Auckland Suburb Research Articles

The prey of domestic cats (Felis catus) in two suburbs of Auckland City, New Zealand

AbstractThe prey brought in by 80 cats Felis catus over 1 year was monitored in two suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand: one suburb was completely urban, the other on the urban/forest fringe. Cat owners were asked to record and, if possible, keep the prey that their cats brought in. Rodents were the main prey brought in by domestic cats in the urban/forest fringe habitat, whereas invertebrates were the main prey in the fully urban habitat. Birds were caught in similar numbers by cats in both areas and were the second most important prey group at both study sites. However, more native birds were caught by cats in the urban/forest fringe area than in the fully urban habitat. Lizards were caught in similar numbers and were the third most important prey group in both study areas.

Recent East Asian Immigrants and their Contribution to Multi-Culturalism in Auckland, New Zealand

This paper attempts to reveal a wide range of East Asian ethnic landscape that has been added to the traditional Auckland cultural landscape during the last two decades. Perhaps the most obvious sign of the expanding East Asian cultural landscape in Auckland is in the growth of the ethnic populations themselves and in the number of ethnic restaurants operated by them. Since 1992, more than 100, 000 East Asians have been approved for residence in New Zealand: mainly Chinese (more than 90, 000) from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China as well as Koreans (about 14, 000) from South Korea. Asian restaurants, which include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Indian, have represented more than 50 percent of the total number of restaurants in Auckland in 1999. This new East Asian immigration expanded the multicultural features significantly in Auckland.The New East Asian immigrant groups' most preferred residential areas do not overlap and they tend to occupy different suburbs of Auckland: Howick Pakuranga, Epsom-Remuera and Chatswood for Taiwanese; East Coast Bays and Glenfield for Koreans; St Heliers and Remuera- St Johns for Japanese; and Mr Roskill, Henderson and Royal Oak-Onehunga-Ellerslie for Filipinos; Manurewa, Papatoetoe and Otahuhu for Vietnamese.

Placing private health care: reading Ascot hospital in the landscape of contemporary Auckland

The closing years of the 20th century were a time in New Zealand dominated by health care reforms inspired by neo-liberal ideology. The result has been changing geographies of public and private health care providers and the evolution of a new discourse of health care. Ascot Integrated Hospital, situated in the affluent Auckland suburb of Remuera, opened in 1999, reflecting and projecting this new discourse. It is a pioneer, competing for patient patronage in a contracting market for surgical and medical providers. In this paper we survey the recent history of private hospital developments in New Zealand, then more closely consider the Ascot, a hospital that has deployed language to construct itself and its achievements in the public imagination. Given the context of an extremely competitive environment for private patients, this construction glamorises medicine and links healing with a contrived place. We conclude that texts associated with the Ascot provide a useful vehicle for advancing cultural geographies of health care and ideas of the place of hospitals in western capitalist countries.

Housing Policy, Poverty, and Culture: ‘Discounting’ Decisions among Pacific Peoples in Auckland, New Zealand

This paper explores the links between housing and other welfare policies, low income, and culture among Pacific peoples within Auckland, New Zealand. These migrant peoples occupy an ambiguous social space within Auckland: they represent the visible face of the world's largest Polynesian city, yet are occupants of some of the city's poorest and least health-promoting housing. Through considering the balance between choice and constraint, we examine how housing costs, poverty, and cultural practices converge to influence household expenditure decisions. Specifically, we are interested in the ways health-promoting behaviours (for example, obtaining fresh food) and utilising health care services are ‘discounted’ (that is, postponed or substituted with cheaper alternatives) because of costs associated with structural changes in housing and the broader policy context. We draw on narratives gathered from in-depth interviews conducted with seventeen Samoan and Cook Island families undertaken in the South Auckland suburb of Otara in mid-2000. Our findings illustrate a lack of ‘fit’ between state housing stock and its occupants. We conclude that, although a recent return to a policy of income-related rents may alleviate these conditions, further longitudinal and community-supported research is required to monitor whether health inequalities are in fact lessened through income-related interventions alone.

HOMOGENEITY, STRATIFICATION AND COMMUNITY IN AN AUCKLAND SUBURB

New Zealand GeographerVolume 40, Issue 2 p. 113-115 HOMOGENEITY, STRATIFICATION AND COMMUNITY IN AN AUCKLAND SUBURB JULIE PARK, JULIE PARK Department of Anthrophology, Auckland UniversitySearch for more papers by this author JULIE PARK, JULIE PARK Department of Anthrophology, Auckland UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: October 1984 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.1984.tb01048.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume40, Issue2October 1984Pages 113-115 RelatedInformation

Epidemic listeriosis in the newborn.

Within a three-month period 13 cases of listeriosis in the newborn were seen at the National Women's Hospital, Auckland. Eleven presented in the first 24 hours of life, the most common feature being respiratory difficulty in low birth weight infants. Meconium-stained liquor was noted in nine cases. The constant finding in all cases was an aspiration pneumonia which appeared to be of intrauterine origin from an infected amniotic cavity. There was also evidence of septicaemia in nine cases, and two infants survived meningitis which developed at 1 week. Maternal symptoms were mild and variable, and in only one case were they proved to be due to listerial infection. The mothers came from different suburbs of Auckland and no common source of infection was found.