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… Stoddart Whitmore was born on 30 May 1829 in Malta, the son of George St Vincent Whitmore and his wife, Isabella Maxwell … Engineers stationed at Malta; his mother was the daughter of Sir John Stoddart, the chief justice of Malta. The Whitmore family had a tradition of military …
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… on 9 November 1883. Her mother was Tiahuia, daughter of Tāwhiao Te Wherowhero of Ngāti Mahuta , the second Māori King, and his senior … 1895 and 1898 she attended primary schools in Mercer and Auckland. She was known to her family as Te Kirihaehae. Her …
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… 1871 at Orutua, Horoera, near East Cape. He was the first of five children of Hone Hiki Kōhere and Henarata Peretō, the daughter of … a move to appoint a Māori bishop, the Māori clergy of the Auckland diocese unanimously nominated him for the position. …
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… Party governments that held power for all but three of the 24 years between 1960 and 1984, serving as a cabinet … later life) long sideburns, the pipe-smoking MacIntyre was often likened to a Scottish laird. He was also widely … service In June 1939 MacIntyre enlisted in the 15th North Auckland Regiment, Territorial Force. After completing …
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… was born in Hastings on 12 March 1908. She was the eldest of seven children of Ethel Violet Crabtree and her husband, William McKenzie … inclusion in national touring exhibitions organised by the Auckland City Art Gallery, such as Eight New Zealand …
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… Bell was born on 4 January 1898 at Murchison, the daughter of Thomas Bell, a farmer, and his wife, Eliza Sheat. She … and the family moved to Nelson, where he became the mayor of Richmond. Thomas Bell married Jessie McNee, the … opposition headed by Dove Myer Robinson , the mayor of Auckland, in the 1950s. She won the battle locally and from …
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… 1949 and for poliomyelitis (polio) from 1956. A wider range of vaccines, some combined for different diseases (such as … was compulsory between 1863 and 1920 (with a brief period of non-compulsion in 1872) almost all parents ignored this … with cervical abnormalities at National Women’s Hospital in Auckland. Breast cancer screening was introduced following …
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… at Waahi pā, near Huntly. He was the third surviving son of Mahuta , the third Māori King, and his wife, Te Marae. … brothers were Tonga and Te Rauangaanga. Little is known of the childhood of any of Mahuta's children, but they grew … may also have attended St Stephen's Native Boys’ School in Auckland. Before the First World War a marriage was arranged …
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… Coast on 3 July 1874. He had connections with the leaders of Ngāti Porou . His hapū included Te Whānau-a-Te Ao, Ngāti … (Rōpata) Wahawaha had led Ngāti Porou troops on the side of the Crown during the wars of the 1860s. Apirana Ngata was … science in 1893 (an MA was added later). He shifted to Auckland, where he was articled to the solicitors Devore and …
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… probably in Heretaunga, Hawke's Bay. He was the third son of Te Rotohenga, also called Winipere, from whom he derived his high rank. Her father was Hāwea of Ngāti Te Whatu-i-āpiti , heir to mana over Heretaunga, … 10 years. On 15 or 16 December 1869, while Takamoana was in Auckland attempting to obtain financial help from Donald …
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… Te Kare Papuni and Jacquie Baxter, was a pioneering writer of poetry and short stories. Long overshadowed by her first … Ōpunake. Her father, John Raymond (Jack) Papuni, was of a senior line of Te Whakatōhea from Ōpōtiki in Bay of … was five, the Sturms left Taranaki, moving successively to Auckland, Hastings, Palmerston North, Pukerua Bay and …
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… at Nelson, New Zealand, on 31 March 1851, the eldest son of the former New Zealand Company agent Francis Dillon Bell … his wife, Margaret Hort. Bell was educated at the Church of England Grammar School in Auckland and the High School of Otago (later Otago Boys' …
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… Te Rata Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero was the elder of two sons of Te Rata , the fourth Māori King, of Ngāti Mahuta. His … were expected of Taipū, who was sent to Wesley College in Auckland, but he died shortly after his arrival. Records …
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… Southport, Lancashire, England, on 27 June 1907, the third of five children. He arrived in New Zealand at the age of eight months, when his family migrated to Wellington. His … Hilda Stanley Smith , a lecturer (later a lawyer), in Auckland on 2 June that year. They were to have one …
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… 1877 as recorded in his primary school register. For most of his life he believed that Ngārongo-ki-tua was his natural … important. His Māori descent was from Ngāti Mutunga, many of whom had recently returned to Taranaki from the Chatham … Division in the new Department of Health. He worked from Auckland and bought a home in Parnell. The high Māori death …
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… discovered her, but by 1912, when she appeared in three of his films, Maata was already a seasoned performer on the … of Plenty, and an Englishman named Moore; Moore left for Auckland shortly after Maata’s birth, and Maata and her … of her life; she participated in tribal affairs and was a founding member of the Women’s Health League. Maata died in …
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… was born at Dunedin on 17 June 1877, the third child of John Hoick Scholefield, an accountant, and his wife, … High School. He was influenced by his mother's appreciation of literature and was a frequent borrower of books from the Milton Athenaeum. Scholefield's first job, …
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… Tāwhiao, of Ngāti Mahuta in the Tainui confederation of tribes, was the son of Waikato leader Pōtatau Te … pretext that the Waikato tribes were preparing to attack Auckland, Tāwhiao and his people lost over a million acres …
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… has usually been considered to be the posthumous son of Kēnana Tūmoana of Ngāti Kahungunu, who was killed fighting for Te Kooti … by an armed force of 57 constables sent secretly from Auckland and two smaller contingents from Gisborne and …
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… Henry Sewell came to New Zealand in 1853 at the age of 45 as an official of the Canterbury Association and spent about 17½ years in …
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