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… was born on 15 November 1888 in Christchurch, the daughter of Frederick Wilding, a barrister, and his wife, Julia Anthony. The ideals shaping her life were fostered during a happy and privileged childhood in a family …
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… on 22 June 1845. His father was Thomas Seddon, headmaster of Eccleston grammar school, who had married Jane Lindsay, a Scot from Annan, Dumfriesshire, and the teacher at the Eccleston denominational school. When she …
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… Ted Smyth was a landscape architect of international repute. His contribution to New Zealand’s late twentieth-century …
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… Selwyn Toogood was New Zealand’s best-known broadcaster from the 1950s to the 1970s, as quizmaster of the enormously popular It’s in the bag radio … programme. Audiences revelled in the suspense as he invited contestants to choose between a guaranteed cash prize …
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… works. John Barrington was also a cabinet-maker and a talented amateur artist. He built a home for his family and developed a … the property, combining it with a fruit shop in town, and later adding a poultry farm and co-operative store. Archibald …
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… of German immigrants who had settled in the Moutere hills near Nelson in the 1840s. By 1922 his family had … in the cricket First XI in 1929 and 1930, and was a competent rugby player. In 1931 he went to Christchurch with his … H. W. Bullivant and Company. He took night classes at Canterbury College School of Art, but was largely self-taught. …
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… child of Harriet Hale and her husband, Alfred Bird, a carpenter. The family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, when William was four. He was educated at Caversham School, then Otago Boys' High School, where …
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… before leaving for the University of Oxford in 1925. After completing his degree, Syme was elected a fellow of Trinity College at Oxford and published his … The Augustan aristocracy (1986). He died in 1989. Syme’s international reputation as a classical scholar was recognised …
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Part of story: Classical and foreign-language studies
… Settler church After missionary work among Māori, the second major influence … and the large number of settlers who came from England resulted in Anglicans becoming the largest of the religious … had served as a chaplain during the New Zealand wars, wrote of the church’s relationship with Māori, ‘oh! how things …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… and treatment for venereal disease of women suspected of prostitution allowed ‘vice’ (sexual activity outside marriage) among men to flourish unpunished. After decades of protest, a carefully planned campaign by the Women’s Christian …
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Part of story: Sexual health
… of students trained in economics under James Hight at Canterbury College, Christchurch, and went on to become one of New Zealand's best-known international economists. He was born at Footscray, Victoria, … and her husband, Alfred Bell Condliffe, a craftsman potter. He attended schools in the Bendigo area before moving …
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… on 31 January 1817; John was born on 4 May 1820. Both attended schools at Kilmarnock and Colmonell and then undertook legal training. However, they expressed interest in emigrating and in preparation for this were placed … in one of the earliest company ships, the Aurora , in September that year, arriving at Port Nicholson (Wellington) on …
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… time coming Changing New Zealand’s currency to a decimal system was suggested as early as 1908. A government-appointed currency committee considered decimalisation in 1933, …
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Part of story: Coins and banknotes
… The local rag Our printing press, telegraph and steam Proclaim our town’s advance no idle dream 1 When William Hogg wrote this verse to celebrate the growth of Nelson in 1875, he …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… by central government in the 1990s. Tariffs on all imported clothing were reduced. Manufacturers could not compete with clothing imports on price, and many closed over the … overseas where labour was cheaper. The government’s attention moved from the large manufacturers to independent …
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Part of story: Fashion and textile design
… Introduced to New Zealand in 1960, television has been a hugely important medium through which … Zealanders have received news and information, watched imported programmes and accessed local content. It began as separate channels in the four main centres … History of television in New Zealand …
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Part of story: Television
… Domestic Protection Act 1982 The first law to address family violence specifically was the Domestic Protection Act 1982. This provided for non-violence and … non-violence order applied to a person who had used or threatened violence against their partner or children living in …
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Part of story: Family violence
… Losses There are no accurate casualty figures for the New Zealand Wars. Historian James Cowan suggested that over 500 men of the British and colonial forces and … The number killed on the other side is harder to estimate. Cowan suggested 2,000. In a population of about 60,000, …
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Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… The flute family of Raukatauri Raukatauri, the goddess of flute music, loved her flute so much that she changed herself into a case moth so she …
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Part of story: Māori musical instruments – taonga puoro
… 1940s: seeds During New Zealand’s centennial celebrations in 1940 a professional staging of a … of Australia in 1951 and its 1954 tour further highlighted New Zealand’s need for a resident opera company. … and many singers, then overseas, rallied to support his enterprise. The company began with modest one-act pieces such …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre