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… Robert Edward Stott, a butcher, was born in Birkenhead, Auckland, on 23 October 1914. He was educated at Northcote … He returned to New Zealand in May 1944, and on 10 June, in Auckland, married his childhood sweetheart, Mary Kathleen …
Type: Biography
… plans to replace exotic trees with native species along Auckland’s Queen St created uproar. Critics declared the … stating the natives would give the street a ‘distinctly Auckland’ flavour. The felling proceeded and a group of 47 …
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Part of story: City public spaces
… Suckling, an optician and fellow Brethren. They settled in Auckland, but in 1918 moved to Wellington where eventually … on the Continent. She returned to New Zealand to retire in Auckland, where she died on 20 June 1990, survived by four …
Type: Biography
… early leaders had to rent houses when Parliament sat at Auckland. In 1865, when the seat of government moved to … Massey memorials in Wellington and the Savage memorial in Auckland. …
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Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… and becalmed, was washed into a cavern on the west side of Auckland Island where it sank. Teer was among the 15 … extended to his companions. By 16 March he was back in the Auckland Islands advising a group hoping to salvage the …
Type: Biography
… The regional theatres Downstage (in Wellington), Mercury (Auckland) and the Court (Christchurch) tried to create … leaner theatre groups arose, such as Theatre Corporate in Auckland, Circa in Wellington and Free Theatre in …
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Part of story: Actors and acting
… filthy back slums of an English town’. 1 In the same year Auckland’s Herald attacked ‘those abominable nests of … disease. In a 1903 investigation of slum housing in central Auckland, a reporter described the ideal living situation: …
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Part of story: Suburbs
… an event in its own right. The Les Mills triathlon in Auckland in 1979 may have been New Zealand’s first. Soon … The first Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon at St Heliers, Auckland, in 1992 attracted about 500 participants. In 2013 …
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Part of story: Triathlon and multisport
… output of the eight universities is unevenly spread. Auckland and Otago, the two largest, are responsible for … and environmental development of cities. The University of Auckland’s Woolf Fisher Research Centre developed models to …
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Part of story: Research institutions
… to the 1910s, sawmilling was the biggest employer in the Auckland province. Many sea-going ships and coastal scows, … 3,000 dams were built, mostly in the Waitākere Ranges (Auckland) and the Hokianga, and on the Coromandel Peninsula. …
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Part of story: Kauri forest
… 1912. In 1913 he was one of the farmers who travelled to Auckland to break the waterfront strike. In October 1914 he went to Egypt as a platoon commander with the Auckland Battalion to join the New Zealand Expeditionary …
Type: Biography
… site in 1839, but the first Europeans fled to Auckland for a time during the 1840s when war broke out in … centres. It was 1925 when the railway was put through to Auckland, and an all-weather road was not completed until …
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Part of story: Northland places
… school Elsie worked for John Court Limited in Queen Street, Auckland. She married Robert Caldwell Wilkie, a farmer from … Classic Women’s International bowls tournament held in Auckland in 1985. She was a member of the Matamata Women’s …
Type: Biography
… back in Germany, they settled in New Zealand, marrying in Auckland on 14 May 1910; they were to have three daughters … a period when wine production was largely confined to west Auckland and Hawke's Bay, Wohnsiedler pioneered commercial …
Type: Biography
… the case was lost by the Gannons. In 1893 they moved to Auckland, where Michael Gannon worked as a mining agent and … Gannon; she died at her daughter's house in Remuera, Auckland, on 4 February 1913. She is remembered as a woman …
Type: Biography
… Edmund Percival Hillary, born on 20 July 1919 at Auckland, was the second of three children of Percival … née Clark. The family lived in Tūākau, in rural South Auckland. Percy Hillary founded and edited the Tuakau … After attending Tūākau Primary School Edmund went to Auckland Grammar School. Small and shy with a poor …
Type: Biography
… Early life and education David Lange was born in Ōtāhuhu, Auckland, on 4 August 1942. A fourth-generation New … Ōtāhuhu College, Lange enrolled at the University of Auckland and worked several vacations at the Westfield … law practice at Kaikohe for a short time but moved back to Auckland at the end of 1969. He enrolled again at the …
Type: Biography
… had sold to the Crown 9,500 acres of what was to become Auckland's North Shore, but Patuone continued to live at Te … only a marginal part in the northern war of the 1840s. In Auckland, in May 1845, he was a member of a deputation which … But the next year Patuone was arrested in the streets of Auckland by the police magistrate, Thomas Beckham, to be …
Type: Biography
… around New Zealand. The teaching of the Polish language at Auckland University is supported by the community and the …
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Part of story: Poles
… Anglican, Catholic and Presbyterian. In all regions except Auckland and Otago–Southland, Anglicans are the largest …
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Part of story: Society