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… (Daniel Carran). Both parents were of the Puketapu hapū of Te Āti Awa . His father was the son of Kārena Taituha and Mary Boyce, and his mother the daughter of Hone Te Oro and Paretauhinu. After leaving school …
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… Nūhaka. His mother, Mihi Mere Whaanga, was the eldest daughter of Hirini Te Rito Whaanga and his third wife, Mere Hunonga Schmidt …
Type: Biography
… agent for a hardware merchant, and his wife, Isabelle Porter. Her maternal grandparents were Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Porter …
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… 2013 population, Lower Hutt: 98,238 Hutt River Named after Sir William Hutt, a New Zealand Company director, the … of 1855 sent a tsunami up the river. Three years later, a severe flood drowned nine people at Taitā. Another big flood in 1893 prompted the building of stopbanks. Once the river was contained, …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… Discovery and migration New Zealand has a shorter human history than almost any other country. The date of first settlement is a matter of debate , but current understanding is that the first …
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Part of story: History
… Tribes South Canterbury is in the territory of the Ngāi Tahu people. The lines of earlier … he made the first known exploration of the South Island’s interior. At Waihao (near Morven) he met up with Rokohouia, … Māori in South Canterbury …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… 1900 more than 95% of Māori lived in rural communities. Often Māori living in the city were those with European blood who were known as ‘hawhe kaihe’ (half-castes). In the North Island, Māori lived in separate regions in rural kāinga with a hapū base. In the South …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… at the University of Edinburgh, where he developed an interest in the relationship between climate, environment and disease. Graduating with an MD in 1837, …
Type: Biography
… East Coast, Ngāi Tahu thrived in the South Island. They intermarried with local tribes, and adopted their beliefs. Their lands cover much of Te Wai Pounamu – the South Island – and are New Zealand’s …
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… Taurekareka (Tau) Hēnare was a Ngāpuhi leader noted for his commitment to the welfare, land rights, culture … Ngāti Whātua and Ngāpuhi ancestor, and he was closely connected to great warriors including Kawiti , Patuone , Tāmati …
Type: Biography
… Tuai, of Ngare Raumati in the south-eastern Bay of Islands, was an early cultural intermediary between Māori and Europeans. His short, …
Type: Biography
… Tara – were named because they lived at the ūpoko (head) of Te Ika-a-Māui – the fish of Māui, or the North Island. Over …
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… Francis Barraud and his wife, Sophia Hull. Barraud wanted to become a doctor, but his father, a clerk in the … could not afford the expensive training. He had to content himself with qualifying as a chemist and druggist. He …
Type: Biography
… but even at the height of his public service career more attention was paid to his brief, albeit romantic, adventures as a teenager at the outbreak of war in Waikato in 1863. At his …
Type: Biography
… Pink-footed shags belong to the Leucocarbo genus. They are part of a group of cold-water shags found on islands in the Southern Ocean, on the … ( Leucocarbo carunculatus ) is known to Māori as kawau pateketeke. When the Resolution anchored in the Marlborough … Pink-footed shags …
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Part of story: Shags
… Henry Matthew Stowell was born at Waimate North, Bay of Islands, according to his own account on 4 … Stowell, a sawyer who had come to New Zealand from the United States, and his wife, Hūhana (Susan), daughter of …
Type: Biography
… Isolated high up in the rugged Urewera country, Ngāi Tūhoe … forests and rivers. They say that their ancestors were Te Maunga (the Mountain) and Hine-pūkohu-rangi (the Mist …
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… from under the sea is famous in Māori tradition. It tells of the imprisonment of Te Manuhauturuki, the son of Ruatepupuke. Te Manu was captured by Tangaroa, taken to his … Ruatepupuke and the origin of carving …
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Part of story: Tangaroa – the sea
… across the sky, and its setting in the west is a cosmic mystery. Because this cycle is repeated every day, traditional Māori considered it the basic …
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Part of story: Te Ao Mārama – the natural world
… was born probably sometime between 1858 and 1860 at Waimate North in the Bay of Islands. His grandfather was a Jewish … traditions, jumped ship at Hokianga or was a certificated master mariner trading in his own ship to Hokianga. …
Type: Biography