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… the early 1860s, and there was a boom in property values in Auckland after the end of the Waikato war of 1863–64. … or auctioneers. Buyer bribes During a real estate boom in Auckland in the 1880s, land agents used all kinds of … associations of land agents and auctioneers in Wellington, Auckland and Waikato banded together to form the Dominion …
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Part of story: Real estate
… his fortunes, around 1907 Johnston moved his family to Auckland and tried to set himself up as a market gardener … taken into custody and the next day was committed to the Auckland Mental Hospital in Avondale. While the alleged … from the historical record. (Elizabeth Johnston died in Auckland in 1965.) He was apparently never charged with …
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… became governor of New Zealand. Knight accompanied him to Auckland on the Elphinstone and was appointed auditor … In 1855 he became manager of the Colonial Bank of Issue at Auckland, and in 1858 was made auditor of the public … before breakfast for his work. In 1852 he sent drawings of Auckland mosses to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. These …
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… The couple had no children and early in 1962 Ina moved to Auckland. She had been employed as a clerical worker and secretary in Wellington and in Auckland she worked as a secretary for Wallace and Webb … Lamason had intended retiring from sport when she moved to Auckland, but her friend Dorothy Simons asked her to help …
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… an increase in the number of restaurants available: Auckland had 109 restaurants in 1920, and by 1926 there were … A 500-seat tearoom and large dance floor opened at Auckland’s Civic Theatre in 1929. The tearoom employed 57 … – bring your own). At the Dixieland in Point Chevalier, Auckland, diners knew that if they left a bottle of alcohol …
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Part of story: Restaurants and food outlets
… Among the new magazines were: Freed (1969–72). An Auckland University student venture, it featured … And (1983–85); Antic (1986–90). These short-lived Auckland University initiatives published radical work … were student initiatives. In 2014 they included Trout (Auckland University), Three Islands Magazine (Victoria …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… Trade with Auckland Hauraki Māori were well placed to supply Auckland’s settlers with food. Their waka (canoes) brought … the Crown accepted that this action was unjust. Timber Auckland businesses were eager to profit from Hauraki …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… found southern beech was better. Although Arthur lived in Auckland and by now Bill was employed as a draughtsman by … He left for France in April 1916 with the 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment. He was discharged in May 1917 … remarkable photographs of kokako. On 18 February 1927, at Auckland, Bill Mead married his second cousin, Leura Marion …
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… the 1870s, but this was no longer in use by the mid-1890s. Auckland’s City Market In Auckland, the Crown gave the city about 2.5 hectares off … for consumption’. 3 Municipal fish markets Wellington and Auckland city councils did set up fish markets. Wellington’s …
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Part of story: Markets
… New tournament A new invitation tournament was held in Auckland in 1956. An annual event, it grew in importance and … major international players. The tournament – called the Auckland Glass invitation, the Wills tournament, the Benson … been banned. The Benson and Hedges Open of 1969 in Auckland was one of the earliest international open …
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Part of story: Tennis
… he and his family moved to Māngere Māori Workers’ Camp in Auckland. There his stepfather, Nōpera Te Kawa, and his … 1960 Ngata enrolled in Māori studies at the University of Auckland. From 1962 he was a part-time lecturer in Māori, … Its meetings, held at Ruatōria, Hicks Bay, Wellington and Auckland, were sometimes attended by Māori elders who took …
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… was also a member of the team. Mark spent a brief period in Auckland at the end of the 1922 season and played one game … to the All Blacks' 36–10 win over New South Wales at Auckland, and in 1926 he was again the leading scorer on the … for Wellington in 1889; another brother, Guy, was a North Auckland rugby representative; and his sister, Dulcie, won …
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… some still forested, much not – around an hour’s drive from Auckland, Hamilton or Tauranga. It has two distinct zones: … the waters and lands from Mahurangi on the coast north of Auckland to the northern entrance to Tauranga Harbour in the … was the first European to venture inland. The choice of Auckland as New Zealand’s capital in 1840 brought colonising …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… the country’s largest inner-city park (165 hectares). Auckland’s Domain (75 hectares) comes a distant second. … sites for war memorials and statues of local dignitaries. Auckland’s Domain provides a magnificent setting for its … of community. Christmas in the Park is held annually in the Auckland Domain and attracts tens of thousands of people. …
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Part of story: City public spaces
… in the fledgeling Salvation Army in New Zealand. Born in Auckland on 4 November 1863, she was the daughter of Annette … never married, and lived for some years in retirement in Auckland. Annette Paul died at Auckland on 19 April 1952, and was buried in the …
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… national radio coverage, upgrading radio stations in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. This … In the late 1930s A. E. Robinson, chair of the Auckland branch of the Farmers’ Union, had a weekly … In 1954 a rural broadcasts officer was appointed in Auckland, and a few years later a ‘rurals team’ of radio …
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Part of story: Rural media
… Assembly When the first General Assembly convened in Auckland in 1854, its first substantial resolution was to … and then attempting another ‘mixed ministry’ led by an Auckland member, Wynyard reverted to the Crown colony … erected on a steep slope below the governor’s residence in Auckland, the utilitarian two-storey structure became known …
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Part of story: Self-government and independence
… 1963. She had never married, and moved from Wellington to Auckland to live with her sister. She was made an MBE in … participated in the organisation’s centenary activities in Auckland and Wellington, which included a visit by its … or a pocketknife for their efforts. Violet Roche died at Auckland on 11 February 1967. In her career she had shown …
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… in 1946, and on 8 April 1947 he married Fanny Hill in Auckland; there were no children of this marriage. In 1947 … to sell the Rawhiti. From 1947 to 1961 Roose served on the Auckland Harbour Board. In the 1950s he became interested in … canal for shipping and flood control. He died in Epsom, Auckland, on 6 July 1967, survived by his daughter; Fanny …
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… operated an experimental ‘Help-Yourself Groceteria’ in Auckland along similar lines, offering a slightly lower … A Four Square self-service grocery opened in Onehunga, Auckland, in late 1948. By 1953 there were around 300 … probably the Four Square supermarket opened in Devonport, Auckland, by Bill Miller in 1957. Among the first …
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Part of story: Food shops