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… Monitoring earthquakes – GeoNet New Zealand has a national network of instruments and data … volcanic activity, large landslides, tsunamis and the slow deformation that precedes large earthquakes. Data … centres routinely locate more than 20,000 earthquakes per year. The year 2016 was exceptional, however, with 32,828 …
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Part of story: Earthquakes
… According to the age given on his death certificate William Meluish was … Nelson Examiner in February 1859, soon after he arrived in New Zealand, announced that he had a photographic studio in … he took over the photographic studio of James Wilson; two years later advertisements indicate his studio was now on …
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… born at Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, on 24 April 1864, the eldest of seven children of Hannah (Annie) Elizabeth … was subsequently a notable lawyer and Liberal politician in New Zealand. The family emigrated to Dunedin in 1866 and … adored her father. She wrote vividly of her first 24 years in an unpublished autobiography, 'Life's amazing …
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… 1949 dual tour With the All Blacks touring South Africa in 1949, the New Zealand Maoris were dispatched to Australia that same year. With Māori excluded from the team sent to play the …
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Part of story: Māori rugby – whutupaoro
… New Zealand’s Treasury department was established in 1840 as … colonial secretary’s office. Its longevity is testimony to the indispensable nature of the work of keeping the … annual financial statement and a Budget for the forthcoming year, exactly as the treasurer of an incorporated society …
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Part of story: Treasury
… Usenet newsgroups The first digital publications by and for New Zealanders were the Usenet newsgroups under the ‘nz.’ hierarchy, beginning … the international Usenet service. It would be another four years before New Zealand got its first permanent connection …
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Part of story: Digital media and the internet
… born in Isleworth, Middlesex, England, on 29 March 1860, the sixth of seven children of Ebenezer (Edward) Benham and … at Bedford College for Women, London, in 1886. In that year he began his classic foundation studies of earthworm … professor of biology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Arriving on the Kaikōura in May 1898 he made an …
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… Daldy MacWilliams, was born at Papakura, south of Auckland, New Zealand, on 23 July 1860. He was one of eight children … and her husband, John McWilliams, a police constable. The McWilliams family were among the early settlers at … of a large gold-bearing reef at Karangahake. For several years MacWilliams worked on this field and in mines at …
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… European inhabitants. Chromolithography was introduced to New Zealand in 1883 by Whanganui printer A. D. Willis, who … watercolours by Whanganui-born Edith Collier are held by the Sarjeant Gallery. Glass engraver John Hutton is known … settling in Whanganui, where Johnny spent his formative years. Musicians and photographers Noted musicians with …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… St Louis Exposition, 1904 From the turn of the century New Zealand’s displays at international exhibitions were … the Coronation Exhibition it included a Māori village. That year New Zealand had displays – largely of frozen products – …
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Part of story: Exhibitions and world’s fairs
… John Evelyn Duigan was born at Whanganui on 30 March 1883, the son of Mary Emily Broad and her husband, James Duigan, a … and rose to the rank of sergeant. Soon after returning to New Zealand in February 1902, he secured a commission in the … the New Zealand Staff Corps. Early in 1913 he began a two-year course at the Staff College at Quetta, India, where he …
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… of papers Increasing competition from radio as a medium for news, entertainment and advertising reduced the number of New Zealand newspapers in the mid-20th … from wood pulp in 1955. Distribution In the post-war years the daily paper remained a vital feature of everyday …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… Launceston, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), on 22 May 1845, the son of Eliza Felicie Bailli and her husband, Felix … a surveyor and engineer. After the family moved to New Zealand Wakefield spent his childhood in Christchurch … 1886. He abandoned politics in 1887 and for two stormy years, filled with libel actions and financial difficulties, …
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… on 21 January 1842, and baptised on 16 March. He was the son of Sarah Heron and her husband, Patrick Thomas … school in Douglas before the family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1851. Thereafter he was tutored by his … City. He managed the United Press Association for five years from its formation in 1879. In 1884 Gillon returned to …
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… she married Thomas Shayle George, who, like her father, was a solicitor. There were five children of the … doubtful that Thomas's professional career flourished in New Zealand. In October 1852 Frances opened Wye Cottage … Crescent. What happened to her over the next couple of years is not clear. In April 1868 Thomas died at Rock …
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… Catherine Julia Bilston was born at Merino, in western … 1890 at Casterton, Victoria, to John William Mackay, a New Zealander. After the birth of their daughter, Mona Innis … both worked on the Mackay family fruit farm. After three years the couple moved to Auckland, and in 1900 they went to …
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… In 2006, 86% of New Zealanders were city dwellers, making New Zealand one of the most urbanised countries in the world. The great … and filthy back slums of an English town’. 1 In the same year Auckland’s Herald attacked ‘those abominable nests of … The suburban ideal …
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Part of story: Suburbs
… Ewen William Alison was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on leap day, 29 February 1852, the son of Jane Cameron and her husband, Alexander Alison, a … in a butchery partnership in Devonport the following year. To assist in this business, leases of the islands of …
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… at Longwood, St Helena, probably in 1827 or 1828. He was the son of Sarah Britton and her husband, a farmer whose … having been destroyed by locusts, he decided to emigrate to New Zealand. With Emily and their three children Moss … and Moss resigned from the council early in the following year. The blockade of the Confederate States of America in …
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… Elsdon Best was born at Tawa Flat, New Zealand, on 30 June 1856, the sixth child of William Best, a farmer, and his wife, Hannah Haynes Nibbs. For the first nine years of his life he lived on the family farm, Grassleas, …
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