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… and tobacco , followed by machinery and equipment. Auckland was the largest centre for manufacturing in 2001, … Rapa in Waikato, the steel mill at Glenbrook, just out of Auckland , a whiteware plant in Auckland, and the oil …
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Part of story: Economy
… who came out from Sydney. From 1840 masons found work in Auckland, with its ample supplies of basalt. Within 10 years … to construct the Albert Barracks and Fort Britomart in Auckland in the 1840s. By the 1860s more elaborate … an increase in the popularity of suburban stone walls in Auckland, mostly built by groups of Polynesian stonemasons. …
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Part of story: Building trades
… to do so musically. In 2014 he attended weekly sessions at Auckland’s Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre. As music … require a master’s degree in their chosen discipline. Auckland’s Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design offers … used the arts as a tool to support prisoner rehabilitation. Auckland theatre company Interacting Theatre put on …
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Part of story: Arts and social engagement
… faith in New Zealand began with Margaret Stevenson, an Aucklander, in 1912. The first local Bahá'í assembly was … one to many For 10 years the only New Zealand Bahá'í was Aucklander Margaret Stevenson. In 1912 she had rented a room …
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Part of story: Diverse religions
… books. A Melbourne office opened in 1903. They entered the Auckland market in 1916, and built a printing works. Soon … Hutt, Hamilton and Hastings, with printing facilities in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Phoenix, Reynolds and … soon had seven stores throughout Otago and Southland. The Auckland-based firm Reynolds began making and selling bikes …
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Part of story: Shops
… back in New Zealand in April 1855. Chapman settled in Auckland and started in general trade, but almost … Although Chapman was not active in public affairs in Auckland he was, for many years, a deacon of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. He died at Auckland on 24 June 1881 after a stroke and was survived by …
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… 18.7°C, compared with 22.7°C in Christchurch and 23.1°C in Auckland. However, the long summer twilights make up for the … 9.5°C, compared with 11.3°C in Christchurch and 14.7°C in Auckland. Invercargill’s coldest temperature, -9°C, was … of 1,682 sunshine hours each year, compared with 2,003 in Auckland, 2,110 in Wellington, 2,142 in Christchurch and …
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Part of story: Southland region
… Bay of Plenty to the Whangaparāoa Peninsula, just north of Auckland. The Tainui crossed the Tāmaki portage in Auckland and explored the west coast between Manukau and … to Gisborne. The Aotea explored Kaipara Harbour and the Auckland isthmus before landing in Aotea Harbour. Her crew …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… in the 1990s and 2000s, including the painted apple moth in Auckland, and the Asian gypsy moth in Hamilton. Well spotted … The 1996 discovery of the white-spotted tussock moth in Auckland prompted the first successful pest-eradication … forest – was eradicated over large areas of residential Auckland through aerial and ground spraying. Fungal disease …
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Part of story: Forestry research
… substantial areas in the North Island, especially close to Auckland and Wellington. The land was then transferred to … Porirua, parts of Hawke’s Bay, the Rangitīkei region, Auckland and Northland. Implications of selling land Crown … The situation may have been different in areas such as Auckland, where Māori were more accustomed to interaction …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… to six weeks at the Māngere Refugee Reception Centre in Auckland. During their stay they were given accommodation, a … problems. Over 90% settled in the North Island, mainly in Auckland, Hamilton, Napier and Wellington. In the 1991 census, Auckland was home to over half of the Laotian population, …
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Part of story: Laotians
… in 2013. Over 50,000 people of Ngāpuhi descent lived in the Auckland region. A further 21,000 lived in Waikato and Bay … two urban groupings: Te Taura here ki Manurewa (South Auckland) and Te Taura here o Ngāpuhi ki Waitākere (North and West Auckland). The goal of the rūnanga is ‘Kia tū tika ai te …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… That same year, students at Mt Roskill Grammar School in Auckland began orienteering on a regular basis. The sport … and 1960s. The first official competitions were held in Auckland and Wellington in 1969, and in 1972 the first dedicated club, the Pupuke Orienteers, was formed on Auckland’s North Shore. The New Zealand Orienteering …
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Part of story: Minor outdoor sports
… PIs’ dreadlocks and adapted reggae sounds. PIs in South Auckland are making cultural contributions through the Ōtara … and the Secondary Schools Cultural Festival. Despite South Auckland’s reputation for social problems, lyrics by …
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Part of story: Tongans
… recorded camp held in school time was at Hūnua, south of Auckland, for Auckland Normal School boys during the first two weeks of … (a former health camp), was used by a succession of South Auckland Education Board schools. Port Waikato's programme …
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Part of story: Camping
… Auckland Teachers’ College The struggle to establish Māori … in teachers’ colleges. The first to make a move was Auckland Teachers’ College, with the appointment of Harry … who found themselves teaching Māori children in South Auckland schools. They complained that their training had …
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Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… every major city resulted in suburbs such as Mt Albert in Auckland, Karori and Khandallah in Wellington, and St Kilda … A 1922 advertisement for a subdivision in Mt Albert, Auckland, said: ‘Those who have the foresight to buy a … Wellington and in the Hutt Valley nearby, and at Ōrākei in Auckland. New building materials, power tools and …
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Part of story: Suburbs
… Richard Tucker was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 11 January 1856, the son of Edward … board the William Bryan in March 1841, and later moved to Auckland. A few years after Richard was born they moved to … 1860s. Richard was educated at St Matthew's Boys' School in Auckland. On returning to Hawke's Bay he became a contract …
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… John Sheehan was born at Auckland, New Zealand, on 5 July 1844, the son of David … Australia, about 1840, subsequently travelling to Auckland in 1841 or 1842. The Sheehan family lived in the … was later the landlord of the Governor Browne Hotel in Auckland. Here the young Sheehan met military men such as …
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… landscape design is exemplified in a series of Auckland gardens he designed and implemented. He sprang into … Early life Edmund Owen (Ted) Smyth was born in Kohimarama, Auckland, on 13 May 1937, the first of four children of … various state houses, Smyth lived almost his entire life in Auckland’s western suburbs and developed a strong attachment …
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