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… in its sixth edition in 1978. Ellen Hewett died in Auckland on 14 February 1926 and was buried at Purewa cemetery, Auckland. The popularity of Looking back is understandable …
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… and supplied fresh produce to the developing settlements of Auckland, Wellington and Nelson. European settlers … market gardening land in the Māngere and Panmure areas of Auckland, and parts of Marshlands in Canterbury, were lost …
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Part of story: Market gardens and production nurseries
… to New Zealand. He arrived on the barque William Watson at Auckland on 8 February 1859. After travelling by coastal … at Port Ahuriri. Holt was selling kauri imported from Auckland as well as rimu, totara and kahikatea. These woods …
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… advertisements often stressed the presence of fire escapes. Auckland’s first hotel was the Royal, whose brief life from … political meetings. In 1843 the hotel was the venue for Auckland’s first theatrical performance – at that time …
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Part of story: Hotels and motels
… New Zealand examined inner-city apartment living in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The comparison group … apartments grew 240%, from 2,532 to 8,607. The number in Auckland quadrupled, and that in Wellington tripled. It …
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Part of story: Inner-city living
… to New Zealand about 1883, Jickell was employed in Auckland on the building of the Calliope graving dock and on … his own account, assembling two passenger ferries for the Auckland and North Shore Steam Ferry Company. He moved to …
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… Jackson Keddell. When the railway reached Hamilton from Auckland in 1877 Thomas donated land for the railway line … at Windermere with his daughter Frances. He died in Auckland on 18 February 1943, survived by four daughters and …
Type: Biography
… Michael Kelly, was rector. James Liston, later bishop of Auckland, was a classmate. During his residence of seven … strife became so bitter that Henry Cleary, bishop of Auckland, founded the Month in 1918 as a moderate rival to …
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… in Hawke’s Bay, with other blocks in Wellington, Taranaki, Auckland, and parts of Northland. Increasing pressure for … Bluff to north of Christchurch. In the North Island, the Auckland–Hamilton line had been completed, and there were …
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Part of story: Government and agriculture
… he was promoted to manage the Oriental Bank's branch in Auckland. Larkworthy had not been long in Auckland when the Oriental Bank decided to withdraw from New …
Type: Biography
… the country around Ōngarue, north of Taumarunui. As the Auckland–Wellington express approached near dawn on 6 July, … said he signalled the driver of the north-bound Wellington–Auckland express before it reached the damaged bridge. …
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Part of story: Railway accidents
… near Kororāreka (present-day Russell), but moved south to Auckland in 1841. Much of the north’s shipping and trade … 1846. Many of the settlers who had been evacuated to Auckland stayed there. Loss of land The government …
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Part of story: Northland region
… was one of five New Zealand watercolourists shown by the Auckland City Art Gallery in 1959, and in the same year a … The strongest holdings are in the Hawke's Bay, Dunedin and Auckland art galleries, and in the Museum of New Zealand Te …
Type: Biography
… guidance in New Zealand: first in Dunedin, then in Auckland during 1936, when he was a lecturer in education at Auckland University College. It was primarily to develop a …
Type: Biography
… of a distinguished group: Alice Minchin, librarian of Auckland University College; Clifford Collins, subsequently … the death of his wife, Edith, in 1976, Miller moved to Auckland, where he died at Selwyn Village on 4 March 1989, …
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… Born at Auckland on 2 June 1915, James Carl Newhook was the eldest … Germany. He completed his secondary school education at Auckland Grammar School in 1931. He worked for a short …
Type: Biography
… natural harbours; cities and towns like Whangārei, Auckland, Tauranga, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin … its kauri timber and gum and shipped them to large ports at Auckland (Waitematā Harbour) and Onehunga (Manukau Harbour). …
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Part of story: Estuaries
… by 43% between 1951 and 1961. The Holeproof factory in Auckland, set up in 1938, had 1,000 staff employed in … factory employment was based there, of which 30% was in the Auckland area. …
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Part of story: Factory industries
… Greta Barbara Stevenson was born on 10 June 1911 in Auckland, the eldest of four children of William Stevenson, … his wife, Grace Mary Scott. In 1914 the family moved from Auckland to Dunedin, where Greta's father became managing …
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… were completed in Dunedin in 1908, Wellington in 1899 and Auckland in 1914. Christchurch’s system was finished first, … be the last place that had a night cart – in 1986. Even in Auckland, the country’s largest city, a few isolated houses …
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Part of story: Sewage, water and waste