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Timespanner: Guest Post: Our Role Model, Tom Skeates
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Guest Post: Our Role Model, Tom Skeates. It is with great pleasure that I republish (by kind courtesy) author Jacqui Knight's article on Tom Skeates, the West Auckland monarch butterfly enthusiast. Originally published in Issue 12 of Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand. Published by the Moths and Butterflies of NZ Trust. Colour images taken from this blog. Historic images from Dick Scott's. Fire on the Clay , supplied by Jacqui Knight. Tom lived in the Waitakere Ranges, just n...
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Timespanner: Marching feet and pounding drums: the Auckland City Drill Halls (1867-c.1968)
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Marching feet and pounding drums: the Auckland City Drill Halls (1867-c.1968). This was written in 2009, with the intent of putting it together in a print publication. I might still do that, but - time stands still for no man, and my research never quite seemed to find the light of day. And more on the old drill halls is. Still coming in. So - I'll publish what I have here for now. The inspiration was a chance meeting with Peter Cooke. The Drill Shed is established. A) That th...
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Timespanner: Mr Fritzschner's baby biplane dreams
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Thursday, September 4, 2014. Mr Fritzschner's baby biplane dreams. Auckland Weekly News 31 August 1911, AWNS-19110831-16-3, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries. Fritzschner designed his baby biplane and completed in a market garden shed in August 1911. He was born in 1894, his German father arriving in the country in 1879. One or two trials were apparently run, before his father, fearing the extreme danger of the machine, set fire to it. (Info from A Passion For Flight. Change of name...
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Timespanner: Asylum Days
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Sunday, March 1, 2009. Perhaps, though, it might be the start of something more which is very much needed in terms of filling that gap in our history. Plans begin for subscription drive to build Auckland’s first insane asylum. Public meeting in the Mechanics’ Institute Hall “to consider the expediency of establishing a lunatic asylum in the district of Auckland.”. The asylum building is found to be inadequate, and requires extension. The Provincial Council Superintendent is petitioned to, instead, ch...
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Timespanner: Excessive Dancing a peril at Onehunga, 1875
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Excessive Dancing a peril at Onehunga, 1875. Death at Onehunga from Excessive Dancing. There is no doubt but that the penalties which follow almost every kind of pleasure proceed from the immoderate use of such pleasure, and frequently lead to fatal results, and an inordinate love of dancing is no exception to the universal rule as the death of the young lady, Miss Nixon, of Onehunga, testifies, and which may serve as a homily for the study of young persons generally. Here's the...
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Timespanner: Albert Crum’s New Zealand Brick, Tile & Pottery Company in New Lynn (1905-1929)
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Albert Crum’s New Zealand Brick, Tile and Pottery Company in New Lynn (1905-1929). The New Lynn works. Image from a letterhead held in the J T Diamond collection, Waitakere Central Library, Henderson. I started researching this because of the interest shown in the New Lynn brickworks managed by Albert Crum by the members of the NZ Pottery Forum. I suspect that this post will be updated as time progresses and more information comes to light. Christchurch Star, 1 February 1886.
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Timespanner: A Kiwi soldier in the Easter 1916 Uprising
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014. A Kiwi soldier in the Easter 1916 Uprising. A Kiwi soldier during WWI finds himself in the middle of the 1916 Easter Uprising. Image from Wiki - Sackville Street, Dublin, after the uprising. IN THE DUBLIN RIOT. GRAMMAR SCHOOL OLD BOY HAS AN EXCITING TIME. WENT TO VISIT, HAD TO FIGHT. FIRED AT BY REBEL COUNTESS. Tuesday, June 10, 2014. June 10, 2014 at 4:20 AM. August 19, 2014 at 5:34 PM. August 19, 2014 at 9:12 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Handbook of Proverbs,. Here's ...
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Timespanner: Fire engines, and other stuff
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Monday, April 9, 2012. Fire engines, and other stuff. On 1 April, MOTAT staged a day centred around things to do with fire. I went along for a bit of a look. Newer versions of fire engines were up top, closest to the pumphouse, but that didn't really hold my interest. Thankfully, there was much more down the hill. This truck in the line-up seems a bit confusing. In what way is this to do with fire equipment? I haven't identified it as yet (and there were no interpretive panels visible for it.). 1971 Bedf...
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Timespanner: A card from the Auckland Savage Club
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Thursday, September 4, 2014. A card from the Auckland Savage Club. A good friend of mine gave me the above undated promo card, dated from the period of the First World War to 1942, when Rev. Chappell died. Cyclopedia of New Zealand, 1902). The club itself was disestablished c.1990-1991. But what of the hekeretari (secretary) of the club, A B Chappell? He was quite well-known, as it turns out. REV A B. CHAPPELL, M.A. Auckland Star 28 August 1942). Image of Rev Chappell from NZ Herald 29 August 1942. I pub...
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Timespanner: When Chinese shearers had to sleep separately ...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014. When Chinese shearers had to sleep separately . Image: William Jukes Steward, 1891. From Wikipedia. A little known fact – in 1898, the New Zealand parliament passed the Shearers Accommodation Act, which contained apartheid-like clauses demanding separate accommodation for Chinese shearers apart from everyone else in the shearing sheds of the land. 29 July 1896), and it passed the Lower House. The Legislative Council initially threw the Bill out, but it passed its second reading...
