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… Eve in 1938, 16 express trains (including eight bound for Auckland) swept more than 11,000 travellers out of … trunk line (NIMT) from 1924, cutting travel time between Auckland and Wellington to just over 14 hours. Much later, … through-train from 1904 and an 11-hour Limited from 1949. Auckland’s Rotorua Express (briefly the Rotorua Limited) was …
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Part of story: Railways
… institutes or polytechnics – naming was not standardised. Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch had technical … most of the institutes to use ‘polytechnic’ but the Auckland Technical Institute (which later became Auckland University of Technology) and the Central Institute …
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Part of story: Tertiary education
… Zealand’s largest parades. Dressed for the Queen In 1953 Auckland City hired a display artist with a staff of five to … in 1995, large victory ticker-tape parades were held down Auckland’s Queen Street and along Wellington’s Lambton Quay. Santa parades The first Santa parade was organised by Auckland’s Farmers department store in 1934. By the 1950s …
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Part of story: Parades and protest marches
… of the finals series, many New Zealanders donned red socks. Auckland series By the turn of the century the radio … was a household name, and the base for the teams at Auckland’s Viaduct Basin proved a major attraction. The defence of the cup in Auckland in 2000 was a clean-sweep victory for Russell …
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Part of story: Sailing and windsurfing
… emerged from sculpture departments at the art schools in Auckland and Christchurch. Here, a new generation of artists … as Jim Allen, who taught sculpture at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts from 1960 to 1976, and … were presented at a wide array of venues. These included Auckland City Art Gallery, Barry Lett Galleries (one of the …
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Part of story: Post-object and conceptual art
… dominant tribe in south Kaipara Harbour, the main tribe in Auckland was Te Wai-o-Hua, led by Kiwi Tāmaki. Although the … followed, Waha-akiaki and Tūperiri conquered all of central Auckland. The core members of Te Taoū stayed at Kaipara … Waha-akiaki, while a division under Tūperiri remained in Auckland. This second group eventually became known as Ngāti …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… sailed for Sydney, New South Wales. They trans-shipped to Auckland in late November 1898. Totich stayed at Loui … with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, set up committees in Auckland and Dargaville and published a newspaper. Prominent … aliens, John Cullen. John Totich married Ethel May Fry at Auckland on 13 July 1917. He continued to work for the …
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… M. Page in Wellington from 1916 and commenced study at the Auckland University College School of Architecture in 1920. … took a trip to the United States, and then returned to Auckland to take up an associate partnership with Gummer and … Flats (1943–44), the Hanson Street Flats (1943–44), and Auckland’s Grey’s Avenue Flats (1945–47) and Symonds Street …
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… training at Wellington, Young was appointed constable at Auckland on 1 August 1910. He began his career patrolling … bookmakers and ship deserters. On 11 January 1912, in Auckland, he married Olive Blanche Grimwood. Two years later he was transferred to the Auckland detective office and in December 1918 was appointed …
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… John Bridson, a company manager. The family later moved to Auckland, where Gordon attended Auckland Grammar School. Leaving after the sixth form, he … the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division) at Auckland. The tall 17-year-old fitted in well with the …
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… such as between Dunedin and Ōamaru, Nelson and the bays, or Auckland and Thames. Wellington was linked to New Plymouth … rail in 1886. Steamers to Onehunga completed the Wellington–Auckland journey until 1908, when the North Island main … Outside the Cook Strait area, the major routes were between Auckland and the minor ports of Northland and the …
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Part of story: Ferries
… Land Court judge. In 1914 the family moved to Devonport, Auckland, where Alison attended the Diocesan High School for … local dramatic society, and won short-story competitions in Auckland’s Weekly News. In 1950 she joined the New Zealand … adventures. In 1967 the Drummonds retired to Kawakawa Bay, Auckland. Although devastated by Leo’s death in September …
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… electorate, which covered Northland and took in part of Auckland. Education and health Education and health are … government For a long time Northland was known as North Auckland. Under the provincial government system of 1853 to 1876 it was part of a wider Auckland province. Subsequently smaller territorial …
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Part of story: Northland region
… opprobrium – anti-British ‘bash a Pom’ T-shirts appeared in Auckland. Such attitudes, or more likely New Zealand’s poor … Islanders came to join families, forming settlements in Auckland and Porirua with strong ties to community and … each from South Vietnam and Cambodia . After six weeks in Auckland’s Māngere refugee reception centre, the new …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… her husband, Walter Paul, a miner. The family settled in Auckland, New Zealand, soon afterwards, purchasing farmland … slope of William Massey's Mangere farm, 12 miles from Auckland city. In 1890 it was destroyed in a fire, so they … the family moved there. Christina, previously active in Auckland organisations, now gained prominence at the …
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… in the 1860s had no face and told the time by chimes alone; Auckland had none until 1871. Bells summoned people to … the ringer) and in some businesses and workshops. Both Auckland and Dunedin fired guns at an appointed hour. At … noon mean time) was planned at Fort Britomart in 1859, Aucklanders preferred to follow ‘apparent time’ – reckoned …
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Part of story: Timekeeping
… Otago and Southland and is known to have journeyed to Auckland in 1885–86. Watercolours by O'Brien were seen in … was occasionally seen in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. O'Brien's work as a watercolourist is … of that seen in earlier works. Nevertheless, late views of Auckland and Dunedin demonstrate that his skill survived …
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… the Empire Theatre in Stuart Street. By 1925 he was in Auckland and had become the owner of Everybody's Picture … Theatre in lower Queen Street. He soon acquired a number of Auckland cinemas, including the Princess (later the Plaza) … site at the corner of Queen and Wellesley streets in Auckland. He persuaded a handful of wealthy and influential …
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… was born at her family’s home in Arthur Street, Ellerslie, Auckland, on 11 July 1921, the daughter of Ruby Elizabeth … and university extension courses, and also taught at Auckland Teachers’ College. In the late 1970s she tutored at the Auckland Studio Potters Centre at Onehunga. A warm, …
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… Mount Eden College, (later St Cuthbert's College) in Auckland. Utopia, as Radcliffe's farm was called, prospered, … and Stewart', the sale of scenic photographs to the Auckland Weekly News and New Zealand Graphic , and the … was advertised for sale in 1905 and the family moved to Auckland for two years. During this time Radcliffe is said …
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