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… Zealand wars, further large areas of Māori land were alienated by a range of processes including confiscation. Māori nationalist sentiment and attempts at greater autonomy were also maintained, almost always through …
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Part of story: Kāwanatanga – Māori engagement with the state
… From early colonial times Māori competed keenly against Europeans in a variety of sports. Horse … widespread popularity. Rugby eventually became the favourite sport for men of both races, and for much of the 20th … of national life in which Māori and non-Māori met on equal terms. First Māori rugby players The first Māori known to …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… Scotland, Ireland and the Channel Islands, and was educated partly in Paris. On 28 April 1870, at Frenchay, Gloucestershire, she married Hugh Stewart, a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and member of an … Stewart, Adela Blanche …
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… kept its old town hall and in 1990 opened the multi-venue Aotea Centre nearby. These Modernist buildings lacked the … artworks retained a sense of grandeur and spectacle. Interior spaces were less overtly divided by social class than … 1980s it was the city’s main punk rock venue. It attracted a diverse crowd, including gang members. Intimidation …
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Part of story: Theatres, cinemas and halls
… Zealand art. As M. E. R. Tripe she became a portrait painter of national importance, as well as a teacher and formidable influence on Wellington art for over 30 years. Born on 14 September 1870 at Opawa, Christchurch, New Zealand, Mary – or …
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… her husband, George Valder, a corn merchant. Henry was educated at a church school in Winchester. His father's remarriage after the death of his mother in 1871 prompted Henry to …
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… As New Zealand has no formal written constitution, Wellington’s status as the capital city is not given distinctive protection in a supreme national statute. There is, however, no serious movement to shift the …
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Part of story: Capital city
… Alfred Henry Whitehouse was born on 15 September 1856 at Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, the son of Abel Whitehouse, a warehouseman, and his wife, Matilda Craddock. He … Whitehouse, Alfred Henry …
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… and her husband, George Manley Yerex, a Canadian-born importer, raised four boys and two girls in a large home on the hills above Lower Hutt. George attended Wellington College briefly, before moving with his family to a farm near Tauranga in 1906. He completed his schooling there and passed the matriculation …
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… Peter Fraser was born on 28 August 1884 at the highland … Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland, the son of Donald Fraser, a master shoemaker, and his wife, Isabella McLeod. Peter's … Fraser, Peter …
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… John Hall, the leading 'conservative' politician in nineteenth century New Zealand, was born at Hull, England, … Hall and his wife, Grace Williamson. George Hall was a master mariner and shipowner, who rose to the rank of Elder …
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… Kelly Tarlton was a pioneer in underwater exploration and a successful tourism entrepreneur. Energetic and innovative, he adapted a passion for scuba diving into a successful career as … the Boyd Gallery and the Museum of Shipwrecks, and later an aquarium, Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World. Early …
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… portraits. For example, when the Greenwood family emigrated to Motueka in 1843 their luggage contained an … portrait of a forebear, Mrs Humphrey Devereux, painted by American artist John Singleton Copley in 1771. It … hung in the family home until 1965, when the family presented it to the National Art Gallery. International …
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Part of story: Art galleries and collections
… rail network. The first major achievement was the Lyttelton railway tunnel, drilled through volcanic rock between Lyttelton and Ferrymead to connect Canterbury to its port. It took from 1861 to 1867 to complete. …
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Part of story: Engineering
… children, and there remain practices that nurture and protect children from abuse and neglect. However, some families … children within them. Traditional discipline Anne Salmond noted that in traditional Māori society ‘children were rarely … was a much harsher use of physical discipline. Child advocates Amster Reedy and Hone Kaa argue that a reliance on …
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Part of story: Ngā mātua – Māori parenting
… Allan was the son of Scottish-born parents Eliza Ann Steel and her husband, William Allan, a prosperous draper and founder of the firm Veitch and Allan. His Presbyterian family was actively involved in St John’s Church: … of the politician and churchman John Aitken, and the minister, James Gibb , strongly influenced John during his …
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… 1990s were mainly from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. After 2000, China and India provided many immigrants. In 2013, … and the New Zealand First Party, led by Winston Peters, campaigned in the 1996 election against the current … the ‘yellow peril’ concerns of a century earlier. Race-hate murder Racial violence in the 2000s has been very rare. …
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Part of story: Ethnic and religious intolerance
… 1930s nationalists. In brilliant lectures poet James K. Baxter suggested that earlier writers had shied away from sociological themes and had written …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… A last-minute verbal addition to the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, sometimes called the ‘fourth article’, guaranteed freedom of religious belief in New Zealand. Since then … in a wide variety of denominations. The Anglican, Presbyterian, Catholic and Methodist churches have had the largest …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… died in 1883 and Nina was brought up by her father, assisted by a housekeeper and a maid. His second wife, Rose Conolly, who bore two children, died in 1890 after only two years’ marriage. A former sheepfarmer and … selling the products of local farmers and whalers. His interest in sport, his religious commitment (as an Anglican …
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