Search
… to vent). Green and golden bell frog Introduced to the Auckland area in the late 1860s, this frog ( Litorea aurea ) …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Frogs
… Community In the 2010s there were Malaysian societies in Auckland and Canterbury, as well as Malaysian students’ …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Malaysians and Singaporeans
… authority, land and fisheries. Ngāti Whātua, an iwi in the Auckland region led by the chief Paora Tūhaere , held major …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi
… including Modern Bomb, Design Design and Real Time in Auckland, alongside new, dedicated craft dealers, provided …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… from Pāremoremo maximum-security prison, north of Auckland. He observed then that society generally did not …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ombudsmen and officers of Parliament
… the first Māori female cabinet minister. Sandra Lee won the Auckland Central seat in 1993. She was the first Māori woman …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… There are two such facilities in New Zealand: one at Auckland’s Devonport naval base and the other at …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Diving and snorkelling
… Taranaki, and Tāmaki to the isthmus on which the city of Auckland now stands. Mangatoatoa is a small village south of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato tribes
… and made it easier to access the main markets such as Auckland. Māori farming and Pākehā settlement Missionaries …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kai Pākehā – introduced foods
… over policing in the provinces. This was negotiated for Auckland province in 1870, but in a way which – Branigan … matters. The arrangement gave the commissioner and his Auckland inspector, Thomas Broham, many a headache. So too … police, and a campaign of vituperation pursued by leading Aucklanders (including the deposed head of police) who …
Type: Biography
… James Munro Bertram was born on 11 August 1910 at Auckland, the son of Ivo Edgar Bertram, a Presbyterian … met the third of his closest friends, J. A. W. Bennett, at Auckland University College, where he was enrolled from 1929 … as a friend of Ian Milner. The couple were married in Auckland on 14 March 1947 and moved soon after to …
Type: Biography
… Born in Auckland on 31 January 1912, Desmond Patrick Costello was … wife, Mary Woods. An outstanding scholar, he attended Auckland Grammar School (1923–27) and Auckland University College (1928–31), graduating MA in …
Type: Biography
… do better than this, she left the circus, made her way to Auckland on her own, and quickly established herself as an … local amateurs led by one of the pioneers of theatre in Auckland, George Buckingham . Later she joined a group of … had brought from Sydney to play at the Theatre Royal in Auckland. This new theatre had been built at the instigation …
Type: Biography
… Eyre, lieutenant governor of New Munster. He then moved to Auckland as commissioner of Crown lands for New Ulster. … Caroline Gertrude Bridgen at St Mary's Church, Parnell, Auckland. They had three daughters and one son. He retired … led him to fight a duel about an orange thrown during an Auckland ball. He matured into a reserved man of wide …
Type: Biography
… born Mary Jane Mander on 9 April 1877 at Ramarama, south of Auckland, the eldest of five children of Janet Kerr and her … in London Mander wrote for the Christchurch Sun and the Auckland Sun , as well as other magazines and newspapers. … over the care of her elderly father. Living with him in Auckland, she was soon overwhelmed with domestic duties. …
Type: Biography
… build a $30-million mansion on fashionable Paritai Drive in Auckland. He also owned a holiday home on Waiheke Island … it was only $262,000. The average price of a house in Auckland city was over seven time the price of a house in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Class
… on: Places – 22 major geographic regions: Northland , Auckland , Hauraki–Coromandel , Waikato , the King Country , …
Type: Basic page
… Irish-born John Ilott became the Wellington agent for the Auckland Star group, which included the New Zealand Graphic … Carlton Carruthers, and Dormer Beck, which was the only Auckland agency. Short stay, long effect In the late 1920s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Advertising
… up the east coast of the North Island brought Angas to Auckland, where he visited Ōrākei pā and other pā, and … from a primitive state of barbarism'. Returning overland to Auckland, Angas departed for Sydney towards the end of 1844, …
Type: Biography
… memory he also endowed a scholarship at St John's College, Auckland. His closest friend among his colleagues was … to New Zealand. On 13 November 1855 Charlotte Brown died in Auckland, and was buried in Parnell. Four years later, on 18 …
Type: Biography