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… tribes as far away as the Bay of Plenty, Hauraki and North Auckland. However, by the time Wero became recognised as a … shore of Rotoiti. Most of its carvings are now in the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and one is in St Petersburg. …
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… gangs were present in London, Chicago, New York, Sydney, Auckland and many other cities in the 19th century. Juvenile … In 1842–43, 128 youths aged between 12 and 20 arrived in Auckland from England’s Parkhurst Prison. Some formed …
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Part of story: Gangs
… Hospital from 1928 to 1930. She was then tutor sister at Auckland Hospital until 1935, when she was appointed … On her first morning as industrial nurse at John Court's Auckland department store the first patient chucked her …
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… Chateau Tongariro in 1929 and Wigley purchased hotels in Auckland, Rotorua and Queenstown and with Jessie and Sandy … 1921 on the first long-distance flight from Invercargill to Auckland. After a series of mishaps, such as damage to …
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… Campion, were among its purchasers. In 1957 Mason moved to Auckland, where he befriended Tine and Kees Hos and … works, ‘Ikaros’, ‘Earthworks’ and ‘City’, were included in Auckland City Art Gallery’s annual exhibition of … as an assistant to her father, a doctor in Waimauku, west Auckland. They married in Auckland on 9 December 1959 and, …
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… to detail. Early life Bruce Leslie McLaren was born in Auckland on 30 August 1937. His parents were Ruth Leigh … driver’s licence. In 1956 he began studying engineering at Auckland University College’s campus at Ardmore – near the … in Surrey, in a house McLaren named ‘Muriwai’ after the Auckland beach where he had some of his formative racing …
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… and traded surplus produce to Pākehā settlers in Auckland. On the diplomatic front he played an important … restoring stolen property after a large tribal gathering in Auckland in 1844, and in 1845 peacemaking feasts were … a truce. He refused to meet Governor Thomas Gore Browne in Auckland, fearing the same fate as Te Rauparaha , who had …
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… in the main urban centres, with over 60% living in the Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury regions. …
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Part of story: Italians
… 1901 to over 41% in 1936. By then, the four main centres – Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin – had over a …
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Part of story: Rural mythologies
… the 1500s, had an isolated population on the subantarctic Auckland Islands. These islands were free of mammalian …
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Part of story: Extinctions
… productive land – for example, the volcanic soils of South Auckland – became highly prized. Soil chemistry In the 1840s …
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Part of story: Soil investigation
… as alpine climbing. Places like the Mt Eden Quarry in Auckland, the Titahi Bay cliffs near Wellington, and Castle …
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Part of story: Mountaineering
… flew above most turbulence, it reduced the flight time from Auckland to Christchurch from over three hours to under two. …
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Part of story: Aviation
… asylum) where the first exchange opened on 1 October 1881. Auckland followed the same month. The other large population …
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Part of story: Telecommunications
… woods, carried out in the US timber-strength testing at Auckland and Canterbury colleges description of the taxonomy …
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Part of story: Forestry research
… region comprised the interior of the North Island below Auckland, and the coast south of Whanganui and Hawke’s Bay. …
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Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
… in Christchurch. Averill began his medical intermediate at Auckland University College in 1916, where he played in the … student, Isabella Mary Wilkie Roberton, daughter of an Auckland doctor. She qualified MB, ChB in 1922, and Leslie returned to New Zealand to marry her in Auckland on 25 November 1925. They were to have three …
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… music such as the 2006 Clarinet q uintet . David Hamilton Auckland composer David Hamilton, unlike many colleagues, … in several CDs of her music. Her 1991 residency with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra occasioned a Triple clarinet … arol (1993) Peter Scholes, the energetic Music Director of Auckland Chamber Orchestra, who wrote explorative scores …
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Part of story: Composers
… became director of a new Plant Diseases Division, based in Auckland. He spent much time planning buildings and … and in 1952 was appointed government nominee on the Auckland University College Council. He was independent of … in 1963 and 1965. After a period of ill health he died at Auckland on 18 July 1962; he was survived by his wife and …
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… his rise was rapid: from shipping reporter on the Auckland Star to that paper’s representative in the … its first president. Doidge married Lyle Eirene Clark at Auckland on 1 March 1909. Although childless, the marriage … and hair, and had deep-set blue eyes. As a corporal in the Auckland Infantry Regiment he served in France between …
Type: Biography