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… gift assisted Ngāti Porou in their coastal trading with Auckland markets. Ngāti Hei Ngāti Hei are descendants of …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… Early canoes The Tāmaki (Auckland) isthmus is associated with many of the canoes that …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… pigs were reared and flax was dressed and sent to the Auckland market and beyond. Ngāti Maniapoto also owned the …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… Warrior The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland Harbour on 10 July 1985 by French saboteurs. The …
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Part of story: Shipwrecks
… They are found in two areas of the North Island (near Auckland and in Wellington Harbour), and around much of the …
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Part of story: Shags
… officer in Whanganui (from 1953), Rotorua (from 1958) and Auckland (from 1959). Awatere was known to spend his own … work and to give clothes or money to those in need. In Auckland he led a haka team, Maranga, and a choral group, … to Samoa and the Cook Islands. He was elected to the Auckland City Council in 1962, serving until 1969. In 1963 …
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… also as registrar) early in 1886, and moved to Ponsonby, Auckland, where he established a medical practice. Until 1888 he was also a physician at Auckland Hospital. He revived his military connections, and … to the Retired List in 1905 was brigade surgeon to the Auckland Volunteer Militia. By then he was living at …
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… the course. Early regattas were raced on harbours (such as Auckland and Lyttelton) and lakes (such as Pupuke on Auckland’s North Shore), and along relatively straight … when about 100 women rowed and there was one women’s club, Auckland University. In 2008–9 there were just over 2,000 …
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Part of story: Rowing
… of chiefly Māori at a ball at Government House in Auckland, probably in the 1850s. The women, who wore the … forms were relatively easy to learn. Suppressing fun When Auckland justices of the peace gathered for an annual … for them. Police attempts to suppress music and dancing in Auckland’s pubs were failing. With the permission of a …
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Part of story: Dancing
… of poets and poetries prospering elsewhere. For some time Auckland had a group interested in postmodern and American … included Circadian Rhythm in Dunedin and Poetry Live in Auckland. Poets were well-represented at literary festivals. …
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Part of story: Poetry
… Zealand Monthly Magazine , which produced three issues in Auckland in 1862. Hurdles to success In noting the arrival … More successful was the Southern Monthly Magazine , another Auckland initiative that began in 1863 and ran for three … weeklies Canterbury Punch (1865), Otago Punch (1866–67) and Auckland Punch (1868–69). Their cartoons sent up local …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… motor-sport events. The New Zealand Motor Cup, run by the Auckland Automobile Association on Muriwai Beach in 1921, … it was held at the 3.2-kilometre Ardmore airfield in Auckland. The winner’s average speed was more than 116 … win the Formula One World Championship title. Bruce McLaren Aucklander Bruce McLaren brought New Zealand motor racing to …
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Part of story: Motor sport
… Hotel in Wellington, as a domestic at Wesley College in Auckland, and as a cook in a military camp on Waiheke … first exhibited in 1965 at An Exhibition of Crafts at the Auckland Institute and Museum. In 1969 Rangimārie exhibited … was represented in exhibitions at Te Taumata Art Gallery in Auckland and, in 1994, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa …
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… (aimed at raising housing densities), particularly in Auckland. Multiple meanings A town house is often … when entrepreneurs began constructing flats in inner-city Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch for those who viewed … government built several blocks of state rental flats in Auckland and Wellington before returning to low-density, …
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Part of story: Housing
… senior director of Innes Industries in 1961 and moved to Auckland. Soon afterwards Innes Industries amalgamated with … beer in New Zealand. He then converted the Albion Hotel in Auckland into a replica of an English pub. Harold Innes was … small farm at Kumeu. By 1981 he had moved to Rothesay Bay, Auckland, where he became a member of the East Coast Bays …
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… brought the game to New Zealand in the early 1860s. Auckland Bowling Club was formed in 1861 and opened the … North Island clubs and Nelson and Marlborough. In 1895 Auckland clubs split from the association and created the Auckland Provincial Bowling Association. In 1913 growing …
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Part of story: Bowls, pétanque and tenpin
… as English language, romance languages and anthropology. Auckland University At Auckland University, where linguistics first emerged as a … between the languages in the Malayo-Polynesian branch. Auckland University linguists, led by Bruce Biggs, have made …
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Part of story: Linguistics
… untranslated, and at the debut production at the 1972 Auckland Festival, ‘the Maori actors, once the Maori … stage in the 1990s. Two companies, Pacific Theatre in Auckland under the direction of Justine Simei-Barton, and … Dianna Fuemana’s portrayal of working-class life in West Auckland, The p acker (2003), and Nina Nawalowalo’s Masi …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… For the next five years he was senior science master at Auckland College and Grammar School and during this time completed a thesis on the Auckland volcanic field, for which he was awarded a DSc in 1900. On 19 January 1900 he married Ruth Mary Dudley at Auckland. In 1901 Marshall was appointed lecturer in geology …
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… 1841 and reappointed in November 1841. Martin arrived in Auckland in January 1842 having been appointed editor of the New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette on a two year contract and 'a fair salary'. … since 1839, the country and its climate, colonial and Auckland society, Maori customs and health problems, the New …
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