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… private, commercial spaces to sites of public leisure and recreation. Landscape architects played important roles in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Landscape architecture
… and Canada, was involved with the Hillary Commission for Recreation and Sport, and was a scout area chaplain. Paewai …
Type: Biography
… Power boats were used mainly for a wide range of private recreation activities, rather than competitive racing. From …
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Part of story: Powered water sports
… Pencarrow books, including March moon (1944), a nostalgic recreation of childhood memories in Marlborough, and The …
Type: Biography
… stopped in the Bay of Islands for supplies and rest and recreation. Pacific purgatory In the 1830s Kororāreka won a …
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Part of story: Whaling
… He also continued writing, including a contribution on recreation to Making New Zealand (1940); a book for the New …
Type: Biography
… work and centres of amusement of cultural activities and recreational activities, and wonder at the waste of time and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: City planning
… in the north, wrote of Māori that ‘their most delightful recreation is talking, and telling wonders; which exercise …
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Part of story: Leisure in traditional Māori society – ngā mahi a te rēhia
… and cock-fighting have more to commend them as recreations than the rough-and-tumble amusement yclept …
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Part of story: Rugby union
… bought computer, information, personal, cultural and recreational services from New Zealand, and New Zealanders …
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Part of story: International economic relations
… unemployment relief committees ran employment bureaus and recreation and training centres focused on domestic work. …
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Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… Connections, Government and Nation, Daily Life, Sport and Recreation, and Creative and Intellectual Life themes …
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Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… to the Wellington branch of the British Sailors' Society. A recreational bowls player and keen rugby supporter, he was …
Type: Biography
… with the 'siren' Celia Wylde and her unscrupulous friends (recreated by Stevan Eldred-Grigg in The siren Celia , 1989) …
Type: Biography
… Port Taranaki. Although nets and set lines are prohibited, recreational and some commercial fishing is permitted. The …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taranaki region
… dancing Among European colonists dance was a favourite recreation and entertainment, and a way of keeping warm on …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Dancing
… a practical expression of his aim both to promote healthy recreation and to conserve the landscape. He secured the …
Type: Biography
… as in New Zealand. Sport Perhaps surprisingly, sport and recreation received little attention until the 1990s. Fleur …
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Part of story: Children’s and young adult literature
… part in helping the internees and their families. Books, recreational materials and plants were provided by Friends, …
Type: Biography
… (73,000 hectares) was created in 1971 to promote public recreation and conserve surviving native forest. It is …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region