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… won a surprisingly high number of medals – 33 – but the judge was not impressed with the specimen submitted by …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Exhibitions and world’s fairs
… a deceased child of his there. The Native Land Court judge Michael Gilfedder could find no wrongdoing, but …
Type: Biography
… visitors, especially during 1873 when Native Land Court judge John Rogan awarded greatly increased territory to …
Type: Biography
… kapa haka competitions, she was frequently called upon to judge both in New Zealand and Australia and at festivals …
Type: Biography
… court opened at Tuahiwi on 19 January 1925, with the chief judge of the Native Land Court, R. N. Jones , presiding. …
Type: Biography
… of the Hamilton East School Committee, presided as a judge at several race meetings, and continued to serve as …
Type: Biography
… most successful of the department's 95 native schools as judged by its inspection, attendance and inspectors' …
Type: Biography
… European science. This is shown in letters from Judge William Martin and his wife Mary-Ann to their friend, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… of a muscular, determined, New Zealand soldier. It was judged at the time as the personification of the Anzac …
Type: Biography
… together with the sovereign, is Parliament the judiciary – judges. Canada, Australia and other former British colonies …
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Part of story: Constitution
… holidays he was in demand throughout New Zealand as a judge for regional music competitions, and he adjudicated at …
Type: Biography
… his advocacy of the settler position in Taranaki was ill judged, and hampered his missionary efforts among the Māori …
Type: Biography
… contest for 20 minutes of stage entertainment and won the judge’s accolade for ‘most professional presentation’. But …
Type: Biography
… Dining Hall, built between 1923 and 1925, with its finely judged proportions and magnificent hammerbeam roof, is one …
Type: Biography
… offending. Alcohol factor In 2009 Christchurch Youth Court judge Jane McMeeken told the Law Commission, ‘I often …
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Part of story: Youth offenders
… £842 banked in his wife’s name, the agreement went before a judge and was declared invalid. Attitudes to divorce Divorce …
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Part of story: Divorce and separation
… on 5 July 1843 on a charge of stealing a blanket, which the judge dismissed. Humphries stood sureties for his wife, who …
Type: Biography
… role or another were fairly frequent. As coroner, Beale was judged 'earnest, painstaking, and conscientious'. His …
Type: Biography
… reserves at Maunganui Bluff. This eventually resulted in Judge Frank Acheson 's 1939 finding that the reserves should …
Type: Biography
… led him into a wounding controversy with an old friend, the judge H. H. Ostler , concerning the functions of the Prisons …
Type: Biography