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… focused on them. Colonial charity In March 1860 the Auckland Ladies’ Benevolent Society reported that it had … organised some of the earliest charities, including the Auckland Ladies’ Benevolent Society in 1857 and the Onehunga …
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Part of story: Voluntary welfare organisations
… Morgan Furniture (makers of La-Z-Boy chairs) closed its Auckland factory after 60 years and shifted its operations … Christchurch’s 2010 and 2011 earthquakes were a boon for Auckland furniture-makers. The demolition company Nikau …
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Part of story: Furniture
… McKenzie McNeill, a journalist. In 1913 the family moved to Auckland, where Alan became a land agent. They rented homes … Wink, the Twinkle Twins’, and other illustrations to the Auckland Star ’s children’s page. At 20, with Nora Spence, a …
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… then from 1911 at Queen Victoria School for Māori Girls in Auckland. As a young woman, Mere embarked on her musical … Māori Opera Company production of Hinemoa , which opened in Auckland on 2 August 1915 and went on to tour the North …
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… The Equity Women’s Caucus, with branches in Wellington and Auckland, was set up in 1984 by female members of Equity, … art movement shifted from Christchurch to Wellington to Auckland. Spirituality The women’s spirituality movement was …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… night at the Garrison Hall. Performers travelled from Auckland and Christchurch and there was a chorus of 150 and … all over the country. A large competition was held in Auckland in 1911, with a prize pool of £500. In 1912 the …
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Part of story: Arts festivals
… family dairy farm near Tauranga. The couple were married at Auckland on 5 May 1928, and Rena joined William on the farm; … establishing 12 women’s sections within the party’s South Auckland (later Waikato) Division. A dominion councillor for …
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… Kaipara Harbour, although William subsequently shifted to Auckland. In 1903 Ellen, 39 years old and unmarried, sailed … they remained in touch in New Zealand. After arriving in Auckland, Ellen visited her brother Frank at Pahi in January …
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… In 1890 the Jubilee Institute for the Blind was opened in Auckland. It was a residential home built and maintained by … with severe disabilities operated in Wellington and Auckland. A number of returned soldiers suffering from shell …
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Part of story: Disability and disability organisations
… Carran’s second term in Wellington ended with a transfer to Auckland on promotion to sub-inspector in June 1948, … rank of chief superintendent. He then took charge of the Auckland district, and was made an MBE in June. The early …
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… New Zealand cities have always been small – in 1950 only Auckland had more than a quarter of a million people, and … to play in them at the weekends. In the later 20th century, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch city councils each …
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Part of story: Culture and recreation in the city
… ships, gave their names to streets in Lyttelton. The Auckland immigrant ship Bombay gave its name to a … and has now come to symbolise the notional division between Auckland and the rest of New Zealand as in, ‘You won’t find …
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Part of story: Place names
… main cities, a strong community evolved, particularly in Auckland. There are many restaurants and cafés, and various … in Upper Hutt was serving the Wellington community while in Auckland the Vietnamese Buddhist Association operated out of …
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Part of story: Vietnamese
… North and South Kaipara peninsulas, Awhitū peninsula), Auckland’s west coast (Manukau Heads), Waikato (Aotea and … or no inputs of new sand. For instance, at Pākiri Beach on Auckland’s east coast, coastal erosion and storm waves shift …
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Part of story: Dune lands
… in Dunedin (1911) Gerald Jones’s Hanna House in Remuera, Auckland (1915) William Gummer’s Tauroa Homestead in … cinema magnate Sir Robert Kerridge Cintra Flats in central Auckland (1936), by Horace Massey Anscombe Flats in …
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Part of story: Domestic architecture
… set themselves up as shopkeepers. Retail activity arose in Auckland around 1841, centred on Commercial Bay (today the … confectioners in the colony. In the late 1800s, shoppers in Auckland or Dunedin could buy many of the same products sold …
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Part of story: Shops
… magazines like The Sketcher and The Free Lance . In 1922 Auckland returned serviceman George Finey led a bohemian … such as T he T ee Wee s ’ a dventures by D. Price, for the Auckland Star ’s ‘Star Twinkles’ children’s pages in 1931 …
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Part of story: Comics and graphic novels
… were lost in total, across a range of industries. In 1992, Auckland fishing company Sanford bought Wanganui Seafoods … computer centre was sold and its operations shifted to Auckland in 1995; 120 jobs were lost. Further job losses …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… itself. By the 1950s there were a number of Māori clubs in Auckland, as well as the Tūrangawaewae league club in … Ratana Cup, Ngahoe Challenge Shield and Omeka Cup North Auckland – Hone Heke Cup and Ratana Challenge Cup Whanganui …
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Part of story: Māori rugby – whutupaoro
… was Josiah Clifton Firth’s Eight Hours Roller Flour Mill on Auckland’s Quay St, which opened in 1888. Firth had been to … four-storey Northern Roller Milling Company building in Auckland’s Fort Street was a major architectural feature of …
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Part of story: Agricultural processing industries