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… sanction of marriage) has been the norm throughout recorded history. Since the late 1960s most New Zealanders have had … developed countries, the rate was still high. The rate for Māori women was considerably higher than for all teenage …
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Part of story: Teenagers and youth
… one of the most well-known incidents in New Zealand rugby history. According to Wallace’s own account, with Wales …
Type: Biography
… district'. He was involved in trade with Auckland, on two Māori-owned vessels which undercut the monopoly of the … G. E. Read . He thereby acquired influential enemies, both Māori and Pākehā. The oral traditions interpret his wildness … re-named Te Tokanganui-a-noho. In the original decorations, history was told in figurative painting, a style to be …
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… sermon he heard, in 1837, was probably given by the great Māori missionary Wiremu Nēra Ngātai . Tītokowaru's life was … knowledge of things Pākehā. He quickly learned to write in Māori. His first known letter, dated 27 September 1845, was … because Tītokowaru's War is a dark secret of New Zealand history, forgotten by the Pākehā as a child forgets a …
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… Company’s debt. His wide knowledge of constitutional history and contemporary government gave him an unmatched … Thomas Gore Browne ’s retention of responsibility for Māori affairs posed a crucial problem. The 1856 session’s … that because responsible government was unlikely to work, Māori affairs could not be left to colonial politicians. …
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… in charge, and Beaglehole recruited some of his brightest history graduates. Later Heenan arranged the government … this came the creation, under Heenan's direction, of a War History Branch. Creative literature was also part of …
Type: Biography
… 1946 Kippenberger was appointed editor in chief of the War History Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. It …
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… in Rotorua, he became friendly with Gerald Matthews, a Māori linguist, and began a collection of books on Māori customs, legends and history. While convalescing at his parents' farm in the …
Type: Biography
… result in the granting of state aid to Catholic schools. History has proved him right, although it would appear that …
Type: Biography
… in middle age. In the shifting relations between English, Māori and Pasifika traditions in his work, Campbell expanded … and worked to expand and improve the Journal ’s coverage of Māori and Pacific subjects. He worked as senior editor at … Pacific worlds, Campbell offered a personal and communal history of the problems of belonging and displacement in his …
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… to two years in prison. He later became professor of history and economics at Auckland University College, until … New Zealand newspapers and journals. Her subjects included Māori education, the conservation of old buildings, the …
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… early 1923 and spent two years studying Chinese language, history and culture in Peking (Beijing), before working in … Zealand in May 1951. Soon after, she went to work for the Māori mission of the Waikato diocese with the missioner Wī …
Type: Biography
… the nearby coast, but few remain in their original state. Māori brought the kiore or Polynesian rat – a deadly threat …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… holding summer schools and annual balls. The title of their history – Sociable, carefree, delightful – reflected the … most appropriate form of dance for children. In the 1940s Māori action songs (along with stick games) were included. …
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Part of story: Dancing
… Geological history The oldest rock on the Chatham Islands is the schist … New Zealand akeake Dodonaea viscosa , despite the identical Māori name. Forests in more sheltered or wetter settings …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… although less well known, also made his mark in policing history. After leaving school he worked on a farm, before …
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… and other Crown entities. Throughout New Zealand’s history, the number and function of public buildings have … were built in major towns to treat low-income Europeans and Māori. New buildings within hospital compounds mirrored …
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Part of story: Public buildings
… Ūpokoiri alight on their lands, and instructed Pāora in the history and customs of the tribe. Tareahi had several … that was soon to fall on Colenso for his liaison with a Māori woman. Donald McLean , at that time a government agent …
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… a sharp eye for the significant. He developed a geological history of the West Coast region, helped to clarify the …
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… Football Union during the most turbulent period of its history. He was born in Hastings on 21 July 1909, youngest … do my best work’. The NZRFU had agreed to the exclusion of Māori players from the All Black side that toured South … NZRFU would not contemplate an invitation that disqualified Māori from touring with the All Blacks in 1967. That meeting …
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