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… had no immediate senior male relatives to pass on family history and provide training in tribal lore. He attended St … officers on leave or returned from the 28th New Zealand (Māori) Battalion. He died in Thames on 3 September 1956, … had died in 1950. Eruini Taipari is buried at the Tōtara Māori cemetery at Thames, near his father and grandfather. …
Type: Biography
… Arawa; Mātene Te Whiwhi , celebrated for his advocacy of a Māori king in the 1850s, was a child of this marriage. … she denounced the Pākehā settlers and upbraided those Māori in the Ōtaki district who welcomed settlement and did … during which she had been a major figure in the turbulent history of her people in the disturbed first half of the …
Type: Biography
… and first marriage Marie joined the Teachers’ College Māori club and Wellington’s Ngāti Poneke Young Māori Club, learned te reo, and began a lifelong commitment … 2012, aged 90, she was working on yet another project, a history of her attempt to deliver her liberal educational …
Type: Biography
… Bell had researched the eating habits of workers and Māori communities for the Medical Research Council in the … and less sugar, fat and meat, was ongoing. Despite a long history of publicity about good nutrition, unhealthy diets … and adults increased from the late 20th century, with Māori and Pacific communities particularly affected. In …
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Part of story: Public health
… Wellington, O’Shea combined study for a Master’s degree in History with research work at the War History Branch of … who proposed O’Shea help him make a picture about Māori. O’Shea was attracted to the idea – he believed that … drama of the New Zealand story was relations between Māori and Pākehā. He agreed to write a script on the …
Type: Biography
… near present day Gisborne. Cook's relationship with the Māori got off to a disastrous start two days later when he … to haul up the ship. After tense confrontations with the Māori people of the North Island, he also seemed more … journal is a rich source of ethnographic as well as natural history detail and formed the basis for his Observations …
Type: Biography
… and reading everything he could about land law and Scottish history. In 1865 he was elected to the Bushey Road Board as … was the role he played in making land still held under Māori ownership available for sale. A series of acts passed … 1892 and 1895 established a Validation Court to sort out Māori title, introduced a new system of land boards to …
Type: Biography
… countryside and copied some of Fox's drawings of Māori life. Nicholas Chevalier returned to Melbourne towards … East Cape. In Auckland Nicholas made detailed drawings of Māori artefacts in the museum. On 8 May the royal party … on 26 December 1917. Nicholas Chevalier's place in the art history of New Zealand is assured. He worked in the English …
Type: Biography
… of the 1870s was the most significant in New Zealand history. In 1871 the non-Māori population was just over a quarter of a million; over … could settle on land purchased or confiscated from Māori, to foster social order and ‘British civilisation’. …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… and Bruno Hamel, photographer; and twelve Māori porters. The expedition travelled on foot and by canoe … up the Waipā and its tributary, Mangatu Stream, and by Māori tracks over the watershed to the Mōkau Valley at … was appointed the first intendant of the Imperial Natural History Museum. In 1881 he resigned from teaching duties. He …
Type: Biography
… mentioned in dispatches and in the Australian official war history. By June 1917, having realised the venereal disease …
Type: Biography
… short but seminal books, Essays in jurisprudence and legal history (1891) and The first principles of jurisprudence …
Type: Biography
… in a comprehensive photographic record of his company’s history. Ernest Adams retired as chairman of the company in …
Type: Biography
… collections of high quality. As well as maintaining natural history collections he saw the need to preserve and exhibit early Māori woodcarvings, tools, weapons and greenstone ornaments. …
Type: Biography
… of media Government censorship of the news media has a long history in New Zealand. It began in the early 1840s, when … William Hobson closed down some newspapers criticising his Māori land purchase policies. In 1923, when radio was first …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Media and politics
… activities of art, design, fashion and popular culture. Māori and Pacific subject matter abounded and there was diversity across practitioners. Over the history of New Zealand craft, this tradition evolved from a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… Whales and seals Europeans and Māori plundered the ocean around New Zealand, hunting seals … were lobbying for zero sea lion deaths. Whales Despite its history of whale exploitation, New Zealand has led the way …
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Part of story: Marine conservation
… superstitions'. Pratt was a prolific writer. Missionary history was his major interest, but he also maintained a …
Type: Biography
… Island Motuihe, 15 kilometres from Auckland, has a long history of Māori settlement and conquest. Europeans purchased the …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… was similarly informed by a deep interest in New Zealand history and society. Her 1955 abridgement of Edward …
Type: Biography