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… Margaret Pattison Thom, who was later widely known as Mākereti (or Maggie) Papakura, was born … was an Englishman, William Arthur Thom, a storekeeper who later worked in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Rotorua, and then at Wairoa. Her mother was …
Type: Biography
… orchardist of the 1960s and 1970s, and an influential advocate for grower control. He supported and encouraged the growth of the industry through the …
Type: Biography
… of Aberdeen, and his second wife, Harriet Douglas, daughter of the Honourable John Douglas and widow of James, Viscount Hamilton. Educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Arthur …
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… Whanganui, at the junction of the river and coastal routes, became a military base once again. Waitōtara The … Whanganui, was purchased from Ngā Rauru in July 1863, despite efforts to reduce the size of tribal reserves which had … of the Pai Mārire (Hauhau) faith, while others supported the Māori King movement. Mark Twain and Whanganui When …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… foreman in the office. Berry's contact with the leading literary figures associated with the newspaper stimulated his efforts at …
Type: Biography
… Many fine meeting houses throughout the Bay of Plenty attest to the vitality of its Māori society, past and present. Particularly noteworthy are those of Te Whai-a-te-Motu near Ruatāhuna, and …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… support for history publishing. Historical Branch expands After the appointment of new Chief Historian Jock Phillips in … the Historical Publications Branch) of the Department of Internal Affairs began to expand. As well as war histories, staff and contractors wrote departmental histories on a cost-recovery basis. …
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Part of story: Public history
… Victoria and Prince Albert in 1855, and the Māori King, Te Rata, who met George V in 1914. Māori have a separate political relationship with the royal family because … the Crown. Māori made numerous, sometimes successful, attempts to speak directly to the British monarch in the 19th …
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Part of story: Royal family
… boarding schools were among New Zealand’s earliest private schools. The first were set up in the early 19th century. By the later 19th century the schools were nurturing leaders who operated effectively in both Māori and Pākehā societies. Hating …
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Part of story: Private education
… movement is one of the more striking developments in contemporary Māori art. Clay working and firing of pottery was an ancient Pacific practice, but the knowledge had …
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Part of story: Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu
… Wharetutu's date of birth is unknown. She was born probably early in the nineteenth century, for the first of her children was born in …
Type: Biography
… A settler church Presbyterianism began in New Zealand as a church for the settler … population, particularly those from Scotland, but soon extended its influence to Māori communities. The church’s … learned the Māori language on the voyage from Glasgow. After his arrival, he criticised the New Zealand Company for …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… the city’s oldest suburbs is Mt Victoria, perched on the western flank of the hill for which it is named. The houses are … the suburb was home to the poor and the transient. After the Second World War it became a centre for the Greek … the 1960s, a Samoan enclave. In the 1970s the suburb attracted new residents who renovated much of the housing, while …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… was hereditary, but ability was also important. It was a matter of pride for rangatira to work as hard as ordinary … – for instance, the saying ‘Ka rere a Matariki ka wera te hinu’ means when Matariki appears, the fat is heated. The appearance of the constellation of Matariki (the …
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Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… led to a new paradigm in food production. The protein boom was over, and it became vital to extend and intensify production and develop better methods of …
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Part of story: Te mahi kai – food production economics
… Lake Waikaremoana Largest body of fresh water in Hawke’s Bay, and 14th-largest lake in New Zealand. … the Waikaretāheke River. The gorge gradually filled with water, creating a lake up to 248 metres deep. The lake was … 5 metres when hydroelectric power stations were built on waterways below between 1926 and 1948. Lake within a lake …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… in London, England, on 12 July 1821, the son of a barrister, Christopher Richmond, and his wife, Maria (Lely) … on his upbringing was that of his mother, a woman of wide interests and reading, for his father died when he was 10, …
Type: Biography
… curriculum in the study of Māori language, culture and literature, and trained the people who went on to develop … programmes at other New Zealand universities. He initiated the first programme in modern linguistics at a New …
Type: Biography
… his wife, Isabella Maxwell Stoddart. His father was a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers stationed at Malta; his mother was the daughter of Sir John Stoddart, the chief justice of Malta. The …
Type: Biography
… films in the 1950s and 1960s, and one of the first western film-makers to visit Communist China. Some of her films explored Māori society and highlighted discrimination against Māori. As a Māori woman, she was …
Type: Biography