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… was born on 20 July 1882 at Little River, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, the eldest child of William Francis Alexander, a … was only 24, and his co-editor, A. E. (Ernest) Currie, a 22-year-old law clerk when their New Zealand verse was …
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… was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, probably in 1834 or 1835, the son of Margaret Garden and her husband, William Berry, a … 12 he was apprenticed in the composing room of the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh. He gained valuable experience in … and he was never to lose the wide culture gained in these years. On 5 July 1860 he married Henrietta Younger at …
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… New Zealand cartoonists overseas David Low, New Zealand’s … cartoonist, had his first political cartoon published in the Spectator in 1902, when he was 11 years old. He left school the following year and cartooned …
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Part of story: Cartooning
… Birth of today’s papers From the 1860s New Zealand’s rapidly increasing population and growing … the Otago Daily Time s , which he edited until 1868. Two years later he entered Parliament, becoming premier in 1876. …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… The rise of e-commerce had a major impact upon the advertising revenue of print publications, especially newspapers, encouraging them to move online. In addition the … Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision) launched a website in the same year. But only in 2005, after dedicated website funding was …
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Part of story: Digital media and the internet
… Photography has been a significant part of the New Zealand sports story. It allowed those not at the games … images of sports action was difficult in the early years. The first sports cameras used bulky glass plates, and …
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Part of story: Sports reporting and commentating
… born in Hamley Bridge, South Australia, on 14 June 1880, the son of Caroline Charlotte Sparshott and her husband, … induced by the offer of a shoe repair business, he moved to New Plymouth to become solo cornetist, and later conductor, … with Saunders playing the cornet. By the end of the year Saunders Biograph Pictures had expanded to Waitara, …
Type: Biography
… to have been 27 March 1839; he was baptised on 7 April that year. His father, Samuel Ballance, was a Protestant tenant farmer 'with … in part to Fanny's ill health, they decided to emigrate to New Zealand where she had a brother living in Whanganui. In …
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… born in Devonport, Auckland, on 31 January 1881. She was the daughter of Emily Frances Mitchell and her husband, … a Madeira-born English barrister, later editor of the New Zealand Farmer. Isabel's carefree childhood was spent by … was educated privately and then, in her early 20s, spent a year in England and Europe. When she returned to Auckland …
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… William Edward Vincent, one of the founding printer-proprietors of the Wellington … and silversmith, who worked as a customs officer. After two years at Christ's Hospital School William followed his elder … he was imprisoned in August 1839 for involvement in the Newport riots the previous May. These radical contacts …
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… into a notable local family on 4 November 1918. Her father, Charles Lowther Duigan, a sharebroker, was also managing director of the Wanganui Herald Newspaper Company, and her grandfather, James Duigan, had … University of Cambridge, where she completed the first year of her economics tripos. The education she received …
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… near Hastings in Sussex, England, on 25 February 1843, the son of Henry Brett, a tailor, and his wife, Mary Ann … publishing in his home town by his uncle, T. R. Brett, a newspaper proprietor and stationer, and local historian. In … while working on the Daily Southern Cross for three years and then for five years on the New Zealand Herald. He …
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… Essie Summers, New Zealand’s most celebrated writer of romantic fiction, was born Ethel Snelson Summers in Christchurch on 24 July 1912. She … was failing. She worked in drapery stores for the next 12 years, always enjoying the work and seeing the world as … Summers, Ethel Snelson …
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… Denton, near Rochester, Kent, England, on 28 February 1868, the son of William Fletcher, a journeyman carpenter, and his … boys and four girls. In 1874 the Fletchers emigrated to New Zealand to take up land near Feilding. The section … the survey party of T. W. Downes . For the next seven years he travelled widely through the Rangitīkei region, and …
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… born in Melbourne, Australia, on 3 December 1858. He was the son of Henry Cohen Pirani, a merchant, and his wife, Louisa Levy. The family moved to Hokitika, New Zealand, in 1864. Henry Pirani worked on the staff of a … 23 May 1879 at Napier he married Martha Berry. Within a few years Frederick returned to the South Island with his wife …
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… was born on 9 December 1837 at Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the fifth child of Aloys Schmitt, a celebrated composer, … at Königsberg (Kaliningrad). Schmitt came to Auckland, New Zealand, on the Breadalbane from Sydney, New South … were receiving salaries of £700 and were appointed for five-year terms against Schmitt's one year. Schmitt's appointment …
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… Shillington was born in Belfast, Ireland, and baptised there on 15 March 1835. He was the son of Margaret Little … Little is known of his early life, but he spent 21 years with the Royal Engineers. On 19 January 1856 he … period of military service in China, Shillington arrived in New Zealand in mid 1880 with his wife. The Auckland Free …
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… Henry also had six children from his first marriage. The family later moved to the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn, … and brother-in-law on their farm at Batley. He stayed for a year and went to two local schools before returning to Grey … his master mariner’s ticket. In May 1918 Collins joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and trained as a …
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… Lane was born at Bristol, England, on 6 September 1861, the son of Caroline Hall and her husband, James Lane, a … to Canada where he worked as a compositor on various newspapers. By 1881 he had become a reporter. On 22 July … even fanatical behaviour soon led to a schism. Less than a year later he and about 60 other settlers left New Australia …
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… Thomas Bracken, the son of Margaret Kiernan and her husband, Thomas Bracken, … near Melbourne. He worked on his uncle's farm for about a year, and was then apprenticed to a chemist in Bendigo. … , in 1867. Bracken is thought to have arrived in Dunedin, New Zealand, in early 1869. He may have been employed …
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