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… June 1862 at Magherafelt, County Londonderry, the daughter of Margaret Clark and her husband, James Morison, a master … provinces. In 1892 Harriet Morison spent seven months in Auckland organising northern tailoresses. She returned there … she used to back her demand for women's suffrage. She was a founding member of the Women's Franchise League in Dunedin, …
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… A number of organisations around the country provide support and … provides support services to the families and children of prisoners. It originated in 1988 in Christchurch, when a … the 1990s, establishing a home for visiting families and an Auckland branch. In the early 21st century PILLARS was …
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Part of story: Prisoner support and advocacy
… Frederick Sinclaire was born in Papakura Valley near Auckland on 10 July 1881, the son of Irish parents Mary Carson and her husband, John … column as well as numerous articles and reviews. He was a founding member of the Melbourne Literary Club in 1916 and …
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… movement Though Plunket was founded by a man, the work of the organisation was sustained by women – both professional nurses and women volunteers. It became the most … for young people. Kidz First Centre for Youth Health in Auckland provides specialised support and care for young …
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Part of story: Child and youth health
… sometime between 1855 and 1857. She was the daughter of John McAllan, a merchant; her mother's identity is … also active nationally, and as the league's delegate was a founding member in 1896 of the National Council of Women of … a dentist. By 1919 the Williamsons were living in Remuera, Auckland, while Lena Williamson, a chemist, boarded at the …
Type: Biography
… The son of Christopher Richmond, a barrister, and his wife, Maria … builders. For three years from 1845 he served on the staff of I. K. Brunel, working on the Great Western railway in the … had worked on the staff of Brunel. The brothers arrived in Auckland in February 1851; James found the houses 'rather …
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… Denis James Matthews Glover, one of the most spirited, versatile and influential figures in … at New Plymouth Boys' High School. They then shifted to Auckland where he excelled in English at Auckland Grammar … leave in London, Glover discussed with Charles Brasch the founding of the literary periodical Landfall. John Lehmann, …
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… Boyes was born in Wellington on 13 January 1924, the second of three children of Edna Myrtle Barratt and her husband, Gerald Cave Boyes. … Open-heart surgery Douglas Robb , surgeon-in-charge at Auckland’s Green Lane Hospital, recruited Brian …
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… to have been born in London, England, on 28 March 1807, son of a successful Jewish painter and engraver, Solomon Polack, … Art and letters were to play an important part in the life of J. S. Polack, but he began his career in the War Office … administrations. Removing his business to the new capital, Auckland, in 1845, Polack operated a bonded warehouse near …
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… significant role in the cultural and political renaissance of Māori in the 1970s and 1980s. He contributed to the renegotiation of relations between the Crown and Māori as well as offering … a boarder at Hato Petera (St Peter’s Māori College) on Auckland’s North Shore. A classmate was Hone Papita Raukura …
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… known as Thomas William Adams) was born in the village of Gravely, Cambridgeshire, England, on 24 June 1842. He was the son of Mary Giddings and her husband, Charles Adams. In 1843 the … In 1862 Adams sailed from London on the African for Auckland, New Zealand, with his cousin, George Giddings. He …
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… The new generation of writers who emerged in the 1930s have been called the … or the ‘literary nationalists’. The P hoenix was the title of a short-lived literary journal out of Auckland University in which a number of these new writers …
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Part of story: Poetry
… Archibald George William Dunningham, one of the founders of modern librarianship in New Zealand, was … attracted the interest of G. T. Alley , soon to be the founding director of the Country Library Service, who owed a … Peggy’s collections of craft material are now housed in the Auckland Museum and in the Otago Museum. After their return …
Type: Biography
… 1895 at Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, the son of Walter Haddon, an engine driver, and his wife, Mary … He was involved in the negotiations leading to the founding of the Faculty of Theology at the University of … in the negotiations. Hilda Haddon died in 1950, and in Auckland on 16 May 1953 Haddon married Ruth Windle Cosh, née …
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… on 28 October 1869 at Wellington, New Zealand, the daughter of Maria Elise Wright and her husband, John William Allman … Church of England. On returning to New Zealand she lived in Auckland where, in 1914, she was superintendent of the … Home at Ponsonby. In February 1915 she became the founding headmistress of the Church School for Girls (later …
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… July 1896, Russell Matthews was the 10th and youngest child of Grace Marshall and her husband, Robert James Matthews, a … and Bertie Bellam, who were laying bitumen roads in Auckland. After working for them for a short time, Matthews … In addition to managing his own business, Matthews was a founding director of the New Plymouth chemical company Ivon …
Type: Biography
… kiwi with their long bills, stout legs and probing method of finding worms, insect larvae and other invertebrates. … huegeli ) and subantarctic snipe ( Coenocorypha aucklandica ) are about the size of a blackbird, measuring 23 centimetres and weighing 110 …
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Part of story: Wading birds
… Stewart, a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and member of an upper-class northern Ireland family. The couple lived … seven-year-old son, Mervyn James, the Stewarts arrived at Auckland in August 1878 aboard the Lady Jocelyn. They were … families from northern Ireland who founded the settlement of Katikati in the Bay of Plenty. The leader of this venture …
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… The beginning of offshore exploration By the early 1960s, changes in … made it possible to explore for oil and gas in shallow offshore waters. After passing the Continental Shelf Act in … generation is piped to stations in Taranaki, Huntly and Auckland. Electricity production from gas grew steadily from …
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Part of story: Oil and gas
… The Treaty of Waitangi The story of New Zealand as a modern nation … signed the Treaty of Waitangi . The treaty is the country’s founding document. The treaty in English and Māori The … scars of neglect. It had a narrow escape in 1841, when the Auckland public offices where it was kept burned down. In …
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Part of story: Nation and government