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… at Taieri airport. In about 1953 she briefly shifted to Auckland, where she discovered a lively ‘camp’ (homosexual) … she attended 10 weeks of compulsory military training in Auckland and Christchurch, including a period with the … Carmen started work as an orderly at Cornwall Hospital in Auckland. At 21 she moved beyond hula performances and began …
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… later she was the first woman elected to the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. Her career spanned a … Early years Jean Boughton Wishart was born in Remuera, Auckland, on 8 October 1920, the only child of Florence …
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… experience, and she gained a position as house surgeon at Auckland Hospital. Struggling against the 'organised … at the age of 73. During her retirement she lived in Auckland and wrote her autobiography, Stethoscope and … , which was published in 1965. She died at Selwyn Village, Auckland, on 20 September 1969. …
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… colonel and placed in command of the 2nd Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers. From 1906 until 1910 he … in 1962. Bell was enthusiastic about the potential of North Auckland, which he wished to see renamed Northland. He threw … agent was one of its beneficiaries. Early in 1917 the North Auckland Development Board, which Bell chaired, organised a …
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… continued to play an important role in biological research. Auckland Museum was an especially active research centre in … also organised major scientific expeditions, such as an Auckland Museum field trip to the Three Kings Islands in … established: Canterbury University’s Kaikōura laboratory Auckland University’s research centre at Leigh Victoria …
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Part of story: Life sciences
… Ulster Institute and Seddon Memorial Technical College in Auckland. Both became accountants and joined the public … Ōpōtiki and work as a law clerk. When his family moved to Auckland, he joined the Auckland district office of the Department of Labour in …
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… of the North Island main trunk line (between Wellington and Auckland) began in 1885 but dragged on for decades. In the 1890s Auckland was connected with Rotorua and Thames, and Napier … Midland (1923, across the central South Island), North Auckland (1925) and Bay of Plenty (1928) lines. The economic …
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Part of story: Railways
… the Kaipara region between Hokianga Harbour and Tāmaki (Auckland). According to tradition Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi came … Uri-o-Hau and Te Taoū (from Ngāti Whātua of Helensville and Auckland) is that Rongomai was the captain of Māhuhu , and … to Tākou Bay. Others claim the canoe was carried across the Auckland isthmus before sailing northward along the coast to …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… for the Protection of Women and Children (SPWC), formed in Auckland in 1893, with branches set up later in Wellington, … The first women’s refuges opened in Christchurch (1974), Auckland (1975) and Dunedin (1976) to provide accommodation … in 1973, and the first rape crisis centre was set up in Auckland in 1978. More groups were set up and two …
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Part of story: Family violence
… Palmerston. A statue of Governor George Grey was erected in Auckland in 1904. Premier Richard Seddon, who had argued for … contributed over £30,000 for a mausoleum at Bastion Point, Auckland (1943). ‘Monumental folly’ Funds for the James Cook … a stone cross (1907). John Logan Campbell, the founder of Auckland, was honoured with a statue while he was still …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… beer. The first aerated (carbonated) water was made in Auckland in 1845. The drinks were popular, and small … early 2000s it was made artificially by Coca-Cola Amatil in Auckland. A seven-metre-high replica of an L & P bottle has … concentrate after 1944. In the early 2000s factories in Auckland and Christchurch could produce over three million …
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Part of story: Food and beverage manufacturing
… Tokoroa; Ihenga, Rotorua; and Ngākau Māhaki at Unitec, Auckland. A new millennium As the new millennium dawned on 1 … Māori: Māori Art in the Digital Age. Concurrently, at the Auckland Art Gallery Purangiaho: Seeing Clearly, a more … Prize Māori artists who have been shortlisted for the Auckland Art Gallery’s prestigious Walters Prize, instituted …
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Part of story: Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu
… England in 1958 conducted numerous groups, including the Auckland and Wellington Anglican Cathedral choirs, Auckland’s Dorian Choir, Wellington’s Orpheus Choir, and the … the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Can’t miss Coro The advent …
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Part of story: Choral music and choirs
… the colony’s existence was briefly noted in Wellington and Auckland, but the celebrations were no different from the … the Basin Reserve in Wellington, industrial exhibitions at Auckland and Whanganui. In Nelson, children were presented … in New Plymouth – and statues of the queen were erected in Auckland and Dunedin. Wellington’s new university college …
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Part of story: Anniversaries
… In July 1842 Felton Mathew, the chief magistrate of Auckland, imposed a one-month prison sentence on a man who … (now Okiato), Kororāreka (now Russell), the Hokianga, Auckland, Wellington, Akaroa, Nelson, New Plymouth and … era, from 1853 to 1876, there were four major prisons, at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. By 1876 there …
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Part of story: Prisons
… or by newspaper proprietors such as Creighton and Scales in Auckland. George Chapman , an Auckland bookseller, produced the first publishing list in … over the same period. Henry Brett , owner of the Auckland Evening Star , was an ambitious and successful …
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Part of story: Publishing
… Cedric Harold Firth was born on 22 May 1908 in Auckland, the son of Jane Elizabeth Marie Cartmill and her … father was a great influence on him, and after attending Auckland Grammar School Cedric was apprenticed as a builder. He trained as an architect at Auckland University College, and afterwards (1931–32) …
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… he married Christina Heldt at Wellington. By 1886 he was in Auckland, where he helped to organise the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Typographical … Fisher returned to Australia, but by 1907 he was back in Auckland, where he died on 5 April 1912. He was survived by …
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… This was to be spread over five years and split between Auckland, Victoria, Canterbury and Otago university … of sociology at Victoria in 1966. By 1971 Victoria, Auckland, Waikato, Canterbury and Massey all had sociology … concentrated on human geography. Kenneth Cumberland of Auckland University also made significant contributions to …
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Part of story: Social sciences
… he was already painting in New Zealand. Friström joined the Auckland Society of Arts, and in the society's 1904 … while living and working in New Zealand. Returning to Auckland, Friström taught at the Elam School of Art, under … Elam on 30 June 1915. On 5 July Friström and his wife left Auckland for Wellington where they took ship for the United …
Type: Biography