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… retirement in 1910 was chief inspector of schools to the Auckland Education Board. Petrie had long been interested in … Linnean Society of London in 1886, and was president of the Auckland Institute in 1896 and vice president in 1897–98. He … had two sons and one daughter. After the family's move to Auckland, he purchased farmland at Waingaro near Raglan for …
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… architectural flair, but there were some exceptions. In Auckland architect William Mason designed the town’s first … where the structural frame was exposed inside and out. Auckland’s St John’s College Chapel (1846) and All Saints, … Nelson’s Christ Church (1851–1925), Bishopscourt (1865) in Auckland and Wellington’s St Paul’s Cathedral (1866), widely …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… a farmer. With members of his family he arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, on the Maori on 5 February 1868. For … By the early 1870s Waikato swamplands had begun to attract Auckland speculators. On the advice of former Waikato … Militia officer Captain William Steele, Thomas Russell, the Auckland financier, formed a syndicate and, in the face of …
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… George William Smith was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 September 1874. He was the … made his debut in representative rugby when he appeared for Auckland against Wellington. In the same year the club came first equal in the Auckland senior championship, aided to a large extent by …
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… bemoaned buyers’ bias against New Zealand-made goods. Auckland’s industrialists took action, organising an … or limited. From the 1960s, manufacturers based in Auckland and Christchurch formed a closer relationship with … and Asia grew rapidly. In 1977 the federation set up the Auckland-based Export Institute to take over its export …
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Part of story: Employer and business organisations
… Lieutenant Governor William Hobson had moved the capital to Auckland. In March 1842 he left with his family for … with the restoration of an American schooner, Iliomama , in Auckland, and the building of the schooner Zillah , at … an important anchorage, and it was a vital link between Auckland and the theatre of war during the Taranaki and …
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… a finishing school for young ladies in Queen Street, Auckland. A fluent speaker in Māori and English, in 1917 … specialists in dairy machinery, in Custom Street East, Auckland. Later that year she shifted to Whakatāne to handle … Māori agent at the Native Land Court in Hamilton and Auckland and Te Puea’s social secretary, positions she held …
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… the establishment of Jewish day schools (Kadimah College in Auckland, in 1971, and Moriah College in Wellington, in … 1950s non-orthodox congregations were also established in Auckland and Wellington. They are affiliated to the …
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Part of story: Jews
… a boarder at Hato Petera (St Peter’s Māori College) on Auckland’s North Shore. A classmate was Hone Papita Raukura … In 1950, he enrolled in the teacher’s college at Epsom, Auckland, to train as a primary schoolteacher. He entered as … Harrison, who introduced Walker to parties and alcohol. In Auckland, Walker began courting a young Pākehā woman, …
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… a poor speaker. He found work as an unskilled labourer in Auckland. The war forced a complex realignment of the … Zealand. In 1919 he wrote for the Māoriland Worker and the Auckland Labour News , edited by Michael Joseph Savage , on … the 'wage slaves' but also the 'mortgage "cockatoos" '. In Auckland, the heartland of syndicalism in New Zealand, the …
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… as the first Mr New Zealand. Crowd pleaser The 1923 Auckland Summer Carnival programme included a Venetian … large crowd, many of whom travelled across the harbour from Auckland city. Police were called in to help process the horde of people through the ferry-terminal gates. The Auckland Star credited advertising for attracting such a …
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Part of story: Beauty contests
… Emma Adelaide Beatrice (Jean) Smith; they were married in Auckland on 16 January 1912 and had one child. Boswell … to 1934 taught at Richmond West (later Westmere) School in Auckland. He studied part time at Auckland University College and graduated with an MA in …
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… demonstrated the range of fashions for customers. The Auckland firm Winks & Hall exhibited a mottled kauri … intersecting planes epitomised the new minimalist approach. Auckland furniture designer Garth Chester made the world’s … anodised metal and steel shelves drew inspiration from Auckland’s high-tech yachting industry (fostered by the …
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Part of story: Furniture
… later at Hautapu. James received his secondary education at Auckland College and Grammar School and in the early 1880s began working as an analyst in Auckland with J. A. Pond . In 1888 he entered Auckland University College with his younger brother Richard …
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… sophisticated, but to modernist eyes appeared superficial. Auckland architects responded with enthusiasm. Mal Bartleet … & Sargisson’s Napier Street Townhouses in Freemans Bay, Auckland (1982), reintroduced terrace housing, but in … David Mitchell and Julie Stout’s own house in Freemans Bay, Auckland (1990), Patrick Clifford’s family house in …
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Part of story: Domestic architecture
… and was subsequently appointed to the chair of English at Auckland University College. Sewell arrived in New Zealand in late 1933. He was to remain at Auckland for 12 years, and later claimed that he did his … socialism and an advocate of free love. During his Auckland years Sewell associated closely with the poets A. …
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… New Zealand’s first dedicated strip club, opened in Auckland in 1963. Before this, strippers had performed at a … newspaper in 1962. 1 By 1967 there were four strip clubs in Auckland, two in Wellington and one in Christchurch. Clubs … became active when these boundaries were crossed. When an Auckland club planned to open in Queen Street, there was a …
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Part of story: Nightclubs
… had the strongest growth prospects. Agriculture supported Auckland in the 1840s, but it was kauri timber from … that transformed the town into a city in the 1870s. Auckland also had two ports, one on each side of the North … it was not until 1874 that a city council came into being. Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin each had city status …
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Part of story: City history and people
… at Wellington in April on the Arawa , then proceeded to Auckland with about £30 to live on until finding work. There was little work in Auckland so the family moved north to the kauri gumfields. …
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… lived in the north of the North Island, particularly in Auckland. Although groups were small, many had distinct … by the early 2000s there were about 500, living mostly in Auckland. The Pacific Access Category, established by the … The Kiribati community formed clubs in Wellington and Auckland. In 2000 the Wellington club gathered to mark the …
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Part of story: South Pacific peoples