Sir William Fox, KCMG (1812 – 23 June 1893) was the second Premier of New Zealand on four occasions in the 19th century, while New Zealand was still a colony. He was known for his confiscation of Māori...

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Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell KCB, KCMG (23 February 1868 – 29 November 1960) was a General from New Zealand, during the Great War who rose swiftly to high command during the Gallipoli camp...

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Founder of Harcourts real estate Councillor J. B. Harcourt was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, and left England when very young, arriving in Australia in 1856. He was educated in Melbourne, and l...

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Arrived the Duke of Roxburgh Link to Wikipedia Page: Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: New Zealand History Online: DEATH OF MR. S. D. PARNELL. THE FOUNDER OF THE EIGHT HOURS SYSTEM. For some ...

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Wallace Edward Rowling, politician: born Motueka, New Zealand 15 November 1927; MP (Labour) for Buller 1962-72, for Tasman 1972-84; President, New Zealand Labour Party 1970-73; Minister of Finance 1972...

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Sir Maui Wiremu Pita Naera Pomare, KBE, CMG (1875 or 1876 – 27 June 1930) was a New Zealand doctor and politician, being counted among the more prominent Māori political figures. He is particularly kno...

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Most Rev. Whakahuihui "Hui" Vercoe, PCNZM, MBE (4 June 1928 – 13 September 2007) was an Anglican bishop in New Zealand. He was the Archbishop of New Zealand from 2004 to 2006, the first person from the...

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Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. Long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest...

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Liam Mullane Finn (born 24 September 1983 in Melbourne, Australia) is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. Born in Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child. He is the son of pop musician Neil Fi...

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Sir Frederic Truby King CMG (1 April 1858 – 10 February 1938), generally known as Truby King, was a New Zealand health reformer and Director of Child Welfare. He is best known as the founder of the Plu...

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one of the founders of the Taranaki Herald

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A member of the Original All Black Team

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Hoani Retimana Waititi (1926–1965) was a notable New Zealand teacher, educationalist and community leader. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Te Whanau-a-Apanui iwi. He was born in Whangaparaoa, ...

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Alexander Mahé Owens Drysdale , MNZM (born 19 November 1978 in Melbourne, Australia) is a New Zealand rower and five-time World Champion single sculler. He won Bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for S...

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Valerie Kasanita Adams (formerly known as Valerie Vili), ONZM (born 6 October 1984) is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning women's Olympic champion and three-time World champion, two-ti...

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Rosanna Arkle is a New Zealand born glamour model and star of the reality TV show "the GC"

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Mate Jakich From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mate Jakich (Mate I. J.) (1941–2010) was a former Auckland, New Zealand representative rugby player. Jakich was born in Auckland and educated at St P...

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NZ Member of Parliament Deputy Mayor of Christchurch Wikipedia:

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Philip Bruce Goff (born 22 June 1953) is the Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Mount Roskill. During the Fifth Labour Government, in office from 1999 to 2008, he served in a number of ministeria...

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William (Bill) Woolsey was an accomplished league player. Bill is touted as one of the toughest Kiwi league players in history. He once suffered a head wound that required 30 stitches. When a reserve r...

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Frances "Fran" Walsh, Lady Jackson, MNZM (born January 10, 1959) is a screenwriter, film producer and occasional musician. She is the wife of filmmaker Peter Jackson. They have two children: Billy and ...

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Kimbra Johnson (born 27 March 1990), known mononymously as Kimbra, is a New Zealand singer/songwriter from Hamilton, New Zealand. She is currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Kimbra's debut album ...

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Sir Robert Henry Wynyard (24 December 1802 – 6 January 1864) was a New Zealand colonial administrator, serving at various times as Lieutenant Governor of New Ulster Province, Administrator of the Gover...

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Dame Silvia Rose Cartwright, PCNZM, DBE, QSO, DStJ (née Poulter) (born 7 November 1943) was the 18th Governor-General of New Zealand.

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David Russell Lange, ONZ, CH (4 August 1942 – 13 August 2005), served as the 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. He headed New Zealand's fourth Labour Government, one of the most refo...

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Michael Kenneth Moore ONZ (known as Mike Moore, born 28 January 1949) is a politician from New Zealand who has served both as Prime Minister of New Zealand and Director-General of the World Trade Organ...

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Norman Eric Kirk (6 January 1923 – 31 August 1974) was the 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 until his sudden death in 1974. He led the Parliamentary wing of the New Zealand Labour Party fro...

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Sir Paul Scott Holmes KNZM (29 April 1950 – 1 February 2013) was a radio and television broadcaster in New Zealand. Holmes hosted a Saturday morning radio show on Newstalk ZB[2] and, for 23 years until...

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Dave Dobbyn, ONZM (born 3 January 1957) is an award-winning New Zealand musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. In his early career he was a member of the rock group Th' Dudes and was the main...

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Opshop was formed by Invercargill born, Christchurch raised, singer/songwriter Jason Kerrison. He based himself in Auckland, writing music while at a residency in a backpacker's bar in Auckland. They...

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Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull (14 September 1868 – 28 June 1918) was a New Zealand merchant, and book collector. On his death, his collection formed the nucleus of the Alexander Turnbull Collection. B...

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Barry John Crump MBE (born 15 May 1935, Auckland, New Zealand – died 3 July 1996) was a New Zealand author of semi-autobiographical comic novels based on his image as a rugged outdoors man. Taken toget...

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Sir Julius Vogel, KCMG (24 February 1835 – 12 March 1899) was the eighth Premier of New Zealand. His administration is best remembered for the issuing of bonds to fund railway construction and other pu...

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He was the Member of Parliament for Mataura 1938-1946, then Wallace 1946-1957, when he retired. He was Minister of Defence from 1949 to 1957 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1954 to 1957 in the F...

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Sir Peter James Blake, KBE (1 October 1948 in Auckland – 6 December 2001 in Brazil) was a New Zealand yachtsman who won the Whitbread Round the World Race, the Jules Verne Trophy – setting the fastest ...

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Sir Peter Charles Leitch, KNZM, QSM, (born 1944) is a New Zealand businessman, also known as The Mad Butcher. Although well known in New Zealand for the chain of butcheries he founded, Leitch is arguab...

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Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, GCMG, KC (31 March 1851, Nelson, New Zealand – 13 March 1936, Wellington, New Zealand) was the first New Zealand-born Prime Minister of New Zealand. Bell is one three New...

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Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE (born 25 June 1952) is a New Zealand singer and musician. His musical career includes forming 1970s and 1980s New Zealand rock group Split Enz, a number of solo albums, te...

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Cornelius Mullane "Neil" Finn, OBE (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand Pop recording artist. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House....

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William Theophilus Anderton (registered as Theophilus William) was born on 16 March 1891 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, the youngest of five children of Henry Anderton, a forge labourer, and...

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Sir Roger Owen Douglas (born 1937) is a New Zealand politician who served as a minister in two Labour governments. He is best-known for his prominent role in the radical economic restructuring of the 1...

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Sir Donald Charles "Don" McKinnon, ONZ, GCVO (born 27 February 1939) is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. He was the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth o...

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James Brendan "Jim" Bolger, ONZ (born 31 May 1935) was the 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1990 to 1997. Bolger was elected on the promise of delivering a "Decent Society" following the previou...

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Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, DCNZM, QSM (born 7 February 1944), generally known as Witi Ihimaera ( /ˈwɪti ɪhiˈmaɪrə/), is a New Zealand author, and is often regarded as one of the most prominent Māori wr...

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Sydney, NSW, Australia

Brooke Gabrielle Fraser Ligertwood, better known as Brooke Fraser (born 15 December 1983) is a New Zealand award-winning folk-pop and Christian music artist. Her third studio album Flags has become the...

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Bernard Gabriel 'Bernie' Fraser (born 21 July 1953) is best known as a former New Zealand All Black rugby union player. Bernie Fraser was born in Lautoka, Fiji. He is the father of New Zealand Award ...

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New Zealand

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On 30 April 2011 Don Brash is the current leader of the ACT party of New Zealand. Before entering politics, Brash was Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand for 14 years

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Sir James Hector was a Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist. He went on to have a lengthy career as a government employed man...

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A seminal figure of the age of space, New Zealand-born William Hayward Pickering was internationally known for his significant contributions to the founding of the space age, and for the firs...

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Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake, KG, GCMG, CH, PC, QSO, KStJ (11 February 1904 – 8 December 1983) was a New Zealand politician. The only person to have been both Prime Minister and Governor-General of New Zea...

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New Zealand Prime Minister: 8 Dec 1997–5 Dec 1999

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Morton William Coutts (7 February 1904 – 25 June 2004) was a New Zealand born inventor who revolutionised the science of brewing beer. He is best known for the continuous fermentation method.

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London, Greater London, UK

In 2004 Gary Christie Lewis married Lady Davina Windsor , becoming the first Māori to marry into the British Royal Family. ( Wikipedia )

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Jonathan Ionatana Falefasa "Tana" Umaga, ONZM; born 27 May 1973 in Lower Hutt) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer and former captain of the national team, the All Blacks. He played for the Hurrica...

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Graham Henry (born 8 June 1946 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand Rugby Union coach, and former head coach of the country's national team, the All Blacks. He played rugby union for Canterbury and cricke...

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Maori Spiritual Leader and Prophet

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Major-General (Dr) Sir Donald Johnstone McGavin, Kt., C.M.G., D.S.O. A.D.M.S. New Zealand Division, inter D.G.M.S. New Zealand. Dr Donald McGavin was born in Rochester, Kent, England in 1876, and was...

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On November 10, 1868, Te Kooti and his followers attacked the township of Matawhero on the outskirts of Gisborne. Some 54 people were slaughtered, including women and children. The dead included 22 loc...

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Kahungunu (also known as Kahu-hunuhunu) was born at the Tinotino pā in Ōrongotea (later named Kaitāia). His father subsequently moved to the Tauranga area, where Kahungunu grew to adulthood. Tall and...

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Terry Clark wanted to be a gangster. By the end of his short career he had caused dozens of deaths and amassed a major fortune from drug dealing. His story is one of a bad boy gone worse - as a boy he ...

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Tane Tinorau was raised in the Waitomo area and was instrumental in developing the Glowworm Cave as an attraction in 1888. He and Frederick Mace are thought to be the first explorers of the Glowworm Ca...

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Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. In e...

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Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC (15 September 1909 – 22 November 1982) was a New Zealand aviatrix. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by taking a number...

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Paul Henry (born 4 August 1960) is a New Zealand broadcaster. He is both a radio and television presenter. He gained national recognition as the co-host of TVNZ's breakfast television programme Breakfa...

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Brian Raymond Tamaki (born 2 February 1958) heads Destiny Church, a Pentecostal Christian organisation in New Zealand which advocates strict adherence to fundamentalist biblical morality, and is notabl...

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Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana (25 January 1873 – 18 September 1939) T.W. Ratana had a spiritual revalation at the age of 44 and went on to found the Ratana religion. He became known for his healing powers a...

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Dame Whina Cooper ONZ DBE (9 December 1895 – 26 March 1994), was born Hohewhina Te Wake, daughter of Heremia Te Wake of the Te Rarawa iwi, at Te Karaka, Hokianga, From an early age she showed an inte...

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William Hayward Wakefield (1801[1] - 19 September 1848) was an English colonel, the leader of the first colonizing expedition to New Zealand and one of the founders of Wellington. In 1826, he married...

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Sir Edward Stafford, KCMG (23 April 1819 - 14 February 1901) served as the third Premier of New Zealand on three occasions in the mid 19th century. His total time in office is the longest of any leader...

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Sir Howard Leslie Morrison, OBE, (18 August 1935 – 24 September 2009) was a New Zealand entertainer. From 1964 until his death in 2009 he was one of New Zealand's leading television and concert perform...

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Willie Apiata VC, born Bill Henry Apiata (born 28 June 1972 in Mangakino, New Zealand) is a Corporal in the New Zealand Special Air Service and the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand...

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Topeora, Rangi Kuini Wikitoria ? - 1865-1873? Ngati Toa leader, peacemaker, composer of waiata Rangi Topeora was born at Kawhia probably early in the nineteenth century. Her mother was Waitohi, o...

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Hare Pomare the son of Pomare II of Ngati Manu married Hariata, a Nga Puhi woman from Te Ahuahu, near Ohaeawai, was the daughter of Pikimana Tutapuiti. Both Hariata and Hare were young adults when they...

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The Topp Twins (b. 1958, Huntly, New Zealand) are the folk singing sister comedy duo of New Zealand entertainers Jools and Lynda Topp. They are known for their country music influenced style, live sh...

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The Topp Twins (b. 1958, Huntly, New Zealand) are the folk singing sister comedy duo of New Zealand entertainers Jools and Lynda Topp. They are known for their country music influenced style, live sh...

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Dai Henwood (born 1978) is a New Zealand comedian and interpretive dancer. He is best known for his hosting of several television shows found on C4 but also performs stand up comedy.

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Billy T. James was a New Zealand comedian who was popular as an actor throughout the '80s. Born William James Taitoko in 1948 in Waikato, New Zealand, he was of Maori heritage. He developed his comedy ...

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Connie Purdue (née Soljak) (1912–2000) was a New Zealand trade unionist. Formerly a communist and a Labour Party member, she later became a conservative Catholic and a pro-life activist. Connie Sol...

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Miriam Soljak (née Cummings) (1879–1971) was a pioneering New Zealand feminist, communist, unemployed rights activist and supporter of family planning efforts. Born Miriam Bridelia Cummings in Hast...

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Sean Fitzpatrick was an inspirational All Black captain, leading the team in a record 51 tests between 1986 and 1997. The dynamic hooker played 91 tests all up before a chronic knee injury forced his r...

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Winston Raymond Peters (born 11 April 1945) is a New Zealand politician and leader of New Zealand First, a political party he founded in 1993. Peters has had a turbulent political career since entering...

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Bishop of Dunedin and (Arch-Bishop) Primate of New Zealand. From an early age he desired ordination, but was unable to pursue this until 1858, when he received a legacy from his grandfather. Attend...

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Wellington, New Zealand

Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Winston Palmer, KCMG 1990, AC 1991, PC 1985. Former New Zealand Prime Minister. (8 Aug 1989 - 4 Sep 1990 (resigned))

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Victor Vito is a New Zealand rugby player/male model who plays blindside flanker for the New Zealand All Blacks. He was a star of New Zealand Sevens, and captained the 2006 New Zealand Under 19 Rugby t...

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New Zealand

Anthony Boric (born 27 December 1983 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a rugby union player for the Blues in the Super 14 competition. He also plays for the North Harbour Marist. He plays as a lock. On 1 Ju...

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Nene was born probably in the 1780s. He was the second son of Tapua, leader and tohunga of Ngati Hao of Hokianga, and the younger brother of Patuone, the inheritor of their father's mana. By descent an...

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Owen Franks (born 23 December 1987) is a New Zealand rugby player who plays for the Crusaders in the Super Rugby competition and the All Blacks at international level. He attended Christchurch Boys' ...

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Tony Dale Woodcock (born 27 January 1981 in Helensville, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union player. His position is loosehead prop, and he has played 74 tests for the national team, the All Blac...

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Lieutenant-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg VC, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO & Three Bars (21 March 1889 – 4 July 1963), was a British-born New Zealand Victoria Cross recipient and soldier who...

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