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… hockey Before the First World War hockey was the leading team sport for women, with 21 provincial associations in … It was particularly strong in some country areas, and Eastern Southland (based at Gore) won the K Cup five times in a … rugby was well established as the leading men’s winter team sport. Hockey, by contrast, has remained a minor …
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Part of story: Hockey
… films are irretrievably lost. The highly inflammable material used for prints, the small number of prints made, and … failure to recognise their historic value have all contributed to their disappearance. What remains of the country’s … formed by the Reverend Frederick Bennett. Bennett co-directed members of the group with Méliès. Later, a US member of …
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Part of story: Feature film
… pou (poles made from trees) and other Māori carvings. After Pākehā settlement these were followed by statues of … other notable individuals. The first was the statue of Canterbury founder John Robert Godley, unveiled in 1867. Statues and monuments were also erected in public places in the 19th and 20th centuries to …
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Part of story: Public and street art
… Scottish-born Marjory Cardno. Their only child, a daughter, was born in 1917. Salaman began manufacturing aniline dyes and during the First World War was contracted to provide the khaki dye used for soldiers’ uniforms. The couple separated in late 1917 and Salaman returned to Auckland. They …
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… During the 1920s the citizens of Auckland benefited from a number of munificent bequests given by Marianne Smith. An enigmatic and very private person, she was unusual in that unlike most wealthy women of the time she had not inherited her money but had earned it herself. She was born Mary …
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… Special interest magazines Periodicals representing or serving community or special interest groups existed from the colonial period. They included the Women’s …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… ’s religious leadership there. His parents were Whitu Te Rangimakā (Makā) Tawa (or Kanuehi) of Hāmua, a Tūhoe hapū … was the eldest of their family of four sons and three daughters. Maka had become a devoted follower of Rua in 1907. His sister Pēhirangi was one of …
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… James Nelson Williams was born at Waimate mission station inland from the Bay of Islands, New … and her husband, William Williams , a missionary and later bishop of Waiapu. He was taken by his parents to the … by ploughing and fencing at Waerenga-a-hika, the new site of the mission station, until it was decided he should …
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… Rowling was born in Motueka in the Nelson district on 15 September 1927. He was the youngest of four children born to … an orchardist, and his wife, Agnes Rubina Davy. He was christened Wallace Edward, but his father called him Bill and the name stuck. Rowling attended the Lower Moutere Primary School and boarded at …
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… the Second World War. He was a significant voice in debates about national identity in the 1940s and 1950s, and an intellectual of considerable promise who died in a mountaineering accident at the age of 41. After Harry’s early death his widow, Margaret Scott, built a …
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… Christchurch, on 25 March 1897, the son of Alfred Walter Averill and his wife, Mary Weir. His father, the vicar, was later archbishop and primate of the Anglican church in New Zealand. Leslie began his …
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… the new medium of cinema reached New Zealand its comic potential was quickly exploited. The pioneering filmmaker Henry Hayward screened a … films such as The bloke from Freeman’s Bay and Tilly of Te Aroha using a standard script and local residents as …
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Part of story: Humour
… the culture of British settlers, and was gradually supplemented by the work of local composers. Alfred Hill … Ode did not reveal the composer at his best, but contributed to a reassessment of his importance. A musical encounter A musical interface between Europe and the Pacific was …
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Part of story: Composers
… are obscure, but he had substantial capital when he emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, around 1860. Farnall took up … Auckland, and soon became involved in politics. He represented Northern Division on the Auckland Provincial Council in … was a member of the Whangaparāoa Highway Board, and was elected to the House of Representatives for Northern Division in …
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… Strathclyde, Scotland, on 29 March 1886, the sixth of thirteen children of John Shearer Fletcher, a builder, and his wife, Janet Montgomery Goodwin. James attended school in Glasgow and after a short period as a chemist’s assistant was apprenticed …
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… Missionaries As Pākehā came ashore, they reported on a frontier between worlds. Sketchy narratives survive that were written or dictated by semi-literate Pākehā-Māori (the 19th-century term for …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… Little is known of his childhood but it must have been affected by the First World War as German and Austro-Hungarian forces occupied most of Romania in 1916. Late in life he wrote several semi-autobiographical books, which include a …
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… in 1935 his mother married Ernst Anton Plischke, an architect. Heinrich was educated at the Akademisches Gymnasium in Vienna, matriculating in 1937. He also completed one year of military service. His mother was Jewish, and …
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… Ormond, a sheepfarmer, and his wife, Maraea Kiwiwharekete of Ngāti Kahungunu . The family hapū was Ngāti … was John Davies Ormond , the politician and superintendent of Hawke’s Bay. As there was no school in Māhia, … age, he was sent to Wallingford, the large country estate near Pōrangahau acquired by his grandfather in 1857. Here …
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… and goods of people who had died by suicide were forfeited and the body was buried at a crossroads with a stake … it now only applied to cases of felo de se – deliberate acts – and not to those who had a mental disturbance (designated as non compos mentis). In 1846 the power to determine …
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Part of story: Suicide