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… (Maggie) Papakura (1873–1930), a Tūhourangi woman of mana, Rotorua hot-lakes guide and scholar. She was raised by her …
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Part of story: Children’s homes and fostering
… At 16 Florence Woodhead left home for Whakarewarewa, near Rotorua, where she was invited to train at the Anglican …
Type: Biography
… the next two months she worked there, and at Russell and Rotorua. When responsibility for Māori health work was …
Type: Biography
… which some Ngāti Kahungunu families were relocated to the Rotorua district to help Te Arawa to develop farms. He began …
Type: Biography
… the construction of the Kaponga–Tarukenga stretch of the Rotorua railway. Cutting through high, mountainous spurs, …
Type: Biography
… title in Hawaii in 2006 in his final professional race. Rotorua hosts the New Zealand round of the XTERRA World …
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Part of story: Triathlon and multisport
… visiting performers from the Wanganui district, Wairarapa, Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty. Hōri Pukehika and Peter Buck …
Type: Biography
… The Howard Morrison Quartet was a music and comedy act from Rotorua, capable of polished vocal versions of pop standards …
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Part of story: Popular music
… meeting house and cemetery at Ruamata marae to make way for Rotorua’s airport. He also vehemently challenged racist or …
Type: Biography
… Materoa Reedy, Bishop Herbert Williams, Sir Apirana Ngata, Rotorua singer Ana Hato, and ancient chant expert Hera …
Type: Biography
… this disaster, were killed by Ngāti Whakaue at Ōhinemutu, Rotorua. When news of these killings reached the Bay of … prepared for their attack by withdrawing to Mokoia Island, Rotorua. The Pongakawa Valley was chosen as the best way of …
Type: Biography
… working as a guide in the thermal area of Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, when she acquired the surname by which she became …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… for the government, publishing guides to Wanganui and Rotorua in 1897 and Taupo in 1899. Margaret Bullock had an …
Type: Biography
… a bad example was given by the English. After Jane died at Rotorua on 6 March 1946, Emily returned to Slough, …
Type: Biography
… of her travels from Hawke’s Bay to the Urewera, Lake Rotorua and Lake Taupō, where she recorded that, ‘All is …
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Part of story: Camping
… effort to build a hostel to accommodate Maori visitors to Rotorua; the Janet Fraser Memorial Guest House was opened by …
Type: Biography
… lake, formed by water filling a volcanic crater. Nearby, Rotorua’s mud pools boil and geysers erupt. Two countries …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… at head office, Wellington, and worked as a ranger at Rotorua. On 1 October 1913 in Wellington he married …
Type: Biography
… Hayward worked on The betrayer , an Australian film using Rotorua locations. He then went to Australia where Raymond …
Type: Biography
… Festival, Dunedin, and the Feathers and Fibre exhibition at Rotorua Art Gallery. In 1982, as a result of the efforts of …
Type: Biography