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… scientists by gathering specimens. Scientists, notably from Auckland University, also began to use scuba diving to do … Tarlton established Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World in Auckland. Visitors walk through a perspex tunnel in a giant …
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Part of story: Diving and snorkelling
… for growing grapes. Nine major regions were recognised: Auckland, Waikato, Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa, Nelson, … was variation between (and within) regions. Hawke’s Bay and Auckland were particularly known for cabernet sauvignon and …
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Part of story: Wine
… performed to music. The All Stars Cheerleaders, founded in Auckland in 1999 by Kimberley Ramsay, dominate the sport in … was the All Stars Cheerleading Internationals, held in Auckland in October 2006. Participants In 2012 there was no … junior cheerleading team was formed at Whenuapai School, Auckland, in 2000. …
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Part of story: Marching teams and cheerleaders
… high-profile child-health organisation which was started in Auckland in 1978 by a group of parents and health … with heart problems and their families. In 1983 two Auckland women, Linda Davies and Michelle Mann, published a … Heart Children to Heart Kids New Zealand. It is based in Auckland with regional branches throughout New Zealand …
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Part of story: Health advocacy and self-help
… games. It was still active in the 2000s. Club Italiano in Auckland brought scattered groups together from 1925 until the Second World War. Auckland’s Società Dante Alighieri was founded in 1955 to …
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Part of story: Italians
… industrial factories must have added to the gloom and haze. Auckland light An American tourist wrote in his blog from Auckland in July 2005: ‘What’s most amazing, we’ve all … amazingly blue and clean sky. One of them remembers seeing Auckland, ‘a sparkling blue harbour with white boats at …
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Part of story: Light
… funds to buy houses in relatively affluent areas, such as Auckland’s North Shore, which, with its Korean churches, … In 2018 just over 70% of New Zealand’s Koreans lived in the Auckland area, with 10% in Christchurch and others scattered throughout the country. In Auckland, the North Shore remained the most popular area but …
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Part of story: Koreans
… were transported to the Mangere Refugee Reception Centre in Auckland, where they stayed for four to six weeks. They were … of Cambodians settled in the North Island, mainly in Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington. Many who had initially … 10% of the population to migrate to Australia. In 2018 Auckland (45%) had the largest population of Cambodians. …
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Part of story: Cambodians
… migrant Israel Wendel planted a vineyard around his Auckland home in the 1870s. He later opened Wendel’s Wine … planting grapes and producing wine, mainly around the West Auckland area and in Hawke’s Bay. The three Frankovich … from 1947). Of the 80 or so small vineyards around West Auckland in the 1950s, Dalmatian families owned about 90%. …
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Part of story: Wine
… wooden fishing boats and launch tugs. Then in 1961 Auckland’s Mason Brothers set a New Zealand record for size … in New Zealand (the Sea-Tow 4 , an unpowered barge built at Auckland in 1994, is 3,565 tons). Boats and ships are still … That year another yard had an 85-metre yacht on order. Auckland has the lion’s share of this work, but large craft …
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Part of story: Shipbuilding
… poll for gymnastic exercise and amusement.’ 2 In 1866 an Auckland Gymnastic Club was formed with Major Gustavus von … and physical culture for young men. In the 1860s the Auckland YMCA imported gymnastic equipment from the United … to $33,000 in 2013). ‘Professor’ Carrollo’s Gym at the Auckland YMCA and classes at Whanganui’s Young Men’s …
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Part of story: Gyms
… hostility, and to promote Indian values and culture. The Auckland Indian Association was the first such organisation, … the Indian community. In the late 1920s in Wellington and Auckland, men would get together on a Sunday to play … as bats. In the 1930s sports associations were founded in Auckland and Wellington, inspired by the All India Hockey …
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Part of story: Indians
… hardware store, service station, and one or more banks. In Auckland, suburbs such as Mt Eden, Mt Roskill, Point … were built, especially in the more spread-out cities – Auckland and Christchurch – to serve customers who went … with suppliers and expensive inner-city leases. In Auckland the glamour shopping destinations of Queen Street …
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Part of story: Shops
… then transferred to sites where predators are controlled. Auckland Island teal The Auckland Island teal ( Anas aucklandica ) is related to the brown teal, but has become …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… existing theatres or converted buildings into theatres: Auckland’s Mercury Theatre was housed in the Mercury Theatre … of pubs as rock band venues. These included the Gluepot on Auckland’s Ponsonby Road and Dunedin’s James Cook Tavern – …
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Part of story: Theatres, cinemas and halls
… George Oman and his wife, Eleanor Lannigan. She arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, around December 1853 with her parents … under the new Electoral Act of 1893. She belonged to the Auckland Union Parliament and was a keen debater at its … the election of April 1901. Elizabeth Yates was admitted to Auckland Mental Hospital in November 1909 and died there on …
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… tireless energy were soon coveted by the diocese of Auckland, whose last two bishops, M. R. Neligan and O. T. L. Crossley, had retired prematurely due to ill health. Auckland's electoral synod of 1913 persuaded him to accept …
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… with its own freezing works, owned 32 butchers’ shops in Auckland in the late 1950s. Mad man Starting in the 1960s, … a municipal fish market in 1880. In the 1870s fishermen in Auckland, who were selling their catches directly to the … In 1889 the harbour board decided to build and run the Auckland fish market. For retailers irregular supplies kept …
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Part of story: Food shops
… as stall holders in Brown’s Mill and Cook Street markets in Auckland, Victoria Market in Wellington and Atlantis and … career was started!’ 1 Annie Bonza opened her boutique in Auckland in 1968 and became the leader in high-end youth … main trunk railway line. Patrick Steel catered to moneyed Aucklanders in the 1980s. Manufacturers Apparel …
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Part of story: Fashion and textile design
… in every type of ship in the fleet. On 13 May 1906 at Auckland Arthur Davey married Ella May Ratcliffe Hunter. … 's annual excursions to the South Island sounds and North Auckland in summer and to the Pacific islands in winter. At … test came in June 1938 when the Mariposa and Awatea left Auckland together for Sydney. The weather conditions were …
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