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… Thompson was born in Auckland on 15 April 1897, the daughter of Leonora Jane Howie and her husband, Joseph Thompson, … known, made a Christian commitment at the age of 15. After attending Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, she worked as a shop …
Type: Biography
… or 1850; his wife's name is not known. About 1850 he emigrated to Australia where he worked for five years on the Illustrated Sydney News and other newspapers. He moved to Auckland, … in the newspaper or general printing trade. At an unknown date Seffern's wife died, and on 29 January 1861 he married a …
Type: Biography
… Windsurfing and yachting Wellington’s famous winds often create ideal conditions for sailing and windsurfing, especially … coastline provides excellent fishing and diving. The waters around Kāpiti Island form a marine reserve, established …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wellington region
… region, cutting power and sending many people outdoors. Minutes later a much stronger quake rocked the region. This main … magnitude of 6.3 and was centred north of Edgecumbe. Four aftershocks with magnitudes greater than 5 occurred in the …
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Part of story: Historic earthquakes
… of non-profit social service organisations, but their interests were often different. Some were complex and nationally organised, … and employing large numbers of staff. Others were small, often local in their operations, and solely reliant upon …
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Part of story: Voluntary welfare organisations
… A climate roller-coaster During the last 2.5 million years, earth has been plunged into a series of ice ages lasting many tens of thousands of years. In an ice age, global average temperatures drop markedly, major ice sheets build up in the …
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Part of story: Glaciers and glaciation
… The British In late November 1791 a British ship, the Chatham , was blown off course to Rēkohu. Lieutenant William Broughton planted the British flag and, claiming Rēkohu in the name of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Moriori
… colonies began visiting in New Zealand harbours in the late 1700s. The first trading ship, the Fancy , arrived in the … Hauraki Gulf in 1794. Its crew felled trees (probably kahikatea) beside the Waihou River with the help of Māori. Other ships visited between 1798 and 1801, taking kahikatea, but many logs …
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Part of story: Logging native forests
… An array of Polynesian fishing equipment was adapted for conditions in New Zealand: the kupenga (net), aho … sometimes used as pōito (floats). The largest net documented was made in 1886 by Te Pōkiha Taranui (also known as Major Fox) and 400 others …
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Part of story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing
… Creation story The importance of rank and status is illustrated in the Māori creation story. This shows the interaction between tuākana and tēina (older and younger … (the earth mother) their children fought. Tāwhirimātea, the youngest child, battled against his tuākana. The …
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Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society
… magnificent harbour is a lake-like expanse of sheltered water surrounded by hills, with a narrow entrance to the sea. … much of this is obscured by roads. In other places it is interspersed with sandy beaches. Creation of the harbour …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… Thorndon Taranaki tribes migrated to the Thorndon area in the 1820s and 1830s, attracted by its level terrain and its proximity to the harbour. They built a … Western suburbs …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… River is the second longest in the North Island, after the Waikato. Rising on the north-west flank of Mt … the Ōhura and Tāngarākau from the west, and the Manganuiōteao from the east. The latter rises on the west side of Ruapehu and flows due west. …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… Whakapapa is a taxonomic framework that links all animate and inanimate, known and unknown phenomena in the terrestrial and spiritual worlds. Whakapapa therefore binds …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… Samoan-born graphic designer Joseph Churchward was an internationally renowned typeface designer whose work graced record covers, billboards, newspapers and popular literature such as posters and brochures around the world, both during his …
Type: Biography
… 70 of these were found only in New Zealand. Almost a quarter were nocturnal, and many were giants. The huge, … song explains how it died out: ‘No moa, no moa In old Ao-tea-roa Can’t get ’em They’ve et ’em They’re gone and there … lore this gigantic raptor was known as the hokioi – reputedly after the sound of its call. Introduced predators Many …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… 45s, LPs and rock ’n’ roll In the 1950s technical developments such as recording to tape rather than … with ‘Maple on the hill’ by the Otago country and western quartet, the Tumbleweeds. Noel Peach’s Astor Studio in …
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Part of story: Recording companies and studios
… Poananga, was the great-grandson of Wikiriwhi Matauru, a noted warrior of Ngati Porou, who had fought for the Crown … of Apirana Ngata. Brian’s mother, Atareta Pareautohe Te Mataku, had been adopted at birth by the prominent Rangitane family of Tamihana …
Type: Biography
… The rate of Māori land acquisition began to slow markedly after Gordon Coates replaced W. H. Herries as native minister in 1921. …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… John Peter Bollons was born at Bethnal Green, London, England, on 10 November 1862, the son of Thomas Bollons, a cab master, and his wife, Helen Elisha. His mother was Jewish but … the entrance to Bluff Harbour on 7 November 1881 while altering course to pick up the pilot. The kindness of a Pākehā …
Type: Biography