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… Andrew Stanley Keyworth was the younger of twin sons born at Auckland to Herbert Reginald Keyworth, a merchant, and his … in London, before the ship sailed. The Pamir sailed back to Auckland from Antwerp and was then returned to its Finnish … in cruising the waters of the Hauraki Gulf and the North Auckland peninsula in his 32-foot keeler, L’Avenir. Andy …
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… in 1916 Lowry trained at the New Zealand Flying School in Auckland. In 1918 he joined the Royal Air Force, but did not see active service during the First World War. While in Auckland he made his first-class cricket début, for Auckland against Wellington in January 1918. Little is known …
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… Ohariu Valley. About two years later the family moved to Auckland, where Joe (as he was generally known) attended St … car-cleaning to shunting'. The following March a group of Auckland railwaymen, led by Christopher Leek, established … they did not have any children. Joe Mack died in Henderson, Auckland, on 18 July 1951; he was survived by Flora, and six …
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… Incumbents have included Jim Peters at the University of Auckland and Piri Sciascia at Victoria University of … Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, was formed at the University of Auckland. It plays a significant role in Māori research and …
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… William was educated at Kamo School, in Scotland, at Auckland College and Grammar School and at Auckland University College, where he read law. He served a … 1914 he chaired the Hunterville Town Board. He represented Auckland in cricket (1884–87) and rugby (1886), and became …
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… his family emigrated to New Zealand in 1912. Jack attended Auckland Grammar School and Auckland University College, where he gained a boxing blue. In 1916 he was the champion shot in the Auckland Military District. After working as a clerk in the …
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… landscape architecture degrees were also offered at Unitec (Auckland) and Victoria University of Wellington. Profession … Major civic projects The creation of Aotea Square, in Auckland’s central business district, was a major civic … roles in the revitalisation of central-city waterfronts in Auckland, Wellington, Tauranga, Napier and Nelson. Landscape …
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Part of story: Landscape architecture
… Zealand Herald , and then as a temporary employee with the Auckland provincial treasury. This position was concerned … and led to his appointment as the first secretary of the Auckland provincial Board of Education. Moss was elected to … at St Mary's Anglican Cathedral in Parnell. When he died at Auckland on 8 July 1904, Frederick Moss was survived by his …
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… but a handful arrived from the 1990s onwards. Many came to Auckland to invest and establish their families in a healthy … to cluster together in their own suburbs, especially in Auckland, and to establish their own churches, schools, …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… Billie Nicholl believed he was 10 when he arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1862. This would put the date of … in failure, but he had a good reputation. F. A. White, an Auckland businessman, agreed to assist, and the Martha … his latter days at Waitekauri before moving to Newton, Auckland, where he lived with his half-sister Martha …
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… to the Kiwi phrase, ‘as miserable as a shag on a rock’. Auckland Island shags The Auckland Island shag ( Leucocarbo colensoi ) breeds on the subantarctic Auckland Islands. The population was estimated at 4,500 …
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Part of story: Shags
… and four dry special areas (smaller suburbs) were in Auckland and Wellington. The last to go wet were Eden and Roskill in Auckland and Tawa in Wellington in 1999. End of dry areas … of the liquor laws review. During a meeting in Ōtara, South Auckland, a local said: ‘Alcohol is destroying our …
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Part of story: Liquor laws
… even international players have regular jobs. Pearl power Aucklander Pearl Dawson, a veterinarian by profession, … at left wing for the Mt Eden Ladies’ Hockey Club, and an Auckland representative. Dawson was also one of New …
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Part of story: Hockey
… safety In 1989, 7% of people felt it was safe to be in the Auckland city centre after dark. This jumped to 25% in 1993 … A survey in 2011 of attitudes towards safety in the Auckland region found that 41% of those who participated … when Sue Lytollis began teaching self defence through the Auckland Young Women’s Christian Association. By 1992 more …
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Part of story: Security and personal safety
… stepfather became minister of Congregational churches in Auckland and Timaru. William worked in New Zealand as a … the New Zealand Regiment of Field Artillery Volunteers in Auckland in 1902 and rose to captain in 1909. He joined the … recommended new coastal and anti-aircraft guns for Auckland and Wellington; the acquisition of Vildebeeste …
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… Ernest Mervyn Taylor was born on 4 August 1906 in Auckland, the son of Emily Webber and her husband, Ernest … want him to be an artist. After a year in the third form at Auckland Grammar School (1921), he was apprenticed as an … Czechoslovakia and England. In New Zealand he exhibited in Auckland, Wellington and various provincial centres, and was …
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… by Ngāti Ira, was used to transport their produce to the Auckland market. Land sales and the confrontations that were … with people from other North Island tribes trading goods in Auckland. Hira Te Popo became a firm supporter of the King … Licensing District of Waioeka. In 1889 he became ill in Auckland and returned to Waioeka where he died early in …
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… persuaded football clubs to adopt the rugby rules in Auckland, South Canterbury and Otago, and they were … and facilitated popular attendance at these games – when Auckland played Christchurch in 1875 in Cranmer Square, … in 1872. The first national team chosen from Wellington, Auckland, Canterbury and Otago in 1884 for an eight-match …
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Part of story: Rugby union
… Zealand by the passenger ship Niagara , which docked in Auckland on 12 October 1918 full of influenza sufferers. … for Pākehā were in Southland, King Country, Wellington and Auckland. Auckland city had the largest Pākehā death toll at 1,128 …
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Part of story: Epidemics
… games. The elite boys’ schools such as Christ’s College and Auckland Grammar School devoted time to organised sport, … These schools were strongly committed to amateurism. Auckland Grammar alone provided at least one-third of all Auckland provincial representative cricketers before 1914. …
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Part of story: Sport and society