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… the c lown ). All three gained an international following. Aucklander Martin Emond’s work was also published … Wellington’s Pistake (13 issues, 1992–95). Ant Sang’s Auckland mini-comic Filth (seven issues, 1994–97) preceded …
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Part of story: Comics and graphic novels
… lecturer in the new associateship in engineering course at Auckland University College. He retained his connection with … and went bankrupt in 1988. Cory-Wright was married in Auckland on 4 December 1924 to Jean Isobel MacLennan. From …
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… but was instead sent to New Zealand. Cowley arrived in Auckland on 23 November 1914 and was assigned to the Hauraki … different direction, ending the separate existence of the Auckland Māori branch, rejecting those Māori traditions …
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… Dance, music and tīvaevae In the 1940s a favourite Auckland meeting place was a dance hall called The … by those from the northern atoll of Pukapuka. In the 2000s Auckland had a specialist Pukapukan publisher, Mataaliki …
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Part of story: Cook Islanders
… was educated at Lyttelton West School from 1899 to 1902, Auckland Girls' Grammar School and Auckland University College. In 1914 she graduated BA with a …
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… to claim world dominance is yacht design. Based in the USA, Auckland-born Bruce Farr has designed yachts that have won … many offered by polytechnics, have proliferated, and Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin are leading fashion …
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Part of story: Creative life
… to improve the physical fitness of every New Zealander. The Auckland Primary Schools Sports Association had found that … paraplegic and physically disabled regional association in Auckland. This was followed by Canterbury (1967), Wellington …
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Part of story: Disability sport
… supporter and businessman Noel Yarrow Carlaw Park, close to Auckland’s Domain, which became a legendary ground for rugby … replacing the notoriously muddy Rugby Park Mt Smart in Auckland, which opened as a sports stadium in 1967, was the …
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Part of story: Sports venues
… post service between Great Barrier Island (Aotea) and Auckland are also examples of Cinderella stamps. The first … to their legs. Letters cost sixpence from the island to Auckland, but one shilling (12 pence) for the outward …
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Part of story: Postage stamps
… Welsh societies were formed in Wellington in 1907 and in Auckland in 1925. Chinese groups Several thousand Chinese … Central Association was formed in 1926 with branches in Auckland, Taumarunui and Wellington. In 2018 the association …
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Part of story: Migrant and refugee organisations
… Zealand as pastor of the large Mount Eden Baptist Church in Auckland. Opposed to the Bible in State Schools League's … Catholic and other private schools. He was secretary of the Auckland Auxiliary of the Baptist Union of New Zealand from …
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… Marlborough and Southland. The lowest proportion was in Auckland. Self-identified New Zealanders were also … New Zealand residents. This diversity was most visible in Auckland, where over 48% of the population claimed Māori, …
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Part of story: Ethnic inequalities
… and Samuel Morrin. Land companies were also formed by Auckland financiers. The main ones were the Waikato Land Association, Auckland Agricultural Company and Thames Valley Land …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… an enormous political funeral. Evans's body was taken to Auckland, where thousands of mourners lined the streets. … her and the children. The F. G. Evans Memorial Library in Auckland's Trade Union Centre is named in honour of …
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… Between 1850 and 1875, 11% of prosecutions for violence in Auckland were for domestic assaults. These prosecutions … – before taking a prosecution. When Catherine Nicolson of Auckland prosecuted her husband John in 1855, she testified …
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Part of story: Family violence
… had a battle to be accepted as career firefighters. When Aucklander Anne Barry applied to become a firefighter in … at Island Bay, Wellington, in 1958. Another was opened in Auckland in 1967. They were superseded in 2006, when the …
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Part of story: Fires and fire services
… Conservation Act 1932 In April 1932, following rioting in Auckland linked to unemployment, the Public Safety … July 1985 the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland Harbour by a bomb. One of the crew, Fernando …
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Part of story: Terrorism and counter-terrorism
… timber, and powered by a water wheel set in a small stream. Auckland’s first flour mills were built in 1844. The first, … and 1860, 37 flour mills were built for Māori owners in the Auckland province alone. Whanganui River mills The first …
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Part of story: Agricultural processing industries
… in March 1921. Arriving in 1920, he lived first in Auckland, where on 23 May 1922 he married Alice Bell, an … for the position of professor of forestry at Auckland University College in 1925. Despite unsatisfactory …
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… campaigning for the repeal of all abortion laws. When the Auckland Medical Aid Clinic (a private abortion provider) … Midwives Association. The Homebirth Association started in Auckland in 1978 and became a national organisation in 1980. …
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Part of story: Women’s movement