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… baptised on 28 June 1831, the fourth child and third son of Francis Kirby Ormond and his wife, Frances Hedges. After … future husband, E. J. Eyre, lieutenant governor designate of New Zealand's southern province of New Munster, and … he pushed along the telegraph link between Napier and Auckland, and the strategic Napier–Taupō road. Ormond was …
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… Eve Rimmer was one of New Zealand’s greatest paraplegic athletes, winning 32 … 1970s, she was also an outspoken advocate for the rights of the disabled in sport and society. Early life Eva Marion … on competing at the first national paraplegic games in Auckland in April 1968, intending to qualify for the third …
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… at Market Lavington, Wiltshire, England. He was the sixth of ten children of Mary Box and her husband, Amram Edwards Saunders, a … in Bristol. After completing his schooling at the age of 14, Alfred spent most of his early working life in the …
Type: Biography
… Zealand’s outstanding military leader in the second half of the twentieth century. He demonstrated leadership, … peace, becoming New Zealand’s youngest brigadier at the end of the Second World War and then youngest chief of general … the position in the history of the New Zealand Army. An Auckland Star editorial praised him as ‘unquestionably one …
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… Te Kooti was born into Ngāti Maru, a hapū of Rongowhakaata, at Pā-o-Kahu, overlooking the Awapuni … the name under which his birth was predicted by Te Toiroa of Nukutaurua, on the Māhia Peninsula. European … name from official notices he had seen on a trading trip to Auckland. The missionary Thomas Grace , who considered him …
Type: Biography
… His best work combined the research-based scholarship of a historian with the fluent accessible style of a journalist. His output was prolific: at his death 37 … 1955 King caught polio. Two years later the family moved to Auckland, living first at Kohimarama and then in Remuera. …
Type: Biography
… who were eventually born into that bright colonial future often loathed it. The commonest storyline in New Zealand … London; her letters and journals are among the masterpieces of New Zealand non-fiction. A few strutted like peacocks in … of imagination. 1 C. K. Stead’s evocation of mid-century Auckland, South-west of Eden (2010), contributed a third …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… 27 July 1898 at Haydock, Lancashire, England, the daughter of Catherine Williamson and her husband, John Rawcliffe, a … New Zealand, in January 1923 to care for the two children of her widowed uncle, Sam Pilkington, who worked at the … to her home to hear expelled party leader Sid Scott from Auckland. Both she and Scott were shocked at Nikita …
Type: Biography
… The behaviour of young people often attracts public attention, especially when they behave … the early 1840s the arrival of young boys from Britain in Auckland prompted newspaper protests about ‘juvenile …
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Part of story: Teenagers and youth
… existing recipes with them to New Zealand, in the form of published cookbooks or handwritten volumes, or simply in … form in New Zealand were compiled by Mary Ann Martin in Auckland in 1869. Recipes appeared in The illustrated bee … 1900s new cookbooks appeared with recipes that took account of local conditions and the need for lighter fare in New …
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Part of story: Cooking
… Duff was born in Invercargill on 11 July 1912, the son of Jessie Barclay and her husband, Oliver Duff , a … later became well known as a journalist and first editor of the New Zealand Listener. Roger was educated at … academic appointments of overseas-trained archaeologists at Auckland from 1954 and Otago from 1959 and their …
Type: Biography
… was born in Christchurch on 26 October 1889, the eldest of five children of Margaret Sidey and her husband, George Lambie, a shipping … of health conditions in Taranaki, the East Coast and North Auckland and starting refresher courses for nurses working …
Type: Biography
… Ahi kā – the fires of occupation Customarily, rights to land and its resources … hapū, and individuals derived their rights from membership of these groups. The rights were sustained through continued … claimed 1.3 million hectares including all of what is now Auckland; an Australian who had never been to New Zealand …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… by contrast, was a more vigorous game with a higher risk of injury to players. Women’s hockey retained a presence in … people played winter hockey (with almost equal numbers of males and females) and almost 17,000 played summer … clubs with hockey teams were established in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch between 1935 and 1937, following …
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Part of story: Hockey
… Pharazyn was born in Wellington on 10 April 1894, the son of Maud Eleanor Kempthorne and her husband, Charles … He defended the union in debates in the press, at the founding conference of the second New Zealand Federation of … turbulent union meetings attended by hundreds of members in Auckland and Christchurch in 1938 and Wellington in 1941. …
Type: Biography
… racket, on a court laid out with white markings. The advent of covered courts meant that in the 2000s tennis was played … Americans. The modern game was known as lawn tennis because of the usual court surface, although some were made of … Hawke’s Bay player John Jardine. Representatives from the Auckland, Hawke’s Bay and Thorndon clubs met and formed a …
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Part of story: Tennis
… Tūpaea of Te Whānau-a-Tauwhao hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi was born probably at Tauranga. He was the … Pikiao of Te Arawa. He was kept prisoner for some time in Auckland, but was released after making a declaration of …
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… te Tonga (D’Urville Island) Large island in the north-west of the Marlborough Sounds. At 163 sq km, it is just over half the size of New Zealand’s largest offshore island, Great Barrier … it from the much smaller island of the same name in Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour. Several names on the Cook …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… was born at Waimate mission station inland from the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, probably on 22 August 1837, the … circle and was sent to the school at St John's College in Auckland in 1846. Due to what his father considered a 'very … Thomas Horton he pioneered the export fruit trade, and was founding chairman of the Hawke's Bay Fruit Growers' …
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… Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare was one of the generation of Māori leaders educated at Te Aute College in the 1890s … and the Church of England Grammar School in Parnell, Auckland. Because his parents were followers of Te Whiti he …
Type: Biography