Further information

1914-1918, Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000 Terrence J. Finnegan, Shooting the Front: Allied aerial reconnaissance in the First World War, Spellmount, Stroud, England, 2011 Trevor Henshaw, The sky their battlefield: Air fighting and the complete list of Allied air casualties from enemy action in the first war, ...

Architecture+Women New Zealand

This essay written by Elizabeth Cox was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. Despite the high proportion of women studying architecture at university from the 1970s, the occupation, along with engineering, remained stubbornly ...

Berlin residency to examine role of censorship in activism

Verso, installation view: Objectspace, Auckland, 2019. Photograph: Samuel Hartnett. Ella Sutherland works across the fields of visual art, publishing and language. Her practice is grounded in her background in visual communication, involving the analysis and activation of complex systems of reading which ...

Samuel Revans prints first newspaper

Samuel Revans, c. 1860 (Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/2-038720-F) The first newspapers published in New Zealand were printed by Samuel Revans a month after he arrived in Port Nicholson (Wellington). Revans had published the first issue of the New Zealand Gazette in London in August 1839, just ...

Elizabeth Yates

507. Further reading Sandra Coney, Standing in the sunshine: a history of New Zealand women since they won the vote, Penguin Books (NZ), Auckland, 1993 Judith Devaliant, Elizabeth Yates: the first lady mayor in the British Empire, Exisle Publishing, Auckland, c. 1996 Janice C. Mogford. 'Yates, ...

New DNZB essays reflect life in the 1970s and 1980s

Clockwise from top left, Ralph Hotere, Marie Bell, Ramai Hayward, Keith Sinclair, Selwyn Toogood and Barbara Angus, six of the 13 entries just added to the DNZB. This post was first published in Te Ara's Signposts blog on 18 October 2019. Most New Zealanders who lived through the 1970s and ...

Edmonds cookery book

Cover of the 3rd edition of the Sure to rise cookery book (1914), published by baking manufacturer T.J. Edmonds.  Our best-selling book The Edmonds cookery book has sold over 3 million copies since it was first published in 1908, making it the best-selling New Zealand book by far. In Kiwi ...

Feminist Art Networkers

Eastmond; Cheryll Sotheran (later Chief Executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa), who was then, like Eastmond, an art history lecturer; Alexa Johnston, curator of New Zealand painting and sculpture at Auckland City Art Gallery; and critic Priscilla Pitts. In answer to an American survey, ...

Sports writing

racing and beer’ might seem outdated in the 21st century, but sport remains popular with publishers, booksellers and readers. Leading New Zealand sportswriter Joseph Romanos noted that a ‘great’ All Black’s biography could expect to sell 20,000 copies. According to Booksellers NZ this level of sales is ...

Geoffrey Cox

published in 1999, Cox drew on his letters to his parents, 'intermittent diary notes', his accounts of specific incidents and events, and articles he had written as a journalist. It is a dynamic recollection of events in Europe as he witnessed them, but with the benefit of hindsight. For example. ...

Mary Muller, suffragist

Mary Muller, about 1900. In 1878 she published ‘ An appeal to the men of New Zealand’. Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference: 1/2-021456 Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any reuse of this image. ...

The Press goes to press

first edition stated that the publishers made ‘no apology for the publication’, which was set up in opposition to two established local newspapers. The people of Christchurch would decide, if we shall be so fortunate as to command a remunerative circulation the result will justify our opinion. If not, ...

NZ Journal of Photography

The various iterations of the New Zealand Journal of Photography, from its beginnings in 1992 as the newsletter for the New Zealand Centre for Photography to its renaming as Photomedia in 2008 for what turned out to be the final issue. Andy Palmer (montage); New Zealand Centre for Photography ...

Excellence Drives Fierce Competition In Ockham New Zealand Book Awards’ Shortlist

Kiri Piahana-Wong. The 2020 Illustrated Non-Fiction category finalists are: Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania edited by Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U Māhina-Tuai, Damian Skinner; Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance ...

Romance of the rail cover

Several serialised features from the New Zealand Railways Magazine were republished as booklets. These included James Cowan’s guide to Māori railway station names and, as seen here, his surveys of the historical and scenic delights along the main trunk lines of the North and South islands. Neill ...

Bill Sutch

during this period that Sutch’s books Poverty and progress in New Zealand (1941) and The quest for security in New Zealand (1942) were published. Both were versions of a social history commissioned but rejected as a centennial publication in 1940. When he was discharged from the army in 1943 he returned ...

First sitting, 1854

for the next 10 years. The day was wet and miserable – even if it was Queen Victoria's birthday – and the buildings were not yet ready to receive the new Parliament, but there was excitement in the air as New Zealand took an important step in its history. The parliamentarians, all 37 of them, ...

Third Contingent publication

Publications about New Zealand's involvement in the South African War often depicted its soldiers in action scenes. Here two members of the Third Contingent fire upon Boer kommandos (commandos) while a third soldier guards the horses. The Outlook, April 1900 south african war third contingent ...

Ranfurly Veterans’ Home

VII’s coronation day Ranfurly published a Roll of Honour of the colony’s 2000 imperial veterans to make his point. He personally chose the site – ‘not too near a public house yet not too far and within easy communication’- and laid the foundation stone on Empire Day, 24 May 1903. The Auckland Veterans’ ...

Ettie Rout, safe sex campaigner

Cabinet banned her from New Zealand newspapers under the War Regulations. Mention of her brought a potential £100 fine after one of her letters, suggesting kits and hygienic brothels, had been published in the New Zealand Times. Ironically, this letter had been instrumental in the decision of the minister ...

Manurewa memorial trees

deceased; one was planted by Mrs H. Brown, President of the Victoria League, in honour of Nurse Edith Cavell and other nurses; and one was planted by local businessman Mr E.S. Pegler as a ‘peace tree’. According to a newspaper article published long after the event, the order of the trees, starting from the ...

Leo White

Aviation Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any reuse of these images. leo white aviation aerial photography photography publishing ...

Sarah Ennor

Church history. Sarah died in 1933 at the age of 69. A lengthy obituary was published in both the local Hawke’s Bay papers and the Auckland Star. Sarah was remembered as a kind woman who was deeply involved in her church and as an 'esteemed resident of Napier'. Sarah was buried in the Old ...

Tutange Waionui

Tutange Waionui was one of Riwha Tītokowaru’s best fighting men. In this 1908 photograph he poses in his 1868 uniform. The image was used in The adventures of Kimble Bent, written by James Cowan and published in 1911. See an obituary for Tutange Waionui, Hawera & Normanby Star, 12 January 1915 ...

First issue of New Zealand Listener published

The  New Zealand Listener   soon expanded beyond its original brief to publicise radio programmes to become the country’s only national weekly current affairs and entertainment magazine. From major investigative stories to crosswords, the  Listener  published the serious, the trivial and ...

Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment

riflemen (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2005)   Mackay, Don, The troopers’ tale: a history of the Otago Mounted Rifles (Dunedin: Turnbull Ross Publishing, 2012) ...

Mangamāunu school memorial

Mangamāunu school memorial roll of honour lists four men who were killed in the Second World War: B.R. Boyd; R. O'Brien, S. Starkey and P.E. Thoms. Only the chimney remains from the school.  Francis Vallance, 2015 See also:  Pearson, William H. 1968. Henry Lawson among Maoris. Reed ...

Roll of honour for Railways Department

A consolidated roll of honour of officers of the New Zealand Railways Department who had fallen during the war was published as part of the minister’s annual Railways Statement in 1915 (pictured). A list of all those who had enlisted was also included. The roll of honour and list appeared annually ...

Radiant Living magazine cover

A spread from Radiant Living, October/November 1949. Hilary Stace publishing alternative lifestyle ...

Lord Normanby

Lord Normanby (Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess, 1797-1863) engraved by Charles Turner; painted by H. P. Briggs, Esqr, R. A. London. Published 2 January 1836 by Colnaghi & Company. Read more about Lord Normanby Alexander Turnbull Library Reference: B-032-002 Permission of the Alexander ...

Wiri Webb postcard

This postcard was produced after William (‘Wiri’) Webb became the first New Zealander to win the world professional sculling title in 1907. Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-1-111 Producers: A. D. Willis, publisher. A. E. Watkinson. photo Permission of the Alexander ...

Archibald Baxter's 'We will not cease' cover

Cover of We will not cease: the autobiography of a conscientious objector by Archibald Baxter First published in 1939 by Victor Gollanez, this 1968 edition is by Caxton Press, and it includes an additional foreword by the author. Caxton Press   Reference: Archibald Baxter, We will not cease. ...

Dominion status symposium, 2007

(History, University of Auckland) is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has published widely on New Zealand history and its place in the British Empire, including The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict ...

New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps Association

sources Bloxham, Muriel, National Secretary, NZWRAC Association, information supplied December 1991, February 1993 Published sources Hancock, Kenneth, New Zealand at War, A. H. and A. W. Reed, Wellington, 1946 Latham, Iris, The WAAC Story, Wellington, 1986 Pro Patria (magazine of the NZWAAC, and later of ...

'The Octopus', South African War publication

of the journal was hand drawn, but the material inside, such as Page One pictured here, was printed. Geoffrey H. Sollitt south african war publishing boer war ...

First lighthouse at Pencarrow Head

The first lighthouse at Pencarrow Head, built about 1852, was actually just the lighthouse keeper's house with a lamp in the window. The first lighthouse keeper at Pencarrow was George Bennett. This drawing was published in Transactions of NZ Institute, 1924. Alexander Turnbull Library, ...

Pohangina rolls of honour

honour have been added to the display. The school’s Second World War roll of honour replicates the names published in the school’s 75th jubilee booklet, and may be a replacement for a roll of honour formerly on display at the school. However, it seems that the district Second World War roll of honour was ...

Māori contribution to First World War revealed in new book

“ Whitiki! is the tenth book to be published in a series of histories of New Zealand and the First World War produced jointly by Manatū Taonga, Massey University and the New Zealand Defence Force, which explore the impact of the war on New Zealand society during and after the war. “With nearly 600 pages and ...

Reading the casualty list

loss. Almost every newspaper in New Zealand also published the Roll of Honour, widening the community of mourning to the nation. Auckland Weekly News, 27 July 1916 WW1 casualties death battle of the somme WW1 home front ...

Anno Domini 2000

Published in 1889 – four years before New Zealand women won the right to vote – former Premier Julius Vogel 's futuristic novel Anno Domini 2000; or, woman's destiny predicted that by the end of the millenium women would hold the highest posts in government and that poverty would have ...

Passchendaele in memoriam notice

Extract from a full-page ‘in memoriam’ page published in the Auckland Star on 4 October 1918, three days after news arrived of the surrender of Bulgaria.  The notice marked the first anniversary of the attack on Gravenstafel Spur, the opening attack of the disastrous Passchendaele offensive. More ...

Further information

This web feature was written by Gavin McLean and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team. Links Images of HMNZT (Flotilla Australia) Christchurch Nurses’ Memorial Chapel Polly Woodside (Australian National Trust) Navy Museum Books Peter Plowman, Across the sea to war: Australian and New Zealand ...

The writing of John A Lee

Lee was born in Dunedin in 1891. His family's desperate poverty was described in Children of the poor and in his mother Mary Lee's posthumously published autobiography, The not so poor (1992). After leaving school, he drifted into petty crime and in 1906 was convicted of theft for a second ...

Kaitieke First World War memorial

Kaitieke war memorial. Site Style Ornamentation Unveiling Date No of Dead Intersection Round obelisk   22-Jan-1923 23 Clive Gifford For more information see Kaitieke: The District, The People, The Schools, compiled by Wilf Couper and Ron Cooke. Ref: ISBN 0-908724-24-1, published by C & ...

Map showing Cook's voyages

  This map from 1800 shows the routes taken by James Cook when he visited New Zealand in 1769–70, 1773 and 1777. The main image shows a detail; click on the thumbnail to see the full map. Alexander Turnbull Library Reference: A new map of the world, published by Laurie & Whittle, 1800 ...

Audit Office publication: From auditor to soldier

In 2014 the Office of the Auditor-General published a booklet entitled From auditor to soldier: stories of the men who served. This contained information about the Audit Office’s First World War roll of honour, an overview of the office’s experiences during the war, and biographies of the 32 men ...

Cyclist Battalion

history of the AIF/NZ Cyclist Corps 1916–19 (McCrae, Australia: Slouch Hat Productions, 2008) Regimental history of New Zealand Cyclist Corps in the Great War, 1914–1918 (Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1922; reprinted by Kiwi Publishers, Christchurch, 2004; reprinted by Naval & Military Press, ...

Mākereti Papakura

Mākereti Papakura was an internationally known tourist guide at Whakarewarewa thermal valley during the early days of New Zealand tourism. She was also an entrepreneur, an influential advocate for Māori, and an author, producing the first extensive published ethnographic work by a Māori scholar. ...

Rūātoki school memorial

grounds in front of the main school building. Four granite tablets were set into the concrete base inscribed with the names of Tūhoe men who had served in 28th Maori Battalion during the war: 14 men who had been killed in action or died of illness and 69 returned soldiers. The dedication stone reads: He ...

MPs' perks cartoon, 1893

Parliamentarians' so-called perks were fair game. Salaries, travel allowances, meals at Bellamy's and many other things became the butt of humour and a form of criticism when people thought that Members of Parliament had too much of a good thing. The New Zealand Graphic published this ...

Railways Magazine cover, 1926

Launched in May 1926, the New Zealand Railways Magazine became one of the country’s most popular monthly magazines during the interwar years. This striking image of a train crossing the Makōhine Viaduct on the North Island main trunk was designed by leading Railways Studio artist Stanley Davis. It ...

Ernest Lynd, publishing disloyal statement

Ernest Lynd (alias Lind, alias John Jacobson) Labourer, born 1878, Russia Tried: 19 July 1917, Auckland Magistrate’s Court Charge: Publishing a disloyal statement Sentence: 11 months’ imprisonment. Arrested under War Regulations Wartime conditions generated a profound suspicion of foreigners at ...

New Zealand's World Cup book, 1982

New Zealand’s World Cup: the inside story, by the coaching duo John Adshead and Kevin Fallon ('as told to Armin Lindenberg'), was one of several books published in 1982 to celebrate the All Whites’ epic qualifying campaign and finals’ appearance. The cover featured a young Ricki Herbert ...

Church Women United in Aotearoa / New Zealand

successful special projects. 'Water for Women', financing water schemes for women in developing countries, raised $54,251 – four times the original target; and a sub-committee convened by Jan Cormack organised an Enquiry into the Status of Women in the Church. The results, published as a booklet in ...

Samoan influenza obituaries

and editor of the  Samoanische Zeitung. After its final issue was published on 2 January 1915, he became editor and owner of its English replacement, the Samoa Times. Unusually, the 22 November 1918 issue of the Samoa Times did not appear. The following week, the newspaper reported 'with deep ...

Public service commissioner compiles casualty list

this circular was published in the roll of honour in the Public Service Official Circular from June 1915. Archives New Zealand Reference: AAXF W1996 19747/74/724 Permission of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga must be obtained before any reuse of this image. public service WW1 home ...

Map of the Kingdom of Belgium in 1914

You can also download a hi-res copy as a pdf (3 mbs). This map shows the boundaries and major cities of the Kingdom of Belgium at the time it entered the First World War in 1914. Note that since publishing this map we have been made aware of an error in the map- the small eastern Cantons gained by ...

Lieutenant Florence Crimmin

Photograph of Lieutenant Florence Crimmin, published in the Auckland Weekly News on 6 September 1917. From Te Karaka, near Gisborne, Crimmin was farming in Argentina when war broke out and hurried to Britain to enlist. He was commissioned in the North Devon Hussars in September 1915. He was sent ...

Shakti Community Council

This essay written by Lynette Townsend was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. Shakti Community Council Inc. is a non-profit organisation serving migrant and refugee women and families of Asian, African and Middle Eastern origin. [1] ...

Images from National Library of NZ

image A colourised photo showing the Public Trust Office Building as decorated for the Queen’s tour in 1953. It was decorated in a similar manner for other occasions including King George V’s coronation in 1911 and the Prince of Wales tour in 1920. Reference: C W Vennell,  A century of trust: a history ...

First World War shirker cartoon

Recruit numbers were falling short by late 1915, when this Charles Blomfield cartoon was published in the New Zealand Observer. Many people worried that ‘shirkers’, men deliberately avoiding military service in the country’s hour of need, would lounge at home while better men died for them at the ...

Hōne Heke fells the flagstaff at Kororāreka

Hōne Heke fells the flagstaff flying the British flag at Kororāreka. Arthur McCormick’s painting of Hōne Heke chopping down the British flag on Maiki Hill above Kororāreka in 1845 was an illustration for Reginald Horsley’s New Zealand: romance of empire, published in 1908. This is one of the more ...

Katherine Mansfield

Autographed photograph of Katherine Mansfield in 1914, taken by the Adelphi Studio, The Strand, London. Katherine Mansfield wrote short stories, poetry, letters, journals and reviews, and is regarded as a central figure in British modernism. Three story collections were published while she was ...

The no-license debate in Masterton

officers. The natural effect is to discourage the police and encourage the "droppers," who, in turn, laugh at the amiable Magistrate and sneer at a baffled policeman. In spite of this, I submit that there is no reason to justify the statements you make in the article published by arrangement. ...

Researching New Zealand soldiers in the First World War

100,000 New Zealand men signed up to fight for King and Country in the First World War. Their names were listed in the Nominal rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary force, published by the government between 1917 and 1919. These rolls are available through public libraries in their original printed ...

Pan-Pacific and South-East Asia Women's Association

ATL PPSEAWA, records of Dunedin Area Group, 1952–1975, Hocken PPSEAWA, records of Southland Area Group, 1955–1976, Hocken Published sources [Coleman, Letitia|, History of the New Zealand Branch of the Pan-Pacific and South-East Asia Women's Association 1928–1978, [n.p.], 1978 [Coleman, Letitia], ...

Arts and crafts

This essay written by Anne Else was first published in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 1993. It was updated by Anne Else in 2019. All-women arts and crafts groups have a long history in this country. In Māori society, where women and men for the most part ...

Westport-Cardiff coal train

A fully laden coal train about to leave Seddonville for Westport. The holding bins used to load the coal can be seen in the background. This photograph was used by the Westport-Cardiff Coal Company in an advertising feature published in 1898. The locomotive is an Fa class (slightly modified, and ...

Department of Lands and Survey roll of honour

A number of departments included rolls of honour in their annual reports that were printed in the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives as well as contributing to the public service commissioner’s consolidated list published in the New Zealand Gazette. In 1920, the Department of ...

Journey for three documentary

Assistant: Brian Brake Music: Douglas Lilburn This is a New Zealand National Film Unit Film preserved and made available by Archives New Zealand /Te Whare Tohu Tuhituhinga O Aotearoa. This material is not to be re-used or published without the prior permission of the Chief Archivist. video Assisted ...

William Sutch

Economist Dr William Ball Sutch, back at work after being acquitted of a charge under the Official Secrets Act. He is seated at a desk with copies of the newly published book Spirit of an age: New Zealand in the seventies: essays in honour of W.B. Sutch, edited by John L. Robson and Jack ...

Bombay War Memorial Recreation Ground

names was also published in the Bombay centennial history in 1965. The latter list included 24 dead (J. Barugh, T. Burgess, A. Carter, A.J. Carter, A.C. Evans, A.J. Evans, E. Fenton, A. Fitness, J. Fitness, P. Hancock, P.C.W. Hancock, R. Hancock, R.J. Hancock, R.G. Hanna, A. Kemp, R. Kemp, O. McGowan, ...

Education roll of honour

Casualties among members of the education service, and a list of those who had enlisted by the end of 1916, were published as an appendix to the Minister of Education’s annual report in 1917 (pictured). A roll of honour appeared annually until 1920. See roll for the whole of the war. Education ...

The birth of Kiwi rock 'n' roll

roll recording – ‘Pie cart rock’n’roll’ (1957) – that took him into local music history. Cooper often had a meal at the Whanganui pie cart late at night after a talent quest or dance. The menu was basic: pea, pie and pud, with a choice of takeaway or dining in by perching on the narrow seats in the hot ...

Magdalena Aotearoa

This essay written by Cherie Jacobson was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. Magdalena Aotearoa was formed in 1997 by Wellington-based theatre makers Sally Rodwell and Madeline McNamara to ‘encourage and promote the work of women in ...

Christchurch peace celebrations booklet

Click on the photograph above to see the pages of a booklet outlining a programme of activities in Christchurch over the three days of peace celebrations, 19-21 July 1919. Other communities published similar booklets, or brochures outlining the country’s war record. Wellington, for example, ...

The Esther Glen Award

Cover of Stella Morice's The book of Wiremu (1945), the first winner of the Esther Glen Award. Celebrating writers for children and young adults New Zealand's longest-running book award is the Esther Glen Award, which is given for ‘the most distinguished contribution to New Zealand ...

Anthony Trollope begins New Zealand tour

Anthony Trollope (Wikipedia) Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), one of the Victorian era’s most famous novelists, landed at Bluff to begin a two-month tour of the colony. Trollope had spent the previous year in Australia and in 1873 he published a two-volume book about his travels, Australia and New ...

Pāpāmoa

in 2004 and two years later a conservation plan was published to guide its future use. Further information This site is item number 7 on the  History of New Zealand in 100 Places list. On the ground There is an information board by the car park. Websites Papamoa Hills Regional Park Tauranga Moana (Te ...

Tai Tapu church memorial window

saints who were soldiers. The day chosen for the Armistice, 11 November, was St Martin's Day. St George is a patron saint of soldiers and of England. He was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier in the Guard of the Emporer Diocletian. Read more about the Church from an article about it published ...

Radio communication in Korea

Two soldiers using radio communication from back of a truck during the Korean War. Commentary about this image by Bob Jagger Stuart Beneson (left) and Denny Field (right) are talking on the radio from the back of the truck. They are communicating between the OP (Observation Post) and the Command ...

New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union

and banning liquor advertising and sponsorship.  In 2018, the WCTU demonstrated a strong appreciation of its history and, in particular, the crucial role its founders played in gaining women’s suffrage. Raewyn Dalziel Notes [1] Tyrrell, 1983, p. 285. Unpublished sources McKimmey, P.F., 'The ...

Edward Catchpool daguerreotype

sharp, and because the process was patented worldwide royalties were payable every time it was used. Because the technology was only really suitable for studio work, the vast majority of daguerreotypes are portraits such as this 1852 image of Edward Catchpool, who had published a short-lived Wellington ...

Society for Research on Women in New Zealand

https://sites.google.com/site/womensresearch50/home/publications Unpublished sources Society for Research on Women records, 1966–1992, ATL Society for Research on Women Auckland Branch, History of SROW (typescript), 5 pages, Auckland Museum Published sources Gawith, E. J. et al., Women Centre Stage: A Study of SROW and its Research, SROW Wellington, 1993 ...

Littledene

United States on a joint Carnegie fellowship, the Somersets undertook a pioneering sociological study of Oxford. Littledene was published in 1938 by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Although it was the couple's joint work, Crawford was credited as its sole author. Littledene ...

Jean Batten

and, after travelling and staying with her publisher and his wife in England, flew to Majorca where she intended to buy an apartment. In a letter dated 8 November 1982 Batten advised her publisher of her new address. This was the last anyone heard from her. Her whereabouts remained unknown until ...

Canterbury Women’s Institute

committee of up to 23 members, with a larger pool of women coming to special meetings. Outstanding in the history of the CWI was the contribution of Ada Wells, who became secretary to the economics department in 1893. She continued to serve the institute until its demise, as either secretary, president or ...

Address to Women's Franchise League

Extract from letter published in the North Otago Times, 5 July 1892. 'What a difference between a fish and a woman' (1892) The extract below is from an address given by the president of the Women's Franchise League in Dunedin, Marion Hatton, to a meeting at Gore. It was published in ...

Cruising Cook Strait 'sixties-style'

In the late 1960s A.H. & A.W. Reed published a souvenir pictorial booklet called Cook Strait seaway. Click on the photograph above to see images from the booklet. When crossing Cook Strait, between the two main islands of New Zealand, you travel a route as romantic as any in the world... To ...

50th anniversary of South Pole flight

75th anniversary of Byrd’s flight in 2004 by members of the New York Air National Guard. Further information Books Noel Gillespie, Courage Sacrifice Devotion: the history of the US Navy Antarctic VXE-6 Squadron 1955-99, Infinity Publishing.com, Philadelphia, 2005 Ken Hickson, Flight 901 to Erebus, ...

Questions for Polly Plum

These letters to and from ‘Polly Plum’ (Mary Ann Colclough) appeared in the New Zealand Herald on 16 and 18 August 1871. This transcript is taken from C. Macdonald (ed.), The vote, the pill and the demon drink: a history of feminist writing in New Zealand, 1869–1993, Bridget Williams Books, ...

Ngahuia te Awekotuku

Waikato. She is the first Maori female Emeritus in Aotearoa. She  remains a leading feminist writer, lesbian rights activist and advocate for Māori issues. She has published award winning books, seven of which are sole authorships, including fiction and nonfiction.  She continues to work in the culture and ...

Māori Peace Monument, Masterton

Winter, 'Wairarapa history... peace statue'  (article published on the Rangitane o Wairarapa Education website in 2015); the same source accesses a recent photograph of the peace monument). Images: Michal Klajban, 2014 Text: Bruce Ringer, 2022 Other memorials masterton ...

Gravestone at Gallipoli

The grave of Alfred ‘Dickenson’ (Dickinson) near Fisherman’s Hut, Gallipoli. Dickinson, a trooper in the Wellington Mounted Rifles, was killed in action defending No. 3 Outpost on 30 May 1915. He is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial at Gallipoli. In July 1915, the Wanganui Chronicle published ...

Further information

1999 W.A. Glue, The New Zealand Ensign, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1965 Aroha Harris, Hīkoi: forty years of Māori protest, Huia Publishers, Wellington, 2004 ‘What's in a flag?’, Mana, no. 86, February–March 2009, pp. 14–20 ...

Anjum Rahman

https://www.inclusiveaotearoa.nz/ Abdullah Drury, Islam in New Zealand: The First Mosque. A Short History of the New Zealand Muslim Association and the Ponsonby Mosque, self-published, 2006 Explore  more stories about women's activism in New Zealand Photos by Norm Heke for Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage. ...

Zonta International (New Zealand)

girls, and to enhance District 16’s profile around the world through its centennial activities in 2019. Helen Reilly [1] Notes [1] District 16 Historian, 2018–2020. Jennifer Loughton, author of the history published in 2017 (see below), was the Historian 2008–2018. Unpublished sources Zonta International ...

Military mascot Major Major

trace of his grave remains, but his exploits live on in the official history of 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment and in the book The four-legged major by Graham Spencer. Officers of 19 Battalion, including Major Major. See the full image on the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre website. Major's ...

Kayforce gunners in front of Kiwi Hill

Gunners from the 16th New Zealand Field Regiment pose for a photograph in front of Kiwi Hill at the regiment's headquarters in Korea, circa 1953. Commentary about this image by Bob Jagger My mates in Kayforce in front of Kiwi Hill at the camp headquarters of 16th New Zealand Field Regiment in ...

Fundraising for the Philomel

published in the Free Lance  on 1 September 1916, was accompanied with the following caption: A street sale of flowers was conducted in the streets of Wellington on Friday last week by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Sailors’ Society. It was in aid of a fund to provide thin clothing to the ...

The gunboat Pioneer at anchor off Meremere

The war in New Zealand; the gun-boat Pioneer at anchor off Meremere, on the Waikato river, reconnoitring the native position, by E.A. Williams. Originally published in the Illustrated London News, 1864. Control of the Waikato River was crucial to General Cameron’s war plans. In 1862 the ...

Departmental rolls of honour

initially reported as missing then determined to have been killed in action on 5 June 1915. The department’s final roll of honour, published in 1920, included key information about all the staff members who had served.  Department of Lands and Survey Annual Report, Appendix to the Journals of the House of ...

James K Baxter

was published in 1944 when he was only 18, and a new collection was published every few years thereafter. He was soon regarded as the pre-eminent poet of his generation. He was deeply influenced by the Romantic poets, by classical mythology, and by the British modernist poets of the 1930s. Like many ...

Further information

for Maori political unity, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1993 Department of Justice, Principles for Crown action on the Treaty of Waitangi, Department of Justice, Wellington, 1989 Aroha Harris, Hikoi: forty years of Maori protest, Huia Publishers, Wellington, 2004 I.H. Kawharu, Waitangi: Maori ...

Basilica of the Sacred Heart memorial

Rolls of Honour for the First and Second World Wars and William Joseph Byrne memorial stained glass window in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart church, Timaru. Images: Francis Vallance, 2012. Find out more about the people listed on this memorial on the Auckland Museum's Cenotaph website Sth ...

Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F. cartoon

Cartoon entitled 'Anxiety' from the Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F., 30 August 1916. Two soldiers in a trench under heavy shellfire watch with alarm the fate of the 'D Coy' rum jar. Published in fortnightly editions between 30 August 1916 and 24 January 1919, Chronicles of the ...

Dunedin Collective for Woman

Medicine Show and also 'Herstory', an exhibition on women in New Zealand history, which led to the first Herstory Diary being published in September 1976. [5] That year, too, members were active in introducing a university extension women's studies course, became involved in the founding of ...

Richard Pearse

flight attempt down Main Waitohi Road adjacent to his farm. After a short distance aloft, perhaps 50 yards, he crashed on top of his own gorse fence. No details were recorded, by Pearse or onlookers, of this tentative flight. In two letters, published in 1915 and 1928, the inventor writes of February or ...

Further information

This web feature was written by Simon Moody and produced by the NZHistory team. Links The New Zealand Stationary Hospital at Salonika (NZETC) The Salonika Campaign Society  – UK-based society formed in 2000 from the Salonika Reunion Association of veterans. It publishes a newsletter based on ...

Kororāreka painting

Kororāreka as painted by Augustus Earle; the colour print was published in 1838. A European man, probably Earle himself, is being led down a steep path by a Māori with a mere on his wrist and a taiaha over his shoulder who gestures towards the beachside settlement. A second Māori carries Earle’s ...

The Alexandra Redoubt at Tūākau

The Alexandra Redoubt at Tūākau, on the Waikato River, by Henry James (1819–1898), published in the Illustrated London News, 1863. The image looks across the river towards a steep hill crowned by the Alexandra Redoubt. Six Māori canoes are on the river and there is a raupō hut in the right ...

1957- key events

Frame, was published. It is regarded as one of the most significant pieces of New Zealand fiction in the post-war period. Diagnosed with incipient schizophrenia in 1945, Frame was hospitalised at the Seacliff Mental Hospital  near Dunedin on numerous occasions over the next decade. She wrote her first ...

GirlBoss New Zealand

This essay written by Lynette Townsend was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. GirlBoss New Zealand (GirlBoss NZ) was set up as a social enterprise to address gendered inequality in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), ...

A history of New Zealand in 100 places

This web feature is an updated digital adaptation of Gavin McLean’s 2002 book, 100 Historic Places in New Zealand. Publisher Hodder Moa Beckett’s title slightly disguised the fact that it was a history of New Zealand told through 100 historic places. These are not the 100 best buildings – many ...

Samoan Advance Party Roll of Honour

Party, who held the first of a number of annual reunions in 1921. It is not known when it was presented to the museum. The full embarkation roll and a partial photographic roll of members of the force who made the supreme sacrifice are published in Stephen John Smith, The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary ...

Sound: the Opposition whip

Hear the poem 'To the Opposition whip '. There were poems about particular individuals, such as H.A. Ingles, who as government whip in 1872 miscounted the number of votes for the government in a division. The poem was written by 'Silver Pen', the pen name of Mrs Corlett who ...

times was fighting.The Maori's apparent predilection for organised warfare as revealed in the whole history of the Maori Battalion during World War II may be partly explained if considered against his ancestral background.War and the proccupation of the old-time Maori and amongst his foremost ...

Auckland Women Lawyers' Association

This essay written by Kate Jordan was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. The Auckland Women Lawyers’ Association (AWLA) had its first official meeting on 16 April 1984, but its origins go back much earlier. In the 1970s, several ...

felt on reading ‘Crete' that Davin would have done better to have written the whole history himself.  Short quotations away from their context may give afalse [a false] impression, and long ones are out of place.  Quotes about disputed points could be given as footnotes or in an appendix, or in ...

Constitutional reform

while Prime Minister John Key pays homage to the Queen. Alexander Turnbull Library Reference: DCDL-0016491 Constitutional Reform. 10 January 2011. Slane, Christopher, 1957-:[Digital cartoons published in the Listener or the New Zealand Herald]. Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National ...

'Black Tuesday' share-market crash

Wellington Stock Exchange during the crash, 1987 (Alexander Turnbull Library, EP/1987/5914/9a-F) Billions of dollars were wiped off the value of New Zealand shares in the weeks following 20 October, as the shockwaves of a sharp drop in New York’s Wall Street stockmarket rippled around the world. ...

Pintail Bridge, Korea

the Korean summer months of July and August, the monsoon rains turned it into a big river Image: Bob Jagger collection, not to be reused without permission Text: Bob Jagger interview by Sue Corkill, Fern Publishing bob jagger korean war 1950s ...

BDS Book Group WELL 124

This essay written by Claire-Louise McCurdy and Hilary Lapsley was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. Book clubs in New Zealand New Zealand has a long history of people gathering in small groups to discuss meaningful books. From ...

Raising funds for Red Jersey Appeal

In June 1918 the staff of the Government Printing Office dressed as animals and formed themselves into a ‘zoo’ that joined other groups and tableaux processing through Wellington to join a military tattoo in Newtown to raise money for the Red Jersey Appeal. A Lower Hutt group dressed as fruit and ...

Women Together introduction

To mark the centenary of women’s suffrage in 1993, the Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs compiled a history of women’s organisations: Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā ropū wāhine o te motu. Edited by Anne Else, the book was published In ...

Policing the war effort

published stories the Defence Department found unacceptably informative (such as noting the arrivals and departures of troopships). Defence discouraged such offences by instigating prosecutions under the War Regulations. From July 1918 Gibbon could order editors to submit their entire publication to him ...

Biennale Arte 2021: New Zealand’s artist and curator announced

The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa is pleased to announce interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara as New Zealand’s artist for the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia presented in 2021. Yuki is renowned for delving into the complexities of postcolonial histories in the ...

1921- key events

first radio programmes, which included live voice and music as well as gramophone recordings. Reception was best in Otago, but the broadcasts were heard as far away as Auckland. Herbert Guthrie-Smith’s landmark enviromental history, Tutira: the story of a New Zealand sheep station, was published. Weekly ...

On leave in Japan

New Zealand Korean War gunner Bob Jagger (left) and mates enjoy a pint while on leave in Japan. Commentary about this image by Bob Jagger We were given leave to provide some relief from the conditions at the front. I had one three-week leave in Tokyo and two lots of five days, one in Inchon and ...

Korean War 'hutchies'

Bob Jagger's 'hutchie' in Korea. Commentary about this image by Bob Jagger Hutchies (Dig-in Huts) ‘Hutchie’ was the term we used to describe the homes we dug out and built for temporary shelter. A hutchie was to some degree the equivalent of the First World War dugout, although ours ...

Rail tourism

Railways poster, 1920s Tripping by train From the late 19th century New Zealand’s expanding rail network opened up exciting new leisure and tourism opportunities. Excursion day trips were popular from the 1870s to at least the 1960s, but the heyday of rail tourism, especially for longer journeys, ...

'The Russians are coming!'

Russians as potential aggressors. In the aftermath of the Crimean War of the 1850s, unannounced visits to the South Pacific by Russian warships created alarm in New Zealand. David Luckie, the editor of the Daily Southern Cross, was concerned about this threat and published a hoax report of a Russian ...

Kiwi stories

Listen to some of the stories of New Zealanders involved in the Korean War, 1950-1957. They are drawn from interviews in Pip Desmond’s book, The war that never ended: New Zealand veterans remember Korea, published by Penguin in 2013. Each image links to an audio extract and a transcript of the ...

Further information

lives and career in New Zealand, reprinted Kiwi Publishers, Christchurch, c. 1998 J. Halket Millar, Death round the bend, R.W. Stiles and Co., Nelson, 1954 Sherwood Young, Guilty on the gallows: famous capital crimes of New Zealand, Grantham House, Wellington, 1998 ...

Mau versus mandate cartoon, 1930

non-Mau Samoans to reinforce the sailors in hunting them down. The Mau came out of hiding in late March 1930 and agreed to disperse, around the time that this cartoon was published. Alexander Turnbull Library Reference: A-312-1-141 Cartoonis: William Blomfield, 1866-1938 Permission of the Alexander ...

New Zealand Wars conversations

events in Turkey 100 years earlier with the apparent lack of interest in the wars fought on our own shores. She described ‘our youth as being ripped off’ from learning their history, asking why we could remember our foreign wars but not those fought on our own shores.  Brian Rudman  chimed in in the  New ...

New Zealand Rifle Brigade

puggaree was worn on the hat. In this image of  of NZRB officers having a picnic in German trench- you can see patches, shoulder titles and badges. Further reading Austin, W.S., The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (the Earl of Liverpool’s Own): covering the period of service with New ...

Sarah L Rosser

described in the Rosser family history “From all accounts she was a loved mother and grandmother and a strong supporter of her husband’s career”. Arthur Rosser was a founder of the Auckland Labour movement and one of the first professional union secretaries in New Zealand. In 1895 Arthur and Sarah moved to ...

War-torn Seoul

The war-torn city of Seoul during the Korean War. Commentary about this image by Bob Jagger We felt sorry for the South Korean people – many had lost their families to the war. When we arrived in the fifties, the whole of South Korea was pretty rugged, I suppose because of the conflict with North ...

Anna Pavlova dances in New Zealand for the first time

The world’s best-known ballerina performed her famed ‘Dying Swan’ and ‘Fairy Doll’ to a full house in His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland. Reporters were enraptured: ‘Pavlova … is superb. An artist to the tips of her twinkling toes, every fibre of her lithe body seems to respond to the music.’ Her ...

Farming Mums NZ

This essay written by Chanelle O’Sullivan was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. Farming Mums NZ (FMNZ) is an online community that started in early 2013, when Anna Clark of Dannevirke set up a Facebook page with that name. It had ...

Military recruiting districts map

This map shows the recruiting districts used for conducting the conscription ballots between 1916 and 1918 (outlined in red). The counties included in each district are named in capitals on the map (outlined in black). Each recruiting district was expected to supply a certain number of men to the ...

Regeneration Fund- successful applicants

people in 2023-2024. Donna Kerridge:  up to $346,610 to deliver the Pōhuehue Project, an online rongoā Māori training portal and establish an online rongoā Māori reference library for enrolled learners. Gisborne Museum of Art and History Trust:  up to $325,000 to build engagement with and allow better ...

In the Bubble: Covid-19 Pandemic Oral History – communities sharing stories

don’t try to collect a whole of life history, but instead ask some basic topic questions related to current experiences such as: • who interviewees are • who they are in a bubble with • what their current experience under lockdown is like • what they’re observing about their local world and also the ...

Public media journalism boosted with new government funding

and more of these projects will be released soon. Two further RFPs are currently open for application; for  Signature projects  and projects for  Growth Audiences.  The deadline for these RFPs is 4pm 20 December. Funding details ***Budgets are yet to be finalised and will be published on the NZ On Air ...

Commemorating Waitangi Day Fund guide

about Te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi.  Exhibitions will be held displaying educational resources on Te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi including a small quiz booklet aimed at children, and guest speakers will lead a discussion on the history of the Treaty.  Provide details ...

Margaret Bullock

Biography, first published in 1993. Te Ara- the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2b49/bullock-margaret (accessed 6 November 2017) Julia Schuster, ‘The women’s movement’, in Janine Hayward (ed.),  New Zealand government and p olitics, 6th edn, Oxford University Press, South ...

Screen Women's Action Group

This essay written by Cherie Jacobson was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. The Screen Women’s Action Group (SWAG) was founded in January 2018 as a local response to the international movements Me Too (also known as #metoo) and ...

History of God Defend New Zealand

in the 1870s the words for God Defend New Zealand were first published as a competition run by The Saturday Advertiser and New Zealand Literary Miscellany. The competition to compose a National Air based on five verses of the poem appeared in the Advertiser on 1 July, 1876, with a prize of 10 ...

Opposition to war

Wartime restrictions The Second World War saw an unprecedented expansion of government control over the lives of New Zealanders. Under the pragmatic leadership of Prime Minister Peter Fraser, the Labour government introduced military conscription, industrial 'manpowering' and ...

New Zealand Constitution Act comes into force

Extract from the Act published in the Taranaki Herald (New Zealand Electronic Text Collection) Governor Sir George Grey issued a proclamation to bring the New Zealand Constitution Act (UK) 1852 into operation, establishing a system of representative government for the colony. The Act created ...

Reaction to Māori burials in New Plymouth

been killed during the battle at Māhoetahi on 6 November 1860. In the next issue, published two weeks later, it was noted that: we have heard that several people have positively tasted, perhaps it might be called an essence of Maori, existing in their wells, and it is not at all an uncommon thing to ...

D'Urville sails through 'French Pass'

voyage of exploration and scientific investigation from 1826, d’Urville commanded the Astrolabe. He spent three months charting the northern coast of the South Island and the east coast of the North Island, also studying the local people, plant and animal life. In the 1830s, d’Urville published scholarly ...

The Acheron arrives to survey New Zealand waters

especially valuable on dangerous shores such as the West Coast of the South Island. Until the Acheron survey, which was completed by HMS Pandora in 1855, the only comprehensive charts of the New Zealand coast were those published after Captain James Cook’s 18th-century voyages. The Acheron / Pandora survey ...

First issue of Otago Daily Times published

First edition of the Otago Daily Times (PapersPast) Dunedin became the first New Zealand town with a daily newspaper when the first issue of the  Otago Daily Times  was published. The English-born Julius Vogel (who later became premier of New Zealand) had been recognised as a talented journalist ...

E. Duke

Publishers Wellington.  Both Charles and Elizabeth are recorded on pages 485-487 of The History of Methodism, detailing the work of the Wesleyan church at Port Chalmers, their photos on page 487, Charles in group photo page 485.  Death & Burial:  NZ BDM online and PapersPast  Ancestry.com. New Zealand, ...

Library

beside on a winter's evening, but potentially hazardous for the library's contents. With the collection of newspapers and books published in New Zealand, the library became the country's premier library. The collection kept on growing and finally flowed out into committee rooms and even ...

Pawelka's last prison break

In August 1911 he escaped from the Terrace Gaol by removing the grille from his cell window. He was never recaptured. While family lore suggests he fled to Canada, in 1913  New Zealand Truth   published an unsourced account of his escape and alleged new life as a rebel in Mexico. ...

Playcentre Aotearoa

Playcentre Federation elected its members from the 33 regional associations, and was responsible for liaison with government and assisting the work of the associations. A Federation Education Committee set up in 1963 provided encouragement and resources. The federation also published books and pamphlets by ...

Quad tractor towing 25-pounder in Korea

actually tip over! Most of our Quads were Fords and in this case, the gun was hooked directly to it. Another thing that not too many people realise is the Royal New Zealand Artillery troops were the first ever be equipped with and to go into combat with the now famous 25-Pounder. We continued to use the ...

Springboks play New Zealand Māori for first time

cheering on band of coloured men to defeat members of own race was too much for Springboks, who frankly disgusted,’ he telegraphed home. The tourists held on to win 9–8. When the cable was published in New Zealand Truth, the Springboks’ manager did not deny that his players had been upset by remarks from ...

St David's memorial church

put the church and two adjoining properties on the market. Just two months later, philanthropist Ted Manson, the founding patron of the trust, bought all three properties. Two histories of St David's have been published: Rev. D.J. Albert,  The Story of St David’s Presbyterian Church, Auckland, ...

Te Haahi Rātana established as church

21 July 1925. The names of 38 Rātana ‘apostles’ (ministers) who were authorised to conduct marriages were published in the New Zealand Gazette. The church embraced several Christian denominations and expressed tolerance towards other faiths. While the Bible is central to its rites, the Blue Book, ...

Parliamentary poem: 'Breach of privilege'

Hear selected verses from the poem 'Breach of privilege', which is about tensions between Parliament and journalists in 1898. There were tense relations between Parliament and the press gallery journalists when this was published in the New Zealand Observer and Free Lance on 1 October ...

Capture of Boer soldiers by cyclists

‘Capture of Boers by cyclists near Eerste Fabrieken’. This somewhat romantic illustration appeared in After Pretoria: the guerilla war, which was published in London in 1902. The author, Herbert Wilson, claimed that this was the only time in the South African War that cyclists chased and captured ...

Falklands War cartoon

published in New Zealand Truth shows the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher – as Britannia – preparing for a conflict with the ‘Argentine Bull’, which is standing on a very small island. A bulldog personifying Muldoon is barking up the ‘wrong tree’ of ‘N.Z. native opinion’. Many New ...

Battle Hill NZ Wars memorial

Zealand, updated 1 September 2010 James Cowan, ‘ Paua-taha-nui and Horokiri ’, in The New Zealand Wars: a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period: volume I: 1845–1864, R.E. Owen, Wellington, 1955, pp. 123–34 Friends of Bolton Street Memorial Park, Friends of Bolton Street Memorial Park ...

Te Poi First World War memorial

Te Poi war memorial hall Names from First and Second World War roll of honour boards. Te Poi has a memorial hall for each World War joined together. Site Style Ornamentation Unveiling Date No of Dead Intersection Hall    Erected 1922 (ww1) 2 (ww1), 8 (ww2) Esther Bell World Wars te poi ...

HMS Hazard NZ Wars memorial

Southern Cross published more detailed accounts. The actions of Robertson and his party of men from the Hazard featured prominently in this report: ‘Bay of Islands’, Daily Southern Cross, 22 March 1845. James Belich, ‘A limited war’, in The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial ...

Parliamentary poem: 'The alarm'

rotten and honeycombed wood in the chamber. This verse was written by Silver Pen, the pen-name of Mrs Corlett who published Parliamentary skits and sketches in the 1870s. Transcript They say, and it is quite believed by everyone in town, The Lords are shaking in their shoes, The House is tumbling down! ...

Susan Miscall

36 Miscall Susan South Dunedin South Dunedin Dunedin Susan signed Sheet 101  as well. Her daughters Ellen, Annie and Maggie also signed the petition. Biography by Anne Cumming (great great granddaughter of Susan), first published in the Dunedin Family History Group newsletter no.23, 2009. Susannah ...

Sound clip: Ruth France tribute

Paul Henderson was Ruth France. I had been publishing poems from Paul Henderson for about two years before Ruth France wrote me a diffident little note of confession. Even then, she asked me to keep the secret, and in 1955, when she sent me a copy of her first book of poems, Unwilling Pilgrim, she ...

1982- key events

Wage and price freeze In June Minister of Finance (and Prime Minister) Robert Muldoon announced a simultaneous freeze on wages and prices, the most dramatic peacetime economic regulation in New Zealand history. This blunt weapon was aimed at rising inflation, but many economists believed this ...

Penny Jamieson

use her position to push other people’s agendas, ‘so that I can truly be an agent of the will of God and not a reactionary puppet in the hands of other people’. Penny published several books including Living at the Edge: Sacrament and solidarity in leadership, which explored her experiences as a woman ...

Knitting for Empire

war. ‘Sock day’ was held in May 1915 after soldiers reported that a pair of socks only lasted a fortnight when the wearer was on active duty. Her Excellency’s knitting book appeared in August 1915. This 193-page book, produced by Lady Liverpool, was New Zealand’s first locally published knitting book. ...

Harriett Garland

shows Thomas Threader is a hairdresser on the High Street. http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/utils/getfile/collection/p16445coll4/id/112378/filename/124926.pdfpage/page/50 Patrick Day. 'Garland, Thomas Threader', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara- the ...

from the NZ Official Histories, 28th (Maori) Battalion book written by Mr. J.F. Cody and first published in 1956. Chapter 9 "Alamien To Tripoli" page 251.

Captain Hayward writes..

A few yards past the 1 kilo peg the front of my carrier was struck by MMG fire which appeared to be coming from ...

from the NZ Official Histories, 28th (Maori) Battalion book written by Mr. J.F. Cody and first published in 1956. Chapter 9 "Alamien To Tripoli" page 251.

Captain Hayward writes..

A few yards past the 1 kilo peg the front of my carrier was struck by MMG fire which appeared to be coming from ...

Whakatāne Memorial Rest Room

Skidmore and Associates, Whakatane Built Heritage Study, Part Two, Issue 3, November 2007, pp. 14–16 Whakatane & District Historical Society, Pohaturoa Rock: a mark in history, Beacon Print & Publishing Co., Whakatane, 1955, pp. 1–4 Whakatane Museum/Whakatane & District Historical Society, ...

1925- key events

a peacetime peak of 168 million trips. (This figure was only bettered during the Second World War, when petrol rationing prompted a temporary surge in tram patronage.) The railway linking Auckland with Whangārei and Ōpua in the Bay of Islands was completed. Pioneer conservationist Pérrine Moncrieff published ...

NZ and Confrontation in Borneo

a Border War: A history of 1 Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment 1963 to 1965, privately published, Melbourne, 1995 Christopher Pugsley, From Emergency to Confrontation: The New Zealand Armed Forces in Malaya and Borneo 1949-66, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2003 ...

1920- key events

hard labour and his achievements were virtually erased from the city’s history. Other events in 1920: The new League of Nations gave New Zealand a mandate to administer the former German colony in Samoa, which it had occupied in 1914. New Zealand would rule Western Samoa until 1962. The Immigration ...

Kayforce draft at Linton Camp 1952

[email protected] if you are able to identify any more of these men. Image: Bob Jagger collection, not to be reused without permission Text: Bob Jagger interview by Sue Corkill, Fern Publishing bob jagger korean war 1950s palmerston north ...

Society of Women Musicians of Otago

teachers' course at the Royal Academy of Music, London; a chamber music recital in August presented music of Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Rachmaninov. Variety was provided by lectures and recitals of music from particular periods of history, composers or countries. The society continued to ...

Causing something to start

news of upcoming activities by South Waikato Impact hub and Tokoroa Business Inc.   The exhibition, Matariki Ki Tokoroa celebrated the inaugural and now formally recognised Matariki Day with local stories, history, Kuki Airani drumming, music and artworks on 24 June. On Sunday 25 September, Kōanga ...

Mesh Down Under

This essay written by Carmel Berry was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. The problem with mesh The female pelvic floor is a group of muscles supporting the uterus, bladder, vagina and rectum. Around half of women who have had ...

Armistice Day

dampened, however, by the ongoing impact of the influenza pandemic that was ravaging the country. A premature report of an armistice published on 8 November added to a widespread sense of uncertainty about celebrating the official announcement.   Despite the difficult circumstances, thousands of New ...

Lower Hutt Women’s Centre

This essay written by the Lower Hutt Women’s Centre Board of Trustees was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. In 1986, Lower Hutt City Council, as a response to the United Nations Decade for Women (1975–1985), set up a series of ...

96th Regiment NZ Wars memorial plaque

interpretation of racial conflict, Penguin, Auckland, 1998, pp. 29–44 James Cowan, ‘ The fall of Kororareka ’, in The New Zealand Wars: a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period: volume I: 1845–1864, R.E. Owen, Wellington, 1955, pp. 25–33 Nigel Prickett, ‘The Northern War 1845–46’, in Landscapes ...

Leo White's scenic images

Leo White, Waikato River, 1940s Leo White is best known for founding Whites Aviation, the company he ran from 1945 until his death in 1967. Whites Aviation specialised in aerial photography, documenting some quite dramatic changes in our towns and cities in the postwar era, and also published ...

Association of Home Science Alumnae of New Zealand

pressed for home science as a core subject for girls only, in later years it strongly supported its extension to boys as well. Unpublished sources Association of Home Science Alumnae of New Zealand papers, 1983-1990, in possession of Jane Malthus,Dunedin Published sources Alumnae Bulletin, 1922–1933; OUA ...

Peter Fraser, seditious utterances

introduction of conscription in August 1916, and on 4 December 1916 it issued War Regulations banning ‘seditious utterances’ in the public sphere. The regulations targeted those publicly opposing conscription, particularly the union leaders who were holding public meetings and publishing protests. On 20 ...

Exchange and command post in Korea

the foreground is a urinal, in the form of an adapted shell case. Image: Bob Jagger collection, not to be reused without permission Text: Bob Jagger interview by Sue Corkill, Fern Publishing korean war bob jagger 1950s ...

Māori beneath United Tribes flag

and a smaller red St George's cross in the top left-hand corner on a blue background. The smaller cross has a wide black border and a white eight-pointed star in each of the blue quarters divided by the cross. Descriptions of the flag published in the New South Wales Gazette, the Admiralty's ...

Four toi moko begin their long journey home from Germany

Mr Holborow said The current repatriation follows the return In 2019 of 109 Māori and Moriori ancestral remains from the Berlin Museum of Medical History at Charité. Te Papa’s Kaihautū | Māori co-leader Dr Arapata Hakiwai says the museum appreciates the partnership of the German institutions in ...

Dominion status

tradition until the 1950s. Various groups brought the word ‘dominion’ into their titles. In Wellington, the Dominion newspaper began to be published. When Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward read the proclamation of dominion status from the steps of Parliament on 26 September 1907, he marked an important ...

Annual Report 2018

with an Anzac educational resource, including discovery boxes containing First World War ephemera and digital support information, was distributed to 1000 classrooms. Feedback indicates it’s been a huge success with teachers and students. In support of Suffrage 125 we published new online content, such ...

Setting up phone system in Korea

Attempting to dig out hole for establishing a telephone exhange during the Korean War. Commentary about this image by Bob Jagger Arthur Newdick, Red Harris and Alex Quate are on pick and shovels. They have been digging into the frozen ground to set up a new manual exchange. They have dug a bit of ...

Edward Phillips-Turner

Forestry Department in 1919, and from 1928 until his retirement in 1931, he was director of forestry. He published numerous works on botany and forestry, the most important of which was The trees of New Zealand, written collaboratively with Cockayne. He was a distinguished member of many professional ...

Perrine Moncrieff

to the Crown as a reserve. Her popular guide to the identification of New Zealand birds, published in 1925, was a standard reference for some 40 years. She was an honorary wildlife ranger for 15 years, tramped extensively in the Nelson region and elsewhere in the South Island, and she wrote many ...

Stephen Roskill

New Zealand crewed its cruisers with a mix of Britons and Kiwis, with the former dominating the senior ranks. In September 1941 gunnery expert Stephen Roskill RN was posted to  Leander  as executive officer, a position he thought a demotion after working at the centre of things on the Naval Staff. ...

Expressions of sympathy after Erebus disaster

Message from Air New Zealand published in major New Zealand newspapers on 1 December 1979. Expressions of sympathy Once it was clear that no one had survived the crash of TE901, expressions of sympathy began to arrive from around the country and around the world. Queen Elizabeth II conveyed her ...

Rāpata Wahawaha NZ Wars memorial

in newspapers around the country. His last advice to his people was to remain loyal to the Queen, friendly to Europeans, adhere steadfastly to the church and maintain their unity as a tribe. Two days after his death, the Poverty Bay Herald began publishing the story of Rāpata’s life. The narrative, ...

1975- key events

place Labour’s compulsory contribution  superannuation  scheme  with a tax-funded scheme for which all New Zealanders would qualify on turning 60 also wooed many voters. Muldoon’s abrasive style saw him become one of the more polarising figures in New Zealand political history during his nine years in ...

Kiwi stories

Listen to some of the stories of New Zealanders involved in the Battle for Crete, May–June 1941. They have been drawn from interviews in Megan Hutching’s book, ‘A unique sort of battle’: New Zealanders remember Crete, published in 2001. The military ranks are those held by the men at the time of ...

Ōkaihau NZ Wars memorial cross

re-interred under the cross’. Bad press may have provided additional motivation. R. Allan Wisht was in Ōmāpere as the remains were about to be relocated, and his article providing graphic detail of the sombre occasion was later published in several newspapers. According to Wisht, the remarks of a New Zealand ...

Hōri Ngātai NZ Wars memorial

took no part in this campaign. Ngātai is said to have related his account of Gate Pā to the historian James Cowan in 1901, and to the New Zealand Wars veteran Captain Gilbert Mair in 1903. It appears in Mair’s posthumously published 1926 book, The story of Gate Pa. Ngātai died on 24 August 1912 at his ...

Ministry Leadership Team

October 2022.   Leauanae Laulu Mac has over 15 years of Senior Management experience and joined Manatū Taonga from the Ministry for Pacific Peoples, where he was Secretary for Pacific Peoples and Chief Executive. During his tenure, Leauanae Laulu Mac led a significant transformation of the Ministry, ...

Dairy Women’s Network

This essay written by Cathy Brown was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. Dairy Women’s Network (DWN), a not-for-profit charitable trust, was formed in 1998 after two New Zealand women involved in dairying attended an International ...

Clive war memorial

The Clive First World War memorial was unveiled by General Sir Andrew Russell on Anzac Day 1921. The memorial was a life-size statue of a New Zealand infantryman, carved from Coromandel granite and mounted on a 14-ft high pedestal. According to the report of the ceremony published in the Hawkes ...

Going home from Korea

a couple of weeks before we went by Qantas to Sydney, stopping off again at Guam, Port Moresby and then we flew by flying boat to Evans Bay in Wellington, where we were met by the Minister of Defence, Thompson, who thanked us for our time in Korea. One of the men was a Kelly from Nightcaps in the South ...

Beatrice Tinsley made professor of astronomy at Yale

changed very little over time. In 1978 Tinsley became the first woman to be appointed as Professor of Astronomy at Yale University. She published around 100 research papers during her 14-year academic career and was the first female recipient of the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy (1974). Beatrice ...

Soroptimist International of Aotearoa New Zealand

Soroptimism in New Zealand 1939–1994’, 1995 Stewart, Elizabeth, ‘History of SI New Zealand South Incorporated’, 1973–1982, 1983 'What is Soroptimist International?' (pamphlet), c.1991 Published sources Haywood, Janet, The History of Soroptimist International, SI, Cambridge UK, 1995 Service Begining ...

Policy for Government Management of Cultural Heritage Places (2022)

heritage places ensures that the stories, histories and events that reflect who we are and where we have come from will continue to be experienced by future generations. Our government is steward of many cultural heritage places on behalf of all New Zealanders from government buildings in metropolitan ...

Addition of railway employee to NZ roll of honour

appeared in the published New Zealand Railways Department roll of honour and on the Railways head office roll of honour board. But he had not enlisted in the NZEF and was never assigned a service number — perhaps explaining why his name was not entered on the national roll of men had died as a result of ...

Regeneration Fund application guide

budget in a different format, but it must include the required information and be in an excel spreadsheet.   Step 5: Opportunity for people to give feedback A summary of each completed proposal will be published online for a period of around two weeks at the start of each evaluation round. The feedback ...

Henry Nicholas memorial, Christchurch

On 7 March 2007 Henry Nicholas was publically acknowledged in New Zealand with the unveiling of a memorial to him at the Park of Remembrance in Christchurch. The larger-than-life bronze statue is mounted on a stone gifted from Le Quesnoy. The memorial was commissioned by the Canterbury District ...

New Zealand Coat of Arms 1911-1956

Health Resorts. A Royal Warrant granting armorial ensigns and supports was issued on 26 August 1911 and published in the New Zealand Gazette on 11 January 1912. The 1911 Coat of Arms was replaced in 1956 by the current coat of arms: The main alterations included: adding St Edward’s Crown to symbolise ...

History of God Save the King

a set of guidelines to ensure proper interpretation. The score for this version is available, published by Boosey & Hawkes. Early in the twentieth century there were attempts to include verses with application to New Zealand. One such verse by E S Emerson was approved by King Edward VII but never ...

Library disasters

Parliament Buildings during the 1907 fire, showing firemen using hoses and piles of books, desks, etc., on the lawn in front. The General Assembly Library is on the right. Library disasters and near disasters Fire was the scourge of colonial towns and cities. Old, tinder-dry wooden buildings and ...

Lesbian

This essay written by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku, Shirley Tamihana, Julie Glamuzina and Alison Laurie was first published in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 1993. It was updated by Alison Laurie, Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku and Julie Glamuzina in 2018. Formal lesbian ...

for the oral history interviews contained on this site, holds signed agreement forms from all of the interviewees giving the Ministry or the Association the right to publish them. They may not be reused without the permission of the copyright holder. The full recordings and accompanying paperwork are ...

Railways war memorials

condolence, rolls of honour in official publications, obituaries published in unofficial journals, honour boards made of timber or stone, and a memorial bell at the National War Memorial. There were, however, two particularly distinctive railway memorials: a commemorative flagpole and a steam locomotive. The ...

Clarence Hare on departure for Antarctica

Photograph of Clarence Hare published in The Weekly Press on 18 December 1901. Clarence Hare's experiences during first Antarctic land expedition New Zealander Clarence Hare was a steward in the first real land expedition in the Antarctic. The British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-04), ...

Positive Women Inc.

This essay written by Jane Bruning was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. The AIDS epidemic reached Aotearoa New Zealand in the early 1980s, initially affecting men who had sex with men. Towards the end of the 1980s, a small number ...

First World War by the numbers

the war (1928) by John Studholme (pdf, 131mbs) Lieutenant-Colonel John Studholme compiled his Record of personal services in the years following the war, as a companion volume to the four official war histories published by the government from 1919. He described the book as ‘unofficial, but based on ...

New Zealand Coat of Arms warranted

First New Zealand Coat of Arms (Te Papa, 1992-0035-1583) On 26 August 1911 King George V signed the Royal Warrant, addressed to the Earl Marshal, assigning the first New Zealand Coat of Arms (officially the Armorial Bearings of the Dominion of New Zealand). The Warrant was published in the New ...

Leonard Cockayne

subantarctic islands. He also produced major reports on Waipoua kauri forest, Tongariro National Park and Stewart Island. His book The vegetation of New Zealand, published in 1921, was the standard reference for 70 years. Cockayne won many awards and held eminent positions in scientific and conservation ...

Wairau incident memorial

This memorial at Tuamarina cemetery was erected in 1869 to commemorate the 1843 Wairau incident. In the background is a  South African War memorial  unveiled in 1904. History of the memorial Tuamarina – or Tua Marina – is a small settlement in Marlborough, in the north-east of the South Island. ...

Ngāruawāhia NZ Wars memorial

Belich, ‘Paterangi and Orakau’, in The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict, Penguin, Auckland, 1998, pp. 158–76 James Cowan, ‘ The Invasion of Rangiaowhia ’, in The New Zealand Wars: a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period: volume I: 1845–1864, R.E. ...

Creative Fibre

national secretary Rules of the New Zealand Spinning, Weaving and Woolcrafts Society Incorporated, 1991, brochure for distribution to members Unpublished papers including memoirs written on request for the files, and for 25th anniversary history of NZSWWS, ed. Jean Abbott, New Plymouth Published sources ...

Graduate Women New Zealand

FUW in Otago', MA thesis, University of Otago, 1982 NZFUW records 1920–1985, ATL NZFUW and Otago Branch records, 1922–1989, Hocken NZFUW branch histories, in possession of Margaret Stockwell, Timaru Otago University Women's Association minutes, Hocken Published sources Angus, Janet C., By ...

First female ascent of Aoraki/Mt Cook

Freda du Faur, c 1910 (Alexander Turnbull Library Ref: 1/2-001296; F) In the cold, dark hours before dawn on 3 December 1910, Freda du Faur and her guides Peter and Alexander (Alec) Graham left their tent and started towards the summit of Aoraki/Mt Cook. Later that day, du Faur stood on the peak ...

Ormond Burton Great War Story

lived in them, and so utter was their need that these horrible places were looked upon as homes. [5] In 1917, he was asked to write a history of the New Zealand Division, copies of which were given to troops at the armistice under the title Our Little Bit —later revised and published as a full-length ...

Women Climbing

sport, it was still pursued by relatively few people, most of them middle class and Pākehā. Though always a minority in this traditionally male preserve, women played an integral role in New Zealand mountaineering history. They included exceptional climbers, from Freda du Faur  — whose mountaineering ...

Overview

Population New Zealand’s population reached three million in late 1973. The rate of natural increase then slowed as the contraceptive pill became more widely used and an economic downturn meant that young couples were less eager to start families. There were also more emigrants and fewer ...

The memorial site

protected. Image: The magnificent pōhutukawa on the site. Photo published with kind permission of the New Zealand Notable Trees Trust (Brad Cadwallader) Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei has reviewed the arboricultural management plan and confirmed they are comfortable that the proposed approach to works in the vicinity ...

Turning boys into soldiers

boys for war is not something we associate with the modern scouting movement, its founder, Robert Baden-Powell, had been a lieutenant-general in the British Army. His principles of scouting, published in Scouting for boys (1908), were based on his earlier military books. The movement aimed to teach ...

Kiwi klassics

Pianist Tahu Matheson's recording for Kiwi Pacific Records in 1998 includes concert studies by New Zealand composer Edwin Carr. Kiwi Records classical catalogue  Kiwi Records was a saviour of New Zealand composers. The label, started by publisher A.H. & A.W. Reed in 1957, was one of the ...

Statement of Intent 2010-2013

Monitoring of Funded Organisations. Work programme for Outcome 1 Ministry's Key Services Key sector-focused initiatives Producing and publishing (digital and non-digital) resources on New Zealand and its culture and society (eg. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand) Producing historical information ...

New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective

Siren, celebrating the 21st anniversary of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective, appeared in 2008, the last year in which the magazine was published. In 1988 the Department of Health contracted NZPC to work in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention, and the bulk of the collective's funding then ...

Only surviving Maungatautari Bank cheque issued

it was perfectly proper for him or his nominee to sign a cheque with this name. [The article in Te Ao Hou, a journal published by the Department of Maori Affairs in the mid-20th century, repeats a story about the Maungatautari Bank that goes back at least to 1891. It is largely fictional but provides ...

Sound clip: evacuation from Gallipoli

Hear a radio documentary about the evacuation of Gallipoli. Transcript Then a new enemy appeared, General Winter. Rain and cold added to the hardships of the men in the line and sent up casualties with a bound. Men were actually drowned in the trenches. As men were taken away, a show of landing ...

Performing arts

This essay written by Adrienne Simpson was first published in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 1993. It was updated by Cherie Jacobson in 2018. 1870s–1993 When Mary Colclough, writing in the New Zealand Herald in 1871 under the pen-name of 'Polly ...

Capability Fund funding recipients

their associated kōrero and pakiwaitara, and develop skills of whānau/hapū to identify, record, and monitor wāhi tupuna. Dunedin  $19,500 B Company 28th NZ (Māori) Battalion History Trust For wānanga and engagement to inform the provision of tools and resources that will enable access to a significant ...

How Flight TE901 got its name

were PEL800 and Antarctica was PEL900. The first image that arrived of Antarctica was duly numbered PEL901. Remote Sensing published a book on the Earth Resources investigations in New Zealand called Landsat Over New Zealand. Page 224 has a colour photo of PEL901. Enter Air New Zealand. They wanted the ...

New Zealand Railways Magazine launched

Railways Magazine cover, 1926 (Alexander Turnbull Library, PUBL-0190-1926-05-cover) The New Zealand Railways Magazine was published monthly for 14 years, with the final issue appearing in June 1940. Based on British and American railway company magazines, it was launched as a journal for the ...

Lady Liverpool Great War Story

women of New Zealand Two days after news of Britain’s declaration of war on Germany was received on 5 August 1914, Lady Liverpool’s appeal to the women of New Zealand was published in many newspapers. She sought assistance in providing comforts and ‘necessaries’ for serving soldiers of the ‘citizen ...

Kia Toipoto Pay Gap Action Plan

stages in the Whāinga Amorangi component of our plan to understand the development needs of our people and support capability uplift in Māori-Crown Capability. This year, we will prioritise learning in racial equity, Aotearoa New Zealand History and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Kia Toipoto Eliminating bias and ...

20-year-old hanged for murder

Edward Te Whiu's execution led to calls to end capital punishment (ATL, Eph-A-JUSTICE-1956-01-front) On the evening of 28 April 1955 a cold and hungry Edward Te Whiu broke into the house of Florence Smith, a 75-year-old widow, with the intention of robbing her. Smith, who was in bed, heard ...

Sydney Stanfield remembers Passchendaele

overseas. Hear Stan describe his experiences at Passchendaele at the time of the October 1917 offensive. Transcripts These extracts of oral history have been edited to facilitate reading / listening. On being a stretcher-bearer at Passchendaele 12–14 October 1917 It rained and rained and bloody rained, and ...

Bob Jagger in Korea

During his time serving with Kayforce in Korea (1951-54) Gunner Bob Jagger (pictured) took a series of images on his box Brownie camera, a selection of which have been reproduced with his permission. Commentary about this image by Bob Jagger That’s me, aged twenty-seven, in Kure (Japan) for five ...

Maurice Wilkins wins Nobel Prize

British physical chemist Rosalind Franklin to deduce the structure of the DNA molecule. This discovery of set the stage for rapid advances in molecular biology over the next 50 years. In the decade that followed Wilkins published a number of papers verifying the Watson–Crick Model. The Nobel Prize was ...

Interviewees

The interviews that appear in this feature were recorded for the book Home: civilian New Zealanders remember the Second World War, written by Alison Parr and published by the Penguin Group in 2010. Marian Beech Marian Beech was born in England in 1917, immigrating to New Zealand aged 11. ...

The 1980s

we published our first ever ‘Rich List’. Labour’s re-election that year was a provisional endorsement of Rogernomics. But cracks that could not be papered over were appearing. The stock-market crash of October 1987 sent shock waves through the economy. Divisions within the government over the nature ...

New Zealand Federation of Country Girls' Clubs

At a garden party in Mona Vale, Christchurch, in 1970, Prince Charles asked one Country Girls' Club (CGC) member what Country Girls did. She replied, 'We marry Young Farmers.' [1] The history of CGC reflected the traditional role assigned to rural daughters, and their tenuous ...

Working with statistics

activities as they went about their duties. A handful of male clerks in the Colonial Secretary’s office collated this data and summarised the results on standardised forms which were bound together in volumes known throughout the British Empire as ‘Blue Books’. Annual statistical reports were published by ...

John Minto- 1981 Springbok tour

John Minto, national organiser of Halt All Racist Tours (HART) 'I think the most important impact of the tour in New Zealand was to stimulate the whole debate about racism and about the place of Māori in our community. 'In South Africa the tour helped to bring, I think, a quicker end to ...

Mō Tuia 250||About Tuia 250

sites of the Tuia 250 Voyage. In an opinion piece published by Stuff called ‘ Tuia 250: Celebration or commemoration for anniversary of Captain Cook’s arrival ’, he shared these views. “I wanted to hear directly from communities, to understand their aspirations for the commemorations, to discuss how we ...

New Zealand history scavenger hunt 3

While working largely on children’s television I was a contestant on Dancing With The Stars New Zealand. Who am I? My first novel, Mutuwhenua: The Moon Sleeps, was published in 1978. It was about the relationship of a Māori woman and Pākehā man and their experiences of racial prejudice. It was inspired ...

Korean Christmas card

Christmas card sent home to New Zealand by Gunner Bob Jagger in 1953. Click on thumbnail to see inside. Commentary about this image by Bob Jagger In December of ’53, we each sent a Christmas/ New Year card home. It commemorated the Coronation Day held on 2 June of the same year. The card was ...

Uijeongbu, location of M*A*S*H

The village of Uijeongbu, which served as the home of the US 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the TV series M*A*S*H. Commentary about this image by Bob Jagger Uijeongbu, which was then just a village located north of Seoul. The dwellings were thatched with rice straw and the peoplemade ...

developed for the benefit of the remaining veterans, their families and for all New Zealanders. The website was published on 30 June 2009 and formally launched by the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Hon Christopher Finlayson, and the Minister of Māori Affairs, Hon Dr Pita Sharples, at Parliament on ...

The lighthouse and its surroundings

a history of New Zealand's coastal lighthouse system. ...

Lottie Le Gallais Great War Story

The video for this story about Lottie Le Gallais and First World War nurses screened on TV3 News on 19 April 2015. Charlotte Le Gallais (‘Lottie’) was one of 10 nurses who served on the first voyage of the New Zealand Hospital Ship Maheno, which went to the aid of the Anzac troops at Gallipoli. ...

CDIP projects

| Living Legacy, Washington DC New Zealand’s Māori culture took centre stage July 22-30 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. Through nine days of immersive programming, Tuku Iho| Living Legacy featured Tā moko – the art of Māori tattoo; carving demonstrations, Kapa ...

Tarawa coastwatchers memorial

was later replaced by a low stone wall and capped stanchion posts and chains. In late 1944 New Zealand Post Office radio staff were invited to contribute to the Tarawa Memorial Fund. Some of the money from this fund was used to pay for a bronze memorial plaque to the nine radio operators killed which ...

Armistice signed telegram

This is the telegram that informed New Zealand’s Governor-General, Lord Liverpool, of the signing of the armistice. Germany and the Allied Powers signed the armistice in Compiègne, France at 5.20 a.m. on 11 November 1918, late afternoon in New Zealand. Official confirmation reached New Zealand ...

Air New Zealand A320 crashes in France

Airways and Air New Zealand. Their interim report released in February 2009 found that the crew had lost control of the aircraft after it stalled following a low-speed manoeuvre at a very low altitude. According to the final report published in September 2010, the plane’s velocity had fallen to stalling ...

Moore-Jones' Gallipoli landscapes

The terrible country towards Suvla, by Horace Millichamp Moore-Jones, 1915 Other Moore-Jones Gallipoli landscapes (click on thumbnails to see full images) Horace Moore-Jones' Gallipoli landscapes At the outbreak of war in 1914, Horace Moore-Jones was living in Britain. He was 42 years old, ...

Alan Deere memoir

In 1959 Alan Deere published an account of his wartime experiences, entitled Nine Lives. The book's title was a reference to Deere’s lucky habit of emerging unharmed from life-threatening situations. During the Battle of Britain he was shot down three times; on another occasion his Spitfire ...

HMS Calliope NZ Wars memorial

a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period: volume I: 1845–1864, R.E. Owen, Wellington, 1955, pp. 73–144 Friends of Bolton Street Cemetery Margaret Alington, Unquiet earth; a history of the Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington, 1978 H.F. McKillop, Reminiscences of twelve months’ service in New ...

Parents Centres New Zealand

and managers were introduced. This was a significant step away from the previous model of a volunteer- and consumer-led organisation. Marie Bell’s 2004 study of the history of Parents Centres, written soon after this shift, reported some difficulties in bedding down the changes in the organisation. ...

related to the phases of the moon.

The Presbyterian Church this week described him as one of the most significant and recognised lay leaders in its history. He was deeply involved in the Maori Synod, the New Life Movement from 1955-70, and was elected as only the third lay [not ordained] Moderator ...

New Zealand Book Month

Book Month with 31 reasons to love New Zealand books and writing. There is a different story for each day of the month about some of the people, events, books and other publications that are part of this country's literary heritage. This is a selection of snapshots, not a history of New Zealand ...

Lizzy Gibbs

Birth, marriage and death records Passenger list Family oral history Steam at Southbrook: The first 50 years of the Southbrook Traction Engine Club. Compiled by M C Bradstock, published by the Southbrook Traction Engine Club, 2010. Obituary: Press, 14 August 1936, p.2. New Zealand Combined Electoral ...

NZ Railway Engineers in Samoa, 1914

Sapper Peter Stanley Marriott, an NZR locomotive fireman who was later wounded while serving with a trench mortar battery on the Western Front. One of the Railway Engineers described their work in a letter published in the Evening Post, 11 November 1914: Fortunately, on arrival it was found that the ...

Sport and recreation

This essay written by Charlotte Macdonald was first published in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 1993. It was updated by Charlotte Macdonald in 2018. In a country renowned for its sporting traditions and fervour, women's sport and recreation ...

Making it official: The journey of te reo Māori | Kia whakapūmautia: Ngā piki me ngā heke o te reo Māori

impact. This is the fourth story to be published. Carmel Sepuloni adds that as part of the  Maihi Karauna  or Crown Strategy for Māori Language Revitalisation, this online resource Te Mana o Te Reo Māori supports ongoing work to ensure te reo Māori is valued as part of our Aotearoatanga or national ...

The Bob Jagger photographs

Bob Jagger in Korea Gunner Bob Jagger served with Kayforce in Korea from 1951 to 1954. During this time he took photographs on his box Brownie camera. A selection of these previously unpublished images are presented here, along with commentary provided by Bob. Bob Jagger was brought up in rural ...

Mata Aho Collective

This essay written by the Mata Aho Collective was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. Mata Aho Collective was established in 2012 by Erena Baker (Te Atiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toarangatira), Sarah Hudson (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe), ...

Pohutukawa trees

abroad. In 1833 the missionary Henry Williams described holding service under a ‘wide spreading pohutukawa’. The first known published reference to the pohutukawa as a Christmas tree came in 1857 when ‘flowers of the scarlet Pohutukawa, or “Christmas tree”’ formed part of table decorations at a feast put ...

Missionary protection of Māori cartoon

Hadfield made a direct and public appeal for justice to the Duke of Newcastle, colonial secretary, with three pamphlets published in London in 1860 and 1861. Some clergy were concerned at the 'intemperate unwise language' used by Hadfield. Many settlers regarded his actions as bordering on ...

A day off for Christmas

often opened. Newspapers were published on Christmas Day, some of them even into the early 20th century. In some early issues, Christmas was not even mentioned. The 25 December 1841 edition of the New Zealand Gazette was no different from any other issue of the paper. New Zealand's first holiday ...

On the 38th Parallel, 1953

established just north of Seoul, through the middle of the Demilitarised Zone. After the armistice, we were in a position up north and had to come back to the south, allowing the North Koreans to take that position. We stayed on in a peacekeeping role based below the 38th Parallel, by the Imjin River. A line ...

Bugler Allen painting

the whole detachment from being massacred. An account of this incident also appeared in J.G. Wilson’s Early Rangitikei. The following lines taken from Early Rangitikei were used in a poem by Archdeacon A.V. Towgood that was published in the Wellington Girls’ College magazine  Reporter: He raised his ...

Sound: Prime Minister Sidney Holland at the Tangiwai disaster

information as possible, and further details will be supplied from time to time as they are available. Radio will be used for this purpose as newspapers are not published today. I deeply regret to say that this is the most disastrous railway accident in New Zealand's history and unfortunately it has been ...

Suzanne Aubert appointed Mother Superior

following a request from local Māori. She was fluent in three languages – her native language of French, te reo Māori and English. During her time at Hiruharama, Mother Aubert published a Māori–English phrase book and for a period adapted Māori herbal rongoā (medicine) as home remedies which were bottled ...

Former Governor FitzRoy dies by suicide

Robert FitzRoy, the second governor of New Zealand, took his own life at his home in Surrey. Opinion on his governorship has always been divided. While the writer Steve Braunias described FitzRoy as ‘our first great wretch’, historian Ian Wards argued that his achievements were ‘considerable’ and ...

New Zealand adopts decimal currency

publicised a selection of the designs submitted and asked for public input via voting forms published in newspapers. Designs by New Zealander James Berry were ultimately chosen for all six coins. The notes – the first New Zealand paper money to show the reigning monarch – were kept under wraps until June ...

Atalanta Cycling Club

Blanche E. Thompson, Radio New Zealand Sound Archives, c. 1961 Simpson, Clare, interview with Ngawi Thompson, Rangiora, 1989 Published sources Malthus, Jane, '"Bifurcated and not Ashamed": Late Nineteenth-century Dress Reformers in New Zealand', New Zealand Journal of History, Vol. 23 ...

Dress for Success New Zealand

This essay written by Gwynneth Jansen was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. Dress for Success in New Zealand was part of a global movement for change and empowerment of women. The first organisation was established by Nancy Lublin ...

Haeata

goddess of te whare pora (the house of weaving), representing the arts pursued by women. According to the joint artists’ statement, the whare was ‘uncompromisingly female’, and ‘a woman’s response to New Zealand’s 150-year history of deceit’ in dishonouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi. [2] The differences ...

Erebus disaster recovery work during blizzard

Recovery work among the debris of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 on Mt Erebus continued even in terrible weather conditions. The original caption to this photograph reads: ‘Hugh Logan below main fuselage. Strong ground blizzard blowing through wreckage’. No survivors Keith Woodford's account ...

RSA Women's Sections

that the ideas and schemes for raising money generally originate.' [2] Alexander Turnbull Library, EP-Days of Commemoration-ANZAC Day-05. Women selling Anzac poppies, Wellington. When this image was published in 1940 it referred to these five women as 'Veterans of Poppy Day', as they had ...

UN Women National Committee for Aotearoa NZ

This essay written by Rae Julian was published online in Women together: a history of women's organisations in New Zealand in 2019. In December 1976, the United Nations (UN) established the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), as the Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women. ...

New Zealand Federation of Women's Institutes

Margaret, former Dominion president, interviewed by Rosemarie Smith, February 1992 Published sources A goodly thing [a history of the WI 1921–1946], Women's Institute, Wellington, 1946 Courtney, Janet E., Country Women in council, Oxford University Press, London, 1933 Harper, Barbara, The history of ...

16 Olympic stories

television or the internet. Back in 1908, when New Zealand walker Harry Kerr won our first medal, the report of his feat in the following day’s Taranaki Herald – published in Kerr’s home region – was brief and low-key. More.. Yvette Williams leaps for gold at Helsinki (1952) New Zealand’s first female ...

Women's Institute Drama Groups

collection, 1921–1992, WI headquarters, Wellington Published sources Harper, Barbara (ed.), History of the CWIs of New Zealand 1921–1958, Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd, Christchurch, 1958 Home and Country, 1929–, complete set held at WI headquarters, Lower Hutt, Wellington South Canterbury Federation of the CWI, ...

Te Rore NZ Wars memorial

soldier, the pioneer farmer, early colonization, the war in Waikato, life on the Maori border and later-day settlement, Waipa Post Printing and Publishing Company, Te Awamutu, 1922, pp. 36–9 James Cowan, ‘ The Advance on the Waipa ’ and ‘ The Invasion of Rangiaowhia ’, in The New Zealand Wars: A History of ...