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… sugar, mostly destined for a refinery at Birkenhead, Auckland. New Zealand helped uphold Britain’s colonial power … in New Zealand and eventually became permanent residents. Auckland became the principal centre of settlement, followed …
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Part of story: Fijians
… never been to one. The first order for the machine was for Auckland’s Ellerslie Racecourse in 1913. Ten years later, … by 2003 six had been introduced – one each in Christchurch, Auckland, Dunedin and Hamilton, and two in Queenstown. The …
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Part of story: Sports and leisure
… country’s poultry meat. They are Tegel Foods (operating in Auckland, New Plymouth and Christchurch), Inghams … (Waikato), PH van den Brink (Christchurch and South Auckland) and Turks Poultry (Manawatū). The remaining 1% of …
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Part of story: Poultry industry
… named New Zealander by Governor George Grey. It won at the Auckland races. Gift horses Iwi often acquired horses as … its importance to the iwi. Later, Tūhoe members went to Auckland to purchase horses, paying for them with pigs and …
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Part of story: Hōiho – horses and iwi
… press) on the ship Matilda Wattenbach , arriving in Auckland on 8 September. During the voyage he produced two … with W. R. Brame, the settlement's leader, and remained in Auckland where he planned to set up his own business. He …
Type: Biography
… Lewis for 12 months. He worked in Wellington, Wanganui, Auckland, and Albertland in North Auckland, and then spent four years in Sydney. In Nelson the …
Type: Biography
… Māori language. He was acting as government interpreter in Auckland in 1844. The explorer-artist G. F. Angas noted … remarkably neat and clean, and sends daily to school in Auckland, where they receive an English education.' MacNish …
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… were less likely to be confined all day in cages. At both Auckland and Wellington zoos, landscaped enclosures were … smelly, noxious waste of carnivores is dumped in landfills. Auckland Zoo expanded onto neighbouring land in the 1970s, …
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Part of story: Zoos and aquariums
… (founded in 1882), Wellington’s School of Design (1886) and Auckland’s Elam School of Art (1889). In 1962 the Wellington … Polytechnic. From the 1980s private providers such as Auckland’s Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design began …
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Part of story: Graphic design
… looked to governments for relief. In 1886 about 500 Auckland unemployed, ‘many of them on the verge of … marchers to disperse calmly. Things were less peaceful in Auckland. On 1 June, a protest march up Queen Street by …
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Part of story: Parades and protest marches
… Semi-finals and finals were introduced in 1992. By 2022 Auckland (with 16 wins) and Canterbury (14 wins) had been … There were five teams in New Zealand – the Blues, based in Auckland, Chiefs in Hamilton, Hurricanes in Wellington, …
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Part of story: Rugby union
… the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the National Library were … bombing of the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland in 1985. Public perception In spite of the …
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Part of story: Britain, Europe and New Zealand
… The RM Company in the central North Island put touts on the Auckland–Rotorua train to push their services to passengers. … in 1930 20 operators were fighting for customers between Auckland and Hamilton. Service-car numbers peaked in 1934 at …
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Part of story: Coaches and long-distance buses
… Harbour for making bottles and other glass products in Auckland. In the 2000s sand for concrete had to be dredged offshore to supply Auckland’s building industry. Since 1953 about 750,000 cubic …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… of Rotorua, 360 km north of Wellington and 205 km south of Auckland. In 2013 its population was 21,864. Early days … and other competitions. Although Taupō is closer to Auckland than Wellington, it has traditionally attracted …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… Catholic parishes throughout the country: the Diocese of Auckland had 67, Hamilton 37, Palmerston North 33, … also the Good Shepherd national theological college, all in Auckland. In 2016 there were 22 seminarians training at Holy …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… The history of Tāmaki (Auckland) shows the area to be a highly contested and rich … Hinemairangi – a patupaiarehe from the Hūnua Ranges in east Auckland – eloped with Tamaireia from the Waitākere Ranges …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… still exist and are held in museums in London, Hawaii, Auckland and Wellington. Kites in bird form The manu kākā … the addition of extended wings. The mask of one held in the Auckland War Memorial Museum had teeth, a moko, and hair …
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Part of story: Kites and manu tukutuku
… Urban Māori authorities Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust (West Auckland), founded in 1984, is one of a number of … Others include the Manukau Urban Māori Authority (South Auckland), Te Rūnanga o Kirikiriroa Trust (Hamilton), Te …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… Frame spent much of the next eight years in Seacliff and in Auckland’s Avondale Hospital, sometimes as a voluntary and … her to Frank Sargeson , a focus of literary activity on Auckland’s North Shore, in 1955. Almost immediately, …
Type: Biography