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… aerobics Les Mills opened its first gym in Victoria Street, Auckland, in 1968. Phillip and Colleen Mills introduced New … For example in 2013 Flexa Clinic in Northcote, Auckland, offered a 12-week supervised programme of massage, …
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Part of story: Gyms
… to express powerful feelings. In 1953 McCahon moved to Auckland and the influence of cubism on his art became … hard-edged realism to bear on domestic villas in suburban Auckland Grahame Sydney, with his nostalgic images of …
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Part of story: Painting
… in the late 1970s. The first Kindercare centre opened in Auckland in 1978. In early 2011 there were 36 centres in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch. Australian …
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Part of story: Early childhood education and care
… worked on the land, while almost half were living in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch. The city was a place … competition, which at one level was an expression of Auckland’s urban culture – of money and technical expertise. …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… Force artillery units. In August 1924 he was transferred to Auckland and placed in charge of the city’s harbour … November 1932 he was promoted to major. After four years in Auckland (1933–37) as a staff officer and artillery …
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… the other three foundation university colleges, Canterbury, Auckland and Victoria (in Wellington). None established … recognition as a philosopher of biology. Philosophy at Auckland was revitalised after 1955, when lecturer Richard …
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Part of story: Philosophy
… than 40 years from 1948, especially at Alexandra Park in Auckland. His equivalent for the gallops in Auckland was Syd Tonks. …
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Part of story: Sports reporting and commentating
… theatre producer and playwright. Born in 1875 or 1876 at Auckland, she was the youngest of seven children of Hannah … instruction from her sister, Lily, then attended school in Auckland and enrolled at the university college. Although …
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… was appointed to the Logan Campbell chair of agriculture at Auckland University College, New Zealand. Tertiary education … North Island colleges of the University of New Zealand – Auckland and Victoria – were making parallel but separate …
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… into Australian competitions. This trend began with the Auckland (now New Zealand) Warriors, who were admitted into … by five Australian and five New Zealand teams. In 2018 the Auckland Tuatara became New Zealand’s first professional …
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Part of story: Amateurism and professionalism
… closed and Saturday night dances. At Western Springs, in Auckland, track cycle racing became a regular curtain-raiser … to the roar of fans. At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland more than 40,000 spectators watched the final track …
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Part of story: Cycle racing
… for the amalgamation of local clothing trade unions in Auckland and Dunedin. Local officials were concerned that … one union, one award. He prevailed in Dunedin, but in Auckland a separate women's clothing workers' union was …
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… New Zealand cinemas. The following month, a group of Auckland jazz musicians led by drummer Frank Gibson began … Devlin, to take up the genre. In early 1958 Devlin moved to Auckland and began a residency at the Jive Centre. Other …
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Part of story: Popular music
… ports caused anxiety in New Zealand. In 1873 an Auckland newspaper editor alarmed townsfolk with a false … of them were associated with the Russian Orthodox Church in Auckland. Many of the Russians who came in the 1990s were …
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Part of story: Russians, Ukrainians and Baltic peoples
… was again engaged in surveying, this time in the South Auckland area, and in April that year he was appointed as … interpreter. By January 1880 he was working for the Auckland syndicate who were attempting to buy the Pātetere …
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… that there were nearly 2,500 sex workers working in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Nelson and Hawke’s Bay, … jobs that women do. Paying for luxuries One worker in an Auckland brothel commented on the benefits of sex work: ‘For …
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Part of story: Sex work
… in 1937. In contrast, airport buildings were often plain. Auckland International Airport opened at Māngere in 1966, … 1975, and in 1993 Massey University opened a new campus in Auckland. …
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Part of story: Public buildings
… de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Australia, arrived at Auckland on 7 November. Sadly, the journey was marred for … in Sydney, an extensive itinerary took the Acheron from Auckland to as far south as Bluff, and Ruapuke and Stewart …
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… than sport. The value of sweat In 1910 the Principal of the Auckland Teachers’ College argued: ‘The longer I live the … generally women , for children’s play areas. In Auckland their duties included organising games such as …
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Part of story: Government and sport
… the Bay of Plenty, Coromandel Peninsula and Tāmaki (Auckland) areas before making its final landfall at Maketū … the coast to Tōrere, Tauranga, the Coromandel and Tāmaki (Auckland). Different crew members settled at each place they …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions