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… Edward (Ted) Buckland Firth and Guy Mortimer (Tony) Firth, the … of Firth Industries, were born in Auckland on 27 September 1905 and 15 April 1907 respectively. They were the … and inventor, and his wife, Blanch Emily Banks. Their paternal grandfather was the entrepreneur and pastoralist …
Type: Biography
… Augustus Priestley Hamilton, and his wife, Mary Eleanor Tebbott. He was educated at Dorset county school and Epsom medical college, but did not complete the degree course. In 1875 Augustus emigrated to New …
Type: Biography
… River estuary. The city depends mainly on its farming hinterland, and to a lesser extent on the aluminium smelter 20 km to the south. The importance of the region’s …
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Part of story: Southland places
… Sanderson La Trobe was born in New Zealand at Ngaroto, near Te Awamutu, on 15 October 1870. He was the son of Samuel La Trobe (who used the name Trobe), a military settler at Paterangi on the King Country border, and his wife, Ellen (Eliza) Sanderson. He was educated at home until he was eight, then attended Paterangi …
Type: Biography
… and his wife, Isabella Eleanor Carolina Gonzales. He attended schools in Palmerston North and Dannevirke and Wanganui Collegiate School from 1903 to 1907. He was admitted to the Bar in Hamilton in 1913 and first began practice …
Type: Biography
… Early approaches In the 19th century public health operated at a local level with a focus on disease control. This … in the 19th century. All people on board ships affected by disease were quarantined on islands. This occurred less frequently later in the century as large, spacious steamships replaced …
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Part of story: Public health
… Samuel McDonald Martin was born probably in Kilmuir, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland, some time between 1805 and … and her husband, John Martin, a doctor. Samuel Martin graduated MD from the University of Glasgow in 1835. It is likely … that while in Glasgow he engaged in radical politics connected with the Reform Bill 1832. Martin emigrated to New South …
Type: Biography
… and his wife, Margaret McTavish, a dressmaker. He emigrated to New Zealand with his family around 1907 and settled … where his father helped build some of the city's earliest steel-framed buildings. Neil attended Wellington College, leaving at the age of 16 to take …
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… William Robert Murray was born at Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, England, on 25 April 1896, the son of … Murray, a postman. The youngest of six children, Bill attended the local board school and completed a year of private secondary tuition. In 1912 he began …
Type: Biography
… The baby-boomer generation, better off, better educated and with more leisure time and professional prospects …
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Part of story: Photography
… History Originally called Ngāmotu (the islands), the site of New Plymouth was occupied for hundreds of years by Māori. More than 60 pā and kāinga (village) sites have been recorded in the urban area. Chiefly centre One … the mouth of the Huatoki Stream in central New Plymouth. After the arrival of the first Pākehā settlers it was renamed …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… The celebration of the nation’s centennial in 1940 was by far New Zealand’s largest such anniversary. Four years in the planning, it had extensive government involvement and a host of committees. The committee centennial James Rutherford, professor … New Zealand’s centennial, 1940 …
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Part of story: Anniversaries
… with men. In the mid-19th century, women could not vote, stand for election, serve on a jury, sit as a judge, or … nationality if married to a foreign national. In the late 19th century women won the vote; in the 20th century they won the right to stand for …
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Part of story: Gender inequalities
… New Zealanders have never had an established or state religion, and have often been open to new religious developments and movements. In the late 19th and early 20th century they were disproportionately …
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Part of story: Diverse religions
… her husband, William Rhodes, a prosperous Yorkshire-born tenant farmer. Rhodes went to sea early, rising to be second … Australian , on a cruise to New Zealand and adjacent waters. In 1839 Rhodes entered into partnership with the Sydney firm of Cooper and …
Type: Biography
… and professionals such as social workers, health workers, teachers and police, play important roles when family … into Abuse in Care has found that actions of the state have also put children at risk. Its employees have been … In the 19th century, police and courts were reluctant to interfere with the head of the household’s power to discipline …
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Part of story: Child abuse
… The word ‘terrorism’ derives from the Latin word ‘terrere’ – to frighten. The term has its origins in the reign of terror … Terrorism and New Zealand: the historical background …
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Part of story: Terrorism and counter-terrorism
… Isolation Taranaki is isolated from the north and east by rugged hill country. In the … topographies allow easier land access. In the 2010s the tenuous nature of road and rail links to the north and east … North and South Taranaki. It is followed closely by State Highway 3 and 3A from Hāwera to Waitara. Tracks like …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… Tracks and rivers Māori used tracks and waterways to get around. One important track from Ahuriri … mountain ranges and beyond to Taupō. War parties from the interior of the North Island also used this track. Extra … birth of her second child in 1845. She was carried in a litter part of the way, but difficult country meant that she …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… Gordon Frederick Walters was born in Wellington on 24 September 1919, the son of Ethel Constance Mexted and her husband, Henry Frederick Walters, a tailor’s … Walters, Gordon Frederick …
Type: Biography