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… The stigma of mental illness Long-standing but misleading stereotypes that associate mental illness with bizarre or dangerous behaviour perpetuate fear, misunderstanding and a reluctance to seek help. In … Contemporary issues …
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Part of story: Mental health services
… of life’ had absorbed all energies, but he now anticipated a literature that was ‘New Zealand’s own’. 1 In 1899 a New Zealand Literary and Historical Association was set up to promote New …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… his supervision, but the evangelical missionaries distrusted Selwyn’s religious values and challenged his attempt to control them. Political developments reduced the … of the Christian missionaries and rapidly increased racial tensions. The northern war of 1845–6 showed that even …
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Part of story: Missions and missionaries
… by the lesbian-feminist movement, and replaced other terms. Some women called themselves ‘kamp’ (a description … men) from the 1950s. In the 19th and early 20th centuries terms like ‘lady-husband’ and ‘bluestocking’ were sometimes … used to describe women in same-sex relationships. The term ‘Sapphic’ appears to have been widely understood – in …
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Part of story: Lesbian lives
… Population growth and diversification after 1945 led to the establishment of more choirs, especially … a boost from some highly qualified immigrants, notably Peter Godfrey, who after arriving from England in 1958 conducted numerous groups, …
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Part of story: Choral music and choirs
… James Cook’s voyages The European interest in collecting, for both personal and scientific … ship’s other scientists gathered some 40 plant specimens. Ten days later at Anaura Bay, north of Tolaga Bay, he collected many …
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Part of story: Collecting
… Intentional communities An intentional community is a community formed on the basis of … communities strongly challenge established notions of private property and personal privacy – members pool finances and …
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Part of story: Communes and communities
… exist in traditional Māori society. In Europe before the late 18th century the primary forms of punishment were … From 1718 to 1776 many British convicts were transported to North America. With the American revolution and … forced to abandon this practice. In the following years sentences of imprisonment began to be regularly imposed as a …
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Part of story: Prisons
… in the 1860s. Influenced by the sports programmes of elite English schools, New Zealand schools such as Christ’s College (Christchurch), Nelson College, Te Aute College (Hawke’s Bay) and Auckland Grammar School began …
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Part of story: Children and sport
… views Living in a small country far from the centres of Western civilisation, New Zealanders have always been highly … land and society. English commentator Austin Mitchell noted that a visiting Pom (Englishman) would be ‘asked a … left the airport tarmac’. 1 Word from on high In the late 19th century, Canterbury politician Edward Wakefield …
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Part of story: Visitors’ opinions about New Zealand
… Māori and Europeans. However, Māori remained an outvoted minority within the political system. In 1867 the European population of 250,000 had 72 seats … required 14–16 Māori seats. The number of Māori electorates remained fixed at four for 129 years. Official neglect …
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Part of story: Ngā māngai – Māori representation
… First uses of electricity Access to electricity in the late 19th and early 20th century was limited, though in 1879 football teams from Te Aro and Thorndon fought their way to a nil-all … Electricity, late 19th to mid-20th century …
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Part of story: Energy supply and use
… sent to Feilding Agricultural High School, where the headmaster, L. J. Wild , made a deep impression on him. Commencing … with the outbreak of the Second World War. Elliott immediately enlisted in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He left …
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… at Ōtākou on the Otago Peninsula, one of nine children of Te Iwi (David) Herehere Merekihereka Hape Ellison, a farmer, … and the lawyer and rugby player Tom Ellison . Rāni was educated at Ōtākou School, Otago Boys’ High School and Wesley College in Auckland. While he regretted leaving Otago, he enjoyed his time in the north and his …
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… Museums in the new century After the initial flurry of setting up museums, there were few significant new developments until after 1900, though exhibitions still proved popular. In the … century museums had something of an image problem and attendances declined. Some institutions explored novel styles …
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Part of story: Museums
… Using the land Nineteenth-century Pākehā society was a world of immigrants. To attract people halfway around the globe, propaganda promoted New Zealand as a fertile land with a benign climate, ‘reserved by Providence for the use of men,’ 1 which …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… A remote and rugged region Most of Fiordland (nearly 1 million … of Fiordland consists of crystalline rocks, including granite. Some of New Zealand’s oldest rocks are found there. Hard … the face of high rainfall. The area’s high-sided valleys, waterfalls and fiords were gouged by glaciers between 75,000 …
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Part of story: Southland places
… McLeod and her husband, James Fisher, the government printer, both Scottish. About 1859 his parents moved to … served his printing apprenticeship with the Herald and later worked for Punch . The date of Fisher's arrival in New Zealand and his subsequent …
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… son of Pranas Gopas, a machinery merchant, and his wife, Marte Plauschin. He is often regarded as an expressionist artist and his birthplace … the Baltic fishing village where German expressionists often spent their summers painting in the period before the …
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… Nineteenth-century road accidents Even in the days of horses and … or death on the roads. Accidents happened if horses bolted, or if horse-drawn vehicles were driven recklessly. … as they are now. Young male drivers were over-represented in road accidents, another trend that has continued. …
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Part of story: Road accidents