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… The hills inland run sheep and beef cattle, and are dotted with exotic pine forests. The beach is popular with … at Waimārama. It functioned as a commune called Snoring Waters, and was a base for the band and their families. … country. History Many pā and kāinga (villages) were located on or near the coast around Waimārama, which by the …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… Hans Heinrich Suter, known in New Zealand as Henry Suter, was born on 9 March 1841 near Zürich, Switzerland. He was the son of Heinrich Suter, a silk manufacturer, and his wife, Susanna Mahler. … Suter, Henry …
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… takahē, a large flightless rail, hit headlines in the late 1940s. Takahē were thought to be extinct – but then, in … rediscovered the South Island species ( Porphyrio hochstetteri ) in Fiordland’s Murchison Mountains. However, the …
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Part of story: Large forest birds
… the son of Herbert Samuel Hargrave Taylor, a gum sorter and former armourer, and his wife, Ellen Medhurst. He attended Richmond Road School in Grey Lynn, and later Whangaparapara School on Great Barrier Island before …
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… In the 19th century New Zealand women were part of an international movement fighting for equal rights. Women campaigners, and the men who supported them, were reacting to inequalities in marriage, … moral influence on public life was needed to ensure the protection of women, children and home life, and they also …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… myth The most remarkable and influential European racial stereotype was the ‘Aryan Māori’. The Aryan myth claimed that thousands of years ago, a proto-European master-race emerged somewhere between the Caucasus and northern India. It later migrated mainly to Europe, which it dominated and …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… Steam – the engine of progress In the 1860s sailing craft were still common, but from the 1870s steamers predominated. By the end of that decade they were responsible for … The era of steam …
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Part of story: Shipping
… one end or side of the house; small windows with wooden shutters were punched in the walls. The multi-purpose nature of these houses, where occupants slept, ate and socialised, distinguished them from Māori whare, … to type. First prefab New Zealand’s first prefabricated house was a gift from New South Wales Governor Philip …
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Part of story: Housing
… 1,000 families from southern England settled on the Manchester block in Manawatū , under arrangements negotiated by Colonel William Feilding of the Emigrant and Colonists’ Aid Corporation. George Vesey Stewart organised two settlements, the first at Katikati in …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… as it individualised Māori land title. Justice minister Henry Sewell described the aims of the court as, ‘to … the principle of communism upon which their social system is based and which stands as a barrier in the way of all attempts to amalgamate the Māori race into our social and …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… was formed in 2004 to lobby for a national Carers’ Strategy, which was launched in 2008. Its objectives are to … information and training, enhance financial and respite-care opportunities, and investigate ways of making workplaces more responsive to the needs …
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Part of story: Care and carers
… the Salvation Army In the mid-19th century an English minister, William Booth, left the Methodist church to become a … in 1878, this was a noisy and unconventional church, dedicated equally to saving souls and relieving poverty. Military … lines. Its ‘officers’ held ranks such as captain and lieutenant, and wore uniforms, beat drums and waved flags. …
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Part of story: Salvation Army
… New Plymouth in January 1841, and Auckland and Nelson later the same year. Basic chapels were built in each place. … the ‘established’ church, all Christian denominations operated on an equal footing and were self-supporting. Albertland … settlement for Methodists and other ‘nonconformist’ Protestants was founded at Albertland on the Kaipara Harbour. …
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Part of story: Methodist Church
… John Bell Thomson was baptised on 5 February 1835 at Westminster, London, England. He was the oldest of four children … to Eliza Willcox and her husband, Adam Thomson, an architect and surveyor. John Bell Thomson disregarded his father's wishes that he study law and instead travelled to Australia to seek his fortune on the …
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… Citizenship Following the 1947 adoption of the Statute of Westminster, New Zealand citizenship came into existence under the British Nationality and New Zealand …
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Part of story: Self-government and independence
… places to live. They sought accessible food resources, materials for clothes, shelter and weapons, and waterways for transport by waka (canoe). Early settlement …
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Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
… Early travel Prevailing westerly winds made the Melbourne–Bluff route a favoured approach to New Zealand in sailing days, although ships sometimes had to contend with contrary winds in Foveaux Strait. Land transport …
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Part of story: Southland region
… flourishing all round New Zealand. Packing a punch Minister of Internal Affairs William (Bill) Parry was remembered as a … a gym in the basement at Parliament, and colleagues could often hear him thumping the punchbag. Jack Hanna , the son of …
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Part of story: Gyms
… The difficulties of New Zealand’s first towns did not deter the founding of others. As before, new towns were a mix of private and government initiatives. Most were on the coast, but … was founded. As the Crown continued to buy (or confiscate) Māori land, more inland towns were built. New towns were …
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Part of story: City history and people
… was a rich soil made of clay, sand and decayed organic matter. ‘Kere’ was used as a prefix for some types of clay, including keretū, kerematua and kerewhenua. Tenga kākāriki (parakeet’s crop), a white volcanic sand in the Bay of Plenty, was so named because …
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Part of story: Oneone – soils