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Newmarket, Auckland
Newmarket () is a central Auckland suburb. Newmarket was originally an independent borough from 1885 to 1989, when it was abolished. Newmarket was established as a livestock market since the 1850s and grew to become a retail and commercial centre for Auckland, with the main road ''Broadway'' being the focal point of this activity. Etymology The intersection at Remuera Road, Great South Road, and Manukau Road (Broadway) became a livestock market and was known as the 'new market', eventually becoming the name for the area as a whole. The Māori language name for the area is lit. 'the lone cabbage tree'. History Māori beginnings Tāmaki Māori called this area, particularly the south of the current Newmarket, Te Tī Tūtahi, 'the cabbage tree standing alone' or 'the cabbage tree of singular importance', referring to a tree which stood on the corner of Mortimer Pass and Broadway (according to other references at the corner of Clovernook Road and Broadway) until 1908. Some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the List of cities in New Zealand, most populous city of New Zealand and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth-largest city in Oceania. The city lies between the Hauraki Gulf to the east, the Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitākere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The surrounding hills are covered in rainforest and the landscape is dotted with 53 volcanic centres that make up the Auckland Volcanic Field. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitematā Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. Auckland is one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber Pass Road, New Zealand
Khyber Pass Road is a street in the Auckland City Centre, New Zealand, connecting Upper Symonds Street to Broadway in Newmarket. The road is intersected by both the Western Line and the Auckland Southern Motorway. History Khyber Pass began life as a dirt track, during the early settlement of Auckland in the 1840s. As the road was seen as a dangerous frontier, it was named after the Khyber Pass in modern-day Pakistan, which at the time was glamorised as the frontier of British India. The road, along with Great South Road, was a part of the route used by soldiers travelling south during the Invasion of the Waikato in the 1860s. The spelling Kyber Pass was commonly used, up until the early 1940s. The part of the road close to Newmarket was known as Hobson's Bridge, referring to an old wooden bridge that existed on modern-day Davis Crescent, which crossed Hobson's Creek, a former waterway. The road was the southern border of the township of Auckland in 1852, so that an ordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newmarket Viaduct
The Newmarket Viaduct is a seven-lane New Zealand state highway network, state highway viaduct in Auckland, New Zealand. The 700 m long viaduct, which is up to 20 m high, carries the Auckland Southern Motorway, Southern Motorway over the Newmarket, New Zealand, Newmarket suburb. Original structure The viaduct was opened on 3 September 1966 at a cost of NZ$2.26 million, and was constructed as New Zealand's first pair of balanced cantilever bridges. With its long spans, the s-curvature and the varying Cant (road/rail), superelevation of the motorway, it is a complex structure even today, and at the time was a ground-breaking design for New Zealand.''Engineering to 1990'' – Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, IPENZ, Engineering Publications Co Ltd, Page 10 Constructed between 1962 and 1966, it was the largest pre-stressed concrete bridge in New Zealand at the time. An initial steel girder proposal was considered; however, a concrete structure was chosen, due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Encyclopedia Of New Zealand
''Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand'' is an online encyclopedia established in 2001 by the New Zealand Government's Ministry for Culture and Heritage. The web-based content was developed in stages over the next several years; the first sections were published in 2005, and the last in 2014 marking its completion. ''Te Ara'' means "the pathway" in the Māori language, and contains over three million words in articles from over 450 authors. Over 30,000 images and video clips are included from thousands of contributors. History New Zealand's first recognisable encyclopedia was ''The Cyclopedia of New Zealand'', a commercial venture compiled and published between 1897 and 1908 in which businesses or people usually paid to be covered. In 1966 the New Zealand Government published ''An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand'', its first official encyclopedia, in three volumes. Although now superseded by ''Te Ara'', its historical importance led to its inclusion as a separate digital reso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marté Szirmay
Marté Szirmay (born 1946) is a Hungarian New Zealand artist whose works are held in the collections of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Biography Early life Szirmay was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1946. Fearing Russian repression after the Hungarian revolt, Szirmay's parents emigrated to New Zealand in 1957. Her step-father Frank Szirmay began his artistic career as a painter, but by the 1970s he gained a reputation as a sculptor of bronze figures. Frank Szirmay's most notable public sculptures include ''Young Nick'' ( Gisborne), ''Tangaroa'' (Tauranga), and ''The Spirit of Napier'' ( Napier). Szirmay attended Auckland Girls' Grammar School from 1960 to 1964, where she preferred the sciences, and then studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1968 with a diploma of Fine Arts with First Class Honours. While studying at Elam, Jim Allen encouraged Szirmay to major in sculpture rather than painting. Szirmay's in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Memorial
A war memorial is a building, monument, statue, or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war. Symbolism Historical usage It has been suggested that the world's earliest known war memorial is the White Monument at Tell Banat, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, which dates from the 3rd millennium BC and appears to have involved the systematic burial of fighters from a state army. The Nizari Ismaili state, Nizari Ismailis of the Alamut period (the Assassins) had made a secret roll of honor in Alamut Castle containing the names of the assassins and their victims during Nizari–Seljuk conflicts, their uprising. The oldest war memorial in the United Kingdom is Oxford University's All Souls College, Oxford, All Souls College. It was founded in 1438 with the provision that its fellows should pray for those killed in the long wars with France. War memorials for the Franco-Prussi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Games
The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 British Empire Games, 1930 as the British Empire Games and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 (which were cancelled due to World War II), has successively run every four years since. The event was called the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950 British Empire Games, 1950 (four editions), the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1954 to 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1966 (four editions), and the British Commonwealth Games from 1970 British Commonwealth Games, 1970 to 1974 British Commonwealth Games, 1974 (two editions). The event removed the word ''British'' from its title for the 1978 Commonwealth Games, 1978 Games and has maintained its current name ever since (twelve edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Parry (New Zealand)
William Edward Parry (1878 – 27 November 1952) was a New Zealand politician and trade unionist. Biography Early life and career Parry was born at Orange, New South Wales, Australia. He had 12 siblings and the family faced hardship. His father, John Parry, was a goldminer and prospector, and at age 12, Bill Parry left school and went mining himself in Barmedman. A strong, energetic and large sized man, Parry was a noted cyclist in his youth and also became a skilled shooter and angler. He first came to New Zealand in 1902 and lived in Auckland for a short time and went mining in Karangahake. After two years, Parry returned to Australia. On 15 April 1906, he married Georgina Fowke at Wyalong in New South Wales. Later that year, they and some family members arrived in New Zealand. Parry was a miner at Waihi and Secretary of the Waihi Miners' Union and president of the Waihi Amalgamated Miners' and Workers' Union from 1909 to 1912. He became a miners' inspector and was appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s, through styling and design of the exterior and interior of anything from large structures to small objects, including clothing, fashion, and jewelry. Art Deco has influenced buildings from skyscrapers to cinemas, bridges, ocean liners, trains, cars, trucks, buses, furniture, and everyday objects, including radios and vacuum cleaners. The name Art Deco came into use after the 1925 (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris. It has its origin in the bold geometric forms of the Vienna Secession and Cubism. From the outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bright colors of Fauvism and the Ballets Russes, and the exoticized styles of art from Chinese art, China, Japanese art, Japan, Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streamline Moderne
Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by Aerodynamics, aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design, it was used in railroad locomotives, telephones, buses, appliances, and other devices to give the impression of sleekness and modernity. In France, it was called the ''style paquebot'', or "ocean liner style", and was influenced by the design of the luxury ocean liner SS Normandie, SS ''Normandie'', launched in 1932. Influences and origins As the Great Depression of the 1930s progressed, Americans saw a new aspect of Art Deco, i.e., streamlining, a concept first conceived by industrial designers who stripped Art Deco design of its ornament in favor of the aerodynamic pure-line concept of motion and speed developed from scientific thinking. The cylindrical forms and long horizontal windowing in architecture may also have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newmarket Auckland Around 1950
Newmarket may refer to: Communities Australia *Newmarket, Queensland Canada *Newmarket, Ontario Ireland *Newmarket, County Cork *Newmarket-on-Fergus, in County Clare **Newmarket-on-Fergus (Roman Catholic parish), in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe New Zealand *Newmarket, New Zealand, an Auckland suburb United Kingdom * Newmarket, Flintshire, former name of the Welsh village of Trelawnyd between 1710 and 1954 *Newmarket, Gloucestershire, a hamlet in England *Newmarket, Lewis, a village in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland *Newmarket, Suffolk, an English market town known as the global centre of Thoroughbred horse racing United States * Newmarket, Marion County, Missouri, an unincorporated community *Newmarket, New Hampshire, a town in Rockingham County **Newmarket (CDP), New Hampshire, the main village in the town Companies * Newmarket Capital Group, an American film financing company based in Los Angeles *NewMarket Corporation, an American chemical company based in Richmond, Vir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucklands Beach
Bucklands Beach is a suburb and beach east of Auckland CBD, Auckland's CBD in New Zealand. Bucklands Beach was originally a rural farm owned by Alfred Buckland until being developed as a holiday destination for Aucklanders in the 1910s with a regular passenger service to the beach. In the 1950s Bucklands Beach developed as a suburban area following Howick, New Zealand, Howick's status as a borough council. Etymology Bucklands Beach derives its name from Alfred Buckland. Buckland was known to holiday at the beach. Geography Bucklands Beach is located on the western side of a peninsula between the Tāmaki River and the Tāmaki Strait of the Hauraki Gulf. At the peninsula's northernmost point, Musick Point, Musick Point / Te Naupata juts into the gulf. The beach itself is located on the western side of the peninsula, which looks out towards Tahuna Torea, a sandspit on the western banks of the Tāmaki River. History Māori history The Bucklands Beach area is part of the rohe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
