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… in later life he described his mother as “a harsh, proud woman, and very severe on her children”, though his father … temporary retirement, set up home at Plymouth. Eliza, their first daughter, was born there in March 1830. It was not …
… his widow and children in difficulties. His mother was a woman of fine character and, by dint of careful management, … of the New Edinburgh (Otago) colonisation scheme which had first been mooted in the Colonial Gazette of August 1842. …
… (1859); the “row houses” in Cumberland Street, Dunedin; First Church, Dunedin, architect R. A. Lawson (1874); and … fashionable “clichés” were as integral as the feathers on a woman's hat–the builders' vernacular limped into the …
… attracted many medical men, certain of whom devoted their first energies to the search for gold, some later returning … was William Ledingham Christie who qualified in 1887. The first woman to complete the medical course at Dunedin was …
… Vogel had authorised the spending of £4 million on the first stage of the policy. He himself left on a loan-raising … for himself and for the colony. After a mildly successful first year in which he resumed borrowing at a rather higher … 1875. In 1889 he wrote his only novel, Anno Domini 2000: or Woman's Destiny , an imaginative and prophetic survey of the …
… School; his mother, also a school teacher, was a Scotch woman from Dumfriesshire. In spite of, or possibly on … when it was constituted a borough in 1877 Seddon became its first Mayor. By that time its gold-rush population was … was considerably reduced, Seddon had already introduced his first Old Age Pensions Bill. It came to grief in Committee, …
… The two best-known discovery or origin traditions are, first, that which assigns the discovery of New Zealand to Kupe, and, secondly, that which regarded Toi as the first important origin ancestor. Both traditions were … the Ngati Ira, a man named Pouheni and his followers, and a woman named Hine-kau-i-rangi and her followers. The canoe …
… served with New Zealand Forces, the RNAS and the RAF in the First World War. In 1919 he worked with the North Russian … Antarctic expedition in 1921–22 and in 1927 made the first RAF non-stop flight from England to the Persian Gulf. …