … his wife's death in 1863, he and Annie were married in Auckland on 12 May 1864. Schnackenberg, born in the German … Annie returned with their children to her parents' house in Auckland. She divided her time between church and Sunday …
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… and family or personal problems. Early social services Auckland Anglicans founded an orphanage in 1860, and Eliza … in Parnell Eliza Cowie, the wife of the Anglican Bishop of Auckland, was well known for her welfare work among Auckland’s poor in the late 19th century. In 1884 she …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… the New Zealand version of hip hop culture which arose in Auckland in the 1980s. The American graffiti documentary … up spray cans. Early hip hop graffiti was mainly found in Auckland and Wellington. Alongside the tag, a simple and … event was Disrupt the System, organised in Aotea Square, Auckland, in 2000. More recent events include Nelson’s Oi …
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Part of story: Public and street art
… job by itself. The conference lines would have preferred Auckland, Wellington and Port Chalmers, but had to accept … trade has generated particularly fierce competition between Auckland and Tauranga, between Napier and Wellington, and … game changer. Over recent decades, it has put the heat on Auckland, luring several shipping lines to its container …
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Part of story: Ports and harbours
… of the time included breakfast hosts: Merv Smith on Auckland’s IZB (1963–86) Kevin Black (‘Blackie’) on Radio … early 2000s most airtime originated from network sources in Auckland. Commercial radio promoted national celebrities such as Paul Holmes, breakfast host on Auckland’s NewsTalk ZB stations from 1987. Holmes was …
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Part of story: Radio
… for Onehunga and advocate of an independent university in Auckland, called it ‘that houseless and homeless University … grant degrees of its own, but kept its title) in 1874, Auckland University College (1883) and Victoria University … schools and there was some duplication; for example both Auckland and Canterbury had schools of engineering, and …
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Part of story: Tertiary education
… Whātua Ōrākei, and the occupation of Ihumātao in South Auckland. …
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… Tama-Te-Rā. On 13 August they shifted to their island. When Auckland was proclaimed capital, as they had expected, they … a talented businessman. The success of his firm in early Auckland – not without cause called a graveyard of … to his fingertips. During the Crown colony period the Auckland group most at odds with the governor was composed …
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… and playing a major role in the establishment of the Auckland Regional Botanical Gardens. She was among the first … and education Joan Marjorie Dingley was born in Parnell, Auckland, on 14 May 1916, the second and youngest child of … to plants growing in the wild during tramping trips in the Auckland region. Joan’s growing interest in botany and …
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… man without notable career prospects, Haultain emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, on the Oriental Queen , in charge of … settled in villages to protect the southern approaches to Auckland. He commanded first at Onehunga, and then at … took a number of public positions, becoming a member of Auckland's first borough council on 18 November 1851 and …
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… from 1838 to 1850; the second, the 1850s, saw him based in Auckland, with secular clergy and Sisters of Mercy; the … and Akaroa in 1840; Matamata, Ōpōtiki and Maketū in 1841; Auckland in 1842; Wellington in 1843; and Ōtaki, Rotorua, … that time Rome divided the mission into two dioceses: Auckland, staffed by secular clergy with Pompallier in …
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… in 2000) and the Wat Lao Buddharam Association in Auckland have worked together to bring monks to New Zealand … participate in events in the wider community, such as the Auckland International Cultural Festival. These social …
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Part of story: Laotians
… association In 1977 the Fiji Association was established in Auckland. It organised sporting and cultural events and … for Fijian university students, with the University of Auckland Fiji Club dating back to the 1960s. Indigenous … In 1996 the Fiji Women’s Society was founded in Auckland as a practical support group for women experiencing …
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Part of story: Fijians
… in the 1990s. Pan-African clubs (African Association of Auckland, Africa Association of New Zealand in Wellington) … years later she graduated with a BSc in pharmacology from Auckland University. While she shares many interests with … have also erupted within African groups. Some Somali Aucklanders were charged with murders in 2003. Cultural …
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Part of story: Africans
… was less than 1% of the total population, while the Auckland figure was 2%. After the war, Māori migration to … the wharves, in factories and in the transport industry. In Auckland. the Māori Women’s Welfare League worked with Māori … built in the 1960s in Ōtara, Māngere and Te Atatū in Auckland, and Porirua, Hutt Valley and Wainuiomata in …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… same cone as can be seen at One Tree Hill (Maungakiekie) in Auckland. The Auckland volcanic field has about 48 cones and craters. The … 10 million years. The Bombay–Pukekohe–Pokeno area of South Auckland contains an extinct field (0.5 million to 1.5 …
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Part of story: Volcanoes
… John Cowie was born in Mount Roskill, Auckland, on 30 March 1912, the son of Scottish parents … Grammar School and Takapuna Grammar School, and represented Auckland in the Brabin Cup competition for players under 21; … Cowie entered the insurance industry. He first played for Auckland in the Plunket Shield in 1932–33, but did not …
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… During the 1920s Beresford Street school in Freemans Bay, Auckland, was considered socially superior to Nelson and … classes. In 1920s Freemans Bay (a working-class district of Auckland) rivalry between children from the three primary … in the 1980s. Ethnically-based youth gangs re-emerged in Auckland in the 1990s; fights over territory have led to …
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Part of story: City children and youth