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… had a sequel years later when G. W. Rusden published his History of New Zealand (1883), in which he stated that Bryce … 1879 to 1884. His views were hopelessly at variance with Māori aspirations, but were not unsuitable in a government committed to reducing expenditure on Māori affairs. As minister he began to dismantle the Native …
Type: Biography
… man, he reflected his Celtic rather more than his Māori ancestry. Charles Richard was the third born, on 26 … the same commanding demeanour, but favoured his mother's Māori looks. Following the opening up of the King Country to … lands. He also began working with the advisory committee on history and genealogy established by Te Puea. Charles Davis …
Type: Biography
… also known as Kone (Connie) Papi Nīkora. His father was of Māori–Scots descent with affiliations to Ngāti Raukawa; his … and Ōtaki Native College. Pairoroku was well-versed in Māoritanga, and noting Īnia’s keen interest in the subject … in 1958. The design, expressing a Māori concept of the history of the creation, was used instead at Tūrangawaewae …
Type: Biography
… , one of three other brothers, was already a lecturer in history there. When Professor Thomas Hunter became principal … applied the concept of character structure to contemporary Māori life. The resulting book, Some modern Māoris (1946), with a powerful foreword by Peter Buck, …
Type: Biography
… for Northland hint at the length of the main islands. The Māori names also signify the country’s long, narrow shape – … Indo-Australian and Pacific tectonic plates . Much of the history of mountain building, earthquakes and volcanic … and sliding past each other along the Alpine Fault . Māori oral traditions refer to earthquakes and tsunamis . In …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… as Rotary and Lions clubs, travel clubs, museums of natural history and universities. When on tour she often drove on …
Type: Biography
… town, the railway station and shops in the town centre. A Māori village called Te Kūititanga stood at the entrance to … Gorge at the south end of present-day Te Kūiti. The second Māori king, Tāwhiao, lived there in exile after Waikato … land and some were full of limestone rock formations. A history of the district published in 1975 noted that some …
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Part of story: King Country places
… Zealand historian J. C. Beaglehole , turned to colonial history, emphasising themes of materialism, psychic … connection with the unpredictable flow of contemporary history (‘Our islands lost again, all earth one island, / … Tole, a teacher and school counsellor who later became a Māori-language expert. The rapport was immediate, and …
Type: Biography
… as Mātaatua district representatives at a meeting of the Māori Soldiers’ Fund Organising Committee. At a subsequent … and again in 1941. He was also a member of the Mātaatua Māori Council at various times from 1924 until the council … issues. Because of his profound knowledge of traditions and history he was appointed a member of the Whakatāne and …
Type: Biography
… three more volumes: The sitter on the rail (1891), From the Māori sea (1908) and Land of the morning (1909). The demands … as 'Cry of Armenia', and in a number of others which have a Māori theme. At a time when many people believed that the … among later generations of readers. Mackay's place in the history of New Zealand poetry has been considerably …
Type: Biography
… a major outbreak. The highest infection rates were among Māori and Pacific Island children aged under five. The upper … of the virus, many of them unprecedented in New Zealand history. The most significant was a nationwide stay-at-home … was largely co-operative with the rules put in place. Māori were very aware of the impact the 1918 influenza …
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Part of story: Epidemics
… ‘Haere mai’ (welcome). The building had a chequered history – the foundation stone was laid on 18 December 1905, … and photographs and paintings of beautiful New Zealand. A Māori pā, featuring Māori wearing traditional clothing, was located beside …
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Part of story: Exhibitions and world’s fairs
… people were killed, both of them occupants of the hotel. History The town takes its name from the Māori village Te Hāwera, which was near Whareroa, south-east … constructed an impressive series of exhibitions about local history using life-sized figures and scale model panoramas. …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… South Canterbury names belong to New Zealand’s sporting history. One of the world’s most successful racehorses, Phar … has collections covering the region’s natural and human history, including fossils and Māori rock art. New Zealand and European artworks from the …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… system in 1986 restricted total volume according to catch history and also allowed trading of quotas, so many … during the ‘musket wars’. This is one of the few large Māori-owned areas in Hauraki. Manaia is the largest Māori community on the peninsula north of Thames. The people …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… Building and customising New Zealanders have a history of building or customising motorcycles. A Timaru …
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Part of story: Motorcycles
… mission presses made the earliest attempts to describe the Māori language. William Williams ’s Dictionary of the New … ’s press. Mission presses also produced the first texts, in Māori, specifically designed for teaching purposes, … technical or legal subjects, cookery and gardening, history and biography, atlases and dictionaries. They were …
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Part of story: Publishing
… of training manuals or classes, she read widely on the history of European pottery. She also attended William … sculpture classes at Elam School of Art and learned about Māori design from artist Trevor Lloyd . When the brickworks … use of ‘soft harmonious colourings’, ‘flowing glazes’ and Māori and indigenous plant motifs. The following year …
Type: Biography
… is food-processing company Wattie’s, which started in 1934. History Hastings was founded later than other Hawke’s Bay … partners illegally leased land on the Heretaunga plain from Māori in 1864 and were granted an official lease in 1867. … block by 1870, despite opposition to selling from some Māori and from Europeans who feared monopolies. Tanner …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… of New Plymouth, with a 2013 population of 3,243. History Inglewood was founded in 1875, in a clearing in … Ngāti Maru village of Pūrangi was the most distant major Māori settlement on the Waitara River. The first Pākehā … in the 1880s by Edwin Brookes, who recorded the small Māori kāinga (village) of Tariki – one of the few known …
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Part of story: Taranaki places