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… merriment of crowded audiences.’ 3 When Thatcher arrived in Auckland he found an open drain running down the main … the residents with a new composition entitled ‘Beautiful Auckland’: Auckland, town of shams and swells Drains and mud and horrid …
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Part of story: Humour
… Quay. The Ark soon became a centre for Wellington trade. Auckland the capital Wakefield had hoped to make Wellington … but in 1840 Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson chose Auckland instead. Hobson also began looking into the New … town’s survival. In 1865 the capital was finally moved from Auckland to Wellington. Only then did the city have a …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… friend, Major General John Brocklehurst. Hawke’s Bay and Auckland At this time, Sir William Russell, John Ormond and … Desert Gold, was born at Okawa Stud, Hawke’s Bay, in 1912. Auckland had also become an important centre, with … 1880s Australians were buying young horses at sales in Auckland – the forerunner of a lasting trend. In 1927 the …
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Part of story: Horse and greyhound racing
… College in Hawke’s Bay. After leaving college he moved to Auckland, where he worked variously as a labourer and clerk. … career he became a coach and selector. About 1931, in Auckland, Wātene married Phyllis May Rukutai, a Tainui woman … establish the Māori Community Centre in Fanshawe Street, Auckland, a forerunner of modern urban marae. During the …
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… around a mentor (such as Frank Sargeson in mid-20th-century Auckland), sometimes simply meeting in pubs. Writers … and C. K. Stead, Witi Ihimaera and Albert Wendt at Auckland University. Catton was also a graduate of the … at first mostly focused on poetry, at the University of Auckland (from 1984) and a six-month full-time fiction …
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Part of story: Arts education and training
… Brigade. In mid 1931 he agreed to become a partner in the Auckland law firm Russell, McVeagh, Bagnall and Macky, which … military duties. Barrowclough soon became prominent in the Auckland legal fraternity. In 1936 he was one of the main … its fortunes, but although a highly respected member of the Auckland legal fraternity, he did not enjoy a particularly …
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… quartet, the Tumbleweeds. Noel Peach’s Astor Studio in Auckland’s Shortland Street also began to record artists for … Stebbings Studio Another local record label was formed by Aucklander Eldred Stebbing who, since 1945, had been …
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Part of story: Recording companies and studios
… landed on Raoul Island on 31 December 1907 and returned to Auckland on 16 November 1908. The breadth of the … in November–December 1910. After being transferred to Auckland in 1912, he concentrated on the local botany, … working with the Customs Department and was stationed in Auckland. There, on 7 September 1920, he married Isabella …
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… set off for New Zealand on the Carnatic. The ship reached Auckland on 27 December. William Clare took up land in the … over land had led to conflict in Taranaki, and farms near Auckland came under attack. The Clare homestead was … No 5 Division was disbanded after a mutiny. Roberts went to Auckland to recruit replacements and returned with them to …
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… War protesters staged a noisy sit-in outside his Auckland hotel until they were violently removed by police … had compulsorily purchased at Takaparawhā (Bastion Point), Auckland. The protesters wanted the land given back to the … New Zealand supporters set up camps in public spaces in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. The movement began in the …
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Part of story: Public protest
… on the prospects for German emigration. Haast reached Auckland on 21 December 1858, the day before the Austrian … arrived, carrying German geologist Ferdinand Hochstetter . Auckland’s provincial government commissioned Hochstetter to …
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… another Hokianga trader, and John Logan Campbell , the Auckland merchant and trader. Such men saw him as a very … children were plotting to kill him, he fled from Ōnoke to Auckland, leaving his youngest daughter, Susan, who was an …
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… first motor vehicles. It was another two years before Aucklanders saw their first car. Extinct cars A 1912 car … age of mass motoring was symbolised by the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge in 1959. New car registrations …
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Part of story: Cars and the motor industry
… high air pollution levels. Pollution typically occurs in Auckland, with its heavy traffic, and Christchurch, which … the emissions from New Zealand’s vehicles. A campaign in Auckland in 2003 used roadside sensors to measure emissions …
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Part of story: Atmosphere
… for arthritis. They were married on 12 December 1922 in Auckland and went to Rawhiti to live on a farm owned by … health, they gave up farming and moved to Remuera, Auckland, in the late 1920s. Around 1930 Norman was …
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… priest, was involved in founding the Peace Squadron in Auckland to oppose nuclear ship visits. This protest … 1981 Springbok rugby tour. St Matthew’s Anglican Church in Auckland provided a venue for anti-tour meetings, and the …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… with the Pacific Islands. Exports and imports In the 1880s Auckland dominated trade to and from the Pacific Islands. … nature to be future Queen of the Pacific,’ 2 claimed MP for Auckland East (and former governor and premier of New …
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Part of story: Pacific Islands and New Zealand
… in Lower Hutt and Times Printing Works in Newton, Auckland. Comics were popular and demand outstripped supply. … Times printed a series of locally created publications by Auckland artist and entrepreneur H. W. (Harry) Bennett. …
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Part of story: Comics and graphic novels
… provincial government. All the money was expended in Auckland and outlying districts were neglected, he … of government. The capital was transferred from Auckland to Wellington in 1865 and 10 years later the …
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Part of story: Self-government and independence
… Dick Frizzell. Increasingly, advertising agencies moved to Auckland, following their markets. Even in the early 1970s, 44 of the 90 agencies were there. Auckland agencies concentrated on fast-moving consumer goods …
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Part of story: Advertising