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… plants grown from the original seed. Most notable was Auckland nurseryman Hayward Wright, whose vines grew large … was changed to melonette, then kiwifruit in 1959 by Auckland fruit-packing company Turner & Growers. Kiwifruit …
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Part of story: Kiwifruit
… with a group of young students. Schooled during summer in Auckland, they were returned in autumn because the winter … mission schooled 152 youths at St John’s College, Auckland, and St Andrew’s College, Kohimarama (later renamed …
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Part of story: South Pacific peoples
… in 1862. British military engineers built a line between Auckland and Drury that opened in June 1863, just before the … was delayed by opposition from some Māori. The Wellington–Auckland line was not fully operational until 1872. With the …
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Part of story: Telecommunications
… offered to electrify the tramways in the four main centres. Auckland accepted the offer. Dunedin’s electric trams were … early 1900s. The first electric system to operate was in Auckland in 1902. This was followed by Dunedin (1903), …
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Part of story: Public transport
… models especially designed for New Zealand conditions. The Auckland firm of Cousins and Cousins produced the speedy Auckland Roadster gig, the Waikato buggy and the Spring …
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Part of story: Workshop industries
… Reckitt and Colman, and Johnson and Johnson all moved from Auckland; Cedenco moved from Gisborne; Helene Curtis moved … and Corfu Jeans left Thames. Within New Zealand Auckland remained the dominant location of manufacturing. …
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Part of story: Manufacturing – an overview
… it was selected and propagated by George Pannill at Albany, Auckland, around 1900. It is a prolific producer of large … The root-ruining phylloxera aphid was found in some Auckland vineyards in 1895. Growers were advised to destroy …
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Part of story: Viticulture
… the eastern Bay of Plenty. It was finally deposited in the Auckland Institute and Museum for safekeeping. The carved … carved meeting house, Hotunui, which now stands inside the Auckland Museum. Carved by Ngāti Awa experts in 1878, the …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… to have spread out and inhabited all the land from Tāmaki (Auckland) to Cape Brett. There are two stories about … of the Tāmaki River and Manukau Harbour at Te Tō Waka in Auckland. This was the most important canoe portage in …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… around the materials rather than the building process. In Auckland in the late 1880s, companies included the New … pine. In the 2000s the company was based in Mt Roskill, Auckland, and had 10 branches throughout the country. It had …
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Part of story: Building and construction industry
… in the numbers of Irish. The census of 1871 revealed that Auckland, and more notably the South Island’s West Coast, … centres had strong Irish populations – Onehunga in Auckland, Charleston in Nelson, Greymouth in Westland – and …
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Part of story: Irish
… armourer to the New Zealand field forces. He arrived in Auckland on the African in 1861. There, on 24 December that … involved as a consultant in a smelting venture at Onehunga, Auckland, in 1892. In 1896 and again in 1901 he went to …
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… In 1970 helicopter pilot George Sobiecki suggested to the Auckland Surf Life Saving Association that he could run a beach rescue service in Auckland over summer. So began the world’s first civilian …
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Part of story: Lifesaving and surfing
… Radio Rhema began more evangelical Christian broadcasts in Auckland 1978 and later broadcast in other parts of the … churches. Some of these churches, including Life Church in Auckland, Arise Church in Wellington and Grave Vineyard in …
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Part of story: Interdenominational Christianity
… was dispatched by the British Admiralty and arrived in Auckland in November 1848. The first step was the erection … surveying) on what is now Windsor Reserve in Devonport on Auckland’s North Shore. Another vessel, the Maori , surveyed …
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Part of story: Early mapping
… valley, Whangārei, Te Ārai, and at Ōtāhuhu (Mt Richmond) in Auckland. By the mid-1800s their lands had diminished to … links to ancestors from Whangaroa in the north to Tāmaki (Auckland) in the south, and eastward to Little Barrier and …
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Part of story: Whangārei tribes
… and his wife, Ann Hildyard. The family came to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1848. Jerome Cadman owned and … 1855 and was later a successful builder and contractor in Auckland. He returned to the Coromandel region in 1867. He served on the abortive Auckland City Council from 1854 to 1855 and on the Auckland …
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… and his wife, Elsie Laura Welch, Arthur was born in Auckland on 6 July 1917. He attended Edendale primary, … Arthur married Jean Doreen Young on 27 January 1940 at Auckland; they were to have four children. Like most … running career came when he was selected for the 1950 Auckland Empire Games marathon. He ran 13th, having not …
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… parted by 1891. The following year the Satchells were in Auckland where his first son was born. The small family … goldfields. There was an accompanying boom on the Auckland Stock Exchange whose brokers kept as tight a grip as they could on the market. An alternative body, the Auckland Free Stock and Mining Exchange, started up. …
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… and attended the Methodist Theological College in Auckland for four months. However, he was more at home doing … working as the inaugural Methodist missioner in central Auckland. There he faced pressing social demands resulting … meals for unemployed men. Scrimgeour also helped form the Auckland Social Workers' Association, which co-ordinated …
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