X-Nico

unusual facts about Fitzroy, Waikato



1970 VFL season

Before the start of the third quarter, the Richmond and Fitzroy players lined up in front of the Members' Stand and were introduced to The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales and The Princess Anne, who then watched the last half of the match.

1999 AFL season

Waverley Park hosted its first football match in Round 3, 1970 (Geelong vs Fitzroy), and was known for over twenty years as VFL Park.

Ann Ballin

She attended St Hilda's Collegiate School, Waikato Diocesan School, the University of Auckland and the University of Canterbury (MA).

Aotea Harbour

Bridal Veil Falls is located on Pakoka River, and Lake Disappear is on Pakihi Stream, both of which flow into Aotea Harbour.

Arthur Edwards

Arthur A. Edwards (1915–2002), Australian rules footballer with the Fitzroy Football Club

Atiamuri Power Station

The station connects to the single-circuit Wairakei to Whakamaru A line (WRK-WKM-A) at the substation to the south of the powerhouse, with electricity being distributed to Taupo and the southern Waikato, and further north to Hamilton and Auckland.

Auckland Anniversary Day

The modern area of observation includes all of the Northland and Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Gisborne Regions, as well as some parts of the Manawatu-Wanganui and Hawke's Bay regions north of the 39th parallel.

Bessie Blount

Elizabeth Blount, mistress of Henry VIII of England and mother of his son, Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset

Bob Merrick

He shares with Jack Moriarty the record for most goals in a match by a Fitzroy player, kicking a bag of 12 goals in his club's Round 16 encounter with Melbourne at Brunswick Street Oval in 1919.

Centre for Contemporary Photography

In 2005, CCP relocated to 404 George Street, Fitzroy, in purpose-designed premises by Sean Godsell Architects.

Charles Fitzroy Doll

The hotel's restaurant, now named Fitzroy Doll's, is said to be almost identical to the RMS Titanic`s dining room which he also designed.

Charles Nuttall

Nuttall, son of James Charles Nuttall, was born at Fitzroy, Victoria.

Cleveland Hall, London

In 1870 the Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle noted that the Reverend Charles Adolphus Row was delivering a course of lectures in defence of the gospel at Cleveland Hall, Fitzroy square, the former secularist center.

Corner Stone Cues

Eton Path was released in February 2008 and was recorded at Sir George Martin's AIR Studios in London with engineering team Nick Wollage and Olga Fitzroy.

Daphne Pollard

Daphne Pollard (19 October 1892 in Fitzroy, Melbourne – 22 February 1978 in Los Angeles) was an Australian actress in American films, mostly short comedies.

Darci Brahma

After a spell, Darci Brahma tackled the older horses for the first time in the Group One Waikato Draught Sprint at Te Rapa in February 2006 where he was beaten into 2nd place by proven Weight For Age galloper Kristov.

Fitzroy, Waikato

It is named after Robert FitzRoy, who commanded the HMS Beagle and was later the Governor of New Zealand.

Frederick Augustus Smith

Smith was 37 years old, and a captain in the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot (later the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry), British Army during the Waikato-Hauhau Maori War, New Zealand when the following deed took place on 21 June 1864 at Tauranga for which he was awarded the VC.

Gladstone to Monto railway line

Governor Fitzroy named Calliope after HMS Calliope which was anchored in Port Curtis (now Gladstone) harbour in 1854.

Guy Overton

Guy William Fitzroy Overton (8 June 1919 in Dunedin – 7 September 1993 in Winton, Southland) was a New Zealand cricketer who played three Tests in 1953-54.

Henry family of New Zealand

He was a key figure in the Waikato legal community and provided the future Dame Sylvia Cartwright PCNZM (former Governor General of New Zealand) with her first job.

Henry Fitzroy

Henry James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston (1848–1912), eldest son of Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton

History of New Plymouth

Temporary housing sites had been provided on Mount Eliot (the present-day site of Puke Ariki museum), and frustrations mounted as settlers were forced to squat in homes built of rushes and sedges through winter, amid flourishing numbers of rats, dwindling food supplies and rising unease over the prospects of a repeat raid by Waikato Maori.

Joe Ah Chan

Ah Chan had been a founding member of the Chinese nationalist party, the Kuomintang, in New Zealand and served as chairman of its Waikato branch.

Karapiro Power Station

From Karapiro, electricity is transmitted by a twin-circuit 110 kV line (HAM-KPO-A) to Hamilton, via Cambridge, where Karapiro's electricity is distributed to Hamilton, northern Waikato, and Auckland.

Linda Kitson

She drew continuously, recording training and preparation; the transfer at South Georgia to SS Canberra, the landings at San Carlos Bay, the deployment of the forces to Goose Green, Fitzroy, Darwin, and Port Stanley.

Louis Buvelot

He lived for some years in Latrobe Street East, and then moved to George Street, Fitzroy.

Mangateparu

Mangateparu is a farming service community located close to the west bank of the Piako River, eight kilometres north of Morrinsville in the Waikato region of New Zealand.

Māori mythology

"Certain tribes appear to have emphasised their canoe migration tradition and descent from crew members more than the others. In particular, the Hauraki, Waikato, and King Country tribes (Tainui canoe) and the Rotorua and Taupo tribes (Te Arawa canoe) appear to have placed special emphasis on their descent from a particular canoe migration" (Biggs 1966:451).

Mark Dickel

Dickel's brother, Richard, is currently the head coach of the Adelaide Lighting and former Waikato Piston, Otago Nugget, Southland Shark, Southland Under 17, Under 19 and Under 21 coach.

Melbourne tram route 86

It then crosses the Merri Creek, continuing along Queens Parade Clifton Hill, heading south west, turning south into Smith Street passing between Fitzroy and Collingwood.

New Zealand State Highway 30

Here, the highway meets the Waikato River at the top of Lake Maraetai, and follows the river upstream to Whakamaru, where it crosses the Waikato on top of the Whakamaru hydroelectric dam.

Northern Mystics

The Mystics gained Silver Ferns stalwarts Maria Tutaia and Joline Henry from the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, as well as Althea Byfield (Jamaican international) from the Central Pulse and Jenny-May Coffin from retirement.

Northland temperate kauri forest

The landscape is flat when compared with most of New Zealand and includes the regions of Northland, Auckland around the city of Auckland and Waikato around the town of Hamilton.

Operation Tabarin

Led by Lieutenant James Marr, the 14-strong team left the Falkland Islands in two ships, HMS William Scoresby (a minesweeping trawler) and Fitzroy, on Saturday January 29, 1944.

Pero Cameron

Brother, Raymond is a former Waikato Titans/Pistons player of the NZNBL.

Red Hill, New Zealand

The top and northern side of the hill is known as a high economic living area, with multi-million dollar estates and views of the greater Auckland metropolitan area and Manukau Heads, the eastern and south-eastern views the rural areas of Franklin District and the Bombay Hills towards Waikato, with the low lying areas closer to Papakura being low economic areas run by the state and Housing New Zealand.

Shane Hodges

He didn't play AFL in 1994 and made his first league appearance in round 11 of the 1995 season, a win over Fitzroy at The Gabba.

Tahuna

Tahuna, Waikato, a settlement in the Waikato Region of New Zealand

Tanya Huff

The first book introduces Vicki Nelson, a former police officer with failing eyesight due to Retinitis Pigmentosa and Henry Fitzroy, a vampire and writer of historical romances—which is natural for him as he was Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII before he was seduced by a vampire.

The Voyage of the Beagle

FitzRoy's account includes Remarks with reference to the Deluge in which he recanted his earlier interest in the geological writings of Charles Lyell and his remarks to Darwin during the expedition that sedimentary features they saw "could never have been effected by a forty days' flood", asserting his renewed commitment to a literal reading of the Bible.

Ursula Frayne

Six weeks after her arrival in Melbourne Frayne had raised loans to pay off the mortgages on her convent in Nicholson Street, Fitzroy. Speedy development followed and considerable construction of buildings for social and educational work was undertaken, peaking in the erection of the first wing of the present ‘Academy’ for £6000 in 1870.

Waikato Draught

From this time production of Waikato Draught was moved to the Lion Breweries in Newmarket, Auckland.

Waikato Hospital

Plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe trained as a house surgeon at Waikato hospital prior to working in the US and UK with his cousin Harold Gillies.

Waikato Mounted Rifles

The Waikato Mounted Rifles is an armoured regiment of the New Zealand Army, part of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.

Waikato rugby league team

Notable players included; Martin Moana, Gavin Hill, Tama Hohaia, Francis Leota, Darryl Beazley, 1994 captain Tukere Barlow, Butch Tua, 1995 captain Aaron Tucker, Tony Waikato, Kiwi Mark Woods and Hekewaru Muru.

Waikato Rugby Union

Waikato became the first Union to win the National Provincial Championship (NPC) when the format included semi-final and finals structure for the 1992 season.

Watersun Swimwear

Operating a retail outlet with manufacturing at the back of a small shop in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Watersun employed young new designers to gain notoriety with swimwear designs in a very conservative post-war Australia.


see also