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… initially served as a curate in the cathedral parish in Auckland. He was also engaged as secretary to Bishop Henry … to Australia, he was consecrated in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland, on 19 October 1947 by Cardinal Norman Gilroy, … action when required: walking home late one night in Auckland, he buttoned his overcoat over his clerical collar …
Type: Biography
… obtained his licentiate in theology from St John’s College, Auckland, becoming its first Māori graduate. He was ordained … Māori missioner in 1930, and the first Māori missioner at Auckland in 1932. When his term began the Māori population in and around Auckland was insignificant. However, as Māori urbanisation …
Type: Biography
… a temporary appointment as a draughtsman and computer in Auckland; he became a member of the permanent staff in September 1920. In Auckland on 4 April 1922 he married Rhoda Winifred Tūruki … the Native Department asked for a surveyor to work on the Auckland land consolidation schemes. Rōpiha was nominated …
Type: Biography
… offered on the Coromandel goldfield. He arrived at Auckland aboard the barque Benjamin Heape on 10 March 1862. … came a temporary lull in hostilities and he returned to Auckland, where he remained during 1866 and 1867. In August … of land at Harapēpē and Pirongia for his services. While in Auckland he wrote 'Memoranda of the New Zealand campaign', …
Type: Biography
… that of its rival. Over the next decade Belcher, Young and Auckland secretary J. K. (Jack) Kneen built the FSU into one … he attempted to bring seamen into the UFL. However, the Auckland and Dunedin branches feared the consequences of … settlement of the dispute, but, faced with the prospect of Auckland and Dunedin seamen returning to work regardless, …
Type: Biography
… policemen to reach commissioned rank, was born at Auckland on 22 May 1870, the son of Charles Gustav Broberg, … at Dunedin. In 1917 he transferred at the same rank to Auckland. The following year the commissioner of police, …
Type: Biography
… The company built smaller assembly plants in Parnell (Auckland) and Timaru. In 1936 Ford built a new factory in … founded in 1912 by Charles Norwood. It built a factory in Auckland in 1935. George H. Scott became the official …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cars and the motor industry
… are grown in Marlborough. Competition for land North Auckland growers once supplied the Auckland market with peaches and plums, but urban sprawl has …
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Part of story: Stone fruit and the summerfruit industry
… of horticultural volumes. On 20 March 1930 Cook married, in Auckland, Claire Leyland Bourne, who left her job as assistant librarian at Auckland University College to settle at Eastwoodhill. In …
Type: Biography
… gathered at Newtown Park in Wellington or the Domain in Auckland for gymnastics and athletics. If the figures for … Green Ray . In 1922 Bishop James Liston went on trial in Auckland for alleged sedition in his St Patrick’s Day …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Irish
… Educated at Wesley College and St John's College, Auckland, he had intended to follow his father's profession … In 1870, however, after his father's death, he entered the Auckland inspector's office of the Bank of New Zealand. Davy …
Type: Biography
… major electrification project. The conversion of the Auckland suburban network (then served by diesel-hauled … Island main trunk line from 1972 to 1991, and then between Auckland, Rotorua and Bay of Plenty until 2001. …
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Part of story: Railways
… Razza the rat In 2004 James Russell’s team of University of Auckland scientists released a single male Norway rat, … James Russell and Mick Clout led a group of University of Auckland scientists investigating the exploratory behaviour …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Life sciences
… New Zealand girlfriends. Pioneering fashion designers Three Auckland fashion houses are credited as the founders of … world of fashion. Bobby Angus Bobby Angus opened a shop in Auckland in 1948 and made a diverse array of garments. Her …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Fashion and textile design
… schooling at Wellington College in 1911. By 1917 he was in Auckland, where he took flying lessons at the Walsh … On 19 April 1922 he married Selina Isobel Wilkie in Auckland; they were to have two daughters and a son (who …
Type: Biography
… Slains Castle on 25 January 1841. They settled at Epsom, Auckland, where Robert became the innkeeper of the One Tree … support from influential members of the community and the Auckland Provincial Council, one of whom denounced Grey's …
Type: Biography
… ships and castaways (on Three Kings, Great Barrier and Auckland islands, and on Arapawa Island in the Marlborough … goats, which produce mohair fibre, were introduced by the Auckland, Canterbury and Otago acclimatisation societies in …
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Part of story: Goats and goat farming
… with his two eldest sons; the younger boys remained in Auckland. Grigg established a furnishing and upholstery … 1874. Grigg's third marriage was to Mary Jane Henderson, at Auckland on 6 July 1887; they had two daughters and two …
Type: Biography
… among children after a dinner for military pensioners in Auckland in October 1847. Football of some sort was also … eventually much further afield with the 1875 tour of the Auckland provincial team throughout the colony. …
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Part of story: Sport and society
… College, Wellington, in 1912. He then worked for an Auckland solicitor, but on the outbreak of war in 1914 he enlisted in the Auckland Battalion and left with the main body for Egypt, …
Type: Biography