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… and other orchestras. She taught at the University of Auckland from 1963 until retirement. Maurice Till Maurice … from Europe in 2010 to teach piano at the University of Auckland and became sought after as a concerto soloist by … Smith Wilma Smith, who was born in Fiji but grew up in Auckland, came back from study in the United States in 1987 …
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Part of story: Classical musicians
… her time. She was born Kathleen Agnes Niccol at Devonport, Auckland, on 3 April 1895, the eldest child of Henry Malcolm … until she was 28. She entered St Mary's Convent, Ponsonby, Auckland, in May 1923 and took her final profession of vows … Aria, shortly after she had won the John Court Aria in the Auckland competitions. Mina was Mary Leo's first star pupil …
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… before joining the stations they had been posted to. At the Auckland Central Police Station Pearce’s duties included … camp, the women were moved to a house at Pokeno, south of Auckland. Pearce was accompanied by a translator, who lived … her a month’s special leave. She resumed police duties at Auckland in February 1944 but found it hard to go back to …
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… newly formed New Zealand Power Boat Association, based in Auckland, had 60 members and 28 registered boats. Similar … bet On 30–31 January 1909 the Eliza raced the Seabird from Auckland to Russell and back, a distance of around 240 … The Eliza , commanded by Captain Edward McLeod, won the Auckland–Russell race in 30 hours 35 minutes, at and average …
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Part of story: Powered water sports
… in the school’s First XI and rugby for its First XV. At Auckland University College he graduated BA (and was senior … Pyatt interrupted theological studies at St John’s College, Auckland, when war broke out and sailed with the 1st … shaped by wartime experience. On 5 September 1942, in Auckland, Pyatt married Mary (Molly) Lilian Carey, a …
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… was Wātene’s mana that prominent footballers travelled to Auckland from as far away as Otago. Wātene then persuaded Auckland Rugby League officials to promote Manukau into the … town to captain his country’s first professional team, the Auckland Warriors, in the 1995 Australian Winfield Cup …
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Part of story: Rugby league
… Between 1903 and 1912 the Salvation Army set up hotels in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to provide low-cost, … on Rotoroa Island, just east of Waiheke Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. Treatment was limited to abstinence … In 2005 its treatment services were transferred to mainland Auckland and the island became a conservation park. The era …
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Part of story: Salvation Army
… woman of Ngāpuhi . Attending school first at Parnell in Auckland, Stowell, apparently at the instigation of Governor … in the birth of a son, Hector Arthur Ngāpua Stowell, in Auckland in November 1886. Henry went to live at Waiwhetū, … of Māori language usage) in the trial of Rua Kēnana at Auckland in 1916. Ngā Kuku Mumu had forbidden Stowell to …
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… Other schools included: Wellington School of Design (1886) Auckland’s Elam School of Art and Design (1889) Wanganui … he opened a commercial art and design studio in central Auckland, before moving to the United States in 1918. … full-time professional design programme. Meanwhile in Auckland, with low enrolments at the Elam School of Fine …
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Part of story: Industrial design
… had a 2013 population of 6,693, and is 115 km south-east of Auckland and 104 km north-east of Hamilton. Gold town Thames … corner of the Firth of Thames. The goldfield lifted Auckland out of the economic depression that followed the … Stream, in order to be close to the gold workings. In 1868 Auckland entrepreneur Robert Graham purchased the land in …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… to show their extent. In 1918 William Hopkins filmed the Auckland isthmus from a hilltop, highlighting the suburban … puffery for a social documentary perspective. Reports on Auckland’s Pacific Island community, alcoholics, and …
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Part of story: City images
… only to confirm they do not belong: He meant to stay in Auckland and see city life, but when he got there he didn’t … riots, when police violently suppress the protests of Auckland’s hungry unemployed. Bill feels alienated from the …
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Part of story: City images
… entered the Jubilee Institute for the Blind in Parnell, Auckland. Cyril became proficient at Braille, typing, and … business working from the family home, which was now in Auckland, as a piano tuner and repairer, remaining somewhat … However, on 8 October at a gathering in Newmarket, Auckland, a resolution was passed to form an association of …
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… Games New Zealand hosted the fourth British Empire Games at Auckland in 1950. Held in the wake of the Second World War, … The changing Commonwealth Between the 1950 Empire Games in Auckland and the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, … a total attendance of 264,694 spectators the success of the Auckland games guaranteed the event’s continuance. Harold …
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Part of story: Olympic and Commonwealth games
… administrations. Removing his business to the new capital, Auckland, in 1845, Polack operated a bonded warehouse near the Auckland waterfront, and extended into shipping, for trade …
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… in North Canterbury and in Rotorua before joining the Auckland Māori mission in 1905; its circuit comprised North Auckland, Auckland, Waikato and the King Country. He was ordained in …
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… as a result of gold fever, it was 1,213. Otago rivalled Auckland as a focus for American settlement during these … successful. In 1854 Walter Taylor applied for land north of Auckland to settle about 40 families suffering dire poverty …
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Part of story: North Americans
… Training is offered at Victoria University of Wellington, Auckland University and Unitec in Auckland. The New Zealand Institute of Architects is the …
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Part of story: Creative life
… over 3 metres long was stranded on Shelly Beach in Auckland. It was examined and described by the Auckland Museum curator, Thomas Cheeseman, who wrote: It has …
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Part of story: Oceanic fish
… in the 1850s was used in the Queen Street sewer and other Auckland construction projects. It was not until … scow Mamaku at the rate of 6,000 tonnes a year, bound for Auckland glass works. With its high calcium carbonate …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay