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… regarded volumes of poetry to his name. He was also a teacher, facilitator and editor of the work of others, and a social commentator and writer of prose characterised by elegance, sagacity and style. His breadth of …
Type: Biography
… and had a dark complexion, brown eyes and dark hair. Educated at Rawhia School and then at Rāwene District High … as a clerical cadet. From his first appointment he was noted as showing promise. He maintained a schoolboy interest in rugby and played for Waikato and the Bay of …
Type: Biography
… A protest march is a procession of people along streets or roads … and aims of the marchers. In moving along a particular route, marches offer greater public exposure than protests that remain in one place. … Protest marches …
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Part of story: Public protest
… the presentation of Māori culture at Rotorua, and Donne attempted to recreate a romantic Māori past at Whakarewarewa. Māori were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
… moved to Auckland, where Alan became a land agent. They rented homes in Mount Eden, Ponsonby and Remuera, with … have a formative influence on Avis’s development as a writer and illustrator of natural history fantasy. From 1915 … 1924 the collapse of a business venture her father had started forced her to leave school and find a job. She wrote …
Type: Biography
… the early 1970s to the 1993 WOPPA festival (held to celebrate the centenary of women gaining the vote), theatre was a vital aspect of the women’s movement. …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… Auckland’s landscape is dotted with the cones of volcanoes that erupted comparatively recently in geological time, with the … the city centre. Auckland’s volcanic cones were important sites of Māori occupation. They were ideal for palisaded …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Auckland places
… Integration By the first half of the 20th century Māori were … in the major rituals of New Zealand life. They voted, had their own members of Parliament, played rugby, fought in wars, and intermarried with other New Zealanders. However, because most …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… Māori often named birds after their call, their plumage or their behaviour. Hihi … stories about the demigod Māui, the hihi refused to fetch water for him after he had captured the sun and slowed it …
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Part of story: Ngā manu – birds
… known as the ‘Jacky Howe’ in Australia and New Zealand. After the First World War, it became common for working men and athletes to wear navy blue or black singlets – the dark colours hid the grime. By the 1940s and 1950s black dominated. The singlet now had a deeply scooped neck with looser …
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Part of story: Rural clothing
… William John Bridson, a company manager. The family later moved to Auckland, where Gordon attended Auckland Grammar School. Leaving after the sixth form, he worked as a sales representative for …
Type: Biography
… Selwyn on 28 June 1846, along with two brothers and two sisters. The McKay children were educated at Maraetai and Te Kōhanga mission schools, which were run by the Reverend …
Type: Biography
… Zealand Māori had a staple diet of seafood and birds for protein, and aruhe (fern root) and cultivated imported crops. These crops, carried across the Pacific by their …
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Part of story: Ahuwhenua – Māori land and agriculture
… of the permanent collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. This established makers including Len … the time, the Treasures of the Underworld exhibition attracted the biggest audience ever to an exhibition of New … of this country’s export-led recovery could well be a potter’s wheel!’ 1 Other makers, such as Bronwynne Cornish and …
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Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… Big Edwardian houses Like their late 19th-century predecessors, architect-designed houses of the Edwardian period (1902–10) were often grand in scale. Some featured boards fixed to exterior … Early 20th-century domestic architecture …
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Part of story: Domestic architecture
… ‘He iwi tahi tātou’ (often translated as ‘We are one people’), announced British … of people is superior to another on the basis of characteristics they did not choose, has also been present from …
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Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… of the British Empire’s network of trading posts, and connected to Asian ports and trade routes. The first Indian settlers Author and traveller John … had jumped ship in 1810, married into Ngāpuhi and adopted their way of life, preferring to stay in New Zealand …
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Part of story: Asia and New Zealand
… Important features of the early stages of the Crown’s attempt to address Māori grievances included: the South Island … unsuitable the lakes agreements of 1922 and 1926, by which Te Arawa and Tūwharetoa tribes accepted annual compensation and other concessions in return for …
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… to whalers through outposts at places like Kororāreka (later called Russell) in the Bay of Islands. They sold ‘American tobacco, Irish butter, English cheeses and ales, Jamaican rum, salt from … calico and cloth by the yard, cross cut saws, spades, tents, tea, rice, blankets, cutlery, flour, soap, …
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Part of story: Shops
… Oil and gas Taranaki’s petroleum industry dates back to the first decades of Pākehā settlement. Since 1865 attempts have been made to tap oil deposits around the region. … refinery opened at New Plymouth in July 1913 with appropriate fanfare and an impressive programme of speeches. The …
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Part of story: Taranaki region