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… was stationed at Kerikeri where he opened a school for Maori boys and girls, some of whom lived with his family. … establishing this station. Here he continued his school for Maori boys and girls and a little later took on the … administration in the early, critical years of the colony's history. It may be questioned whether this administration …
… he gave up his religious convictions. Fels hoped to study history at a university, but obeyed his father's wishes and … Soon after his arrival in New Zealand he was attracted to Maori culture and began collecting Maori and Pacific ethnographic material. With characteristic …
… ever fought against the Imperial troops. G. W. Rusden ( History of New Zealand ) says that he lived peacefully on … Although he sympathised with the “King” movement and with Maori nationalism, and granted asylum to many rebels, Te … came to resent Te Whiti's theocratic pretensions. After the Maori Wars Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake and Titokowaru were …
… three small steamers – the Beautiful Star (176 tons), the Maori (174 tons), and the Bruce (338 tons). In the early … Retired Farmer, Kaiapoi R.D. Union Line – A Short History of the Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd., …
… remainder of his life. He also built up good collections of Maori artefacts and coins; but books were his main delight, … its founder's death. Turnbull's interests had been in the history and ethnology of his own country and its oceanic … and in certain aspects of English literature and literary history. For convenience the Library is now divided into …
… to the same North Auckland area, a derelict country which history caressed briefly before 1840 and then passed by. His … The Greenstone Door (1914) deals with the events of the Maori Wars and inflates Sir George Grey to heroic …
… limited power in the individual to dispose of his property. Maori history contains many incidents testifying to a …
… to prepare thoroughly; he imported timber, carpenters, Maori road gangs, built wooden barracks, agents' and customs … (1950) The Torlesse Papers , Maling, P. B. (ed.) (1958) A History of Canterbury, Vol. I , Hight, J. A., and Straubel, …
… for Auckland. At this time Pollen began to champion the Maori cause in the New Zealander , and remained their … worked for the enfranchisement of women; a champion of the Maori while at the same time chairman of the East Coast … of the Colonial Secretary's Department. by K.C. History of New Zealand , Rusden, G. W. (3 vols., 1895) New …
… and Kerikeri, New Zealand's oldest town with a continuing history of European occupation. Butler's journal of his … Te Morenga, and other chiefs, and of the contemporary Maori culture. While the Butlers had anxious moments as the result of the occasional turbulence of the local Maoris, they were accepted or tolerated by them, the Maoris …