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… appointed governor of New Zealand. The Brownes arrived in Auckland on the Merchantman on 6 September 1855. Harriet … tresses.' Using these gifts, she made Government House in Auckland the centre of cultural and political life. She held …
Type: Biography
… helped to revive hotel and restaurant workers' unions in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin, and established a branch … In November 1910 he won a bitter libel case against Auckland journalist W. P. Black , who had branded Carey a …
Type: Biography
… unprofitable and closed about 1905. On 14 May 1904, at Auckland, Carter married Ellinor (Ellenor) Harrison, … and in 1934 a kauri sawmill was built at Omatutu in North Auckland, but burnt down in 1945. Cutting rights over the …
Type: Biography
… In 1900 Christchurch had about the same population as Auckland. By 2000, Auckland had three times the population of Christchurch. …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… Tim Shadbolt, helped establish a commune at Huia, west of Auckland, in the early 1970s. At first they slept outside, … populated by students, homeless youth and drug users in Auckland and Wellington. Chippenham, New Zealand’s …
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Part of story: Communes and communities
… m aid (1905) was a triumph at its premiere that year in Auckland. However, its hoped-for successes in Australia and … acclaim. George de Clive-Lowe George de Clive-Lowe, an Auckland medical practitioner, had great success in 1909 …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre
… which milled local timber and built houses as far away as Auckland. He was a director and chairman of the South … War for an unprecedented £1,500 and won the 1920 and 1921 Auckland Trotting Cups with him. Wartime prices boosted …
Type: Biography
… the Glendavar cattle farm. He also acquired land in Auckland. Crawford was active in local affairs in …
Type: Biography
… In the late 1890s Eric Craig’s Museum in Princes Street, Auckland, sold ferns for collectors. His specimens were … was a collection made by students of St John’s College, Auckland. Various types of ferns – framed, pressed and …
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Part of story: Collecting
… to care for the children of working women. Creches began in Auckland in 1887 and Wellington in 1903. Early crèches … was followed by Christchurch (1904), Wellington (1906) and Auckland (1910). They offered part-day sessions only – this …
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Part of story: Early childhood education and care
… was the largest, going southward from the Kaipara, through Auckland and the Waikato River area to Hawke’s Bay and … Te Ika-a-Ranganui near Whangārei Ngāti Pāoa at Mauinaina in Auckland in 1821 the Marutūahu iwi at Te Tōtara in the …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… Nelson College, Te Aute College (Hawke’s Bay) and Auckland Grammar School began to offer sports including … Hours Demonstration Sports and Art Union picnic in 1896 at Auckland’s Domain included a full programme of children’s …
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Part of story: Children and sport
… been in New Zealand and was later an influential teacher in Auckland; the two became good friends. On 10 February 1931 … unit and in 1943 became head of the art department of the Auckland Training College. He remained till 1963, having …
Type: Biography
… highly academic and charged fees. Early examples included Auckland Grammar School (1869), Wellington College (1867) … schools – Parnell Church of England Grammar School, Auckland College and Grammar School, Wellington College, …
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Part of story: Primary and secondary education
… Southland, Nelson and Wellington were well supplied and Auckland was richly supplied, while Otago and Canterbury had … through the countryside in the 1880s. In Waimauku, north of Auckland, 200 tons of firewood was lost; near Masterton …
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Part of story: Energy supply and use
… each claimed a single victory. A New Zealand export In 1998 Aucklander Sean Marks was picked by the New York Knicks in … 2012 one journalist gave five reasons why the Breakers were Auckland’s best team: they had a perfect mix between local …
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Part of story: Basketball
… Olympiads. New Zealand has played host three times, in Auckland in 1950 (to the Empire Games) and 1990, and in Christchurch in 1974. At the Auckland CHOGM in 1995 (the only CHOGM to be held in New …
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Part of story: Empire and Commonwealth
… the 1850s there were toll houses on the Great South Road in Auckland, which helped to pay for the metalling (surfacing … They were used only occasionally, for instance on the Auckland Harbour Bridge from 1959 to 1984, in the Lyttelton …
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Part of story: Roads
… Mental Hospital and senior assistant medical officer at Auckland Mental Hospital. He then worked under Frederic … He was appointed acting medical superintendent of the Auckland Mental Hospital in 1925 and shortly afterwards …
Type: Biography
… Zealand’s fourth-largest city, located 129 km south-east of Auckland, with a 2013 city population of 141,612. Hamilton … From 1916 produce was shipped from Hamilton directly to Auckland via Port Waikato. In 1917 Hamilton absorbed the …
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Part of story: Waikato places