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… The statement was forwarded to the government at Auckland with the request that Maketū not be returned to the north. On 1 March 1842 Maketū was tried at Auckland in the new Supreme Court building before Chief …
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… (Otago) by the New Zealand Company and significant sales in Auckland. Crown title When Governor George Grey restored … – including large areas of the Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay and Auckland – had been purchased by the Crown. Another 3.5 …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… was the first convener and Syd Jackson, secretary of the Auckland Clerical Workers’ Union, was the first secretary. … to become a field officer and then branch secretary of the Auckland Clerical Workers’ Union in 1979. Jackson worked to …
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Part of story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement
… official night of television broadcasting (1 June 1960). An Auckland Star reviewer described the quartet (which had … (ATN), was created in 1996, largely limited to viewers in Auckland. Insufficient public funding and related …
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Part of story: Television
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… New Zealand’s first settler government was established in Auckland. In the same year the fledgling nation’s first public museum, the Auckland Institute, opened its doors. This was followed by …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… In 2003 a 12-mile marine reserve was established around the Auckland Islands to safeguard the sea lion from squid nets. … least 2,000 New Zealand sea lions have been killed in the Auckland Islands squid fishery since 1980. The Fishing …
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Part of story: Marine conservation
… loving couple. Winston McCarthy died on 2 January 1984 at Auckland, survived by Joan and two sons and one daughter … from his first marriage. His ashes were interred at Purewa, Auckland. …
Type: Biography
… friends.’ 1 Function There were few functional memorials. Auckland built a war-memorial museum, Hastings a hospital. … at Cave in South Canterbury, and Lion Rock at Piha, west of Auckland. Brave Bess While a number of memorials, such as …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… of Australasia. Because of economies of scale, today’s Auckland–Brisbane flights can be cheaper than those between Auckland and Invercargill. The 1973 Trans-Tasman Travel …
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Part of story: Kiwis overseas
… Rina Winifred Rōpiha was born in Auckland on 6 April 1923, the elder of two children of Rhoda … hui, including the 1959 Young Māori Leaders’ Conference in Auckland, to discuss issues such as urbanisation, crime, …
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… its centennial, was reflected in museum displays. Auckland and Canterbury museums set up replica streets, … museums. They included anthropologist David Simmons at Auckland and archaeologist Janet Davidson at the National …
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Part of story: Museums
… set by London’s Trinity College. The lost chord By 1844 Auckland’s Harmonic Society was up and running, and being … schools for vocal and opera studies at the University of Auckland and the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington. …
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Part of story: Arts education and training
… Maid Coffee Bar, Modern Books and Unity Theatre, while in Auckland Progressive Books and R. A. K. Mason’s People’s … , a glossy magazine that combined lifestyle features and Auckland boosterism with powerful investigative journalism …
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Part of story: Intellectuals
… ordained deacon without first going to St John's College in Auckland. The ceremony took place on 12 May 1940 at Ōtīria … conducted the service and had persuaded the bishop of Auckland, W. J. Simkin, that the ordination should go ahead. …
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… led O'Connor to emigrate to New Zealand. He arrived at Auckland on the Pegasus on 28 March 1865. An introduction from an Auckland relative, Forster Goring, clerk to the Executive …
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… Stewart Island and some smaller islands as far south as the Auckland Islands. Separate subspecies are found on the … parakeets occur at sites as distant from New Zealand as the Auckland Islands. A subspecies of red-crowned parakeet is …
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Part of story: Small forest birds
… was given for a new building a powerful lobby group from Auckland sought to have a dental school established there. … the first plastic surgery unit at Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, where they worked for three years. In 1939 Henry …
Type: Biography
… greeted the 1905/6 Originals rugby team on their return to Auckland. When the 2011 election campaign kicked off after … in the annual women’s professional tennis tournament at Auckland attracted protesters against Israeli policies. …
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Part of story: Government and sport
… conducive to study. By 1923 a bigger school was needed. Auckland University and city politicians wanted it in Auckland, but it was decided to build a larger school in …
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Part of story: Dental care