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… on holidays. A study of a group of dairies in Onehunga, Auckland, in the late 1970s found that none of the 14 dairy … found that 227 of the 269 dairies in central and suburban Auckland were owned by Indians. The New Zealand tradition of …
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Part of story: Food shops
… villages of Panmure, Onehunga, Ōtāhuhu and Howick, all in Auckland. These were occupied between 1847 and 1852 by about … and their families. The Fencibles were intended to defend Auckland against attack by ‘rebel’ Māori. They were called …
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Part of story: Veterans’ assistance
… a governor, but settlers wanted elections. In early 1840s Auckland the self-named ‘Radicals’ met at a place they … 12 city councils, 54 district and regional councils, and Auckland council (a unitary authority performing both …
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Part of story: Elections and campaigns
… capacity was 30,000 megavolt-amperes. Pole axed In 2008 the Auckland areas of North Shore City, Waitākere City and … also interrupts supply. In 1998 the four cables feeding Auckland’s central city district all failed, and for over a …
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Part of story: Energy supply and use
… manager for Chanel cosmetics in Seoul. Arriving in Auckland in the early 1990s, he opened a shop called The … the 2010s businesses began to serve the wider community. In Auckland, Korean greenhouses and market gardens were …
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Part of story: Koreans
… Whangarei, to participate in grand rounds and seminars at Auckland Hospital, and to study the emerging specialist area … 1986, Theo's health continued to deteriorate. She died in Auckland Hospital on 19 December 1980. Theo Hall's …
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… South Island, Stewart Island, Chatham, Campbell and Auckland islands heathlands on young volcanic materials – … and wire rush. The peat bog heathlands of the Chatham, Auckland and Campbell islands are dominated by Dracophyllum …
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Part of story: Shrublands
… Lost in fog During the Second World War, heavy fog over Auckland on the morning of 24 May 1942 served a double … plane. Pilot Susumo Ito regained his bearings only after Auckland Airport’s lights were turned on – probably in …
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Part of story: Weather
… because they cost less to run than steam trams. By the time Auckland established a service in 1884, horse trams were … steam tramways meant limited success for many operators. Auckland’s Tramway Company was insolvent by 1890 after …
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Part of story: Public transport
… Settling in When the first 66 Hungarians landed at Auckland’s airport in December 1956, Department of Labour … the refugees throughout New Zealand, most ended up in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Voluntary agencies …
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Part of story: Hungarians
… Kirk, a timber merchant's clerk. His family emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, on the Gertrude in 1863. Kirk attended St James' School, then Auckland Grammar School. Both he and his brother Harry, the …
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… the first Māori-studies subject was not introduced at Auckland University College until 1952, the University of … political awareness grew. Ngā Tamatoa (at the University of Auckland) and the Te Reo Māori Society (Victoria University …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… ranks. After completing training at Avondale racecourse in Auckland, the contingent sailed for Egypt in February 1915. … battalions. One was Wātene Moeke (who served with the Auckland Regiment as William Moeki), the first Māori …
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Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… end of 1952, followed by Meadowcourt in Papatoetoe, South Auckland in 1953 and Motel Rochester in Newmarket, Auckland, in 1954. Motels had major benefits for the New …
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Part of story: Hotels and motels
… practice. Nina was a competent student and was sent to Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, boarding with a local … would be in medicine. Nina passed medical intermediate at Auckland University College in 1921–22, then went to the …
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… Innovation Fund to build 10 houses on its papakāinga near Auckland airport. The development would provide affordable … unemployment and rising house prices (especially in Auckland) continued to be barriers to Māori home ownership. …
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Part of story: Māori housing – te noho whare
… distribution system. One pipeline carries aviation fuel to Auckland airport, and a 170-kilometre pipeline runs to the Wiri oil depot in South Auckland. Oil storage The Wiri terminal is the largest …
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Part of story: Energy supply and use
… Taihape School and at the Diocesan High School for Girls, Auckland. In 1921 she began medical studies at the … later as visiting plastic surgeons to Middlemore Hospital, Auckland. In 1939 the Pickerills established Bassam Hospital …
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… town was the part of the peninsula most accessible to Auckland and Hamilton, and after 1945 it was dotted with … on the eastern coast, which was easily reached from Auckland and Hamilton with the opening of the Kōpū–Hikuai …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… and services. The first Citizens Advice Bureau opened in Auckland in 1970, and others followed to form a nationwide … by the local government minister, Michael Bassett, a former Auckland city councillor. Only a majority vote by residents …
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Part of story: Local and regional government