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Devonport and Helensville in the 1880s and 1890s

I have been researching the Helensville Town Board, formed in 1883, and note both parallels and points of...

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issue 177 august 2026

Life on the North Shore, as seen by the ‘Auckland Indepe...

In 1859, place names such as Flagstaff, Devonport, Takapuna, Stokes Point (Northcote) and Birkenhead were for the...

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issue 176 july 2026

Devonport around 1886 – Part Two

Following on from my previous column regarding the 18 surviving maps of Devonport from around the mid-1880s, the...

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issue 175 june 2026

Devonport around 1886 – Part One

The previous column was about the development of Takapuna from 1958 to 1989, and Land Information Memorandum (LIM)...

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issue 174 may 2026

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