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… Tom Ah Chee was the driving force behind the Foodtown supermarket empire, … the Georgie Pie fast food restaurant chain in 1977. Early years Thomas Henry Ah Chee was born in Auckland on 4 January … Clement Calliope Ah Chee and his second wife, May Yuk Doo. New Zealand-born Clement married May Yuk in Canton …
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… Marti Friedlander was one of New Zealand’s most outstanding twentieth-century … photographers. Her work was massively influential both in the development of photography as an artistic practice in … was evacuated to Worthing and a foster family in the early years of the Second World War. In the early 1940s Marti won …
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… born in Suva, Fiji, on 8 November 1908 to an Australian father, Frank Johnson, and his Fijian-born wife, Mary Lee; … than antipodean: his maternal grandfather had served in the New Zealand wars, and he sometimes claimed Tongan blood on … After contracting tuberculosis, Johnson spent two years in Pukeora Sanatorium in Hawke’s Bay. In 1940–41 he …
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… England, and was baptised on 17 December 1835. He was the second child of the Reverend Thomas Butler and his wife, … his somewhat imperious father to finance his emigration to New Zealand. He sailed on the Roman Emperor on 1 October … note on The tempest and a mock-Tennysonian poem heralding a visiting English cricket team. Butler left New …
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… George Leslie Adkin was a self-taught scholar with the skills and integrity of a professional. Most of his … in the Levin village settlement, although it was some years before they settled on the land. During two years as a … tracks, acquiring the nick-name 'King of the Tararuas'. A new obsession developed in 1926 when Adkin was asked to …
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… art and design, advertising and visual communications in New Zealand. His company, W. Haythorn-thwaite Ltd, best known for the posters it designed for Tasman Empire Airways Ltd … Another son, Lawrence, arrived in 1916, and four years later the family emigrated to New Zealand. They …
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… British settlers in New Zealand formed acclimatisation societies to import and release deer. Later they issued hunting licences, and organised hunts. Trophy … deer and other game animals. During the 1920s – the golden years of deerstalking – some huge red-deer trophies were …
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Part of story: Hunting
… The first match on New Zealand soil was held at Athletic Park, Wellington, on 13 June 1908 between the returning All Golds and other recruits to benefit Albert … rugby league. After the inaugural game in 1908, it was 82 years before rugby league returned to Athletic Park in …
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Part of story: Rugby league
… woollen mills Wool processing was an obvious industry for New Zealand, with its huge flock of sheep and booming wool exports in the late 19th century. A letter in the Timaru Herald in 1870 … four woollen mills had an average of 104 employees, and 10 years later its eight mills employed an average of 147 …
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Part of story: Agricultural processing industries
… 1802 and baptised in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, the son of Betty and John Yate of the parish of St Mary … for work in the 'Colonies', on 21 May 1826. Having spent a year as a curate at St Swithin's Church in east London, Yate sailed in 1827 for New Zealand as a CMS settler. After a brief stay with Samuel …
Type: Biography
… In the first 40 years of the twentieth century James Cowan was one of New Zealand's most widely read non-fiction writers. He wrote …
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… The first comedy films When the new medium of cinema reached New Zealand its comic potential … ‘Shiner’ Slattery, who tramped New Zealand’s roads for 50 years from the 1870s, surviving by wit and cunning. Satire …
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Part of story: Humour
… Henry Nordmeyer, was born at Dunedin on 7 February 1901, the son of Arnold Nordmeyer, a German seaman who worked on a … he resigned his ministry to contest the Ōamaru seat for the New Zealand Labour Party in the general election. He was one … for a means-tested pension of 30 shillings per week at 60 years of age (more generous than first contemplated) and, at …
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… New Zealand plays Plays can be written by one person or by a group, they can last 30 seconds or three days, they can have … Hodge’s play The wind and the r ain (1933) had a three-year run on the London stage. Radio plays Several locally … First New Zealand plays …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… was born in Glasgow, Scotland, probably on 24 October 1831, the son of Robert Gilmour, a farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth … Nothing is known of his life until he arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1858. Soon afterwards he moved to Napier, … of the Southland Times with James Walker Bain. Within a year he had left this partnership to join Bain's former …
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… born at St Pancras, London, England, on 15 September 1824, the third child and only surviving daughter of Christopher … 1850 James and Maria's younger brother Henry emigrated to New Plymouth where relatives, John and Helen Hursthouse, … there was never a formal engagement. Maria was 28 years old, Arthur an uncultivated 'lad' of 19 years. They …
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… on 15 June 1879, one of eight children of Irish-born Matthew Cummings, a carpenter, and his Scottish wife, Annie … six daughters as Catholics. After attending Thames and New Plymouth high schools, where she excelled, Miriam … there were 10,000 unemployed women in Auckland alone. That year she worked on the Auckland Unemployed Women's Emergency …
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… of English public schools persuaded football clubs to adopt the rugby rules in Auckland, South Canterbury and Otago, and … of football was only worthy of savages’ 1 . The following year the New Zealand Herald declared, ‘Bull-baiting and cock-fighting … The game spreads, 1870–1892 …
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Part of story: Rugby union
… km south of Whitianga. Paku hill (179 m), which overlooks the town, was once an island. In 1843 HMS Tortoise loaded … town planner Tony Easdale, bought land at Pāuanui for a new type of housing and recreational development, with all … centre. A 210-berth marina opened in October 2009 after years of controversy about its environmental impact. The …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… Catching infections is part of growing up. Parents expect their children to get coughs and colds and common diseases … for 55% of acute hospital admissions of children under five years old. Māori and Pasifika children under the age of five … threat to the health of Māori and Pasifika children in New Zealand. Rite of passage? Some dangerous infectious …
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Part of story: Child and youth health