Saturday, November 23, 2019
When a rusty pistol fired once -- the death of William John Turner, 1945
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SCHOOLBOY SHOT PLAYING WITH PISTOL OLD RUSTY WEAPON NOT AWARE OF DANGER "It is disturbing that any boy of secondary scho...
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Peace bonfires on Mount Eden, 1919
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"Showing a bonfire on Mount Eden for the peace celebrations at the end of the First World War," 19 July 1919. Auckland Lib...
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A Pleasant Point Railway Easter
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Bryan Blanchard from the Pleasant Point Museum and Railwa y sent these in the other day, writing: "Easter 2018 with The Silly Old Stati...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Ellen Melville, the Kosie vote splitter
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Images: Left – Mayor Gunson, 1920, 1093-ALBUM-214-11, Sir George Grey Special Collections Centre – Kosie Theatre building, April 201...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Early Chinese in Wellington
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(I'll be adding to this as time goes on as it is also permits). Port Nicholson to New Zealand’s capital Wellington’s story, as with...
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Friday, July 27, 2018
"We are borrowing one of your 'planes": an early theft from Mangere Aerodrome
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(Image: NZ Herald 24 April 1934) 'PLANE STOLEN. CRASH IN DARKNESS AT MANGERE 'DROME. "FLYING TO AUSTRALIA." B...
Friday, August 4, 2017
When the "Queen of the Goths" won the first Avondale Cup
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At the July 2017 meeting of the Whau Local Board, the Board’s members approved naming a new street in Avondale, just off Sandy Lane near As...
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Minding other people’s children — Samuel Albert Nelmes
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It started with a phone call from someone who wanted to know where her great-grandfather Samuel Albert Nelmes had lived in Avondale, in th...
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
The Collector and the Gardener: Alexander Rose, and Fong Ming Quong
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Updated 15 August 2019 In Auckland in the 1890s, two men from different civilisations would cross each other’s path in the course of the ...
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