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… towns and cities was an integral part of boosterism. Auckland and Wellington were early rivals for capital-city status. Auckland became the capital in 1840, but in 1865 the seat of … enthusiasm sometimes led to flights of fancy, such as when Auckland was described as ‘a galaxy of emeralds set in …
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Part of story: City boosters and promoters
… shifts to Greymouth about 1910, Wellington in 1912 and Auckland in 1915, and his disinclination for public life may … of women. In 1922 she helped launch the Ladies' Mirror in Auckland, contributing an article on 'The Auckland Women's Club' for the first issue, but published …
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… in 1865, Christchurch in 1868, Wellington in 1870 and Auckland in 1871. Dunedin Māori In 1844 Ngāi Tahu chiefs … The pā at Ngāūranga did not survive into the 20th century. Auckland Māori In 1840 a number of Ngāti Whātua chiefs, … Harbour. Ngāti Whātua then sold land for the township of Auckland, hoping that Pākehā settlement would protect them …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… a dance company for unemployed young Māori men and women in Auckland, Te Kanikani O Te Rangatahi (dance of the youth). … Royal New Zealand Ballet, Footnote Dance Company and the Auckland Dance Company. In 2000 Jack Gray formed Atamira, a … touring circuits in North America and Europe. Another Auckland-based Samoan choreographer, Lemi Ponifasio, has …
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Part of story: Contemporary dance
… to prosper again, dividing his time between Sydney and Auckland, where in 1844 he established a business … acres at Ōmaha. In 1859 the family moved from Sydney to Auckland. By this time T. Macky and Company was one of the … Dacre was active in the Anglican church, a member of the Auckland diocesan synod in 1864, and a benefactor of St …
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… medium. In 1927 Dallimore returned with his family to Auckland and established the Revival Fire Mission. At the … organisational patterns. Three congregations formed, at Auckland, Hamilton and Thames, with branch services in … Anglican, died on 16 April 1957. Arthur Dallimore died at Auckland on 23 July 1970, aged 96, survived by two sons and …
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… Māori and Pacific dance, surged. Dance education in Auckland was particularly strong. The private Auckland Performing Arts School offered diplomas in dance. … its dance component. In the mid-1990s the University of Auckland set up a dance studies programme. Private schools …
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Part of story: Arts education and training
… where he remained until December 1887. De Montalk moved to Auckland in 1891, and in 1894 took up an appointment as a lecturer at Auckland University College. He lectured in French and German and founded the Auckland branch of the Alliance française. In these years he …
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… to contact the photographic firm S. P. Andrew Limited in Auckland. After an exchange of letters he received a job offer, which he accepted, arriving in Auckland around 1923. He later spent some time working at … with Fred Turnovsky . In the late 1950s Digby moved to Auckland, leaving the management of the studio to an …
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… (1907) expressed the town’s civic pride and renewed wealth. Auckland Town Hall (1911) had two performance halls, the … Among these new structures were: His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland (1902) Theatre Royal, New Plymouth (1904) (third) … cinema was the Kings in Wellington’s Dixon Street (1910). Auckland’s first cinema opened soon after in Upper Pitt (now …
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Part of story: Theatres, cinemas and halls
… Zealand’s early frontier settlements. Restaurant growth In Auckland, the urban infrastructure necessary for growing and … for the ladies Charles Canning opened the St Mungo Café in Auckland’s central business district in 1871. His … special attention to women, claiming: ‘To the Ladies of Auckland and Suburbs he would also beg to intimate that he …
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Part of story: Restaurants and food outlets
… often turned soil or clay roads into mud. In the 1840s Auckland’s Queen Street was an impassable bog, and a trip to … military. In 1843 work began on the Great South Road from Auckland, which was mainly built by British soldiers to counter the threat to the Auckland settlement from the Waikato tribes. Workers had to …
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Part of story: Roads
… bought a farm at Tūākau. When her parents settled in the Auckland suburb of Milford, she spent a year as a … She ran occasional drama classes for the WEA and the Auckland Regional Council of Adult Education in the late … But apart from a play, Saved (a melodrama set in colonial Auckland and performed at the opening of the Pumphouse …
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… for leadership, beginning with James Liston (Bishop of Auckland 1929–70) and Matthew Brodie (Bishop of Christchurch … (Te Rarawa), from the Hokianga. She moved her family to Auckland in the early 1950s and was horrified to see the … in which some of her people were living. She set up an Auckland Catholic Māori Society, which raised funds to build …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… emigrated to New Zealand on the Matoaka , arriving in Auckland on 26 September 1859. They travelled with a party … went to the Thames goldfield in 1868 and 1869 and worked in Auckland and Mangōnui, accumulating savings of £300. In 1874 … Frear married Sarah Matilda Haydon on 22 March 1889 in Auckland. The couple were to have three daughters and a son; …
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… Bert Potter. Based on a 16-hectare property near Albany, Auckland, the community had up to 300 members at its peak. … Toa and Otamatea eco-villages, both near Kaiwaka, north of Auckland. Home is where the heart is Earthsong co-founder … Eco-neighbourhood is a co-housing settlement in Rānui, West Auckland, built in the early 2000s. Women’s communities In …
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Part of story: Communes and communities
… invasion of Waikato, setting up camps for troops in South Auckland and organising the construction of the Great South … River and established a military telegraph line between Auckland and Pōkeno. The military telegraph, the first … Late in June 1863 Cameron ordered his staff to return to Auckland, and on 12 July he led his forces into Waikato. …
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… his honour. An interventionist approach was used in South Auckland in 2006 to combat youth gangs. In Counties Manukau … police unit called the Task Force was established in Auckland to deal with public drunkenness and violence. … was used to combat what was seen as rising hooliganism on Auckland’s streets. In 1997 the Harassment and Criminal …
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Part of story: Gangs
… Amy was sent to board at St Mary's Convent in Ponsonby, Auckland, where she received a good all-round education, … Richard Hellaby, a butcher, at St Mark's Church, Remuera, Auckland. Over the next 17 years she supported her husband … was a generous but not always compliant benefactor to Auckland Anglican churches and schools. A son and a nephew …
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… men began relationships with other men at home and abroad. Aucklanders met near the Ferry Building, Cantabrians had the … visibility of bars frequented by gay men: the Waitemata in Auckland, the Royal Oak in Wellington and the British Hotel …
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Part of story: Gay men’s lives