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… at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Ross and her husband, Robert Cooper, a … One Tree Hill Inn. The Forbes family were the first Presbyterian Scottish settlers to live in the area. A daughter, …
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… Peak (449 m) south-west of Pirongia mountain. It was named Te Kakepuku-o-Kahu (the hill over which Kahu climbed) by Tainui ancestress Kahupeka, who explored Waikato after the death of her husband. The mountain’s shape explains …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… The roughly triangular Stewart Island, known in Māori as Rakiura, is New Zealand’s … trip of one hour across Foveaux Strait, the stretch of water which separates the island from the Southland coast. The island is …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… Writers Ngāti Maniapoto writer, genealogist and King movement advisor Pei Te Hurinui Jones lived in Taumarunui. He recorded Tainui …
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Part of story: King Country region
… First landfall British explorer Lieutenant James Cook and the crew of the Endeavour landed at … Poverty Bay because ‘it afforded us no one thing we wanted.’ 1 The Endeavour also visited Anaura and Ūawa (Tolaga) bays. Cook named them Tegadoo …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… Pākehā writers on Māori topics Roderick Finlayson developed close … Finlayson’s stories are precursors to work by Māori writers like Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace. Noel Hilliard’s … Māori and Pacific writers and writing about Māori …
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Part of story: Fiction
… Ngātai introduced Christianity to South Taranaki in the late 1830s. Although probably born in Taranaki, his parents … According to the Reverend John Skevington, through Nēra's teaching and preaching 'nearly all the tribes' along the …
Type: Biography
… William George Niccoll Searancke, later known as William Nicholas Searancke, was baptised on 11 … a brewer. William worked for his elder brother, Samuel Stephen Searancke, county engineer of Meath, Ireland, and was …
Type: Biography
… Taua (also known as William Johnson or Johnston) was appointed the first Māori head teacher of a native school and, almost certainly, of any … conspicuous success. An acknowledged leader of the hapū Te Whānau Moana, Taua had tribal links with Ngāti Kahu, Te …
Type: Biography
… J.C. Sturm, also known as Te Kare Papuni and Jacquie Baxter, was a pioneering writer of poetry and short stories. …
Type: Biography
… early 1840s. His father was the prominent Ngāi Tahu chief Te Mātenga Taiaroa , of Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, and his mother was …
Type: Biography
… Michael King was New Zealand’s most popular late twentieth-century historian. His best work combined the … He was a generous collaborator who produced four edited collections and nine books working with others’ …
Type: Biography
… numbers of museums per capita in the world. Some, such as Te Papa, are large, high-tech world-leading institutions, while many are local, regional museums staffed by enthusiastic volunteers. …
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… Waitangi, Te One and Port Hutt Waitangi has the main wharf, a hospital … office, bank, council office, police, several stores, a hotel and other accommodation. Nearby Lake Hurō once provided waterfowl and eels for locals. Whangamarino farm lies between …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… sections were surveyed that year, and the town was named after Thomas Gore Browne, governor of New Zealand between 1855 … The settlement expanded rapidly in the 1890s and 1900s, after which growth remained steady. After the Second World … Eastern Southland …
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Part of story: Southland places
… was born in Mazamet, southern France, on 24 October 1808. After rising to sergeant in the French army, and seeing service in Greece, he entered the Society of Mary (Marists) in June 1840. Father …
Type: Biography
… was born at Arahura, near Greymouth, on 1 May 1903 to Toihi Te Koeti of Poutini Ngāi Tahu and Robert Fluerty, a … five Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Mamoe chiefs who in the early nineteenth century laid siege to the West Coast and established …
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… William Francis MacWilliams, born McWilliams and better known as Daldy MacWilliams, was born at Papakura, south … they moved there around 1877 and opened a store in an old hotel which had been closed after the initial Ōhinemuri …
Type: Biography
… Māori Television Service After several years of agitation and negotiation, the Māori … Māori Television, 2000s …
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Part of story: Māori and television – whakaata
… Tini Pana was baptised Jane Burns at Moeraki on 27 September 1850 by the Wesleyan missionary Charles Creed; her brother, John, and sister, Margaret, were baptised with her. By 1854 Tini's mother …
Type: Biography