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… to the family’s income. He became a paper-boy selling Auckland’s evening newspaper at a lucrative site, an … driver, reporter and grocer. On 5 March 1922 in Auckland he married Avis Mary Isabella Egan. They had two …
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… Leaving Southampton on 15 March 1940, Garden arrived in Auckland on 3 April to take up full employment with TEAL; … to New Zealand the following year. The company’s weekly Auckland–Sydney return service was inaugurated on 30 April … War TEAL continued to operate the two flying boats on the Auckland–Sydney route. By 1944 they had made 1,000 Tasman …
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… of nurses. Aileen Garmson next came to public attention in Auckland, where she appeared at a meeting of the Women's … she was divorced from her husband, and on 5 June 1899, at Auckland, she married Charles Stephenson Wrack, a mariner. … her second husband and eight days later, on 28 February, at Auckland, married Lindsay Cooke, publican of the Queen's …
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… became its teacher. Under her tuition he left with an Auckland Education Board scholarship. Proceeding to Auckland College and Grammar School he gained a university Junior Scholarship and entered Auckland University College. In 1894 he graduated with …
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… Congregational Church had been established in Newton, Auckland, in 1947. It was followed by another in Newtown, … the family home in Ethiopia. In 2008 Brook graduated from Auckland’s Elam art school. She said of the group’s name, … set up pan-African clubs such as the African Association of Auckland, and the Africa Association of New Zealand in …
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Part of story: Migrant and refugee organisations
… 1920 to the recently founded Epsom Girls’ Grammar School in Auckland, where botany was taught from form four. Excelling … in languages and science, she won a Junior Scholarship to Auckland University College, enrolling in 1925. An early … for W. R. McGregor’s first-year practical classes at Auckland University College. As an undergraduate Lucy Moore …
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… was 414 metres long – the country’s longest rail viaduct. Auckland Harbour Bridge The most spectacular bridge in New Zealand is the Auckland Harbour Bridge, built between 1955 and 1959. The need for better transport between Auckland city and the North Shore had long been the subject …
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Part of story: Bridges and tunnels
… Born in Ponsonby, Auckland, on 13 May 1894, Daniel Joseph Augustine O'Connor … College in 1911 and later studied law at the University of Auckland while working as an articled clerk. But legal … and other Australian-based impresarios. Working out of Auckland, he managed internationally acclaimed artists such …
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… himself for missionary work in New Zealand. He arrived in Auckland with Selwyn on 5 July 1855. Patteson had been … chaplain Patteson taught at the mission's school in Auckland, assisted in parochial work, and made annual … On 24 February 1861 he was consecrated in St Paul's Church, Auckland, by three Old Etonian bishops, as missionary bishop …
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… that of HMS Orpheus on 7 February 1863 at the Manukau Bar, Auckland. Bringing naval stores across from Sydney, the … hit cliffs on the west coast of the main island in the Auckland Islands and sank. Of the 83 people on board, only 15 survived. After nine months on Auckland Island, four members of the crew set out in a small …
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Part of story: Shipwrecks
… Clarke gave up music teaching and the family moved to Auckland. Mary attended Auckland Grammar School, where her brother Edward had taken a job as junior master, then went to Auckland University College in 1905 to study English, French …
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… by sea was shipped through Tauranga , and a fifth through Auckland . Auckland, however, received more imports. Wellington and …
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Part of story: Economy
… ‘bright lights’ of city life, rural Māori began to move to Auckland and Wellington in the 1920s. However, many faced … Most settled in inner-city areas such as Freemans Bay (Auckland) and Newtown (Wellington), where rents were cheaper … the hub of Māori social and cultural life in post-war Auckland. Apartment living Many urban Māori lived in old …
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Part of story: Māori housing – te noho whare
… Zealand. He renewed his acquaintance with Theo Schoon in Auckland, but moved to Wellington again after having … the productive years of 1953–56, he made regular trips to Auckland to keep in touch with Schoon as well as young … He first exhibited this series at the New Vision Gallery, Auckland, in 1966. So completely had he transformed his …
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… new union’s concerns varied greatly from place to place: in Auckland it was family planning, in Wellington, childcare … for Life, Save our Homes and the Catholic Women’s League . Auckland Working Women’s Resource Centre, 1984 The Auckland Working Women’s Resource Centre was set up with the …
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Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… office. He completed an LLB in 1913 and an LLM in 1915 at Auckland University College. His intellectual capacity and … followed by his installation in 1920, at the age of 31, as Auckland's first professor of law. He married Helen Adair McMaster at Auckland on 14 December 1917; they had no children. Algie …
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… did not eventuate. In 1870, when the police force of Auckland province was absorbed by the Armed Constabulary, … commissioner, St John Branigan, selected Broham to head the Auckland district and whip the constables and … Constabulary on 16 April and waited in Wellington while the Auckland police commissioner, James Naughton, was manoeuvred …
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… February 1904 his brother Tim was appointed a constable at Auckland. Soon afterwards Denis persuaded James to enter the … a CBE in 1946. His wife had died in 1943. Denis died in Auckland on 31 March 1956, survived by two daughters and a … of Mount Cook and Te Aro, James was transferred to Auckland as an acting detective in December 1911. He had …
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… the Court of Arbitration. He became the resident judge at Auckland in 1903. Edwards was an erudite and industrious … However, although they were in awe of his legal knowledge, Auckland lawyers came to resent Edwards for his atrocious … and William Geddis, had been cheered along Queen Street by Aucklanders as they set out for the trial at Wellington. By …
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… earned a Junior National Scholarship in 1915 and attended Auckland Grammar School, from where he matriculated in 1918. … He had begun part-time studies in science subjects at Auckland University College, and in 1921 he took up a teaching bursary at Auckland Training College. He was able to continue courses …
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