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… a large lease from the Duke of Argyll, probably with sub-tenants of his own. The young Donald was born into gentry … with a nurse and a tutor. But Argyll subdivided his estate and John McLean was dispossessed. From the age of about …
Type: Biography
… narrative) from the Tūhoe region, certain insects originate from Haumia, god of the bracken fern rarauhe and its edible root, aruhe. Haumia gave rise to te mōnehu (the fine, rusty fern spores), who produced the … and other insects. These creatures are strongly associated with their fern habitat, which sheltered them. Also, to …
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Part of story: Te aitanga pepeke – the insect world
… at the foot of Kakepuku in a small Māori settlement near Te Awamutu. His father was Samuel Hoera Joyce, a bushman, of … away to be raised by an uncle. Even then he knew hunger: often he and his cousin Tom would herd the family cow into the … from the udder. This experience of poverty was to motivate him for the rest of his life. When he was 12 Sam Emery …
Type: Biography
… Golan Haberfield Maaka, also known as Te Kōrana, was born on 4 April 1904 on Ōruawharo station, … Ngāi Tahu of Takapau, hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu . On his maternal side Aritaku was descended from Te Ori, who had attempted to remove the servant of the …
Type: Biography
… James West Stack, born on 27 March 1835 in a tent in a Māori pā at Pūriri in the Thames district, New … the north of the North Island and at East Cape. Living remote from European contact at Rangitukia, near Ruatōria, from …
Type: Biography
… Hirawanu Tapu (known also as Maitarawai and Taputehara Maitara) was born about 1824 at Te Awapātiki on the east coast of Chatham Island. He was a … known about Hirawanu's early life. He was still living at Te Awapātiki when Te Āti Awa invaded the Chathams in …
Type: Biography
… member of Pakakohe, a hapū of Ngāti Ruanui who lived at Hukatere, south of the Pātea River in South Taranaki. The names of his parents are … the mid 1840s, while still relatively young, he had supplanted Kireona, the hereditary chief of Ngāti Hine, as leader …
Type: Biography
… 20th century the role of Māori-language translators and interpreters reduced, as nearly all Māori could speak English and …
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… The Māori diet Māori combined food-gathering with extensive cultivation of the kūmara – a sweet potato which had … the roots of the bracken fern to produce a starchy paste, and treated the poisonous kernels of the karaka tree to make them …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Society
… iron foundry warehouseman. Her parents married four years later. Janet sometimes used her maternal grandmother's surname, Henderson, as a middle name. …
Type: Biography
… In the year to June 2004, 57,890 live births were registered. The population reached five million in March 2020. In … is ageing . This is the result of a surge in the birth rate after the Second World War (the baby boomer generation) and …
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Part of story: Society
… was built in 1872 for James Ralston Wyllie and his wife, Kate (Keita), a Rongowhakaata woman of mana and daughter of early English trader Thomas Halbert. The cottage has … condemned to demolition. Its brick chimney was reconstructed after it collapsed during the 2007 Gisborne earthquake. …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… of it. Separation from Wellington was discussed but rejected at meetings in Whanganui in 1859 and 1860. Unsuccessful petitions for separation were presented to Parliament in 1865, 1868 and 1873. The 1873 petition … were abolished in 1876, Wanganui, Rangitīkei and Pātea counties were established. Waitōtara county was …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… was established in New Zealand in 1853, thinly-populated Southland was part of Otago province. The whole area had … Europeans, mostly in and around Dunedin. In July 1861, after more immigration into the area, approximately that number of southerners secured a separate province. …
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Part of story: Southland region
… Peter Seton Hay was born in Glasgow, Scotland, probably in … husband, James Johnston Hay, a journeyman engineer. When Peter was a child the family emigrated to New Zealand, … Hay, Peter Seton …
Type: Biography
… Ranges and hills The King Country is a broad expanse of uplifted sedimentary rock west of the North Island main divide and central volcanic zone. An area of steep, rolling hills and valleys dissected by rivers and streams, it is part of a larger, … Landscape and climate …
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Part of story: King Country region
… Advisory committees General editor Jock Phillips decided that the encyclopedia should be supported by three advisory committees. A general committee was set up to advise the general …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… Kiti Karaka, known also as Catherine, Kate or Kitty Clark, was born on Ruapuke Island in Foveaux Strait on 12 September 1870. Her father, Arapetere Karaka (Albert Clark), nicknamed 'Chatham Islands …
Type: Biography
… the early 20th century, had black tail feathers with white tips, which high-ranking people wore in their hair. The … a trap, and plucked two tail feathers as plumes. He enchanted the bird so she would return when he needed more plumes. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā manu – birds
… Māori communities with food, rivers were major transport routes – the equivalent of modern-day highways. The Waipā … of the Whanganui. Rivers remained crucial transport routes after Pākehā settlement, particularly before roads and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country region