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… clothing, accessories and furnishings with pictures and patterns as well as for creating decorative textiles to hang on walls. Missionary women were the first … Garments embroidered by her have been displayed at Te Waimate Mission House in Northland. In the 19th and early …
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Part of story: Sewing, knitting and textile crafts
… of Herekino and Whāngāpē. The east coast is more gentle territory, with numerous headlands, bays, beaches, harbours and tidal inlets. A warmer climate than the rest of New Zealand provides a hospitable … native birds such as the kōkako and the New Zealand dotterel, and other animals such as giant flax and kauri …
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Part of story: Northland region
… lakes in New Zealand is complex. Because of conflicting interests (such as tourism, boating, fishing, hydroelectric … and property development), it has been the subject of debate and litigation since the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in … lakes are covered by Article Two of the treaty. This guaranteed Māori exclusive rights to ‘forests fisheries and other …
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Part of story: Lakes
… sources brought by Europeans. Potatoes Māori quickly adopted the potato, as it resembled kūmara (sweet potato) and … (kūmara) to introduce potatoes to Māori in Queen Charlotte Sound. More importantly, potatoes tolerated cooler conditions, and could be produced in areas like …
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Part of story: Kai Pākehā – introduced foods
… was born at Paparoa, North Auckland, New Zealand, on 13 September 1867, the sixth child of John Chadwick, a farmer, and … wife, Hannah Mary Blakeley. The Chadwick family had emigrated from Lancashire, England, arriving in Auckland on the … settlers. Once they were of school age Ada and her sisters walked several miles to Paparoa's famous 'bush boarding …
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… July 1871, and baptised Mary Etheldreda, she was the daughter of the Reverend James Pulling and his wife, Elizabeth Mary Hodgson. James was master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and vicar of Belchamp St Paul. Mary attended Truro Girls' High School, Cheltenham Ladies' College …
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… was formed in Britain in the 17th century. It gained the alternative name of Quakers when its founder, George Fox, … Lord. Friends worship in silence until they feel moved to testify. They have no priests or ministers, and believe in the absolute equality of all people. …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… Alexander Technique Teachers' Society of New Zealand. Pilates Joseph Pilates (pronounced Pee-LA-tes), a German national, worked as a fitness and …
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Part of story: Yoga, Pilates and other exercise systems
… of Domenico Russo, a farmer, and his wife, Giuseppina Costelano. Activities centred around the sea and fishing, growing grapes and wine-making, and tending vegetables, fruit, and olive and nut trees. His … in Wellington, Bartolo Russo began fishing from the eastern shores of Wellington Harbour, which at that time had an …
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… group of New Zealand Company immigrants. They were allotted land at Waiwhetu for their £100 subscription to the New Zealand Company's emigration scheme, and they expected to become landed proprietors in the new colony. When … Alexander's early education depended on the local school teachers, Church of Scotland ministers and his parents: his …
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… Mountains dominate large areas of the New Zealand landscape. About 60% of … country) ice-carved fiords the deepest and longest cave systems in the Southern Hemisphere and the best example of glaciated karst terrain (with limestone formations such as …
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Part of story: Mountains
… join the Valley Union until 1951. The representative team, appropriately nicknamed the Swamp Foxes, won the third division title … In 2018 Thames Valley won the Heartland Championship contested by minor unions. Surf lifesaving The growing …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… rock types suitable for making tools, ornaments and other items. They were familiar with some materials like basalt and chert (or flint) but not with … such as pounamu (New Zealand jade, greenstone – nephrite or bowenite). Within perhaps 50–100 years the main …
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Part of story: Kōhatu – Māori use of stone
… property in about 1845. Alfred married Emily Borton, daughter of William Borton of Banbury, Oxfordshire, in Dunedin, … the Armed Police Force for the Southern District of New Ulster (later New Munster), on 13 April 1846. As an ensign in the …
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… Glacier has changed little over the last 2,000 years. Insulated by a thick cover of rock debris over its slow-moving … lower reaches, it has responded to shifts in climate with changes in thickness rather than in the position of its terminus (front edge). A century ago travellers clambered 10 …
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Part of story: Glaciers and glaciation
… Timaru South Canterbury’s largest centre of population, and only city. … in the early 1970s. The town developed at the only sheltered point on the coast between Banks Peninsula and North … to its artificial harbour, first developed in the late 1800s. Economy Timaru became an industrial centre …
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Part of story: South Canterbury places
… William Leonard Williams and his wife, Sarah Wanklyn. After attending St John's College and, from July 1871, Auckland … as a licensed custom-house and shipping agent in Napier after visiting Dunedin to contact commercial leaders and sound …
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… name is unknown. Her father, James Simpson, was the United States consul general at Tangier. On 11 June 1840 in London, England, she married Peter Wilson, superintendent of the civil hospital at …
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… 50 metres tall and have trunks up to 4.4 metres in diameter, but larger trees, now cut down or burnt, were recorded … century. They can live for centuries – the oldest are estimated to be 2,000 years of age. Kauri grows naturally only in … been seen south of its current limit (between Kāwhia and Te Puke). But in 2001 and 2002, seedlings sprouted next to …
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Part of story: Conifers
… The son of Christopher Richmond, a barrister, and his wife, Maria Wilson, James Crowe Richmond was born in London, England, on 22 September 1822. He was educated at the Hackney Grammar School; at Hove House, Brighton; …
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