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… Lady Barker (as she still called herself) put together her first book, Station Life in New Zealand (1870), a sparkling … S.W., where she died on 6 March 1911. She was “a fine, tall woman with well-marked features and a somewhat decided …
… beyond his own statements that his mother was a devout woman who counselled her children in religion, and that his … New Zealand, he may reasonably be regarded as New Zealand's first Magistrate. In the absence of a formal Court or means …
… which ultimately led to her appointment in 1893 as the first woman Inspector of Factories in New Zealand. In 1894 …
… Island. In 1876 he moved to Auckland, where he painted his first Maori portrait – that of Moses, a Maori peach hawker. … a Maori scene to send to his native country. This picture – Woman and Child – attracted Sir Walter Buller's attention …
… logs set upright as these minimised the risk of fire. The first settlers appear to have introduced the oval and … kaunoti. It was correct and customary in firemaking that a woman should steady the lower stick while a man operated the …
… of nursing reforms. These included the inauguration of the first district nursing service at Uruti in Taranaki in 1909; … 2 September 1932. Hester Maclean was a professional career woman in an age when this was rare. She had intelligence, …
… house. One way of removing tapu from a man was to have a woman step over him as he lay on the ground. This was the … from war in a tapu state, the principle being that a woman, having no tapu herself, could neutralise it in a man. … an unfinished state was seen by Cook in Tolaga Bay on his first voyage. Each of the major figures on the poupou was …
… youth Banks acquired a passion for botanical study. In his first year at Oxford his father died. On coming of age in … later the ship left New Zealand after circumnavigating first the North Island, and then the South Island and … local chief and his people. Here Banks watched a mourning woman cutting herself with shells. He inspected a …
… which he was captain and part owner. In July 1836, on his first visit to New Zealand, he sailed into Port Cooper, now … During that visit he climbed the Port Hills and wrote the first recorded description of the Canterbury Plains. Rhodes … but his only family was a daughter, Mary Ann, by a Maori woman. She contested her father's will, took it to the Privy …
… Branch of the New Zealand Medical Association, and the first lecturer in clinical surgery in the Otago Medical … a few months before his death. Hocken married, first, Julia Annia Daykne Simpson of Waikouaiti in 1867 and, … in 1884. His second wife was a well-educated and gifted woman who helped him greatly with his literary researches …