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… and Kahupāke Potatau, was born in Tāmaki-makau-rau (the Auckland isthmus), probably in 1868 or 1869. She was a … through her connection with Te Taoū. In 1913, when the Auckland City Council planned to build a model suburb there, …
Type: Biography
… The main highway and railway line connecting Wellington and Auckland skirt Ruapehu. During eruptions the central North … Drifting ash intermittently closed airports, including Auckland and Wellington; the value of cancelled flights …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… South Africa. In front of 60,000 fans at Eden Park in Auckland, the New Zealand Maoris were thrashed 37–0 by the … coach J. J. Stewart promised to bare his buttocks outside Auckland Post Office if the All Blacks lost. With 27 minutes …
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Part of story: Māori rugby – whutupaoro
… in Samoa in the early 1880s. He wanted to buy land for the Auckland South Sea Island Produce Company. Faced with … Failure to quarantine the SS Talune , which arrived from Auckland in November 1918, allowed the global influenza …
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Part of story: Pacific Islands and New Zealand
… stars in its early decades, including gifted fielders like Auckland shortstop Paul Rogers. Kiwi batters lagged behind … in the 2009 world softball championships. Power-batting Aucklander Martha Rush was one of New Zealand’s early female …
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Part of story: Softball and baseball
… since the 1920s, mostly settling in older suburbs like Auckland’s Ponsonby or Wellington’s Newtown. In the 1960s … relocated to new state (public) housing suburbs in South Auckland and Porirua. New Pacific Island migrants took their …
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Part of story: City history and people
… standing has been Marina Erakovic, who was coached in Auckland for some years by Lewis. Erakovic was a junior … junior teams overseas, set up a national coaching school in Auckland and encouraged some players to gain scholarships at …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tennis
… man. His wife's delicate health prevented him from going to Auckland to study for the Anglican ministry, and he became a … 1887 after returning from the Anglican diocesan synod in Auckland where he had contracted food poisoning. His funeral …
Type: Biography
… there were lively student periodicals, Phoenix (1932–33) in Auckland and Oriflamme and Sirocco (both 1933) in … artists, held an annual show in Christchurch. From 1956 the Auckland Art Gallery became a promoter of a national art …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… Zealand’s ‘metropolis’. Jacques Carabain’s ‘Queen Street, Auckland’ (1889) not only faithfully reproduces the … Cloud’ (2003) are highly evocative of place (in this case Auckland) but do not depict an actual scene. The absence of …
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Part of story: City images
… Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington, Whanganui, Gisborne and Auckland. Voices on the waves Clive Drummond recalls his … Charles Forrest and Douglas Shipherd, and Robert Burrell of Auckland, were businesspeople who saw the commercial …
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Part of story: Radio
… visit New Zealand was a warship, HMS Driver , which reached Auckland in January 1846 and carried soldiers to Wellington. … times. In 1859 travellers would have been lucky to get from Auckland to Dunedin in less than 15 days. By 1879, by taking …
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Part of story: Shipping
… at least as great in New Zealand. Most famously the annual Auckland Round the Bays fun run became one of the largest in … In early 1982 she broke the world 5,000 metres record in Auckland at Mt Smart Stadium, and later that year she ran a …
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Part of story: Athletics
… planted on a large scale in Marlborough by Montana Wines of Auckland in 1973. At the time, vineyards were concentrated … in year-round warm areas like Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay and Auckland. Marlborough was thought to be too dry and too cold …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… off admiring remarks of foreign commentators. Rarity value Auckland sports writer Don Cameron suggested, ‘[t]he great … silent majority? Just before the 2011 Rugby World Cup final Auckland University professor Toni Bruce found that just …
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Part of story: Sport and the nation
… of towns. Early suburbs like Wellington’s Thorndon and Auckland’s Parnell were characterised by single houses on … With ever more cars on the roads, traffic congestion in Auckland became endemic. The cost of providing streets, …
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Part of story: City history and people
… One of the first was the Friendly Investment Club in Auckland. Its members included a truck driver, mechanic, … their £5 for collectively decided investments. In 1960 some Auckland businessmen formed a unit trust, a new term for the …
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Part of story: Stock market
… languished. For example in 1900 the coach road from Auckland to Taranaki was not yet completed – and it only … accident black spots. Congestion also became a problem on Auckland roads. In the early 2000s there was considerable …
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Part of story: Roads
… the years following the First World War. That was when the Auckland YWCA advertised ‘The First Gymnasium in Australasia … for both men and women. In 1918 the new headquarters of the Auckland Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) …
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Part of story: Gyms
… has specialised courses in sports medicine at the Otago and Auckland medical schools. Sports physicians Most injured … damaging a knee during the 1989 test against Argentina in Auckland. Fellow All Black Dan Carter had to undergo ankle …
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Part of story: Sports medicine and drugs