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… Island, where industry was then concentrated. By 1921 the Auckland Employers’ Association had become the largest, with … by affiliated associations. In the early 1990s the Auckland group had over 4,000 members. Employers’ Federation …
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Part of story: Employer and business organisations
… the Wellington biennale ‘Shapeshifter’ and the Auckland Triennial are regular events. Permanent sculpture … Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth and Artspace in Auckland have provided arenas for contemporary practice. A …
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Part of story: Sculpture and installation art
… rest homes. Parnell fumes emergency Residents of the Auckland suburb of Parnell woke on 27 February 1973 with … fumes emergency at the ICI Riverview chemical warehouse in Auckland in 1984, during which 31 firefighters suffered …
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Part of story: Fires and fire services
… team of talented journalists commissioned to establish the Auckland Sun. He remained in Auckland as the Sun ’s chief sub-editor for the next three …
Type: Biography
… with a spinal deformity. She was sent to relatives in Auckland to see what could be done to help her. The … effect. She had to endure the journey back and forth to Auckland by ship, having been hoisted aboard on a plank. The …
Type: Biography
… on 22 September 1863, Wiseman sailed the same day for Auckland. Meanwhile, war had broken out. By July 1863 the … the establishment of a permanent naval base at Devonport, Auckland. The Royal Navy under Wiseman's command played a …
Type: Biography
… life as a reserve officer. After working as a land agent in Auckland, he obtained employment as the first stipendiary ranger for the Auckland Acclimatisation Society in 1926. The following year …
Type: Biography
… Kaipara. He was then minister in Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland and Thames, becoming president of the Australasian … and was educated at the missionaries' Wesleyan College in Auckland. After the family moved to Wellington in 1855 he …
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… values. The first New Zealand association began in Auckland in 1855 and others soon opened. Camping was a … of the YMCA in New Zealand operated 100 centres from Auckland to Invercargill. Their programme had expanded to … started in Glasgow in 1883. A branch opened in 1887 in Auckland – the first outside the United Kingdom. Boys were …
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Part of story: Youth organisations
… appeared – a short-lived one in New Plymouth (1853), then Auckland and Christchurch (1856), Dunedin (1858), Hawke’s Bay (1863), the Northern in Auckland (1869), Canterbury and Marlborough (1872), Poverty … Clubs became luncheon rather than dinner clubs. In 2010 the Auckland Club – which had seen membership dwindle to under …
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Part of story: Men’s clubs
… returned to Christchurch, but he and Pauline soon moved to Auckland, where they lived for a while with the Mulgans. … a regular cartoon for the Critic , a newly established Auckland weekly. However, the paper quickly failed, leaving … several daily and weekly newspapers. Pauline convalesced in Auckland for two or three years before joining him in …
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… was confiscated by the Crown in Taranaki, Waikato, South Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Poverty Bay. Which hapū lost … the New Zealand Wars memorial in Symonds Street Cemetery in Auckland reads: ‘In memory of the brave men belonging to the … of Waikato, be removed from its site in Ōtāhuhu, South Auckland. Nixon is a controversial figure, as the events at …
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Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… roll was a countdown of the week’s top 10. Split Enz From Auckland in the early 1970s came art-rock band Split Ends, a … behaviour, typically drug and alcohol-fuelled. At an Auckland gig in 1974 a 6-foot-tall, pregnant, bald stripper … audience – even Dragon fans were taken aback. The band left Auckland to go on tour soon after. It was a pivotal year. …
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Part of story: Popular music
… was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 15th (North Auckland) Regiment on 1 May 1911. In 1912 he transferred to … was staff officer in charge of No 1 Regimental District in Auckland. Promoted lieutenant colonel on 1 October 1933, he … had found an outlet in cataloguing the base library in Auckland. Some colleagues found him difficult to get on …
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… New Zealand about 1903. By 1914 he was a silk merchant in Auckland. In 1915 he moved to Wellington, and on 23 December … The couple separated in late 1917 and Salaman returned to Auckland. They divorced in June 1922 and after a protracted … He suffered a breakdown in his health. He returned to Auckland where he commenced business as a herbalist in …
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… involved in a series of duelling challenges between an Auckland land trading coterie and a group which included his … threatened the authority of the Crown. On returning to Auckland Shortland took up appointment as police magistrate …
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… moved from warm, wet northern and western locations (around Auckland and the Waikato) to eastern and southern areas with …
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Part of story: Viticulture
… fashion show and Thai cuisine. Similar events were held in Auckland and Christchurch. Faster in English Sireena Worboys …
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Part of story: Thais
… people 2% and Asian people 3%. Multilingualism In 2006 the Auckland region, which had the highest proportion of …
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Part of story: Workforce composition
… Rua Theatre’s Te Roopu Whakaari season in Wellington and Auckland in 1994–95. She later worked in Prague, Athens and …
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Part of story: Theatre design