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… and his wife, Mary Alice Armstrong. After attending Auckland Grammar School, Cox studied law at Auckland University College, graduating LLB in 1929. He practised as a barrister and solicitor in Auckland until 1939. On 19 November 1929 at Remuera he …
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… and MPs and their resident families were concerned. Auckland Auckland was no safer – it was described as having no rivals … five outlets discharging raw sewage into the harbour. In Auckland, as in the other cities, efforts were made in the …
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Part of story: Sewage, water and waste
… in the dunes behind Sandy Bay on Enderby Island in the Auckland Islands. They were dated to the 13th or 14th … August 1806 which he named after his father’s friend, Lord Auckland. In late December 1809, sealing captain Frederick … haul, Macquarie Island 14%, the Bounty Islands 4%, the Auckland Islands 3% and Campbell Island 2%. The rush south …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… wife, Florence Christina Stewart, whom he had married at Auckland on 31 January. She soon returned to Sydney because … skills the position had come to demand. He took up the new Auckland-based position of local director for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands. On 19 February 1913 at Auckland he married Nellie Isabel Stewart, Florence's …
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… mainstays. In the 1960s hemlines started to shoot up. Auckland was the centre of fashion in New Zealand. … there in 1949. On her return in 1950 she opened a salon in Auckland, and became one of the country’s leading fashion … the designer for the Milne & Choyce department store in Auckland. There he was responsible for introducing the …
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Part of story: Fashion and textile design
… the shores of the Waitematā Harbour, where he had founded Auckland. The site of ‘New Zealand’s first capital’ sank … In 1865 the seat of government was moved again, from Auckland to Wellington. The capital The seat of government …
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Part of story: Nation and government
… in the 1860s. Ferry services ran on most major harbours. Auckland ferries Auckland had the busiest ferry network, linking city … Subritzkys – dominated this sometimes cut-throat market. Auckland had distinctive ferries – wooden-hulled, high-sided …
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Part of story: Ferries
… visiting Australia the show began its New Zealand season at Auckland on 9 November 1908. Before the tour ended Hayward … his brother Rudall he purchased the Royal Albert Hall in Auckland and began a permanent picture show there on 26 April 1909. He now decided to make his home in Auckland. Picture theatres in other towns were added to the …
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… 1890s, volunteer coastguard organisations in Canterbury and Auckland helped people in trouble at sea. In the 1920s, … of their role in land searches. By 1961, subcommittees in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin coordinated … Aviation Division through rescue coordination centres in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and a sub-centre in …
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Part of story: Search and rescue
… train as an architect, but first attended Queen's College, Auckland, to remedy the deficiencies in his education. In … of Pite and Warren. In 1922 Hooper was an assessor for the Auckland University College building competition and the following year moved to Auckland. Domestic architecture continued to dominate his …
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… the major difficulty was finding suitable accommodation. In Auckland numerous migrants were forced to live in the then … and Herne Bay. Guest houses and hostels, such as Waipapa in Auckland, Te Rāhui in Hamilton and Rēhua in Christchurch, … also made housing available in the better suburbs of Auckland and elsewhere, in accordance with a policy of …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… was stationed at Ramsgate when he was appointed bishop of Auckland, New Zealand. He was consecrated there by Cardinal H. E. Manning on 3 August 1882, and arrived in Auckland in November that year. When Jean Baptiste François … problems that had dogged the Catholic diocese of Auckland since the 1850s were still unresolved. His first …
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… to New Zealand after leaving his regiment, and had died at Auckland in October 1860. Mackesy was educated in France, … years he had become lieutenant colonel of the 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles (it was dubbed 'Nearly All … Force as a lieutenant colonel in command of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment, having secured adequate …
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… South Island’s eastern plains. A main trunk railway between Auckland and Wellington was discussed from the 1860s, but progress was slow. By 1880 Auckland’s southern line reached Te Awamutu, and there were … by August so a Parliament Special train could carry MPs to Auckland to greet the US Navy’s visiting Great White Fleet – …
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Part of story: Railways
… started as mission schools, including St Stephen’s School, Auckland (Anglican, founded in 1844), Wesley College, Auckland (Methodist, 1844) and Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay … School, Napier (Anglican, 1875) and Queen Victoria School, Auckland (Anglican, 1901) were opened as sister schools to …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… 531PI, a full-time Pacific Island service broadcasting in Auckland Samoan Capital Radio, a part-time service in Wellington Niu FM, a networked station transmitting from Auckland to a number of cities and regions, focusing on … both broadcasting to the Indian community Radio Samoa in Auckland Radio Chinese, broadcasting in Auckland in both …
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Part of story: Radio
… or tour) and choreographic experimentation in the 1990s. In Auckland, Brian Carbee, Catherine Chappell, Michael … Ann Dewey’s company Spinning Sun, based in Leigh, north of Auckland, performs in small-scale environments, including … contemporary dance education surged. From 1989 the Auckland Performing Arts School offered a diploma in …
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Part of story: Contemporary dance
… (from 1949), Ohakea in Manawatū (1950) and Ardmore near Auckland (1954). Later special motor-racing circuits were … in 2013 as ASB Tennis Centre) was established in Parnell in Auckland in 1920. It is the site of the two international … clubs The first bowling green was opened in Grafton, Auckland, in 1862. By 2013 there were some 600 such greens …
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Part of story: Sports venues
… Seton Otway was born on 6 February 1894 in Mount Eden, Auckland, the eldest of three children of Loftus Hastings … integral part of life. He was educated at Elstow School and Auckland Grammar School. While there he represented Auckland province at clay-bird shooting, an activity in …
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… and Māori-owned ships took farm produce to markets in Auckland, Sydney and California. European explorers European … in learning, agriculture and trade. Land-hungry Auckland speculators looked towards Waikato with envious … From 1861 military posts were constructed in South Auckland and along the lower Waikato River. The Great South …
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Part of story: Waikato region