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… Silver Fern and the Zeddie (Z-class) remained popular. In Auckland, the glamour classes were the racing 18-footers, … classes, especially the 12-foot Pennant class in Auckland, the 12-foot 9-inch R-Class in Canterbury and the 18-foot V-Class in Auckland. The Moth class also eventually attracted a large …
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Part of story: Sailing and windsurfing
… emigrated to New Zealand on the Jane Gifford , arriving in Auckland on 9 October 1842. The Russells lived in Mechanics … of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, established in Auckland in 1885. She quickly became a key member of the WCTU and the Auckland branch of the Women's Franchise League, formed in …
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… Born at Mount Eden, Auckland, on 15 February 1883, Eunice Harriett Garlick … an accomplished violinist and played with Whitelaw in Auckland's Bohemian Orchestra. But her principal interest …
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… Ada Chadwick was born at Paparoa, North Auckland, New Zealand, on 13 September 1867, the sixth child … family had emigrated from Lancashire, England, arriving in Auckland on the Gala in December 1865. John Chadwick took up … youth at Kaipara and had a fund of stories about well-known Aucklanders, which she told in a forthright voice, vibrant …
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… sons sought refugee status in New Zealand. They arrived in Auckland in April 1952. The tall, thin, silver-haired German … Kohn Prize for excellence in the applied arts by the Auckland Society of Arts. Soon she was invited to establish a studio at the Auckland City Art Gallery. From her studio in the gallery …
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… New Zealand, in early 1906. That year on 20 June, in Auckland, Robertson married Emmeline Constance Maxwell … medical superintendent at Waihi Hospital. He then moved to Auckland where he set up in private practice and was … Gulf and in 1956 donated £600 to be used for research on Auckland's offshore islands. His wife, Constance, died in …
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… other things, he wanted a group of 32 full-time players in Auckland performing as the ‘Auckland Little Symphony Orchestra’ and another group of 12 … issues The 1973 Hopkins report suggested that his proposed ‘Auckland Little Symphony Orchestra’ should be administered …
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Part of story: Orchestras
… rainfall is 2,000 mm – compared with 1,268 in central Auckland. Felling frenzy Between 1840 and 1940, 23 timber … the Waitākere area became a major water catchment area for Auckland, with the first small dam built in 1902. From 1894 … made the Centennial Memorial Park, marking the centenary of Auckland’s founding. Today the Waitākere Ranges Regional …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… Albert Edward Cooke was born in Auckland on 5 October 1901, one of four sons and three … He played rugby league, but after being transferred to Auckland he joined the Grafton rugby union club. As a player … in the club's third-grade team, he was sighted by the Auckland selector, V. R. Meredith, and chosen for Auckland …
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… independence. Esther won a scholarship to grammar school in Auckland; her mark of 98 per cent in art was, she claimed, … the highest in the country. She was later articled to an Auckland architect for three years. She married Leslie … Harrison Haysom, an architect, in the registry office at Auckland on 30 August 1924; there was a church wedding at …
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… (A pencil self-portrait done in Florence is in the Auckland City Art Gallery collection.) He was in Paris again … in England. By the time Steele came in search of health to Auckland, New Zealand, about 1886, he was moderately well … in magazines such as the Portfolio and the Art Journal . In Auckland he set up a studio in the Victoria Arcade in …
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… where his father had bought land at West Tāmaki, near Auckland. Two brothers had preceded him, and by 1851 Allan … but it remained an unusually large holding so close to Auckland city. In 1850 Taylor set out for California only to … birth of a second child, who also died. On 6 June 1865 at Auckland, Taylor married Sophia Louisa Davis . They were to …
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… and Maori, and rum to sailors. The next year he moved to Auckland where he bought for £266 a quarter acre allotment … bought out the interest of Crummer's sons for £11,000. When Auckland grew rapidly in the 1870s Surrey Hills estate … his financial position. Williamson was undone not by Auckland's commercial recession in the 1880s but by the …
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… 2006 census: 342 2013 census: 498 Major regional locations Auckland: 312 Waikato: 78 Ngāti Pāoa 1991 census: 1,695 2001 … census: 3,375 2013 census: 3,456 Major regional locations Auckland: 1,440 Waikato: 966 Ngāti Whātua 1901 census: 356 … census: 14,721 2013 census: 14,784 Major regional locations Auckland: 7,353 Northland: 3,120 Te Kawerau-a-Maki 2001 …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… to reach into Northland. His flight of 233 kilometres from Auckland to Russell in 1919 was a record distance for the … Woods, also from the school, made the first flight from Auckland to Hamilton. Continuing on a joyriding tour of the … flying a floatplane, achieved the first one-day flight from Auckland to Wellington, via Kāwhia and Whanganui. This feat …
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Part of story: Aviation
… 2013 census: 1,113 Major regional locations Northland: 495 Auckland: 369 Ngāti Kahu 1991 census: 4,275 2001 census: … census: 8,313 2013 census: 8,580 Major regional locations Auckland: 3,747 Northland: 2,733 Ngāti Kurī 1991 census: … census: 5,757 2013 census: 6,492 Major regional locations Auckland: 2,781 Northland: 2,040 Te Aupōuri 1991 census: …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… Karaka Rural centre 40 km south of central Auckland on the eastern foreshore of Manukau Harbour. It … Karaka Bloodstock Sales Complex. In recent years wealthy Aucklanders have established lifestyle blocks in the …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… Auckland In 2018 around half of New Zealand’s South Africans were living in Auckland. Much smaller numbers lived in Wellington, Hamilton … I think that New Zealand offers South Africans a lot.’ 1 Auckland’s appeal included its jobs, mild climate and …
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Part of story: South Africans
… After George Douglas died in 1929, the family moved to the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn. Norm spent a year studying … at the 1ZB ‘Friendly Road’ radio broadcasting studio in Auckland. The couple were to have three sons and a daughter. … Party’s Grey Lynn branch. That year he was elected to the Auckland City Council on the victorious Labour ticket. …
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… an old men’s home in Te Kopuru until the family moved to Auckland in the early 1930s. A lonely youth, Smithyman read voraciously. He went to various Auckland schools, including Point Chevalier (where Keith … friend) and Seddon Memorial Technical College. He attended Auckland Training College in 1940–41 and published his first …
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