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… to East Cape, and below the ocean across to the Chatham and Auckland Islands. Source of the greywackes The Torlesse … are now found in Southland and from east Nelson to South Auckland. …
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Part of story: Geology – overview
… cream using hand-churns and ice from the mountains. By 1871 Aucklanders could buy it from a Queen Street shop for … ice cream per year for the domestic market, at factories in Auckland and Perth, Australia, and exported to Japan, …
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Part of story: Food and beverage manufacturing
… are based in the Maraetai and Clevedon districts of South Auckland. The iwi of Hauraki have been collectively … Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, the section of this tribe living in the Auckland region, settled their historic treaty claims on 7 …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… Park have been built largely during the last 260,000 years. Auckland – a city on volcanoes Auckland is built on a volcanic field that has been active …
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Part of story: Geology – overview
… New Zealand in 1915. He gave demonstrations at Muriwai on Auckland’s west coast, Lyall Bay in Wellington, and New … when they stayed at Piha in 1959. He drove them around Auckland to find materials, including resin and fibreglass, …
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Part of story: Lifesaving and surfing
… Whangārei. Rāhiri travelled from Whiria in the Hokianga to Auckland, Te Aroha, Whakatāne, the East Coast, Wellington … This journey occurs in several traditions. In Remuera, Auckland, the peak Maunga Rāhiri was named after him (it has …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… from retailing fruit and vegetables in a small shop in Auckland, to wholesaling by auction around 1900. When he … Produce Merchants’ and Auctioneers’ Federation. After the Auckland Provincial Fruitgrowers’ Cooperative Society was …
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Part of story: Markets
… was beyond the family’s means at the time. In 1921, in Auckland, Vincent was given a private audition with the … made a return visit to New Zealand. The family moved to Auckland in 1924 to give Vincent opportunities to advance. … his professional life. Late in 1931 the family resettled in Auckland, where Aspey again became absorbed in the musical …
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… 1926 Begg was recruited to become general secretary of the Auckland YWCA, beginning a long association with the … she transformed the YWCA into a focal point for many Auckland girls. She completed the fund-raising for a large … for being ‘apathetic’. She became a vice president of the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women of New …
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… include the Tribesmen (formed in the 1980s in South Auckland) and the Stormtroopers (formed in 1969 in … ground – in the late 1970s a chapter was even formed in Auckland Maximum Security Prison. Members are notorious for … in 1971, when a Black Power chapter was established in Auckland. The gang took off from 1975. Like its name, its …
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Part of story: Gangs
… Faust – was seen in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. A local orchestra and chorus and some principals … semi-professional companies arose in the main centres. In Auckland among the several short-lived groups was Perkel … In 1989 it merged with two smaller companies to form Auckland Metropolitan Opera. Opera Technique in Wellington …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre
… on false credit, she was persuaded by her father to move to Auckland, New Zealand, where he was living with his second wife. In Auckland Amy took a position as a governess. Within a few … an elaborate deception which took her to Wellington and Auckland borrowed substantial amounts of money to finance …
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… Moore, who was bound for Melbourne. Gorst went on to Auckland but soon travelled to Melbourne and was married on … 12 August 1860 at Geelong. Mary and John Gorst then came to Auckland, and in October 1860 went to live in Waikato, where …
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… protests that remain in one place. Burning protest In 1843 Aucklanders marked the end of Willoughby Shortland’s reign … protest in a generation’ 1 (40,000 people) marching down Auckland’s Queen Street, leading to a swift government …
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Part of story: Public protest
… census: 54,819 Major regional locations Canterbury: 15,375 Auckland, 6,600 Wellington: 5,565 Otago: 5,328 Southland: …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… there was subdivision. Two new land districts – North Auckland and Gisborne – were formed in 1919 and 1922 … authorities and councils An overarching council set up for Auckland in 1963 was titled the Auckland Regional Authority. Other regional authorities were …
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Part of story: Colonial and provincial government
… in 1916, the Catholic hierarchy approved it. The Bishop of Auckland, Henry Cleary, served as a military chaplain in the … the sparrows fly Henry Cleary, the Catholic Bishop of Auckland, was an intensely energetic man who performed magic … In 1922 James Liston, the coadjutor (assistant) bishop of Auckland, was charged with sedition and given a two-day …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… also has a much higher proportion of days over 30ºC than Auckland, which is 1,000 kilometres further north. The … 15.3ºC, compared with 17.5ºC in Christchurch and 19.1ºC in Auckland. Its July mean of 6.6ºC is the same as Christchurch but is well below Auckland’s 10.9ºC. Dunedin averages 1,682 sunshine hours …
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Part of story: Otago region
… The galleries Avid in Wellington and Masterworks in Auckland promoted this type of craft to new buying … in Dunedin, and another at Unitec School of Design in Auckland. Whereas craft teaching had all but disappeared … Layla Walter, who again innovated through coming decades. Auckland jeweller Pauline Bern proved particularly important …
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Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… ran a small company of professional performers in Auckland, but his theatre survived less than two years. The Foleys In 1855 Buckingham reappeared in Auckland, this time as part of New Zealand’s first enduring … by John Fuller, an English-born singer who arrived in Auckland in 1893. He recruited his wife and children for a …
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Part of story: Theatre companies and producers