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… political movement which agitated for recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi and managed to win all four Māori seats. In 1924 … Authority (MUMA) and Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust in West Auckland. These groups are pan-Māori organisations that …
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Part of story: Kotahitanga – unity movements
… England, probably sometime between 1819 and 1821, the son of Emma Lydyard and her husband, Joseph Rae, a stonemason. … emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand, 'to assist in the founding of a young nation.' Charles and Ann Rae initially … in 1892 he left Christchurch to live with a son in Otahuhu, Auckland. There he died on 7 February 1894, having told a …
Type: Biography
… known collectively as biology, cover all the studies of living things. These range from the chemical processes of cells, to the interactions of living organisms with their … as museum botanist and draughtsman. In the 1860s and 1870s Auckland, Canterbury and Otago all established provincial …
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Part of story: Life sciences
… Financial services Most of New Zealand’s early large companies were involved in … financial services. Overseas banks included the Bank of New South Wales, the Union Bank of Australia, the … (established in 1872) were large companies operating out of Auckland. By 1961 New Zealand Insurance was first, and South …
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Part of story: Large companies
… on English tradition. Later they operated under the rules of their nearest principal club. However, without overall … instigators, William Russell from Hawke’s Bay, became the founding president of the New Zealand Racing Conference, … Canterbury was the breeding and racing centre. Dunedin, Auckland and Hawke’s Bay were other strongholds, supported …
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Part of story: Horse and greyhound racing
… use parades to celebrate the unity and collective strength of working people. The first Labour Day parades were held on … in the main centres to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the eight-hour working day in New Zealand. Their success … and displays on sexual and scatological themes’. 1 In 1912, Auckland students acquired police uniforms. They held up …
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Part of story: Parades and protest marches
… there were very few French immigrants. Some came in search of gold, and a few arrived in the 1870s as assisted immigrants. The number of French-born residents peaked at 848 in 1881, and did not … year. In 2018 most people of French ethnicity lived in Auckland (42%), Wellington (15%) and Canterbury (10%). The …
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Part of story: French
… The Grey Collection of Auckland City Libraries, the Hocken Library and the … in New Zealand. All have their origins in major donations of books and other research material. The stacks are closed, …
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Part of story: Libraries
… Richmond was born in Wellington on 23 October 1897, the son of Flora Hursthouse Macdonald and her husband, Maurice Wilson Richmond, a barrister and later a professor of law at Victoria College. Norman grew up in a … tutor-organiser for the WEA with a position on the staff of Auckland University College. There he was responsible for …
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… in New Zealand ports, their crews left a lasting imprint, often for the wrong reasons: between 1851 and 1861, for example, 355 out of the 677 inmates of Dunedin jail were seafarers, … returned to the coastal shipping trade; according to an Auckland union official, half of New Zealand’s coastal …
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Part of story: Seafarers
… This contributed to their rapid integration. The retention of language and culture has been difficult in mixed New … Existing associations were reinvigorated by the arrival of the 1956 Hungarians. To welcome new arrivals, new clubs … in the mid-1980s. In 2003, cultural groups existed in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Community …
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Part of story: Hungarians
… ombudsman was concerned with issues relating to treatment of people in detention. From the 1970s a growing number of complaints came from prisoners. These complaints were … from Pāremoremo maximum-security prison, north of Auckland. He observed then that society generally did not …
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Part of story: Ombudsmen and officers of Parliament
… held the Southern Māori seat and was appointed minister of tourism in 1972, making her the first Māori female cabinet minister. Sandra Lee won the Auckland Central seat in 1993. She was the first Māori woman … tamariki te whakautu mo tenei’ 1 (the language is the core of Māoriness ... The answer for this is with our children’s …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… crops. The northern chief Ruatara, keen to take advantage of the demand for wheat in Sydney, sowed and harvested the … and made it easier to access the main markets such as Auckland. Māori farming and Pākehā settlement Missionaries … land use would encourage Māori to establish fixed places of residence and free up more land for settlement by …
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Part of story: Kai Pākehā – introduced foods
… In the second half of the twentieth century, Keith Sinclair transformed how New … tradition of New Zealand history at the University of Auckland and initiating the New Zealand Journal of History . … historian J. G. A. Pocock later identified him as the ‘founding father’ of New Zealand history. 3 In 1950 Sinclair …
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… Council (responsible for distributing government funding of creative arts) began funding modern dance companies and … Susan Jordan founded Movement Theatre at the University of Auckland in 1976 (the company lasted only a few years). … emerged. Limbs Dance Company Limbs was set up in 1977. Founding members Chris Jannides, Kilda Northcott, Debbie …
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Part of story: Contemporary dance
… Langton, Berwickshire, Scotland, on 2 April 1863, the son of Euphemia Helen Logan and her husband, Thomas Logan, a … Southland, on 16 April 1890; they had four sons, one of whom died in infancy. Elizabeth died in 1910 and about … the regular army. He was appointed officer commanding the Auckland Military District, moved to Auckland and sold his …
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… investment to increase their assets and income. The prices of shares on the stock market are determined by what buyers … pay for them. A person who owns a share owns a small part of the company or enterprise. If the enterprise makes a … Settlement concluded in offices close to the corner. Auckland had its own ‘Scrip Corner’ on the intersection of …
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Part of story: Stock market
… Alice Annie Kenny, one of New Zealand's most assiduous but least-remembered … on 31 August 1875 at Newcastle (Ngāruawāhia), the third of eight children of Annie Edgecumbe and her husband, Thomas … 15 she won second prize in a story competition run by the Auckland Star ; this was followed by a consolation prize in …
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… principally a Highland instrument. Only a small proportion of New Zealand’s Scottish immigrants were Highlanders, … from the early 19th century. During the Otago gold rush of the 1860s there were bands that featured bagpipes along … pipes go to war During the First World War soldiers of the Auckland, Canterbury and Otago regiments formed pipe bands. …
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Part of story: Brass and pipe bands