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Introduction - In a Strange Garden: The Life and Times of Truby King

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'What do you know about Truby King?' I asked the taxi-driver, hoping to avoid another dissertation on the parlous state of New Zealand cricket or rugby. 'He's the reason I have such a rotten stomach' was the unlikely reply. 'My mother fed me all that scientifically formulated stuff as a baby, and...

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BLOMFIELD, Charles 1848–1926

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Born London: arrived in Auckland 1863. Trained as a house decorator, and was a self taught artist, yet he became considered one of page 45 the leading professional artists in New Zealand. Painted the Pink and White Terraces in the Rotorua district before the Tarawera eruption destroyed them in 18...

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[early haven road] - Early Haven Road

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Haven Road was given its name in 1842 by the Street Naming Committee. It was also known at times as the Port Road or even Beach road. For example in The Examiner 12 July 1862: "A sudden storm caused damage on the Port Road and the spring tide sent water across the road, washing away part of the w...

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Nectar - Off the Record

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‘You haven't been having much of that cider recently,’ Jonathan tells Riki across the table, chewing, grinning, shifting, his eyes alight with that manic gleam. Riki looks back at him. ‘Nah man,’ he says mildly. Riki exudes a kind of stillness, where Jonathan is constantly moving. Riki plays stra...

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Peotestant Sunday Schools - Picturesque Dunedin: or Dunedin and its neighbourhood in 1890

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Very considerable attention is given by the ministers and members of the Protestant churches in Dunedin and suburbs, and indeed throughout the Provincial District, to the religious instruction of the young by means of Sunday Schools. With scarcely an exception every congregation maintains one or ...

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Early Coastal Craft - Chapter VII. — Port Of Napier

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The first vessel to enter the Iron Pot in the year 1857 was a small brigantine under the command of Captain Alex Blair , either the Esther or the Sea Serpent, of both of which he was in charge in the early days. His first appearance at Napier was in 1854. In 1866 he left Wellington for the Chatha...

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The Origin of the Maori Curve and Spiral - Chapter XIV — Polynesian Art: Carving and Tattooing - Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture

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(7) But the feature in which Maori carving art transcends all the rest of Polynesia is the use of the curve, and especially the spiral. In the bow and stern pieces of the canoes it is called by the natives pitau, the name for the centre frond of an edible tree-fern. And there it has indeed a stro...

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The Historic “Hetton” Locomotive - Our London Letter - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 3 (July 1, 1933)

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One hundred and eleven years ago there was put into service on the Hetton Railway, in Northern England, the historic “Hetton” locomotive constructed by George Stephenson and Nicholas Wood. This famous engine has been given a place of honour in the unique railway museum established at York. Built ...

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Chapter III — Plough and Flour-Mill. - The Old Frontier : Te Awamutu, the story of the Waipa Valley : the missionary, the soldier, the pioneer farmer, early colonization, the war in Waikato, life on the Maori border and later-day settlement

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An illuminating account of the growth of agricultural enterprise among these Upper Waikato people and the position about 1850 is contained in an unpublished manuscript journal written by the Rev. John Morgan . * The missionary prefaces the narrative of the temporal side of his labours at Te Awamu...

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The French Pass Post Office - Journal of the Nelson and Marlborough Historical Societies, Volume 2, Issue 3, 1989

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This article has been prepared from the Webber writings which are in the Provincial Museum Library. It has been edited by Margaret C. Brown, but most of it is in the original words. Mail is one thing that we look forward to receiving daily and, with all our dissatisfaction about loss of post offi...

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Maoris cutting a road through Manawatu bush. March 31 1863

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Maoris cutting a road through Manawatu bush. March 31 1863. Drawings & Prints Collection, Reference No. E-172-040 Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Bibliographies and indexes - Access tools

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A useful overview of these, though now rather dated, can be found in J.E. Traue's New Zealand Studies: A Guide to Bibliographic Resources (1985). As well as general guides, it very briefly covers the following formats: printed monographs, printed serials, theses, manuscripts, music, Māori music, ...

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Mr. William Edmonds - Hamiltons

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Miss Edmonds And The Late Mr. Edmonds.

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[untitled] - [No. 23. Native Reserve, Otago Heads]

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List of Natives entitled to share in the Award of 1000 acres made by the Court in May, 1868, in satisfaction of all demands under Kemp's Deed, by the Natives who signed the Deed, but who never received any share of the Land reserved for Native purposes within the boundaries of that purchase. Note...

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CHAPTER 11 — The Tunisian Campaign - 23 Battalion

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While the New Zealanders were at Tripoli , the war in North Africa was moving to the stage where decisive battles had to be fought in Tunisia . The Allied landings in the west had been followed by the landing of Von Arnim and Axis troops, up to a thousand a day, in northern Tunisia . This meant t...

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XIX.—The Kings of Manu'a and Samoa

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Introduction :—These genealogies are partly mythical, partly historical. The account, for instance, of the progeny of Le-Fatu and Le-‘ele'ele (No. XXII.) is clearly fabulous, but the list of the kings of Manu'a (No. XX.), given, as it is, by Taua-nu'u, the official recorder, is, in the main, reli...

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Looking at Storage

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by Ian Inkster Feature Consultant. It's a fair bet that tomorrow's homes will remain compact, even small. The shortage of suitable land, a mounting pressure on materials and the scarcity on finance appear to make it inevitable. It's also safe to assume that we'll all travel less — soaring petrol ...

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[trade dispatches] - Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1, Issue 7 (30 July 1887)

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The Auckland Bell should have its clapper taken out and cleaned. In a late issue it referred editorially to « the damned scoundrels who misrepresent us in Wellington. » Among other exhibits by Messrs Spalding & Hodge, papermakers, at the Adelaide exhibition, is a roll of tissue paper, nine miles ...

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