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… 150 Niuean First World War troops landed for training in Auckland in 1915, they were greeted by the few Niueans who … population had increased to 200. They grouped around the Auckland suburbs of Freemans Bay, Grey Lynn and Parnell. … after training for three months at Narrow Neck camp in Auckland, they were dispatched to Egypt and France with the …
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Part of story: Niueans
… such as Currie’s Cowboys and the Saints became common in Auckland and Wellington. The Coffin Cheaters were active in Dunedin. By 1959 there were about 51 different gangs in Auckland and another 17 in Wellington, many centred around … In 1961 a chapter of the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club in Auckland formally affiliated with its American counterpart …
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Part of story: Gangs
… suddenly. He stayed briefly in Wellington, then went on to Auckland where he opened a studio and exhibited at the Auckland Society of Arts' annual exhibition in April 1897. … Barron, the daughter of Margaret and John Edwin Barron of Auckland. It seems that the couple had eloped from Auckland. …
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… were designated cities, including new satellite cities in Auckland and Wellington. The new cities were called … predicted rush to rural areas had failed to materialise. Auckland’s ascendancy The most important change was the ascendancy of Auckland to become New Zealand’s primary city. The …
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Part of story: City history and people
… grounds. Later, when the South Africans played at Papakura, Auckland, two light planes flew over the grounds displaying … partisan fans. Dolejs’ team won another bronze medal at Auckland in 1986. At the 1990 championship in Normal, … returned to form in the 2013 world championships at Albany, Auckland. New Zealand won a record-breaking sixth world …
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Part of story: Softball and baseball
… the unlicensed nightclubs that sprang up. Legendary Auckland rock venues of the 1960s and 1970s included Tabla, … Changing fashions Fashions kept changing. In 1978, as Auckland’s punk-rock community emerged, Granny’s took on a … danced until dawn at Clare’s, Ecstasy Plus and the Arena. Auckland’s best-known clubs of the era were A Certain Bar, …
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Part of story: Nightclubs
… place at Wellington’s Winter Show Grounds on 25 March 1939. Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Wanganui and Wairarapa … tournaments. Wellington, Hutt Valley and, more recently, Auckland have been the game’s hotbeds. In softball’s golden … developing strong support bases in west and south Auckland, Hutt Valley and the eastern suburbs of Wellington …
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Part of story: Softball and baseball
… Doris Adelaide Canham was born in Auckland on 21 August 1898, the eldest of five children of … (Ted) Canham, an English-born carter who worked on the Auckland waterfront. The children regularly attended the … wage of five shillings. Ted Canham became president of the Auckland Waterside Trade Union of Workers and was a member …
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… 1919. In 1919 Pettit went into general medical practice in Auckland. By this time his theological position had become … He had strong support from Joseph Kemp , pastor of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle, yet Pettit left the Baptist … took steps to found a new fundamentalist student group in Auckland. In 1930 he sponsored the visit of Howard Guinness …
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… New Zealander Raymond Firth studied economics at Auckland University College in the early 1920s, before going … first university anthropology department was established at Auckland, under Ralph Piddington. Departments were set up at … of anthropology, attached to the Geography Department. Auckland academics took a leading role in the Polynesian …
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Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… of the British and Foreign Bible Society established in Auckland in 1846. It raised money to distribute bibles in … Garland , left the Methodist Social Service Mission in Auckland and founded the non-denominational Fellowship of … The first of these, the Orange Lodge, was set up in Auckland in 1843 and spread widely around New Zealand. The …
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Part of story: Interdenominational Christianity
… Men’s Association library. In 1842 libraries opened in Auckland and Nelson. These libraries were public in the … assumed control of some public libraries, for instance, the Auckland City Council took over the Mechanics’ Institute … survey of New Zealand libraries by American Ralph Munn and Aucklander John Barr. Known as the Munn-Barr report, it made …
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Part of story: Libraries
… practice. Historic Places Trust The 1950 demolition of Auckland’s iconic Partington’s Mill (1850), and the threat … West Coast’s Shantytown, and Howick Historical Village in Auckland. These consisted of collections of old buildings, … the late 1950s government-driven urban-renewal projects in Auckland and Wellington destroyed hundreds of inner-city …
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Part of story: Historic places
… delivered through New Zealand Academy of Sport centres in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. Sport and Recreation New … Cloud, an events centre and ‘fan zone’ on Queen’s Wharf in Auckland. Infrastructure The government has contributed to … World Cup it allocated $190 million to the redevelopment of Auckland’s Eden Park. Sport New Zealand also had a capital …
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Part of story: Government and sport
… 1928 he studied at Victoria University College. Shifting to Auckland, he attended St John’s College and in 1931 graduated BA at Auckland University College. The following year he passed … he went to live in Carterton. He never married. Moving to Auckland, he was for a time a teacher at St Stephen’s …
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… captive without trial, first on the Calliope and then in Auckland. The following month Te Umuroa also fell victim to … Natural lives.' After the trial the seven were taken to Auckland, to be sent to Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land … convicts on board. Grey kept Matiu Tikiaki and Tōpi in Auckland, supposedly to testify in a coming trial of Te …
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… was then living in the Catholic youth hostel at Herne Bay, Auckland. At Easter he stole money and clothes from the … for £22. 8s. 6d at the ANZ Bank, then caught a bus to Auckland, unsuccessfully attempting to cash a second cheque … causing extensive injuries to the face’. Police, led by Auckland Detective Inspector Frank Aplin , were told about …
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… war of 1845–46 in the north of New Zealand Thierry moved to Auckland, where he lived in poor circumstances until 1850. … years. In May 1853 Thierry left Honolulu and returned to Auckland to pursue his land claims and eke out a living teaching music and tuning pianos. His wife died in Auckland in 1856. He became a friend of Bishop J. B. F. …
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… in November 1842. Waitoa volunteered to accompany Selwyn to Auckland, and for the next 12 years was the bishop's friend … at Waimate North that year and in 1844 was shifted to Auckland. At St John's he was referred to as college butler … of a Māori into the Anglican church, at St Paul's, Auckland, on 22 May 1853, resolved many tensions that had …
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… second son of this union. Alfred Warbrick was educated in Auckland at the Catholic school at Takapuna, the Wesleyan … affairs, arranged for him to become apprenticed to an Auckland boatbuilder, Charles Bailey, at the age of about … as guide to J. A. Philp, a special correspondent for the Auckland Evening Star who was intent on exploring the great …
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