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… and Midland Institute, studying politics, biography and history. Birmingham was at the centre of important political … if somewhat paternalistic, policy aimed at protecting Māori land from private sale. He removed a substantial … their presence in large numbers aggravated tension between Māori and European. Ballance visited Māori throughout the …
Type: Biography
… that he was unusually corrupt. Renewed fighting with the Māori did break out in July 1863, and Whitmore attached … decisive clash was averted when in early February 1869 the Māori forces disbanded because of internal dissension. Until … target of James Hawthorne's A dark chapter in New Zealand history (1869), and the range of derogatory labels applied …
Type: Biography
… for the first time in such a collection, of poetry in the Māori language. The decision provoked controversy but … being published than at any previous time in New Zealand’s history. A contributor to this profusion was the rise of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Poetry
… all religious denominations. There was, however, a long history of antagonism towards Masons from some religions, … and recitations. In New Zealand members adopted a quasi-Māori ritual. Their leaders were called ‘rangatira’ and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Men’s clubs
… difficult and challenging period in New Zealand's history, covering the great economic depression, the onset …
Type: Biography
… widely in the classics as well as in English literature, history and astronomy. A natural linguist, he learnt Māori to assist him in his public duties, and was able to …
Type: Biography
… and fire. The greatest maritime disaster in New Zealand history, if not in her waters, was the fire on the … carry lifeboats. In the early years of European migration, Māori attacked some European ships in revenge for the …
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Part of story: Shipwrecks
… alongside Devon, Oxford, York, Kent and Durham streets. History The town is on the site of the Te Āti Awa settlement … Te Āti Awa, who moved to neighbouring Waikawa Bay, still a Māori centre in the 2010s. A town was surveyed but most …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough places
… (1938). In her fiction and poetry Hyde had turned to Māori and Pākehā history and stories to find a distinctive New Zealand voice. … in the attempt she made to articulate the experience of Māori and women. At its best Hyde’s writing achieved a …
Type: Biography
… of the provincial town and its families, including Māori, and among the surrounding farms and the bush-covered … love-hate affair with a strange fact of life and history called New Zealand’. 2 He recognised that New … early Pākehā proponent of the need to recognise and embrace Māori culture in national life. His position as a …
Type: Biography
… Pauls commissioned many works; for example, Antony Alpers’s Māori myths and tribal legends and Erik Schwimmer’s The Māori people in the nineteen-sixties. As well, they … committee (1953–64). His wide interests – including local history, socialism and literature – found expression in …
Type: Biography
… attacked the government's dealings with the Parihaka Māori, the detention of Te Whiti and Tohu , and what he saw … to Bracken's 1884 collection, Lays of the land of the Māori and moa , and Robert Stout, who contributed a long … the only New Zealand poets mentioned in the 1916 Cambridge history of English literature. A posthumous collection, Not …
Type: Biography
… standards. When Lyon and Blair published Edward Tregear 's Māori–Polynesian comparative dictionary (1891) – at 675 … Empire City showed himself to be a true son of the empire. History was being made, he said, as, for the first time, New …
Type: Biography
… children’s costume choices came largely from European art, history, literature and popular culture. Military and … and racial stereotypes such as African Americans or ‘Māori maidens’, became common in the early 20th century. For …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Clothes
… centres, Egmont volcano and Fanthams Peak. Their complex history is still being unravelled. Activity at Egmont … slopes. About 150 years later, a pumice shower buried a Māori campsite near the present-day Stratford Mountain …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taranaki region
… collaborated to form DNA in 1994. Foote’s fabric referenced history, the environment and politics among other things, … at NZFW and the Miromoda awards were special events for Māori and Pacific designers. Museum pieces In the early …
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Part of story: Fashion and textile design
… from month to month of the typographical and literary history of our own colony'. He took some credit for the …
Type: Biography
… in Classics, modern languages, English literature and history. At mathematics he was hopeless. By 1867 his father … press ahead with the measure. He took a special interest in Māori schools, many of which he visited. He regarded an increase of more than 10 per cent in the attendance of Māori schoolchildren in 1894–95 as a 'ray of hope' for their …
Type: Biography
… of Women of New Zealand, the Girl Guides and Te Wai Pounamu Māori Girls’ College. Leslie Averill had entered general … practice at the age of 70, and later began writing the history of St George’s Hospital. In 1973 the government of …
Type: Biography
… the Jindyworobak Anthology. For many years she worked on a history of early Auckland, writing in an army hut decorated as a whare of traditional Māori design located in her garden. The manuscript remains …
Type: Biography