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… the 2000s, notably the Women’s Health Action Trust and the Auckland Women’s Health Council. Open and shut The first … of an experimental study at National Women’s Hospital in Auckland. The study involved the repeated checking of women …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… been dammed, making the area a major water catchment for Auckland city. Maramarua Farming locality on State Highway … Rangiriri became a coach stop on the road south from Auckland. The historic Rangiriri tavern, built in 1904, …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… 1850, he spent a year as a relieving minister in the Auckland parish while he awaited a decision from the foreign … . He urged the establishment of a school for island boys at Auckland, and supported Selwyn's scheme for the missionary …
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… conglomerate) followed by Telecom, Contact Energy and Auckland Airport. In 2022, cloud-based accounting software … table, with Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Meridian Energy and Auckland Airport the next largest. In the 50 largest …
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Part of story: Large companies
… in the WCTU magazine, the White Ribbon. She moved to Auckland in 1898 and that year was elected Auckland representative to the WCTU's Leeston Convention of …
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… the Reverend Dr Kesson in London. The Morleys emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1864. Before leaving England … to The Hutt, Wanganui, Lyttelton, Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland, St Albans, Dunedin and Wesley College, Three …
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… a growth of interest in hand-printed textiles and crafts. Auckland fashion designer Nancy Hudson produced rope … pottery firm, Amalgamated Brick and Pipe Company, in Auckland. As an adult she used the firm’s pottery wheel and …
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Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… of racial discrimination he observed – in Pukekohe, South Auckland, Māori were barred from hotel bars and barbershops … Association for Racial Equality (CARE) was formed in Auckland in 1964. The group aimed to devote equal attention …
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Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… cauliflower and broccoli. Major regions of production are Auckland, Manawatū and Canterbury. Almost all production is … hectares under cultivation. Main regions of production are Auckland, Manawatū and Canterbury. The majority of leafy …
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Part of story: Market gardens and production nurseries
… backing. There were big public meetings in Wellington and Auckland and three petitions (the first signed by more than … at least six children, four boys and two girls. She died in Auckland on 21 July 1949. Her husband had died in 1942. …
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… and by the 1950s the largest stadiums, such as Eden Park in Auckland and Lancaster Park in Christchurch, could … And 61,240 crowded into Eden Park for the fourth test in Auckland. Sport and radio From the 1920s live radio …
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Part of story: Sport and society
… James Basil Wilkie Roberton was born in Auckland on 30 January 1896, the second of four children of … prominent medical practitioner. Educated at King’s College, Auckland, Jim excelled not only academically, but also in …
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… Annie Isabelle Huckstep. He was brought up in a well-to-do Auckland home. His father was Presbyterian and his mother … Murray was educated at King’s Preparatory School and Auckland Grammar School. In the A stream at Grammar, he was …
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… solo exhibition was arranged by Colin McCahon and the Auckland City Art Gallery. She returned to France in 1976, … following year brought her back. After a short period in Auckland, she moved to a retirement village in Rotorua. She …
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… finest. In the 1930s large new stations were built in Auckland and Wellington. Stations close – and open The … ones continued to be built, though, most notably downtown Auckland’s Britomart Transport Centre, which opened in 2003. …
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Part of story: Railways
… organisation and he was appointed manager of their Auckland enterprises. The association was short-lived, … from heart disease for a year, George Stephenson died in Auckland at the age of 44, on 6 November 1918. His wife, …
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… and sex. The Exchange in Dunedin (on Princes Street) and Auckland’s ferry building precinct were popular cruising … and pledged to stop issuing licences to fruit hawkers. Auckland restricted hawkers’ selling times, while Wellington …
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Part of story: Street life
… The plant was introduced to New Zealand in 1891 by the Auckland nursery D. Hay & Sons. At first only yellow and … Tamarillos are mainly grown in Bay of Plenty, Northland and Auckland. Spanglish Although tamarillos are from South …
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Part of story: Citrus, berries, exotic fruit and nuts
… was able to attend St Peter’s Māori College, Northcote, Auckland, in 1931–32. Watson, also now living in Auckland, taught him to master English. Te Āwhitu practised …
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… was improved with increased funding to training colleges in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and in 1926 … teacher of her Standard 5 class at Gladstone Road School in Auckland in the 1930s. She recalled, ‘In Mr Watson’s class, …
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Part of story: Primary and secondary education