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… and accountant and where two other children, Isabel and Robert, were born. After attending Macandrew Road School, … of Jane Runciman and other leading DTU officials, John Roberts, general secretary of the national clothing trades …
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… diagonal-skinned, frameless construction, introduced by Robert Logan. Most of the hull was kauri, making for a … Secret , was sailed to Australia in 1875. The success of Robert Logan’s Akarana (1888) brought prestige and pride to …
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Part of story: Sailing and windsurfing
… servant in the household of Catherine Hale and her husband, Robert Hale, a baker, of Parnell, Auckland. In the smaller … As in a previous episode involving another employee, Robert Hale refused to lay charges. Margaret Lynch then laid …
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… built on the newly flattened Bell Hill in Dunedin. Winner Robert Lawson came to Dunedin from Melbourne in 1862 and was … 1873. The statue in the Octagon of renowned Scottish poet Robert Burns (uncle of First Church minister Thomas Burns, …
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Part of story: Otago region
… tradition, both in Christchurch, were: a statue of John Robert Godley, the ‘founder of Canterbury’, by Thomas … family, who drowned in the wreck of the Tararua in 1881. Robert Burns In 1887 a memorial to Scottish poet Robert Burns was unveiled in Dunedin. It followed a …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… report, the Ross report was ignored by the government. Robert Muldoon and ad hoc taxes National had portrayed … reluctant to court unpopularity by introducing new taxes. Robert Muldoon was finance minister from 1967 to 1972 and … in 1975/76. National’s finance minister during this era, Robert Muldoon, also ran budget deficits. Governments …
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Part of story: Taxes
… two children of Catherine Maude Hales and her husband, John Robert Kent, a bootmaker. She was educated at Addington … at her home using a microscope lent to her by Professor Robert Speight, curator at the Canterbury Museum, Kent … this included a pet kiwi) and also looked after birds for Robert Falla, director of the Canterbury Museum. The birds …
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… was made from the University of Otago by physics professor Robert Jack. The broadcast included music, such as the … Clive Drummond recalls his excitement at hearing one of Robert Jack’s pioneering radio broadcasts in 1921: ‘So one … as Wellington’s Charles Forrest and Douglas Shipherd, and Robert Burrell of Auckland, were businesspeople who saw the …
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Part of story: Radio
… in Otago, New Zealand. Chapman and his elder brother, Robert, signed up and they arrived together in Port Chalmers … immediately commenced mercantile careers in Dunedin, where Robert was to become a prominent citizen. The precise nature …
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… of Victorian realism So lifelike is the statue of John Robert Godley that his friends claimed they would have … the recently deceased Canterbury provincial coloniser John Robert Godley, was commissioned from the London sculptor …
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Part of story: Sculpture and installation art
… of Maria Armstrong and her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Mansel of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons. She was … and later lived on the Isle of Wight. When her brother Robert, a former naval officer, died in South Africa, Lucy, …
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… as a house servant when she married a fellow Scot, James Robertson, in Melbourne on 8 August 1853. It seems that four … three of whom survived infancy. In August 1863 James Robertson enlisted for military service in New Zealand and … Two daughters may have been born there. At some stage Ann Robertson had to assume the duty of supporting her family, …
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… Scotland, the son of Jane Rankin and her husband, Robert Blair, a miner. John entered the office of a large … his attendance. He was survived by his wife and their son, Robert Fergusson. …
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… and poems in Manuka , the college’s magazine, edited by Robert Lowry , later Smithyman’s first publisher. During the … associated with other Auckland writers, including Sinclair, Robert Chapman and Maurice Duggan . On 26 August 1946, at …
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… a conventional upper class upbringing she married John Robert Godley on 29 September 1846 at Voelas, and, on his …
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… set up as a protest against the National government led by Robert Muldoon. There was disquiet within the National Party … to stand candidates in every seat. NZP leader Robert (Bob) Jones, a prominent businessman, was its most …
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Part of story: Political parties
… tablelands in the late 1920s, and in 1929 they tried out Mt Robert on the Travers Range. In 1944 a club was formed and the Mt Robert Hut built. Rope tows and accommodation huts were …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… in January 1874 the Marine Department appointed Commander Robert Edwin as New Zealand’s first official weather … reporting section was functioning along lines developed by Robert FitzRoy (a former governor of New Zealand and … were based on the reports of about 24 observation stations. Robert Edwin sent daily reports to the major papers, along …
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Part of story: Weather forecasting
… In the early 1870s Margaret Ralph's eldest surviving son, Robert, discovered coal on the Ralph property; not long … Ralph kept the hotel and, initially with the help of Robert, took over the development of the coalfield. … interest in the company's activities. Her elder brother Robert died in 1905, and she and her younger brother William …
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… and formed a partnership called Elder, Smith & Co. with Robert Barr Smith in 1863. Elders was later active in New …
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Part of story: Stock and station agencies