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… a company that dominated the textile industry in Otago. In Auckland, John Logan Campbell and William Brown were the … Henry Niccol and George Fraser were prominent in Auckland’s shipbuilding industry. In Christchurch, John …
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Part of story: Scots
… in 1843), Bands of Hope aimed at young people (first in Auckland in 1859), Sons and Daughters of Temperance (1871) … Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) began operating in Auckland in 1855. In 1878 an equivalent body, the Young …
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Part of story: Interdenominational Christianity
… to an audience of 5 million people. The game at Eden Park, Auckland, was covered by 14 cameras, directed by Michael Scott of Auckland. 2011 Rugby World Cup By 2011 the world of TV had …
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Part of story: Sports reporting and commentating
… drivers and others were on strike, mostly in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. This was an opportunity for … marched through Wellington and reopened the wharves. In Auckland, when ‘Massey’s Cossacks’ marched down Queen Street …
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Part of story: Strikes and labour disputes
… even by the Labour government. In 1948 a go-slow by Auckland carpenters gained higher rates of pay, but another … resulted in a lockout. Within days all building work in the Auckland area came to a standstill. The government backed …
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Part of story: Strikes and labour disputes
… Island Marine Reserve), and the site of the University of Auckland’s marine research laboratory. The reserve lies … 2013 population: 3,909 Picturesque township 69 km north of Auckland and 15 km up the Mahurangi River, beside Puhinui …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… After attending St John's College and, from July 1871, Auckland Grammar School, Williams in 1873 became a junior … and was a member of the Combined Clerical Pension Board of Auckland, Waiapu and Melanesia. His recreations included …
Type: Biography
… Harold Wilfred Youren was born in Auckland on 23 April 1910 to Mary Philpott Pitcher and her … He then attended Victoria University College and Auckland University College, gaining a Senior Scholarship in …
Type: Biography
… in a nursing home and he was later fostered by a family in Auckland. Hyde was saved from penury by the offer of a job as lady editor of the New Zealand Observer , a popular Auckland weekly edited by Gordon McLean. Under various … Hyde presented a petition on their behalf to the mayor of Auckland. Also during that time she met Douglas Stark, …
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… around Kaikohe, and later in the Freemans Bay area of Auckland. Later still, they lived in Avondale, Panmure and … Tuwhare married Jean Agnes McCormack on 13 January 1949 at Auckland. They moved to Wellington immediately after their … In 1964 Tuwhare and his family moved to Birkenhead on Auckland’s North Shore, and Tuwhare took employment at the …
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… following year he was employed as a junior reporter on the Auckland Star , where he stayed until 1902. This literary … interviewing Robert Louis Stevenson when the writer visited Auckland in 1893. Cowan married Eunice Lililia Nicholas in …
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… in the mid-1930s and had established her own studio in Auckland when she starred in Rudall Hayward ’s landmark film … daughter to Queen Victoria College for Maori Girls in Auckland. During that year Ramai thrived artistically, not … her pride in her Māoritanga. In 1937 or 1938 Ramai moved to Auckland, where she used a small inheritance to open a …
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… a successful academic career in the English Department at Auckland University College (later the University of Auckland), from 1954 until his retirement as associate … never produced another work of fiction. Pearson’s time in Auckland was punctuated by a three-year period as Senior …
Type: Biography
… Road rage In 1848 several hundred Māori road-builders in Auckland went on strike when they learned they would be paid …
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Part of story: Strikes and labour disputes
… the Swiss sausages cervelat, wienerli and bratwurst in Auckland in 1982. Other walks of life Specialised industries …
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Part of story: Swiss
… mainly raise their plants in greenhouses and are based in Auckland, Pukekohe, Northland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, …
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Part of story: Market gardens and production nurseries
… created: Grasslands in Palmerston North Plant Diseases in Auckland Entomology, attached to the Cawthron Institute in …
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Part of story: Agricultural and horticultural research
… reduced this group to seven: Allied Farmers’ Co-operative (Auckland and Waikato); Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation …
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Part of story: Stock and station agencies
… regions, Māori own less freehold land per head in the Auckland region than anywhere in New Zealand. By 1860 some …
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Part of story: Whangārei tribes
… the canoe arrived. In another account, he left the canoe in Auckland after his request to marry Kahurere, daughter of …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration