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… Edward Francis Harris, also known as Eruera Paranihi Hārete, was born on 13 May 1834 at Tūranga (Gisborne). He was … Through his mother he had affiliations with Ngāti Oneone of Te Aitanga a Hauiti , Ngāi Te Aweawe of Rongowhakaata, and …
Type: Biography
… Rākaihautū and Tamatea Māori trace their arrival in Southland to the chiefs Rākaihautū and Tamatea. Rākaihautū, an ancestor of the Waitaha people, was a commander of the Uruao waka (canoe). Tamatea’s waka, the Tākitimu , was wrecked near Te Waewae Bay. …
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Part of story: Southland region
… many buildings in Hāwera’s town centre in 1895. It started when a lamp fell over in a drapery store and spread from … to building – 17 were destroyed, including the Egmont Hotel, the new post office and the headquarters of the town’s …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… Stuart (Te Tūati) Meha was born at Wanstead, Hawke’s Bay, probably on 29 December 1878. His father, … Rangitāne, was a successful sheepfarmer and landowner from Te Tapairu, near Waipāwa. His mother, Mere Te Hau, was of …
Type: Biography
… of 18.5%. Settlement Katikati is part of a special Protestant settlement established by George Vesey Stewart in the 1870s. Settlers included tenant farmers and immigrants with capital from the north of …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… another child of earth and sky. Tāne is a celebrated figure. Among his many feats was the creation of a woman … who comes from the soil). Hineahuone and Tāne had a daughter named Hinetītama, who also became known as Hinenui-i-te-pō. As Hinetītama, she became the custodian of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… International developments in history and local concerns about identity heightened the move away from history as ‘past politics’ and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: History and historians
… Even before Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) was signed, … aimed to manage dealings between Māori and non-Māori. Later, a series of laws and other measures imposed colonial … especially to enable Europeans to buy Māori land. In the later 20th century the Waitangi Tribunal was set up to …
Type: Story Front
… learning to fly’. Spoken as the dying words of the chief Te Mautaranui, they bring hope for a bright future. Having … a radio station are all signs of new life in a modern context. …
Type: Story Front
… of other children. Schooling was encouraged, but David absented himself frequently. He worked for a shoemaker, then for … the responsibility of tallying and pasturing the sheep. After some years in this position he joined the goldrush to …
Type: Biography
… child of James Dore and his wife, Mary Ann Christina Patterson, and had six brothers and two sisters. His father owned smithies and hotels, and from him John learnt the care of horses, coaches …
Type: Biography
… 2000s the work of Māori sculptors receives considerable attention. It is inaccurate, though, to refer to ‘Māori sculpture’. Like the …
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Part of story: Sculpture and installation art
… Alexander Henry McLean and his wife, Petra Mathilde Petersen. He was educated at Quarry Hills and Kennington primary schools, and took night classes in engineering at Southland Technical College. A farmer all his adult life, he had a …
Type: Biography
… its wild west coast by the Tasman Sea. Waikato is a much-altered landscape. Its swamps have been drained and vegetation cleared to create pasture and, in south Waikato, exotic forests. Unchanged … Karioi, Pirongia, Kakepuku, Maungatautari, Maungakawa, Te Tāpui and Te Aroha. Another constant is the majestic …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato region
… New Zealand fiction first achieved international success in England around the time of the First World War with Katherine Mansfield , an expatriate writer. Māori fiction of any description did not appear …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki
… Religious rites Religious rites and other marks of respect were integral to the practice …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing
… Beach, which has grown since 1990 from a single homestead into a small community due to subdivision of the … is popular in summer for its ‘freedom camping’ area administered by the Gisborne District Council. The old coach route followed the beach to its northern end before climbing up …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… who were eventually born into that bright colonial future often loathed it. The commonest storyline in New Zealand life-writing involved a gifted young person growing up in a small-minded province where art and intellect were likely to wither. One option was exile: …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… Walter Lawry Buller was born at the Wesleyan mission, Newark, … Martin and her husband, James Buller. He married Charlotte Mair at Whāngārei on 24 April 1862; they had four … Buller, Walter Lawry …
Type: Biography
… Ivan Lorin George Sutherland was born in Masterton on 10 May 1897 to Robert Sutherland, a sawmill hand, … involved in the Salvation Army, the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand and local community affairs. …
Type: Biography