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… led to the formation of New Zealand’s first bridge club in Auckland in 1931. In 2012 there were 109 clubs, with over … contested a regional event in Tokyo. In 2012 Jan Cormack of Auckland was New Zealand’s most capped international player, … (Hamilton), Lambton Quay (Wellington) and Queen Street (Auckland). New Zealander Greg Jacobs won the world Monopoly …
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Part of story: Cards, board games and puzzles
… The Irish Catholic order of the Sisters of Mercy arrived in Auckland from 1850. By 1897 congregations had been founded … still active in the 21st century included the Carmelites in Auckland and Christchurch (established in the 1930s), the … in 1898), the Franciscan Friary and Retreat Centre in Auckland (1939), and Southern Star Abbey, a Cistercian …
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Part of story: Communes and communities
… world, to playwriting as a literary form. In 1970 the Auckland critic J. C. Reid published an 80-page survey of … in 1990, he left dramatic literature out altogether. The Auckland University Press anthology of New Zealand l … theatre. Old theatres collapsed (Theatre Corporate in Auckland in 1986 and Mercury Theatre in 1992) and new ones …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… and control problems.’ 2 In 1955 the family shifted to Auckland to expand their employment opportunities, settling … lecturer in educational psychology at the University of Auckland. She was appointed to a permanent position in 1962, … speaker. Marie was steadily promoted at the University of Auckland, and in 1975 she was appointed Head of the …
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… H. W. Cleary , he was sent to Sacred Heart College in Auckland. After finishing his high school education, he … church from the late 1930s, and was later a member of the Auckland synod for over 20 years. His father’s death in 1940 … he returned to his farm at Mōtatau. Apart from a period in Auckland as district Māori welfare officer (1951–56) with …
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… as Gifford) was born at his parents’ home in Devonport, Auckland, on 3 April 1922. He was the first of three sons … to New Zealand. The path to industrial design Back in Auckland, Jackson was discharged from military service in … His phone began ringing after he was interviewed on the Auckland regional TV show Town and Around . Jackson …
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… about his future, Curnow started at St John’s College, Auckland, in 1931 with a Marsh Scholarship to study for … in 1933. He studied towards a bachelor of arts degree at Auckland University College and completed it at Canterbury … other students he frequented the student hut at Anawhata on Auckland’s west coast, and began writing poetry regularly …
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… There are a few island volcanoes. Rangitoto Island, near Auckland, is the youngest and largest of Auckland’s volcanic cones, and erupted around 1400 CE. …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… School, George Bolt, took the chief photographer of the Auckland Weekly News on a flight over Auckland. Aerial photography was first used in a survey on …
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Part of story: Modern mapping and surveying
… dancer, teacher, and choreographer. He organised classes at Auckland University, tours and festival performances, often … African dance African dancing was most common in Auckland, where many of the African migrants who began to …
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Part of story: Cultural dance
… on clear nights. The aurora can even be seen north of Auckland during active times. The next period of maximum … of a shipwreck spent 20 months on the subantarctic Auckland Islands before being rescued. They had a hard time, …
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Part of story: Atmosphere
… Zealand for clubs to emerge in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland. The Auckland and Wellington clubs have survived and maintain …
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Part of story: Central and South-eastern Europeans
… in government (and therefore commerce and influence) to Auckland in 1841. Economic change For the next 80 or so … then the highway brought the bay within the reach of Auckland holidaymakers, who double the population of the …
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Part of story: Northland places
… Bellbirds, common in some districts, vanished from the Auckland region and northward in the 19th century, but … doves and Barbary doves frequent gardens and parks around Auckland. The introduced Indian myna has spread through most …
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Part of story: Birdwatching
… courier service, New Zealand Couriers, was established in Auckland in 1964, after one of its founders saw courier … driving mail from businesses to the central post office in Auckland. Its earliest delivery vehicle was a Morris J van. …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers
… Jones and James Chapman-Taylor. Diversity In 1912 the Auckland Arts and Crafts Club profiled a wide range of … immigrated to New Zealand in 1899 and set up a studio in Auckland. He became a leading figure in the Quoin Club, an …
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Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… such as 1984’s Bop Olympics at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland and the televised Shazam Bop Competition in 1985. … in choreographed, competitive forms of hip hop dance. Auckland choreographer Parris Goebel, whose Palace Dance …
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Part of story: Hip hop
… successful farmers that, in the late 1840s and early 1850s, Auckland relied on them for cereals, vegetables and fruit. … wrote that Māori brought agricultural goods to trade with Auckland settlers in a ‘fleet of forty sail of well-mannered …
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Part of story: Agricultural education
… around Ōkahu Bay. In 1914 the bay became the site of Auckland’s main sewer outlet, polluting traditional fishing … the Waitematā. Back from the sea lies the former ‘Bishop’s Auckland’ where Bishop George Selwyn bought 538 hectares and …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… Māori supplied nearly all the fish to the settlers of Auckland, Wellington and Otago. Attorney-General William … noted that during 1852, 1,792 canoes entered the harbour of Auckland, bringing to market 45 tons of fish, along with …
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Part of story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing