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… native affairs to his responsibilities. His sympathy with Māori concerns was long-standing. During the war he had forged close links with Te Puea Hērangi and other Māori leaders, and in 1945 he played a large part in the … his eyes, and he had a wide knowledge of literature and history. His informal meetings, over a cup of tea, with J. …
Type: Biography
… College, where he was admired for enlightened work with Māori children. But at home, he was becoming increasingly … tour by New Zealand writers in conjunction with the Te Māori exhibition (1985), Writer in Residence at Deakin … mature married women. Her place in Wellington’s cultural history is memorialised by an excerpt from ‘The active …
Type: Biography
… period. Bell made a special study of the law relating to Māori, and was often engaged in important cases dealing with … has been described as the outstanding lawyer in New Zealand history, yet he also held high office in an astonishing …
Type: Biography
… streets after men whom he admired in British Indian history. When his list of Indian names was exhausted, Domett … was foiled: his office did not acquire responsibility for Māori lands, although he did succeed in having the …
Type: Biography
… others. Higgs also developed new abstract designs based on Māori artworks at the Dominion Museum, a methodology more … Higgs’s work at STP was reintroduced to Australian design history, where it had been overshadowed by the later …
Type: Biography
… the tattooed face (1975), one of the earliest novels about Māori life by a Māori author – and one that had been rejected by Reeds. She … several fiction and non-fiction collections. Her 1985 history of New Plymouth Girls’ High School, Springboard for …
Type: Biography
… in terms of land development and he had no patience with Māori owners who refused to part with their land. … a firm advocate of Taranaki settler interests against Māori resistance. When Parihaka became a major issue in … in power coincided with the worst years of the depression. History tends to remember premiers and treasurers who spend …
Type: Biography
… he had led the strongest executive in Canterbury provincial history, and acquired an unrivalled reputation as an … on the principle of collective responsibility, if not on Māori policy. Giving priority to colonial issues over …
Type: Biography
… went to unpredictable independents, Labour candidates and Māori MPs. The genesis of the first Reform Party government … with two of the major industrial disputes in New Zealand's history: the 1912 Waihī miners' strike and the 1913 … a world war and the worst epidemic in the country's history. A three-party splitting of the vote resulted in …
Type: Biography
… and eclectic: adult fantasy, science fiction, folk tales, history, mythology, science and increasingly, children’s … Kaitangata twitch was successfully adapted in 2010 for Māori Television. Animated versions of favourite picture …
Type: Biography
… costly and attractive election promises in New Zealand’s history. Labour countered with a ‘Citizens for Rowling’ … unprecedented civil disorder in 1981. Muldoon’s attitude to Māori was somewhat ambivalent. He strongly opposed the … Whātua but developed a strange personal relationship with Māori gangs, especially Black Power, encouraging them to …
Type: Biography
… of books, can be traced to this time. Geography and history were his favourite subjects. Sundays were special … was photographed at Waitangi holding the hand of a small Māori boy. It seemed to symbolise a new era of racial …
Type: Biography