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Roskill Electorate, 1993
Roskill may refer to: * Mount Roskill, a neighbourhood of Auckland, New Zealand ** Mount Roskill (New Zealand electorate), a House of Representatives electorate based on Mount Roskill ** Mount Roskill Grammar School, a secondary school in Mount Roskill ** Mount Roskill Intermediate, a middle school in Mount Roskill * Puketāpapa, a volcano also known as Mount Roskill in Auckland, New Zealand * Roskill (New Zealand electorate), a former parliamentary electorate, 1919–1996 * Roskill Commission on the Third London Airport, 1968–1971 People with the surname * Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill, chair of the Roskill Commission * Stephen Roskill, Royal Navy officer and official historian of the navy in the Second World War See also *Roskell, a surname *Roskelley, a surname {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Roskill
Mount Roskill is a suburban area in the city of Auckland, New Zealand. It is named for the volcanic peak Puketāpapa (commonly called "Mount Roskill" in English). Description The suburb, named after the Mount, is located seven kilometres to the south of the city centre, and is surrounded by the neighbouring suburbs of Three Kings, New Zealand, Three Kings, Sandringham, New Zealand, Sandringham, Wesley, Hillsborough, Auckland, Hillsborough and Mount Albert, New Zealand, Mount Albert. The Mount Roskill shops are located at the intersection of Mount Albert and Dominion Roads. In the 1920s, a new subdivision off Dominion Road was established. It was named the Victory Estate after notable First World War personnel. One of the city's larger suburbs, it was largely farmland until after the Second World War. It was a separate borough from 1947 until local government reorganisation in 1989 amalgamated it with Auckland City. In the past, Mount Roskill was referred to as the Bible Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Roskill (New Zealand Electorate)
Mount Roskill is a parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the New Zealand House of Representatives. Phil Goff of the Labour Party held the seat from the until he resigned from Parliament on 12 October 2016 after contesting and being elected Mayor of Auckland on 8 October 2016 in the 2016 mayoral election. His resignation necessitated a byelection in this electorate which was won by Michael Wood. Mount Roskill is located on the western side of the Auckland isthmus, bordering the Manukau Harbour. It is anchored around the suburbs of Mount Roskill, Three Kings, Hillsborough and a large section of Balmoral. The boundaries added in Lynfield and New Windsor at the expense of Onehunga, which returned to the electorate after being cut out in 1999. The Mount Roskill electorate is working class and multi-ethnic, with a high Pacific Island and Asian population, and has the highest number of overseas-born residents of any New Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Roskill Grammar School
Mount Roskill Grammar School is a secondary school in the suburb of Mount Roskill, Auckland. Officially opened in 1953, the school is widely regarded as one of the most diverse schools in Auckland, having students of over 70 different nationalities including approximately 120 International students. The school has been noted by media for its rising academic success and exceptional performance for its low socio-economic decile. Motto In 1957 the school was granted its own board of governors and adopted the emblem of the Phoenix with the motto 'Sursum' meaning 'To the Heights'. The Phoenix was chosen for its symbolism of the pursuit of excellence and periodic renewal and revitalization. Enrollment The school is widely known as one of the most diverse in New Zealand. The school roll has an ethnic composition of 26% Indian, 16% Chinese, 13% Pākehā, 11% Tongan, 8% Samoan, 6% Māori, 3% South East Asian, 3% African, 2% Cook Island Māori, and 12% other. Premises The school has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Roskill Intermediate
Mount Roskill Intermediate is a co-educational school for boys and girls in years 7 and 8. It is located in Denbigh Avenue, Mount Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand next to Mount Roskill Primary and Mount Roskill Grammar School. It currently has a roll of 620 pupils. History The school first opened in 1956. It was completely remodelled during 1995. School motto The school motto is "Strive, Seek, Find". It comes from the last line of a poem called ''Ulysses'' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. School logo Its logo is a shield containing three parts a torch, star, and a book, which is referring to the motto. Sports Mt Roskill Intermediate takes part in various activities and mostly entering competitions to compete with neighbouring schools and schools around Auckland. The main sports events are Rugby, Cricket, Netball, Soccer ootball Badminton, Tennis, Basketball, Table Tennis, Hockey. The school has been successful in all of the activities, staff of the school take up the coaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puketāpapa
Puketāpapa, also known as Pukewīwī and Mount Roskill, is a Volcano, volcanic peak and Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau, Tūpuna Maunga (ancestral mountain) in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the suburb that shares its English name, Mount Roskill. Description The mountain formed as a result of volcanic activity approximately 20,000 years ago. Its peak, located in present-day Winstone Park towards the southwest end of the suburb, is 110 metres in height. It is one of the many extinct cones that dot the isthmus of Auckland, all part of the Auckland volcanic field. The scoria cone was built by lava fountain, fire-fountaining from two craters. Lava flowed from the base of the cone to the north and to the northwest. It was the site of a Māori people, Māori Pa (Māori), pā (fortified village), and was known as ''Pukewīwī'' (hill covered in rushes) and ''Puketāpapa'' (flat-topped hill). Many historic cooking pits and terracing sites were destroyed when the main south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roskill (New Zealand Electorate)
Roskill was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1919 to 1996. The electorate was represented by eight Members of Parliament. Population centres In the 1918 electoral redistribution, the North Island gained a further three electorates from the South Island due to faster population growth. Only two existing electorates were unaltered, five electorates were abolished, two former electorate were re-established, and three electorates, including Roskill, were created for the first time. The electorate was in the western suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand. History The electorate was created in 1919, and existed continuously until 1996, the first mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) election, when it was included in the New Lynn electorate. The first representative was Vivian Potter, who represented the electorate for three terms for the Reform Party. In the , Potter stood in the electorate as an independent but was beaten by Arthur Stallworthy. In the Roskill ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roskill Commission
The Roskill Commission (formally the Commission on the Third London Airport) was a UK Government Commission charged with looking into finding a site for a new airport for London. Chaired by High Court judge Eustace Roskill, it sat from 1968 to 1970 and published its report in January 1971. Since the 1950s, London's primary passenger airport had been at Heathrow, with a second one at Gatwick. The Commission's aim was "to enquire into the timing of the need for a four-runway airport to cater for the growth of traffic at existing airports serving the London area, to consider the various alternative sites, and to recommend which site should be selected." Roskill's initial list of 78 sites was reduced to an intermediate list of 29, before detailed consideration of four short-listed locations: *Cublington *Foulness *Nuthampstead *Thurleigh. The Commission recommended that a site at Cublington near Wing in Buckinghamshire (to the north-west of London) should be developed as London's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill
Eustace Wentworth Roskill, Baron Roskill, PC (6 February 1911 – 3 October 1996) was a British lawyer and public servant. Background and education Roskill was the youngest of four sons of John Roskill KC. His mother Sybil was the daughter of the traveller and politician Ashton Wentworth Dilke. Roskill's oldest brother was Sir Ashton Roskill QC; another older brother Stephen was a Royal Navy officer and historian. He was educated as an exhibitioner at Winchester College and went then to Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated first class with a Bachelor of Arts in 1932, winning an honorary scholarship in modern history. Roskill studied afterwards as a Harmsworth Law Scholar at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1933. Thereafter he worked at the Commercial Bar. Career With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Roskill, having previously suffered from tuberculosis, was not conscripted into active service, but became employed at the Ministry of Shippi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Roskill
Captain Stephen Wentworth Roskill, (1 August 1903 – 4 November 1982) was a senior career officer of the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War and, after his enforced medical retirement, served as the official historian of the Royal Navy from 1949 to 1960. He is now chiefly remembered as a prodigious author of books on British maritime history. Naval career The son of John Henry Roskill, K.C. a barrister, and Sybil Dilke, Stephen Roskill was born in London, England and joined the Royal Navy in 1917, attending the Royal Naval College at Osborne House and then the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, Devon. As a midshipman Roskill served on the light cruiser on the China Station before returning to practise gunnery at Greenwich and Portsmouth. In 1930, he married Elizabeth Van den Bergh, with whom he had seven children. Roskill served at sea as gunnery officer of the carrier on the China Station from 1933 to 1935. Afterwards he instructed at the gunnery s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roskell
Roskell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * George Bernard Roskell (1850–1926) Australian architect * J. S. Roskell (1913–1998), English historian *Luke Roskell (born 1997), English actor *Richard Roskell Richard Butler Roskell (15 August 1817 – 27 January 1883) was the second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham. Richard Butler Roskell was born in Gateacre, near Liverpool 15 August 1817. On 20 July 1825 he was placed at St. Cuthber ... (1817–1883), English Roman Catholic Bishop * Scott Roskell (born 1969), Australian former rugby league footballer See also * Roskill (other) {{surname, Roskell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
