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… Rāwiri Rota Tāhiwi, a Native Land Court assessor, was of Ngāti Raukawa , and of the hapū Ngāti Maiōtaki. His mother, Keita Koa, was also … of the Waikato–Maniapoto District Native Land Court, Auckland, on 9 September 1915. He worked at the Aotea …
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… Strait in Southland between 1817 and 1820, and in the Bay of Islands and Mercury Bay in Coromandel in 1838 and 1839. … … lying one across another indicating the suddenness of the end.’ 1 Unhealthy settlements Early European … typhoid infections continued to cause epidemics in Auckland and other North Island towns until the 1940s. …
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Part of story: Epidemics
… Trade Organization New Zealand has been a vigorous promoter of a rules-based system for trade and the elimination of trade barriers through the World Trade Organization … member in 1989, New Zealand hosted a key APEC meeting in Auckland in 1999. At this meeting APEC’s 21 members went …
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Part of story: Multilateral organisations
… at Ringaringa, Stewart Island, on 1 December 1892. The son of Arthur William Traill, a farmer and schoolteacher, and … the Orkney Islands as a seaman; Gretchen was the daughter of Johann and Eliza Wohlers, Lutheran missionaries who had … Awanui. He was offered a job on board and sailed to Auckland, then went on to Whangarei to join his brother …
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… for shop workers. Although unions served different groups of shop workers, their concerns were very similar – mainly … amalgamated to form the Wellington Amalgamated Society of Shop Assistants. Amalgamation of unions gave workers more … sunshine?’ 1 An ‘early closing association’ was formed in Auckland in 1856, and another in Whanganui 10 years later. …
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Part of story: Shops
… were first held in Toronto in 1975. The World Association of Veteran Athletes (WAVA), later World Masters Athletics, … sport seriously, rather than with condescending images of decrepit runners falling over hurdles. The Oceania … on the growing connection between sport and tourism. When Auckland hosted the World Masters Games in 2017, 28,000 …
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Part of story: Veterans and masters sport
… Haggerston, London, England, on 24 February 1854, the son of Miriam Warren and her husband, Gregory Ruffell Russell, a … Charlotte Eliza Park at Hokitika. After selling his share of the Manawatū Herald to his brother, Russell managed the … quarantine the passenger liner Niagara when it arrived at Auckland on 12 October 1918. There had been a mild epidemic …
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… Pirihira and Raimipaha. Te Awa-i-taia was a leader of Ngāti Māhanga, whose home was on the Waipā River. As a … Ōkete. He was a good friend and fighting companion to two of the most famous warriors in Waikato, Te Waharoa of Ngāti … In May 1844, at a meeting of Māori leaders at Remuera in Auckland, he reiterated his allegiance to the governor and …
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… and give Māori greater authority in national affairs. One of its main goals was an end to sales of tribal land. However, Governor Thomas Gore Browne was … on Māori land issues In 1890 a commission headed by Auckland lawyer William Rees investigated the validity of …
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Part of story: Ngā take Māori – government policy and Māori
… at Camden Town, London, England, on 16 August 1839, the son of Felix Edwin, a commander in the Royal Navy, and his wife, … Albion during the Crimean war he was wounded at the siege of Sevastopol in October 1854. On the East Indies station in … 17 observer stations had increased to 28 extending from Auckland to The Bluff. Most were at ports, with the …
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… Alfred Augustus Grace was the youngest of 12 children of Agnes Fearon and her husband, Thomas Samuel Grace , a … the Māori of the Taupō region. Although Alfred was born in Auckland in May 1867 after the land wars had forced the …
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… Staffordshire, England, on 2 August 1882, the seventh of ten children of MP William Shepherd Allen and his wife, Elizabeth … Zealand Expeditionary Force in March 1915, and joined the Auckland Battalion at Gallipoli in September. Following the …
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… In the mid-19th century, the care of children and adults with physical disabilities such as … or mental illnesses was considered the responsibility of family. Those who were not seriously impaired often went … this group, such as the Elizabeth Knox Home and Hospital in Auckland, which opened in 1914. There was greater community …
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Part of story: Care and carers
… Robert Cleary, a farmer, came from the neighbouring county of Wicklow and settled in Wexford after marrying Susan Wall, … scholastic career before entering the Royal College of St Patrick, Maynooth, in 1878 to train for the … he was selected to succeed Michael Lenihan as bishop of Auckland. He was consecrated in Ireland on 21 August 1910. …
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… Henry Te Reiwhati (Harry Ray) Vercoe was born at Maketū, Bay of Plenty, probably on 21 July 1884, the third child of Ngāhuia Te Ahoaho and her husband, Henry Vercoe, a … 1917. He served as commander of the 16th Company of the Auckland Infantry Regiment until July 1918, and on 23 July …
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… Eramiha Neke Kapua was one of the most eminent Māori carvers of the twentieth century. His father was the well-known … A small team studied regional carving styles at the Auckland Institute and Museum for a period before moving to …
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… London, England, on 31 March 1829, the eldest in a family of nine children. She was named after her mother, Maria Tuppen, a woman of Quaker descent, from Brighton, who had married solicitor … she undertook to find suitable teachers. After leaving Auckland in September 1864 Maria Rye travelled through …
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… Nene was born probably in the 1780s. He was the second son of Tapua, leader and tohunga of Ngāti Hao of Hokianga, and the younger brother of Patuone … by the removal of the capital from Kororāreka (Russell) to Auckland, the imposition of customs duties, and restrictions …
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… and was baptised on 31 January 1825. He was the third son of George Hall and his wife, Grace Williamson. George Hall … government and community activities. His forte was the founding of new organisations; he held few offices for long. … adequate. A tense stalemate was finally broken when four Auckland opposition members crossed the floor after Hall …
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… Zealand several times during the 1860s. Their impressions of the country, which they recorded in writings and in works of art, are of considerable historical interest. Nicholas … On 3 May the royal flotilla departed from Wellington for Auckland, sailing by way of the East Cape. In Auckland …
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