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… Ernest Herbert Taylor, a postman. Known as Mervyn, he attended Grafton School from 1912 to 1920, passing his proficiency examination. His schooling was interrupted by poliomyelitis and rheumatic fever, however, and …
Type: Biography
… (1990), an adaptation of Janet Frame‘s autobiographies directed by Jane Campion, was made as a three-part television series but was first released as a feature film. … the life and work of one of New Zealand’s most treasured writers and won several international awards. Jane Campion then …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Feature film
… European communities was the yarn, an improbable anecdote told for amusement in the pub or the workplace. In sealing gangs, timber camps and other male-dominated communities, the best yarn-spinner was valued and admired. When the renowned British storyteller Rudyard Kipling visited in 1891 he rated New Zealand …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Humour
… Māori practices Traditional Māori communities kept human waste separate from living quarters and food preparation areas. 18th-century European …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Washing, cleaning and personal hygiene
… Horse transport Horses have long characterised the region. Indeed the ‘Nāti’ horse breed, associated with Ngāti Porou, is an icon of the East Coast. Before … dray and wagon remained a key form of transport until after the Second World War. C Company of 28 (Māori) Battalion, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: East Coast region
… unions had a full-time paid secretary; and large unions often had one in each main district. An increasing number of … several occupations and had to try and provide adequate representation for each of them. The unions’ influence … from making a nil wage order, meaning that, in spite of rising inflation, wages for all unions remained static …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Unions and employee organisations
… Anna Lois White was born in Auckland on 2 November 1903, the daughter of Annie Phillipps and her husband, Arthur Herbert White, an architect. Both the White and the Phillipps families … White, Anna Lois …
Type: Biography
… Sage and her husband, William Wilcox, a railway shunter. In 1923 or 1924 the family emigrated to New Zealand, where William worked at a number of jobs … up dairy farming at Waiharara, Northland. Vic was educated at Takapuna Grammar School (1927–29). His early adult …
Type: Biography
… first bishop of Waiapu, William Williams . Herbert was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, from 1874 to 1878 and at Canterbury College, where he graduated BA in 1880. He then went to the University of Cambridge …
Type: Biography
… Māori communities and the crew of the Endeavour during Lieutenant James Cook ’s first visit to New Zealand in 1769. The ship’s botanist, Joseph Banks, estimated in that year that Tupaia ‘cannot be less than 45’, which indicates he was born in about 1724. This makes him a near …
Type: Biography
… the most common metal in the earth’s crust, is lighter than copper, steel or brass, resists corrosion and readily conducts … non-sparking and non-magnetic, and can be recycled indefinitely. When combined with zinc and magnesium, aluminium is …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Pulp and paper, aluminium and steel industries
… a gardener, and his wife, Ellen Winearls. Harry was educated at the Bridge Street School and then apprenticed to a signwriter in Wellington. On his return to Nelson he set up as a signwriter, painter and decorator. He was responsible for the gold …
Type: Biography
… delivered at the family home by Dr Agnes Bennett . Ernest attended Mount Cook School and Wellington College. More vital to his education were the intense literary interests of his family. At Victoria University …
Type: Biography
… The Darfield earthquake At 4.35 a.m. on Saturday 4 September 2010, Canterbury was rocked by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake centred … coastal settlements like Kaiapoi and Bexley were badly affected by liquefaction (water-saturated sand and silt). … Canterbury earthquakes and rebuild …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Canterbury region
… the Taranaki region was one of the most densely forested areas of New Zealand. Over several hundred years Māori … of Pākehā settlers in the 1840s began the near-complete devastation of Taranaki’s ring-plain forests, and of much … mountain was cleared for farming in the 1870s and 1880s, after the Taranaki Wars. Clearfelling was followed by summer …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taranaki region
… Despite the mass of published glossaries of New Zealand slang, … New Zealand English reflects every facet of life. It operates in a range of occupational and cultural contexts, and at all levels of formality. Under-runner In other … Characteristics of New Zealand English …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: English language in New Zealand
… (Sydney) on 2 October 1826. Their first child, James Stephenson Clendon, was born in London in January 1827. In 1828, as captain of the City of Edinburgh , he transported female prisoners to the convict settlement at Port … the schooner Fortitude , Clendon and his partner, Samuel Stephenson, sailed for New Zealand, arriving at the Bay of …
Type: Biography
… the Church Missionary Society station at Kerikeri, the daughter of Sarah Tuckwell and her husband, William Thomas … on at Marianne Williams 's school for missionary daughters. Growing up in an almost entirely Māori New Zealand, … commodities not easily procured in the country and to limited contact with Europeans. She became skilled in …
Type: Biography
… Dairy factories were built from the late 19th century to process milk. Dairy products – butter, cheese and milk powder – would become New Zealand’s … 1930s. Early dairy processing Before dairy factories, butter was made on the farm. It was used by the family or …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Agricultural processing industries
… London, England. (His surname appears in the parish register as Earl, but in later records is spelled with a terminal 'e'.) He was the third child and youngest son of …
Type: Biography