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… that acknowledges the British strand of New Zealand’s history, and that they are widely recognised as marks of … retaining titles but adopting uniquely New Zealand, perhaps Māori, ones in place of or alongside ‘sir’ and ‘dame’. …
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Part of story: Royal honours system
… The daily routine Māori rose early, often before dawn, to make the most of … 5 Pastimes at hākari Arthur Saunders Thomson, in his 1859 history of New Zealand, wrote that pastimes included …
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Part of story: Leisure in traditional Māori society – ngā mahi a te rēhia
… the poet James K. Baxter ; Baxter’s future wife, the Māori poet J.C. Sturm ; the artist Colin McCahon ; and … as Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific History of the Australian National University in Canberra … , and in 1968 published the monograph Henry Lawson among Māoris , about the Australian writer’s experience in New …
Type: Biography
… of the house. Te Hau-ki-Tūranga had a complex subsequent history. It was dismantled and removed under the … of Waerenga a Hika. Token sums were paid to some local Māori (who were later found not to be the owners), but … Bay. Their presence was not opposed by Rukupō and other Māori leaders, who assured the European settlers of their …
Type: Biography
… into everlasting life.' Potatau's son Tāwhiao , the second Māori King, in part acknowledged this prophecy by sending … Pākehā. Te Whiti developed an oratory which addressed Māori misgivings over the loss of their land. He skilfully utilised a spiritual Māori idiom and the rhetoric of Christianity, imbued with a …
Type: Biography
… Bowden prepared other reading books focusing on New Zealand history, but these were never published. By 1868 funds were … Explicit Series of school books for publication. He studied Māori and offered tuition in the language. Bowden's …
Type: Biography
… camp, south of Rotorua, were many European languages, Māori, religious studies, poetry, drama, music, history, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, …
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Part of story: Conscription, conscientious objection and pacifism
… fruit trees, grape vines, berries and vegetables, to feed Māori workers as well as the missionaries. Professional … where he bred kiwi, wrote on horticultural and natural history topics, and encouraged conservation. Professional …
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Part of story: Household services
… report to Rome, published in 1888 under the title Early history of the Catholic church in Oceania to mark the 50th …
Type: Biography
… mosquitoes New Zealand has 16 species of mosquito, known to Māori as waeroa. Twelve are endemic (unique to New Zealand) … of mosquito. The reason may be New Zealand’s evolutionary history – there were no land mammals apart from a few bat …
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Part of story: Sandflies and mosquitoes
… Auckland Islands, the largest group, with the longest human history, about 460 kilometres due south of Fiordland … by people to settle on the larger islands. Only one group (Māori from the Chatham Islands) succeeded in living there …
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Part of story: Subantarctic islands
… in his honour. Underlining his broad interests in natural history and keen observational skills, Philpott published …
Type: Biography
… barbarities which make up a great part of British history'. An outburst by Judge T. B. Gillies during a …
Type: Biography
… president, to devote itself particularly to the natural history of the Nelson area. Concern for conservation led him …
Type: Biography
… Mine became the most productive gold mine in New Zealand’s history. Milling companies cut a swathe through the forests … Business optimism rose after thousands of acres of former Māori land was offered for sale in the upper Thames valley …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… that New Zealand is an independent nation with its own history and tradition … At long last New Zealand will be in … legal destiny.’ 2 .The move was not welcomed by all. Some Māori saw the Privy Council as a more direct extension of …
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Part of story: Self-government and independence
… The Tāwhiti Museum, outside Hāwera, documents local history using life-sized figures and scale panoramas. South … in 1859, is New Zealand’s oldest brass ensemble. The Pātea Māori Club’s ‘Poi e’, written by Dalvanius Prime and Ngoi … in Stratford are important early 20th-century buildings. Māori buildings of note include Kumea-mai-te-waka …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… published in New Zealand. Between 1980 and 1986, 141 were. Māori subjects were popular. Peter Gossage retold myths and … of picture books were published in both English and te reo Māori. Kāterina Mataira was a leading children’s author in … top prize at the national children’s book awards. Natural history books were particularly successful – Andrew Crowe …
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Part of story: Children’s and young adult literature
… drama) are examples of the ‘Maoriland’ period of cultural history. This celebrated a romanticised and backward-looking version of Māori, who, at the time, were widely predicted to fade away. …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… from Cowan. As he later explained: ‘I have always gone to history for material, as it is the richest source’. In 1928 …
Type: Biography