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… Vivian Walsh 's New Zealand Flying School at Mission Bay, Auckland. He displayed considerable skill at overhauling the … and in May he completed a record long-distance flight from Auckland to Russell. On 16 December that year Bolt made the first experimental airmail flight from Auckland to Dargaville. In early 1920 he completed further …
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… resumed legal practice in Hamilton and later moved to Auckland. In 1928 he was appointed stipendiary magistrate in … and from 1941 became senior stipendiary magistrate in Auckland. He presided over his courts briskly, setting great … became chairman of the War Pensions Appeal Board and the Auckland Licensing Committee. He strongly advocated reform …
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… with Taylor, O'Rorke farmed at Papakura, south of Auckland, and then at Onehunga. In 1857 he was appointed clerk to the Auckland Provincial Council, a post that he held until 1860. On 31 December 1858, at Auckland, he married Cecilia Mary Shepherd, the daughter of …
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… she married Andrew Cassie, a drain-laying contractor, in Auckland on 25 June 1915. Within two years they had two … and national levels. She was an executive member of the Auckland women's branch of the New Zealand Labour Party from … League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), which became the Auckland women's branch of the Labour Party in 1925. With …
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… of the nonconformist settlement at Albertland, north of Auckland, New Zealand, sought a minister for people from … The Edger family and the Albertland settlers arrived at Auckland on 8 September 1862 on the Matilda Wattenbach . The … temporary pastor at the Albert Street Independent Church, Auckland, while the congregation awaited the arrival of …
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… the founder of the congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, Auckland. She was born probably on 13 September 1799 at … Bishop J. B. F. Pompallier , the first Catholic bishop of Auckland, visited St Leo's to seek Irish nuns for his … fluently. Mother Mary Cecilia and her companions landed in Auckland on 9 April 1850. They were the first women …
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… to paint interior murals in the new War Memorial Museum in Auckland free of charge, but this did not happen. Gay murals … mid-20th-century mural artist was James Turkington of Auckland. His artistic reputation rested on his murals. … Department of Science and Industrial Research buildings in Auckland, and the Petone Settlers Museum during the 1940 …
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Part of story: Public and street art
… schools opened in Canterbury (1877), Wellington (1880) and Auckland (1881). Schools were attached to each, so student … school grants were withdrawn by the government. The Auckland and Wellington schools closed, while Christchurch … now all called training colleges) opened in Wellington and Auckland in 1906. That year 261 students attended training …
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Part of story: Tertiary education
… school, and Mary was sent to a private girls' school in Auckland to complete her education. However, their mother's … Truby King , she was a foundation committee member of the Auckland branch of the Society for the Promotion of the … Plunket Society) , formed in 1908. She also served on the Auckland committee of the New Zealand Society for the …
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… to New Zealand in 1881 and settled at Waiuku, south of Auckland, where John Makgill took up farming. Robert was educated at a country school near Waiuku, then at Auckland College and Grammar School. As a youth he was a … Returning to New Zealand, he was resident surgeon at Auckland Hospital from 1894 to 1896 and honorary …
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… position at Königsberg (Kaliningrad). Schmitt came to Auckland, New Zealand, on the Breadalbane from Sydney, New … 1881 at the invitation of F. D. Fenton, Schmitt returned to Auckland to assume conductorship of the Auckland Choral Society. He also took up a position at the …
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… College School of Art. In 1913 he was indentured to the Auckland advertising firm of Chandler and Company to train … Evening News and a Brisbane newspaper company. Returning to Auckland in 1930, he worked as a sales executive for New … engaged to produce educational film strips for the Auckland Education Board, and employed Betty Brookes (who …
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… London, England. His father, Samuel Vaile, was a successful Auckland merchant and land agent who had emigrated to New … Edward was the eldest of their children. He was educated at Auckland College and Grammar School, and passed the junior … real estate business, and from then on became involved in Auckland business, cultural and political life. He was …
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… 1945 Chapman was appointed the first professor of botany at Auckland University College. He arrived in Auckland in 1946, as biology and ecology were entering a … 1963–64 and 1966–68), helped plan the University of Auckland School of Medicine, and successfully pressed for …
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… only to the Bank of New Zealand in importance. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 9 October 1851 and registered … died prematurely in 1854. James was educated in Auckland at the Church of England Grammar School and at St … involved in sporting clubs, being a founder member of the Auckland Cricket Association and the Auckland Amateur …
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… featherweight boxing champion, Mary moved to Auckland. The couple had six children between 1912 and 1925. … Seddon Memorial Technical College and extension courses at Auckland University College, and obtained a licentiate of … and Political League, which in 1925 became the Auckland women's branch of the New Zealand Labour Party . In …
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… He and his wife, Prudence Florentine De Lattre, arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1853 or 1854. Their daughter Maria … Dr Fischer was a flamboyant advocate of homoeopathy. His Auckland practice was launched in 1854 with some priceless … and a brandy distillery. With the patronage of some of Auckland's commercial élite, including John Logan Campbell , …
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… Frances attended Melmerly Collegiate School in Parnell, Auckland, in the early years of the twentieth century. She … serving overseas, and Francis, who was still at school in Auckland. Exchanging Edwardian gown for riding breeches, and … In the early 1920s Frances Hunt and her mother moved to Auckland and settled into a large house in Ranfurly Road …
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… Pender'. By early 1901 Mitchell had transferred to Auckland, under the redoubtable Inspector John Cullen, who … became commissioner in 1912, Mitchell succeeded him in Auckland. Early in 1913 he became one of the newly … in trouble with his superiors. Young police activists in Auckland enlisted unionist Arthur Rosser to form a police …
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… and her husband, David Jones, an engineer. He arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, with his family probably in 1885. … Dobson, a portrait painter and sculptor, he married her in Auckland on 5 September 1891. The couple then moved to … from New Zealand for the South African War', to the Auckland Art Gallery in 1902. On 29 November 1905 he married …
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