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… has the highest average wind speed – 22 kilometres an hour. Auckland is second at 17 kilometres a hour. The strongest …
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Part of story: Shelter on farms
… away. Earthquakes were felt throughout the North Island. Auckland residents mistook the noise for distant cannon …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… by its large skirt of old brown fronds, and grows south of Auckland. Both provided building materials – the trunks were …
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Part of story: Te ngahere – forest lore
… members of a Union Airways Electra that crashed at Māngere, Auckland, in May 1938 were the first people to die on a … NAC suffered another calamity when a Lodestar flying from Auckland crashed only minutes from landing at Paraparaumu, … within New Zealand. On 3 July the flight departed from Auckland, bound for Wellington via Tauranga, Gisborne and …
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Part of story: Air crashes
… 1921, after matriculating from high school, Black went to Auckland University College. During his time there he … career were spent at Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland. From there he went to Tīmaru Boys’ High School, … excellent reputation. The following year saw the family in Auckland, where Black joined the staff of Henderson High …
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… an appointment as director of the division of medicine at Auckland Hospital. The arrangement was not a success, and in … Laffey on 24 May 1935 at St Michael’s Church in Remuera, Auckland. She had been a nurse and their marriage was a … Nightingale Medal. She predeceased him in 1982; he died in Auckland on 8 February 1985 at the age of 86. His funeral …
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… took the arrival of William Blomfield in 1887 to give the Auckland weekly its distinctive character. The ‘Blo’ … Ladies’ Journal and Youths’ Companion , launched by the Auckland Star’s Henry Brett in 1890, gave particular … the ground-breaking policies of the Liberal government. The Auckland Weekly News , published by Wilson and Horton from …
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Part of story: Cartooning
… 'Ko Mata' (Mother), suggests. On 19 December 1856, at Auckland, Thomas married Mary Jane Moxon. He continued his … taught at St Stephen's School for Native Girls, Parnell, Auckland. He was also associated with the Māori Church of St Barnabas in Auckland, having been ordained priest in 1852. He died on 22 …
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… American Lingard Company put on a season of HMS Pinafore at Auckland’s Theatre Royal. The Auckland Star wrote reviews of each night’s performance. One … rendered’. 1 The Lingards responded by cancelling the Auckland Star critic’s season ticket and stating that the …
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Part of story: Arts reviewing
… six siblings to New Zealand on the Red Jacket , arriving at Auckland on 17 May 1860. During the 111-day journey there … prisoner, but were subsequently afforded safe passage to Auckland. Later Dadelszen played down this event, which was, … however, a factor in the eventual outbreak of war. Back in Auckland Dadelszen joined the postal service as a clerk, …
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… on 12 June 1901. He was appointed officer commanding, Auckland Militia and Volunteer District in October 1901. … to South Africa peace was concluded and he was back in Auckland commanding the local military district. From 1902 … the New Zealand military. He was responsible for improving Auckland's defence organisation and training until December …
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… other actors staged a comedy called The lawyer outwitted at Auckland’s Watson’s Hotel. It was the first known theatre … as a new era in the history of public amusements in Auckland.’ 1 Acting styles New Zealand theatre soon became … company performed a three-week season of HMS Pinafore in Auckland; the Theatre Royal was packed for every show. 21 …
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Part of story: Actors and acting
… then and 1908 he advised on harbour proposals at Napier, Auckland and Melbourne. He resigned from his harbour board … in Gisborne's inner harbour and in 1919 advised the Auckland City Council on the purchase of a tramway system … 1920 he advised on engineering problems at Gisborne, North Auckland, New Plymouth and the West Coast. Over a period of …
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… In 1952 Poul, Rigmor and their two infant sons moved to Auckland, where he started teaching ballet classes, driving … they trained. The Community Arts Service (CAS), based at Auckland University College, responded to Gnatt’s idea of …
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… university classes in Wellington. She subsequently lived in Auckland, and spent 10 years apart from her husband in … He later became professor of history and economics at Auckland University College, until being dismissed from his … died on 27 February 1931, at home in St Heliers Bay, Auckland, and was buried at Hillsborough. …
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… summer school. They were married by Ormond Burton in Auckland on 13 May 1939. She had previously worked at the John Court department store in Auckland, and her life was to change radically when she … she suffered a stroke and moved to a retirement home in Auckland; she died there in 1977. A courageous and …
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… followed, and in 1920 Husheer moved to Riverhead, near Auckland, and set up a syndicate to finance the growing and … Company. The Napier factory was utilised to process the Auckland-grown leaf and the Riverhead Gold brand of … contract growers in the Nelson area and in Te Atatu, west Auckland. In 1926 a handsome new brick factory was …
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… from 1936 to 1960. He served under five bishops of the Auckland diocese and was for many years from 1940 honorary chaplain to the bishop of Auckland. He also served under the first two Māori bishops … Te Aupōuri Māori Trust Board from 1958. Mutu Kapa died in Auckland on 10 November 1968, aged 98. Waikato and Te …
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… lands in the Bay of Plenty. In 1922 Kelliher shifted to Auckland, believing that for entrepreneurs like himself, the … opposition of both prohibitionists and established Auckland brewers, the venture was a success, particularly … Kelliher seemed to epitomise the traditional successful Auckland businessman: erect, immaculately attired, driving a …
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… Leslie George Kelly was born in Auckland on 10 May 1906, the elder of two sons of Sidney … he was a junior reporter for one of the daily newspapers in Auckland. Kelly joined the Railway Department in 1926, … to first-class engine-driver. On 11 February 1929, in Auckland, he married Heera (Sarah) Te Moengaroa Ueke, who …
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