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The Whangarei Comet and Northern Advertiser was founded in 1875 as a weekly paper by George Alderton and, despite a small population which led to a prediction the paper "would go up like a comet, and come down like a stick", [3] the paper flourished and within two years had expanded to 12 pages and become the Northern Advocate and General Advertiser, with a small section printed in Māori. [3]
Urlich on 26 August 2015, after her investiture as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Sir Jerry Mateparae. Colleen Elizabeth Waata-Urlich ONZM (1939 – 10 September 2015) was a New Zealand ceramicist.
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2025. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 2025 1 Viktor Alksnis, 74, Russian politician ...
Respected firearms expert, Second Amendment proponent and "gun dad of the internet" Paul Harrell died this week at the age of 58, posthumously releasing a pre-recorded YouTube video announcing the ...
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Health New Zealand confirms a baby who died in November 2024 as the first death caused by whooping cough since a whooping cough epidemic was declared on 22 November 2024. [18] 17 January – Minister of Māori Development Tama Potaka announces an overhaul of the Waitangi Tribunal's membership. [19] 18 January:
Born in Kawakawa on 19 August 1943, Going was educated at Maromaku Primary School, Northland College and Church College of New Zealand. [1] [2] In 1962, at the age of 19, he was a missionary in Canada for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [3]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...