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… and Ngā Ruahine in the south, the Taranaki tribe has a history of constant vigilance and war, which has given rise … was one of the canoes that brought the ancestors of Māori from East Polynesia to New Zealand. During the voyage …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… a 20 month course, which included mathematics, Classics, history, geography, English, French, drawing, navigation, … would be impossible to protect out-settlers against hostile Māori. His decision on the Wairau, although winning the … settler antagonism by treating land claims as if there were Māori legal rights, and Crown grants for land in Wellington …
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… used allegorical imagery to explore her own family history, the lives of women and indigenous people, her … a charismatic and unusual woman who worked closely with Māori and the poor. Thompson thought of Aubert as ‘one who … ‘Tuki and Huru’, which recalled the kidnapping of two young Māori men in the 1790s to teach flax weaving to convicts at …
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… and public examiner. As its Hulsean Professor of Modern History, he lectured on the separation of the eastern and … Agriculture). A scientific study of languages – including Māori – was needed, and Classics would provide training for … and independent thought. Tancred initially lectured in history at the college and, with his wife, even enrolled in …
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… parted from Alfred, taking her eldest son with her. Family history suggests that at this point she gave birth to a … the creation of the welfare state. The discussion of Māori life and aspirations is more sensitive than that … visit to Te Puea Hērangi in Ngāruawāhia, she recounted the history of land alienation in Waikato and was clearly …
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… led to an important paper on the pasture invasion and life history of the hard fern Paesia , published in 1942. The … for the Auckland Botanical Society, and also produced a history of Warkworth Public Library. Lucy Moore died on 9 …
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… The bonds of l ove ), is a 40-year epic saga of family history as a reflection of national history. Serious issues Dean Parker’s first play, Smack … t igers (1973), and Craig Harrison’s vision of latter day Māori–Pākehā armed conflict, Tomorrow will b e a lovely day …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… Dominating the recent history of New Zealand’s fauna – birds, reptiles and insects … was not yet extinct when the first Polynesians arrived. In Māori oral lore this gigantic raptor was known as the hokioi … largely nocturnal. Most New Zealanders have never seen one. Māori refer to it as ‘te manuhuna a Tānemahuta’ – the hidden …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… Most major rivers in New Zealand have a history of destructive floods, and European settlers soon … a stream running into the Shotover River at Sand Hills near Māori Point. Swollen by heavy rain, the stream burst through …
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Part of story: Floods
… has been formed, who show a keen desire to study the life-history of butterflies and moths'. They attended weekly …
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… England in 1837 and New Zealand in 1848 changed that. For Māori, registration of births did not begin officially until … than just at major turning points) for the first time in history. The 21st birthday The 21st birthday, often called …
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Part of story: Birthdays and wedding anniversaries
… and developed it into one of the largest in the country’s history. Tramlines radiated from Tūrua and logs were floated … Australians based in camps at Tūrua and Ngātea, and local Māori who excelled at river clearance. There was much …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… is best remembered for a series of evocative portraits of Māori women. One of these studies, entitled 'Georgina', … and prints; other prints are held at the Rotorua Art and History Museum and the Alexander Turnbull Library, …
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… deacon of the Miramar Baptist Church and wrote its jubilee history. In 1952 Horace Grocott was made an MBE. When Ada …
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… their subsequent courtship and marriage became a legend in Māori history. Later, in his old age, Kahungunu married a woman of …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… The Land of Promise. Nowadays these areas are known by the Māori names Arapito and Umere. History Little gold was found in the area in 1860s, and so …
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Part of story: West Coast places
… for tourists and holidaymakers. The showcasing of Māori traditional knowledge and history has given a unique character to some redeveloped …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… of sedimentary rock layers. To palaeontologists they are a history of life, showing what previous organisms looked like … Parks, Department of Conservation reserves, land owned by Māori tribes, land designated as Geological Reserves and …
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Part of story: Fossils
… ‘family farm’ economy by subdividing large estates, buying Māori land in the North Island, and offering advances to … note) Sir Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mt Everest in 1953, Māori leader Sir Apirana Ngata (on the $50), and the …
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Part of story: History
… and tried to expose Aucklanders to New Zealand art history and international modernism. An exhibition of … in abstraction. In the 1940s Theo Schoon had discovered Māori rock drawings and began experimenting with the koru … colours. By far the most significant was Ralph Hōtere, of Māori background, who drew from the example of McCahon a …
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Part of story: Painting