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… to be in his 70s. He was the direct descendant and namesake of his founding tribal ancestor, Maniapoto. Rewi's father was Te … and others of the King movement. In 1890 he travelled to Auckland, and was presented to the governor, Lord Onslow . …
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… and her husband, Henry Edmund Marsh, a clerk in the Bank of New Zealand in Christchurch. His daughter said of him, 'I … which, with the production of Othello , toured to Dunedin, Auckland and Wellington in 1944 and 1945. In September 1948 … a season in London in 1950. In 1951 Marsh was involved in founding the British Commonwealth Theatre Company, which …
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… Tāmati Moko was born at Rotorua on 9 May 1885, the son of Tāmati Moko and his wife, Rawinia Te Whau Wharetutu. He was principally of Ngāti Whakaue of Te Arawa, although he was also connected … and then St Stephen's Native Boys' School at Parnell, Auckland, becoming fluent in English as well as Māori. He …
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… Wairau Valley, Marlborough, on 12 February 1886, the son of Irish parents Mary Falvey and her husband, Humphrey John … grew up in a large family. His parents were not well off and worked long hours, but encouraged their children's … that kept him from the Bench for many months. He died in Auckland on 16 October 1953, survived by his wife and his …
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… Marriage and family have been the focus of much attention, and change in this area has been … and economic shifts, together with the sustained efforts of committed women and men, expanded legal and financial … Abortions remained difficult to obtain until 1974, when the Auckland Medical Aid Clinic opened. From 1977 the …
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Part of story: Gender inequalities
… educator and researcher whose work on the effects of isolation evolved from his own experiences as an … identity in the 1940s and 1950s, and an intellectual of considerable promise who died in a mountaineering … and to celebrate the life of the mind. Montreal and Auckland Harry commenced doctoral research on the effects of …
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… Te Rauparaha was the son of Werawera, of Ngāti Toa, and his second wife, Parekōwhatu … the Tainui canoe; both his parents were descended from the founding ancestors of their tribes. Although not of the … chiefs, Murupaenga and Tūwhare, from north of present day Auckland, joined Ngāti Toa's retaliatory raid into Taranaki …
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… James Macandrew, the son of a merchant, Colin Macandrew, and his wife, Barbara … in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 18 May 1819. Little is known of his early life; he is said to have attended Ayr Academy … to lose all interest in public affairs. He refused to go to Auckland for the General Assembly or even to convene the …
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… McKenzie was woken by his father before dawn and marched off on a 16-mile walk to the small Presbyterian church at … saw something he would never forget: the once proud people of Glencalvie huddled in a graveyard after being evicted … the wars of the 1860s. He even compared the speculators of Auckland with the evicting landlords of Scotland and …
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… born in London, England, probably in 1859 or 1860, the son of Mary Ann Bull and her husband, William John Belcher, an engineer. Little is known of his early years before he went to sea in 1872. In his … years Belcher and his lieutenants – J. K. (Jack) Kneen in Auckland and W. T. (Tom) Young in Wellington – built a …
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… was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 15 June 1857, the son of James Gibb, a shoemaker, and his wife, Jane Greig, both devout members of the United Presbyterian church. James attended Aberdeen … counter-attack mounted by Henry Cleary , Catholic bishop of Auckland. Not all of Gibb's work in this period failed to …
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… Church, Bath, England, on 21 March 1819. He was the son of Philip Gully, a porter, and his wife, Mary Vincent. On 22 … Wiltshire, John Gully married Jane Moore, the daughter of John Eyles. Jane Moore was a widow with one son. She and … on 23 December 1851 on the John Phillips and arrived at Auckland on 5 April 1852. After a month there the ship …
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… on 23 April 1899. She was the seventh and youngest child of Mary Elizabeth Renshaw and her husband, John Sutherland … Polson. Her father was accountant at, and later manager of, Suckling Brothers boot and leather factory. Both her … third Eight New Zealand Painters exhibition, toured by the Auckland City Art Gallery from October 1959. During the …
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… Mallet, Somersetshire, England, on 4 February 1827, the son of James and Mary Pike. His father was a tinman. Little is known of Vincent's early life other than that he was a linen draper when, in the parish of Trinity, St Philip and Jacob, Bristol, on 7 September …
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… Te Pōkiha Taranui belonged to Ngāti Pikiao of Te Arawa, and was descended from Te Tākinga and Hineui. … CMS missionaries at Rotorua or Tarawera. In 1838 he was one of the chiefs who led Ngāti Pikiao to Lake Okataina in a … was built about 1866, and his large storehouse (now in the Auckland War Memorial Museum) in the late 1870s. Te Pōkiha …
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… As readership and advertising revenue increased, their profitability became more significant to their owners than … By 1911 New Zealand had 64 daily papers for a population of just over a million. There were two main types – a large … then migrated to New Zealand and became a leader-writer for Auckland’s N ew Zealand Herald in 1900, and its editor in …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… on 23 March 1902 in Hawarden, North Canterbury. The third of five sons of William John Wattie, a shepherd, and his wife, Annie … local accountant, that Whittome, Stevenson and Company of Auckland were contemplating importing jam pulp from …
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… in Penzance, Cornwall, England. He was the eldest child of Samuel May Colenso, a saddler and town councillor of Penzance, and his wife, Mary Veale Thomas, the daughter … as a candidate for ordination. On 27 April 1843 at Ōtāhuhu, Auckland, Colenso satisfied one of Selwyn's prerequisites …
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… was born at Greendale, Canterbury, on 18 October 1893, one of eight children of English-born parents Jane Eastwood and her husband, Henry … hold on rural New Zealand was insecure, especially in North Auckland and Waikato, where social credit theories and a …
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… Āperahama Taonui was the visionary leader of Ngāpuhi hapū Te Popoto of Utakura in the upper Hokianga, and a founder of the … 1845 in the early fighting near Ōkaihau. He was sent to Auckland to recuperate and there became friendly with …
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