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    Vincent Aspey

    When nine-year-old Vincent Aspey persuaded his mother to buy a violin he had spotted in a second-hand shop she was dubious that he would practice, let alone come to be described as ‘synonymous with orchestral development in New Zealand’.

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Auckland's first Anniversary Day Regatta

1842 Auckland's first Anniversary Day Regatta

The date commemorates the arrival of Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson in the Bay of Islands in 1840. Today Anniversary Day is best known for the huge annual regatta on Waitemata Harbour more...

External links

  • Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta
  • Anniversary Day regatta (Te Ara)
  • History of Auckland (Auckland City Council)
  • Local History of Auckland (Auckland City Libraries)
  • William Hobson biography (DNZB)
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