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… play rugby. After initial enthusiasm, support waned as bad weather prevented play. Both clubs lapsed in 1890. A …
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Part of story: Softball and baseball
… assembled at the northern portal to celebrate. But the wet weather and poor-quality beer did not please the crowd, …
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Part of story: Bridges and tunnels
… Even more suitable – though still exposed to wind and weather, and remote from population centres – are the …
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Part of story: Rowing
… son had died in 1966. A short, stocky man with gnarled and weather-beaten features, Alexander Drennan was widely …
Type: Biography
… imprisoned for their stand against military service, and weathered the storm that arose over his refusal to cease …
Type: Biography
… His wife had died in 1975. ‘Burly and beaming, wise and weather-beaten’, Tom Macdonald was known throughout his …
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… and bonnet, Nurse Maude walked many miles every day in all weathers, carrying not only nursing equipment but often the …
Type: Biography
… the Dunedin tailoresses' union under a cloud. Inclement weather meant that two picnics she had planned in 1895 were …
Type: Biography
… lifeline to the north was still threatened during adverse weather. In the late 19th century networks of gravelled …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… replicated the heavier British dishes suitable for colder weather. New Zealanders ate more mutton, lamb and game, and …
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Part of story: Cooking
… Art Gallery, Nelson, painted in 1875, shows an honest, weather-beaten face with a high, intellectual brow, sharp …
Type: Biography
… of the North Island, Taranaki is exposed to prevailing weather systems from the Tasman Sea. It is usually sunny …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… one should understand the ways of birds, animals and the weather, and who happily devoted his energies, his skills …
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… most eccentric, the solo monologue The end of the golden weather (1959). This was constructed from two published long …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… to survey two towns in six months, in steep bush and bad weather, with inadequate staff and equipment, and amid Maori …
Type: Biography
… Many of these were published in the collections Earthquake weather (1972), The seal in the dolphin pool (1974), and …
Type: Biography
… rivers, and at Bluff and Stewart Island, in miserable weather, the Deborah headed north. Tuckett disembarked again …
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… about this Ohakune phase in the novel High country weather, the memoir Bonfires in the rain , and early poems … at Menton, time to write her only novel, High country weather (1984), a version of her Ohakune years and …
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… within the Board of Trade, in fact heading Britain's first weather office. FitzRoy virtually invented the term … and did much to initiate the wide-ranging processes of a weather bureau, to the great benefit of those on land and …
Type: Biography
… knees and feet bound for up to four hours a day in all weathers. With two others, Lawrence Kirwan and Mark Briggs , …
Type: Biography